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Outside the gates and nothing changes. The same desert. The same heat. The same scorching shimmer and the same stretch of nothing going nowhere. If it weren’t for the sound of metal rat­tling into place behind her, there’s not much difference between standing here or in the yard. Florida is dressed in state-issued civilian clothes. Her socks and underwear feel like sandpaper. Her jeans are stiff and too heavy for this heat. Her shirt looks prison pressed. Her state­ issued boots are a half size too big. She has a small bag with the clothes she came in with and...

U.S. — Authorities are warning parents to keep their children away from Target stores following reports that children are being stalked and ambushed by a white cartoon dog offering promises of strange new genders. Reports claim the kids are returned to their parents with a whole new gender identity and wardrobe, which the parents are forced to pay for before leaving the store.

Many people, including us, have what we think is a rather peculiar relationship with technology. Household appliances sometimes feel like they have a life of their own. And you have to know how to coax them to do what they were built for. We find microwaves, in particular, to be extremely temperamental! And we’re not alone.Bored Panda has compiled a list of the unluckiest and most painful microwave heating fails from around the net. Scroll down, upvote the pics that made you cringe the hardest, and remember to always, always treat tech with respect and to put your safety first.#1...

Since our kitchen is so small, we don’t have room for a table to be able to eat in the actual kitchen area.  So, we eat all our meals at the dining room table.  Unless we are incredibly lazy and eat dinner over the kitchen sink, with the kids eating in the Learning Tower on the counter.  But that only happens a couple of times a week, so no big deal!! Now, this has been the arrangement since we moved into our house almost four years ago.  And it has been a fine arrangement, but there is always room for...

The line outside the Sale of the Century. Photograph by Sara Bosworth. In the high noon heat of the big hot sun, the intersection of Broadway and Lafayette was an ouroboros. A snake eating its own tail, a snake that was not a snake at all but actually a line of mostly women—who were nearly all young and definitely all well dressed—waiting to go inside a NoHo loft to go shopping. But okay—this was not some sort of run-of-the-mill sample sale. No one waiting in that line was there just because they were looking for a little something to do...