All aboard for cheap Thomas trains

by Mir | May 12, 2009 | For the kids, Hot Hot Hot!

Lord, how I miss the days when an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine and a little wooden train car to clutch in each chubby fist was all it took to make my son happy. If you have a small boy, I demand that you go smooch his cheeks right this instant. Okay, now that...

Now that’s two times

by Mir | May 12, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, What to Wear

Hey, remember how there weren’t going to be any free shipping codes for Lands’ End for a while? And then they had one? Here’s another. (Hey, Lands’ End? That word “no,” I don’t think it means what you think it means!) Through...

Pimp your computer

by Mir | May 11, 2009 | Contests

You’re hip. You’re cool. You have a computer. You like free stuff. Also, you’re very pretty. Microsoft has a couple of goodies for us, today. First off, check out the LifeCam VX-5500—its unique base allows you to use it with either a desktop...

Winners of the Mother’s Day contest

by Mir | May 11, 2009 | Contests

I hope you all had a lovely Mother’s Day. Mine was awesome, single badly-sunburned shoulder aside. (Yes, I put sunblock on. No, I don’t know how I missed one shoulder. Am dork.) Almost 250 of you had time to enter this weekend’s contest, and two of...

You never know when you’ll need to whittle

by Mir | May 11, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

Swiss Army knives are great for all sorts of things, from genuine uses while camping to me demanding my husband hand over his knife so that I can use the teeny tiny scissors to clip a thread on my shirt that’s bothering me. (Please tell me I’m not the only...