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February 26, 2015 9:27 PM EST The Internet took a weird turn Thursday when all of a sudden everyone started buzzing about the color of a dress. A woman had taken to Tumblr the day before to ask a seemingly normal question: what color is this dress? But there was something off about the dress and the image. The woman says when she saw a photo of the dress once, it was blue and black (she even posted a photo of the dress being worn at a wedding.

My first experience with Sony’s original PlayStation occurred almost a year before yours: in the display window of a Babbages in an out-of-the-way shopping mall in western Iowa. Babbages, many have probably forgotten, was a franchise named after Charles Babbage, the guy credited with inventing the mechanical computer, that sold computer software and console games back when you could still buy stuff like Peachtree Accounting in biblical boxes from brick-and-mortar outfits.

What do Al Gore, Whoopi Goldberg, Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, Carlos Santana, Nancy Pelosi, Mario Batali, and yes, Ann Coulter have in common? Give up? They are all members of the inimitable community of Grateful Dead fans commonly and affectionately known as Deadheads. Urban Dictionary defines Deadhead as “a person who greatly enjoys the music of the Grateful Dead and particularly the genius of Jerry Garcia.” But decades ago, a subset of fans cranked up that devotion to a whole new level and began following the band from city to city.

In a rapid-fire game of "Would You Rather?" we asked the actress her preference between surfing and boogie boarding. Her response? "I'd have to say boogie board. I've tried to surf and I can't. I just can't." And although she loves the beach after spending so much time on it filming, when asked to choose between L.A. and New York, she went with her native NYC. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7scHLrJxnppdkuaqyxKyrsqSVZMSwucSnqmaglZa5tbSOqJudZZWjvLazx2aroaGjYra0edahmK1lkaGyua3NnamaZZSWsaWt0aKmZquRnrFuw8eepWaZo6CypXnTqGScoJ%2BkwKZ5wZ6rsJ2Vo3qlw8CypZ5nnZ%2FFrL3NrQ%3D%3D

July 27, 2017 5:48 PM EDT If lurid tales of online dating have left you cynical, attend the tale of this Tinder user who not only used the dating app to great success, but even got a $400 reimbursement from the company after she missed a flight thanks to a good date with someone from the app. Erin Kim first documented the saga in a recent “thank you” blog post on Medium, where she detailed how she the dating app “made a lot of magic” in her life especially while she was traveling, thanking them for “the good — the humanity — it has in fact introduced into my life.

The English author Virginia Woolf is one of the 20th century’s literary giants, renowned for the pioneering stream-of-consciousness style she immortalized in novels like To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway — but her fame has never been solely based on her work, as her personal life has long been the subject of fascination. Her involvement in the influential intellectual circle known as the Bloomsbury Group brought her attention, and her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own did the same for her feminist ideas.

A 609 dispute letter is a way to request that credit bureaus, such as Experian, remove erroneous information from your credit report. The letter stems from the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which was enacted in 1970 and updated in 2023. The FCRA was designed to promote the accuracy, fairness, and privacy of consumer information contained in the files of consumer-reporting agencies. What is Section 609? Section 609 of the FCRA spells out your right to access all information that credit reporting agencies, such as Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion, collect.

Every second that Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper appear together onscreen in A Star Is Born — now an Oscar-winning film, thanks to its prize for Best Original Song for “Shallow — their chemistry is obvious. The pop star and actor first met when Gaga was trying out for the role; Cooper, of course, did indeed end up casting her as his leading lady in her big screen debut. In the lead-up to the Academy Awards, the pair shared a series of praise for each other and their experience filming A Star Is Born.

The debutante ritual flourished roughly from 1780 to 1914—beginning with the first debutante ball in London and ending with the outbreak of World War I. During these years, Great Britain became the dominant power in the West, and its culture spread outward from the fashionable capital of London to provincial cities in Britain and eventually to its far-flung colonies. His Majesty’s British subjects, and later Americans, too, waited on coral atolls and in bustling port cities for ships that brought newspapers filled with word of fashionable music, dance and conversation.