Warning: Spoilers from the latest episode of “Game of Thrones” are coming. Need to hold a door? Oh, “Game of Thrones” fans, we can’t even say it without welling up. But it’s a fact: sometimes you need to prop a door open so the kids in your second-grade classroom can all file inside. Or prop …

These diners in Vietnam have just upped the ante for unimpressed. President Barack Obama is sitting right there dining with chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain, and the other restaurant patrons are just as cool as the other side of the pillow, not even sneaking a peek at the leader of the free world or asking him to pass the …

Thank you, Candace Payne. The Internet was heading into the weekend in need of a humor break and the Force was with you. Payne was returning some clothes at Kohl’s and happened upon a talking Chewbacca mask, which she bought not for her children, she notes, but for herself. “This is mine,” she says in her public Facebook video. “I …

Looking for a brain-calming work break along the lines of popping bubble wrap? How about watching gigantic bubbles whirl and float, bloom and merge, and then explode like liquid fireworks? That’s the mesmerizing four-minute escape posted Tuesday by “Shanks FX,” a Web series produced in association with PBS Digital Studios. Joey Shanks creates Hollywood effects with simple household products, in …

Do airport security lines make you feel like one of the walking dead? You’re not alone. A Cryptkeeper-looking fellow took a flight out of Atlanta on Sunday, because even after you die, there’s no escaping a flight through the world’s busiest airport. The US Transportation Security Administration posted a collage of photos of the freaky pre-flight check to Instagram with …

Are there toothmarks on all your pencils? Are your fingernails gnawed to the quick? I’ll take “things we chew on that we shouldn’t for $200,” Alex. Ever wonder why some ballpoint-pen caps have holes in the top? Weekend factoid: Apparently it’s to prevent people from choking on them while chewing on them. Science Alert this week pointed out that the …

Turns out it’s possible to recover data from a phone that’s been run over by a bus. Best-selling author and consumer advocate Bob Sullivan learned this the hard way this week when his Android phone, an HTC One swaddled in a strong Incipio case, slid out of his pocket while he was riding his bike in Washington. Sullivan stopped and …

The company behind the stylish and striking Star Wars shoes we told you about in November has escaped the dark side only to tumble down the rabbit hole. British shoe company Irregular Choice has introduced an Alice in Wonderland shoe line, just in time for the release of “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” the upcoming Johnny Depp sequel to 2010’s …

It’s a simple Spanish word that means “hands,” but to those who grew up with “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the word “manos” means something else. “Manos: The Hands of Fate,” made in 1966 by a Texas fertilizer salesman, is a legendarily awful movie about a vacationing family that stumbles upon the creepy Valley Lodge and ends up falling into a …