Yeah, we know, “Shark Week” is pretty disappointing. No, the shark that Michael Phelps “raced” was not real. No, a giant prehistoric shark called a megalodon doesn’t continue to prowl the seas. Sure, there is some awesome science thrown in there with the bogus “voodoo shark” stories. But basically, the week is a multimillion-dollar marketing […]

 Haskell Harris, style director at Garden & Gun magazine, joined staff writer Jura Koncius last week on The Washington Post’s Home Front online chat. Here is an edited excerpt. Q: Do you have paint color recommendations for a medium-size bedroom with little natural light? I have a swatch of Benjamin Moore’s Peau de Soie (in […]

The much-ridiculed augmented-reality goggles from Google, once known as Google Glass, are back after two years of relative silence. On Tuesday, Google’s parent company Alphabet reintroduced the device to the world, and said it is now called simply “Glass” and is under its experimental “X” department. Google stopped a retail test of Google Glass in […]

For a brief, glorious period of the late 1990s, Crayola’s yellow crayon had an alter ego: “world wide web yellow.” Purple was “www.purple” and screamin’ green was “green.com.” The 16 crayons of the “Techno-Brite” lasted for just a couple of years. But two decades later, they’ve become a viral snapshot of what the internet was […]

 As more than 125,000 geek-culture fans make the pilgrimage to San Diego Comic-Con International over the next five days this year’s version of the granddaddy of American nerd-cons arrives bearing some unique themes and important queries. Here are six questions to track between now and Sunday. 1. Will Netflix flex its newfound muscle? As the […]