Your wine-loving friends already know what they like. 

They’ve got their favorite varietals and they’ve got their favorite brands listed in a note on their phone for reference. In other words, they don’t need you to buy them wine. 

What they do need is a sleek copper corkscrew that – surprise – is shaped like a shark! They need silly drink markers for their dinner guests! They need a suction cup glass holder that’ll vastly improve their night time bath ritual! 

Where does one find such treasures? The internet, duh. And at less than $20, you’re sure to find something within your budget for every wine drinker in your life. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | 20 gifts under for your wine-loving friends

The Winklevoss twins now have an undisputed achievement to their name. 

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are believed to be among the first bitcoin investors to pull in a billion-dollar return after the cryptocurrency’s value surged to nearly $11,500 on Monday.

Once derisively referred to as the Winklevii by Mark Zuckerberg, the brothers are best known for suing the Facebook co-founder and CEO over credit for the idea behind the company, a conflict famously dramatized in the film The Social Network.

The twins invested around $11 million of their $65 million payout from that lawsuit into the fledgling cryptocurrency in 2013, one of the biggest bitcoin bets in the world at the time. That foresight has now paid off handsomely as the cryptocurrency’s price has ballooned nearly 10,000 percent in the time since.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | The Winklevoss twins are now among the world's first bitcoin billionaires

Once upon a time, I prayed for 2016 to end. Now I’d do anything to get it and its incredibly corny hot takes about dead celebrities back.

Let’s be honest — 2017 was a bad year. There were heroic moments sprinkled throughout, including the time the almighty Congresswoman Maxine Waters walked away from a group of reporters and launched her superstar careerA feminist hippo was born. Someone made whatever the hell this is.

But by and large, 2017 was a year shaped by anger and Donald Trump tweets and Sean Spicer holocaust revisionism. 

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Source: Mashable | 49 times we thought 2017 couldn't get any worse, and then oh god

In conversation with Samantha Bee at a fundraiser for the Montclair Film organization, Stephen Colbert said he “felt dumb” for not realizing the scope of Hollywood’s sexual misconduct. Bee pointed out that public accusations against Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K. and more have mostly been eye-opening for men, but long overdue justice for women who whispered warnings to each other for decades.

“But you are saying this is not surprising to any woman on the planet?” Colbert asked Bee.

“No! No,” she responded.

“I feel dumb,” Colbert said. “I’m not surprised that men are bad but… I didn’t know about Louis. I didn’t even know about Cosby! And that’s dumb.” Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Stephen Colbert says it's 'dumb' he didn't know about Cosby, Louis C.K.