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I've seen the commercial 100 times in the past month, and it never fails to leave me flabbergasted and annoyed.

It's an ad for a chocolate company in which several lugheads discuss the possible domestic ramifications of returning home on Valentine's Day without a heart-shaped box of the aforementioned confections.

One such idiot suggests he'll be sleeping in the doghouse.

Another predicts "trouble."

It may not be funny but I suppose I'll give credit to Honda for its somewhat creative President's Day ad.

Not that anyone in these parts needs to be taught this but Bon Appetit has a piece on how to properly eat and enjoy fresh oysters.

In honor of Mardi Gras and King Cake, Bon Appetit has a list of foods with stuff stuck in it.

The next flavor of Lays potato chips could taste like chicken and waffles ... or cheesy garlic bread ... or Thai-inspired sriracha.

Man mocks up his resume to look like an Amazon product page and the result is as awesome as you'd expect.

Caught in a blizzard? No worries. Bon Appetit has some tips for cooking with fresh snow.

Distil Union of Charleston gets some love from Cool Material for its Wally iPhone wallet. 

Bon Appetit's Sam Dean has a piece on the origin of oysters, gumbo and okra.

Sara Jenkins of New York City's Porcena has four tips for fool-proof pasta. 

The 10 chefs worth following on Instagram. Among them is Charleston's Craig Deihl. 

Try as I might to be on the cutting edge of all things pop culture and technology, sometimes I’m a little late to the party.

And in the case of developer Zach Gage’s insanely addictive word game, SpellTower, my tardiness might have something to with my apathy toward mobile games.

I didn’t play any of the seemingly hundreds of iterations of Angry Birds. Or Temple Run. Or Fruit Ninja. Or Plants vs. Zombies.

An Amazon engineer says the NFL could have easily avoided the blackout during Sunday's Super Bowl. 

Not a single city in South Carolina made a list of the country's most literate cities. 

I never envisioned myself living in the South.

And I certainly didn't imagine myself liking it this much.

Having spent most of my childhood in the tundra-like landscape of western New York and my adolescence and college years in Indiana, I had grown accustomed to a certain kind of lifestyle. One that didn't include sweet tea, a grammatically problematic conjunction that combined "you" and "all," and temperatures that make a sauna feel drafty.

A pretty awesome/gross promo for The Walking Dead. 

A Charleston startup hits its Kickstarter goal in just four days.

Are personalized Pez dispensers on the way? 

The Atlantic's James Hamblin has an interesting piece on why we took cocaine out of soda.

The rise of gluten-free beer. 

Vampire Weekend released details today about its upcoming LP, Modern Vampire of the City.