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Fitness vs. Fatness (Part 3) We continue our survey of animation’s war on weight – whether to put on the pounds, take them off, or somehow let them sit in limbo. This week’s helping of excess calories provides a split between the overeaters and the fitness freaks, in hopes of balancing the scales as opposed to the polarized split of viewpoints presented in the preceding two installments. Slightly out of chronological sequence again, but still in the year of 1936 where we left off with the exercise gurus from Part 1 of this series, comes Home Town Olympics (Terrytoons/Educational, 2/30/36...

Yesterday, Sony accidentally leaked a PlayStation Plus Video Pass feature on the official Poland PlayStation website. Today, the company has confirmed that this is a real feature and explained why it is region-locked to Poland (for now) and what the future of PS Plus Video Pass could look like.  While the new feature is official, it is not quite ready to be considered a fully launched perk. Currently, Sony is testing the Video Pass in Poland due to its large market. “We know very well that we have a large base of players in Poland who stand out due to their...

  Hong Kong’s Kim Jong-un impersonator, publicly known as Howard X, published a Facebook post on January 19 revealing that police raided his apartment in October and arrested him for possession of a firearm without a license. Howard X added that police hasn’t pressed charges, and that he was released on bail under the condition he reports to the police station every six weeks. Along with his Facebook post, the comedian shared a photo of his most recent police appearance, to which he took a toy rocket: Press Release – Kim Jong Un impersonator arrested by Hong Kong Police Click here for full...

— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Plants are so much more than a pretty face—they’ve been proven to improve the air quality of your home by removing common toxins and pollutants, and have some serious mood-boosting properties. So why wouldn’t you fill your home with houseplants? While tending to plants may seem like one more chore to deal with, you’re likely to find soothing comfort in tending and watching them blossom into the lush greenery they’ve always been destined to become, similar to raising a pet or...

My Latest Snag: The Old Sippy Cup Game. We were a little late in weaning micro off the bottle for milk. He’s been drinking water out of straw/sippy cups for a long time, but we were deeply ingrained in the milk-in-a-bottle habit. With mini, we went cold turkey to sippy cups around 15 months (maybe earlier, I can’t quite remember), but with micro, I tried a few times — maybe once a month for several months in a row — and he would wail for his bottle and I would cave. It was always vaguely stressful to me, because he...