If you want to drive a luxury car, you have three options: buy new, lease, or buy used. Tavarish says the smart money buys used and buys on Craigslist for cheap, but if you want a little more peace of mind, certified pre-owned is the way to go. Autotrader ranked their top ten CPO programs, you might be surprised who… Read more

America loves it some mid-size sedans. Wagons might be more practical and crossovers are now outselling the humble four-door, but mid-sizers remain the chariot of choice for a massive swath of the population. Nearly every automaker offers one and each comes in dozens of flavors, so how do you pick the best? We're here… Read more

Police officers turn up a lot in Gawker stories, but unless they're a department commissioner giving a press conference or a union leader loudly berating a public official, it's rare that they actually have a voice. Gawker's anonymous cop is here to answer our readers' most pressing questions. [Gawker] Read more

Fahrenheit Is a Better Temperature Scale Than Celsius [Gawker] Read more

In my practice, I review automobile purchase documents all day long. And I cringe every time I see someone who has purchased the overpriced gap insurance from the dealer. They've been ripped off to the tune of several hundred dollars and probably had no idea. [Jalopnik] Read more

Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that's listed in Tobin's Spirit Guide, just after Evo Shandor. This week, a reader is mourning the loss of his special lady, and another reader is dealing with some dating anxieties of his own... [Kotaku] Read more

Facebook is a big and maddening place. Antiviral wants to make it better. To that end, we're putting together a comprehensive guide to the new, bad, weird, and bullshit "news sites" that are appearing on your feed. Here's part one: "Satire." [Gawker] Read more

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey told me not to buy an Oculus Rift. That was two years ago, and he's repeated the plea every time I've seen him since. Don't buy it. It's not ready. It's just a developer kit. He's right, but I'm tired of waiting. I want a VR headset and I want it now. So I built one. Sorta. [Gizmodo] Read more

Everybody loves infographics. Facts (and assertions) just spring to life when you make them into cool pictures. But this powerful tool is all too often misused. Our friends at io9 put together a list of 11 infographics that are either completely misleading or totally useless. [io9] Read more

Osorno is a city in Chile. This statement is a fact, but not everyone knows that. And, it turns out, if you present people with this statement written in blue, more of them will judge it as truthful than if you present it written in yellow. Our friends at io9 explain why. [io9] Read more