Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I knew ...

WASHINGTON — Few of life’s questions have been as polarizing as “over or under?” The correct orientation of the end of a toilet paper roll in a bathroom dispenser — on the outside (over), or behind ...

There is nothing like a debate to get people going on social media. And today's great debate involves one of our most cherished inventions: toilet paper. You may have seen multiple toilet paper posts ...

A couple years ago, the creator of the GIF, Steve Wilhite, declared his creation is pronounced with a soft “G,” as in jif. It will still be a cold day in hell before many of us let go of the hard “G,” ...

Finally, a 124-year-old patent will settle the age-old debate: Should toilet paper hang over or under the roll? Wheeler would know -- he was the man who first patented perforated toilet paper, or ...

For generations, we have pondered the most pressing of questions, the question upon which the answers to all other questions depend (well, not really — but sometimes it certainly feels that way): ...

The debate is so over. The age-old argument about whether toilet paper should go “over or under” has been apparently been settled by an 1891 patent unearthed by one writer. And it’s over. Tech writer ...

THE age old argument about whether toilet paper should sit over or under the roll has finally been solved by a 1891 patent document. According to this 1891 patent from New York businessman Seth ...