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Total Eclipse Of The Counterfeit
If you bought a pair of eclipse glasses from Amazon recently, you probably received a shock when the company informed you that it was selling solar eclipse glasses that weren’t certified to be used to...
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Get Yourself A Treat
Editor’s note: Hey all, Ernie here—just wanted to let you guys know I’m handing the reins over to Andrew Egan once again. (If you want some of my thoughts on things, I did a recent interview with...
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Do You Copy?
Today in Tedium: It seems so quaint now, but there was a time when the walkie-talkie was the coolest possible toy you could own (barring, perhaps, Power Wheels). But the invention of the...
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Super FX Turbo Mode
I’m going to come right out and say it: I want a Super NES Classic. I wanted an NES Classic, but that sold out too quickly and the variations on the market cost way too much money, so I have my finger...
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Never A Dull Moment
Today in Tedium: Obviously, knives, with their sharp blades for cutting through things, have been around forever—they’re a key ingredient of any horror film, slasher flick, or murder mystery that’s...
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Shorthand For No
In an era when literally every rule of traditional journalism has been blown to shreds (case in point: the fact I can run a site and newsletter like this), it’s depressing to see how far some sticklers...
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Let’s Lock Information Down
Today in Tedium: Digital rights management seemingly came out of nowhere to define our relationship with technology in the modern day. Popularly, it seemed like its birth had come as a direct response...
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Cloth, Meet Plastic
As I learned a few months ago, creating custom T-shirts is a somewhat-complicated, but often quite useful way of promoting a product or raising money for an endeavor. That’s in part because it’s...
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The Man With 400 Albums
Editor's note: Hey all, Ernie from Tedium here! So I'm happy to introduce David Buck, a first-time writer for the newsletter who's a massive fan of a guy you're probably not even aware of. He makes me...
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Moore R. Stevie Moore
Editor's note: This is a companion piece to yesterday's newsletter issue on R. Stevie Moore, by David Buck. Read that first, then come back here. R. Stevie Moore's vast body of work may intimidate...
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Scanning And Sorting
Today in Tedium: The physical check, for most general purposes, is a sheer relic—basically used mostly for specific big-ticket purchases like rent, it certainly doesn’t have the sex appeal of, say,...
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A Beachside Mystery
Sorry, guys: The unofficial end of summer gets us no closer to the solution of the summer’s great mystery. Yes, that’s right, there was a big mystery hiding in the sand this summer—and it would’ve been...
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Right Track, Wrong Station
Today in Tedium: Trying to codify and organize things is really hard. Case in point: When Amazon tried to launch a cashier-free grocery store concept late last year, the company saw a lot of problems...
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The Great Platform Problem
Yesterday afternoon, I admit, was a bit rough. In a good way, but still rough. A piece from months ago by Andrew Egan, my regular contributor to the site, hit the Reddit front page completely...
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Why Aren't You Wearing Corduroy?
Today in Tedium: This newsletter/information feed is many things, but it’s not a fashion blog. We’re anything but fashionable. But we do have a tendency to follow trends to at least understand them,...
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Blogging Before it Was Cool
Of all the people it’s sucked to lose in 2017, Jerry Pournelle’s loss might quietly be the saddest. Case in point: His final blog post, published Thursday. He noted the cold he was dealing with after...
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We're Running Out of Widgets
Editor’s note: Apple’s revelation on Tuesday that it was rethinking its approach to stores into something akin to a “town square” got me thinking about an old piece I wrote a while back—one that I,...
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Mystery Meat
If you know anything about school lunches, it’s this: Trying new things on the menu isn’t always the best idea. But that didn’t stop the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District from introducing a new...
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The Knockoff Game
Today in Tedium: If you wander through some corners of eBay, or Amazon, or even YouTube, you’ll see ‘em: The clones. Cheap clones. Expensive clones. Clones that play five different systems. Clones...
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Modem Madness
A couple of months ago, I gave a little notice to Sega’s early attempt to tie cable connections with video games, the Sega Channel. Certainly, it was the most interesting communications-related...
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