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Moondog’s Long Howl
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck, who felt inspired enough to highlight an offbeat musical icon thanks in part to his appearance in a movie. (Kinda.) Anyway, read on! Today in Tedium:...
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Eat More, They’re Healthy
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Karen Corday, who last appeared in the newsletter about a year ago to talk Sniglets. This time, she’s back with another topic that starts with the letter S:...
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It’s 10 O’Clock Somewhere
Today in Tedium: Television is perhaps the perfect medium for public service. It can reach large crowds of people in bars, in airports, and in living rooms. What it loses due to a lack of...
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The Ghosts of Windows 3.1
Today in Tedium: Recently, while stumbling around a Goodwill, I got my hands on a cheap tablet designed to run Windows 10. I only paid a few dollars for the tablet, which can be bought here new for...
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Our Annoying National Upgrade
Hey all, here’s a lightly-refreshed classic issue of Tedium that touches on something that surprisingly happened almost a full decade ago at this point: The shutdown of analog TV in the U.S. Here’s...
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Broken Bells
Today in Tedium: Today in Tedium is really about three days ago in Tedium, when something strange happened in the middle of the night. At 1:30 in the morning, the doorbell rang. My wife and I thought,...
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Meet Weird Paul
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck, who fulfilled a somewhat long-term goal of ours with this issue: Do an article about Weird Paul. Who’s Weird Paul? I’ll let him explain. Today in...
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Enter The Matrox
Today in Tedium: If you use computers with any level of seriousness and focus on horsepower, you’re probably aware that one of the most important components of the computer is the graphics processing...
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The Imperfect Perfect
Hey all, Ernie here with a Tedium piece from Andrew Egan, who last hit your inbox with a ponderous piece on Erector Sets and other educational toys. This time, he dips into the all-too-rare Tedium...
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Music After Midnight
Today in Tedium: There’s always something to admire about a well-considered touring bill, where the bands on the lineup fit together so well that it makes you want to drop everything and go. (Case in...
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Wiki-Fail
Today in Tedium: When I heard this week that there was a direct competitor to Wikipedia that was receiving VC funding, I really wasn’t happy about it. (It really grinds my gears, in fact; therefore,...
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Old Computers, New Inspiration
Today in Tedium: I’m not a newbie when it comes to conferences—I’ve attended many over the years, big and small, and my day job includes an element of regular conference attendance. But I’ve never...
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Total Edutainment Forever
Hey all, here’s a classic Tedium piece about the traditional problem with mixing education and software. This story has a great alternative term for “edutainment,” BTW. Today in Tedium: Forcing...
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Gaming The Charts
Today in Tedium: In a way, a decision by Rolling Stone to create its own version of the pop charts—in direct competition with Billboard, which has been doing this for 80 years—is something the...
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Photon Phailure
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Yuri Litvinenko, a journalist from Russia who wrote a great piece on the Microsoft Kin on his personal website a while ago. He’s here to talk about another failed...
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The Great Novelty Songwriting Contest
Hey all, Ernie here with another piece from David Buck, who last hit us with a heaping helping of Weird Paul. This time, he’s back with something just as novel. Today in Tedium: At some point in the...
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Learning At 300 Baud
Today in Tedium: College is expensive—so much so that when a billionaire announces plans to cover the student loans of an entire graduating class, it becomes front-page news and leads to an inevitable...
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Michael Wolff’s Internet Book Empire
Today in Tedium: When journalist Michael Wolff releases a new book, as he’s planning to do next week with his second Trump tell-all, it becomes an event—one driven by days of leaks as details of that...
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The World’s Most Pawsome Mascot
Hey, uhm, Ernie here with a piece from a brand new contributor who was surprisingly excited to write this piece. He wouldn’t take no for an answer, and I just gave in because I didn’t want to see the...
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Upgrade Arbitrage
Today in Tedium: I guess the saying is that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. If that’s the case, I’ve been treasuring a lot of trash lately. Between the $1 university I recently bought and...
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