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Not iPod, iPAQ
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh one from Yuri Litvinenko, who wrote a great one for us last month about a shelved version of Windows Mobile. This time, he’s talking iPAQ. Today in Tedium: If you were...
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Slot Wars
Today in Tedium: In the history of the IBM-compatible personal computer, we know who the winners and losers all are. The biggest winner was most assuredly Microsoft, followed by the many clone makers...
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It’s Just A Swipe Away
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Andrew Egan, who did a little digging into an element of the average New Yorker’s life that they don’t even realize: Their often-frustrating interaction with...
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Holding Patterns
Today in Tedium: This week appears to be the week when fast-casual sandwich chains are trying to out-weird one another. On Monday, Quiznos decided to announce a “Magic Mushroom Melt,” which looked to...
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The Other Windows
Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed piece about GeoWorks, one of the great noble failures of the early PC era. There have been some updates that I’ve been wanting to add to this, as well as...
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New Emails, Old Tech
Today in Tedium: What makes an email different from a web page? Depending on how it’s presented, not a lot—but they also might be miles apart. Things that might have taken a few minutes to lay out for...
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Adventures In Interactivity
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from David Buck, who last wrote a great piece on novelty songwriting contests. This time, he’s taking you on an adventure! Today in Tedium: I’m attempting to...
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Piggyback Journalism
Today in Tedium: In the universe of bad takes, there’s the rest of the internet, and then there’s this guy who ripped on half the adult population to criticize their use of backpacks. Really, the post...
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Simulated Fireworks
Today in Tedium: Fireworks are fundamentally easy to understand. You put a bunch of flammable materials in the air and watch them explode in interesting ways. But the space, in ways that are rarely...
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The Air of Superiority
Hey all! Inspired by a recently rekindled debate on the value of air conditioning (one that my interest was sparked in by The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz), I thought this piece from a few years back...
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You Never Know What You’re Gonna Get
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Andrew Egan, who has—for reasons he’ll explain in the piece—seen the movie Forrest Gump literally dozens of times in the past few weeks, mostly in passing. It...
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Driver Disaster
Today in Tedium: With apologies to speedy processors and thinner screens, the Universal Serial Bus may be the most important invention in modern technology. It took a complicated, esoteric...
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Eat Them Up, Yum!
Hey all, Ernie here with another piece from David Buck, who is (of course) a font of knowledge of obscure and novelty music. This time around, he talks about the long cultural reach of one of...
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Pressing Forward
Today in Tedium: For years, it’s felt like the big guys in the tech industry were the ones doing the riskiest, most innovative things. Mainly because they had both the budgets, resources, and the...
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Channel None
Today in Tedium: Cable news is a controversial thing in 2019, seen as something of an epicenter of our frustrations and damaging to the dialogue due to a strong focus on ratings and ideology over...
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Is This A Light That Never Goes Out?
Today in Tedium: If you’ve walked in a hardware store lately, you’ve probably found the push toward LED light bulbs a bit, shall we say, aggressive. Part of the reason for this is because of the...
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Gateway Country
Today in Tedium: The situation with the tariffs is pretty weird, isn’t it? Whatever your opinion of the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China, the fact of the matter is, it represents something...
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Rental Self-Own
Today in Tedium: For years, the U.S. music industry seemed to have lost its mojo, something it blamed on piracy. A big sign that it has that mojo back is the fact that “Old Town Road,” which already...
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Virtual Crate Digging
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from the always-reliable David Buck about his favorite subject, music. This time, in a natural successor to our last piece, he’s taking a collector’s viewpoint on...
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Smartphones, Except Landlocked
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from Yuri Litvinenko, who has regaled us with some interesting tales about old mobile phone tech. This one’s about old phone tech, but it’s anything but mobile....
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