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Pumpkin-Spice Pop Culture
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh one from David Buck. Let me be straight up with this one: I think he outdid himself here. Read on for a whole lotta Halloween. Today in Tedium: Pop culture is weird....
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Shear Moonlight
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh one from Andrew Egan, who hit us up last month with a story about the shifting nature of sports statistics. This time, he wanted to take a late-night theory for a...
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Lint, Filtered
Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed piece on dryer lint, a substance that springs eternal. Cheers! Today in Tedium: Of the many appliances in our home that create byproducts, is there a more...
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Internet Synthesis Protocol
Today in Tedium: For some reason, when we tiptoe around the start of November each year, I think about “November Rain.” I’m not really a hard rock guy, but it’s a great song, one that Guns N’ Roses...
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Just The Fax, Ma’am
Today in Tedium: Journalism is about telling good, important stories in ways that help expose sunlight, raise awareness, or keep people informed about their communities. But it’s also about...
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Write Everything Down
Today in Tedium: I’ve been writing this thing twice a week for nearly five years, and while I haven’t kept up an exact word count of how much Tedium I’ve written during that period, odds are it’s a...
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Text By Procedure
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from contributor John Ohno, who last wrote a piece a year and a half ago about the home robot trend of the 1980s. Here’s a completely different take on automation....
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Four Things A-Weirdin’
Hey all, Ernie here with the final installment in our Twelve Things of Tedium series. It’s been a fascinating one to work on, and to finish us off, Andrew Egan is going to take us home with a holiday...
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Pure Polycarbonate
Hey all, Ernie here with another (thankfully not holiday-related) piece from Yuri Litvinenko, who has been thinking a lot about plastic lately—specifically, milky white plastic, the kind Apple used to...
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Hindsight Is 2020
Today in Tedium: So here we are, on the brink of 2020, which means I’ve been burning my fingers when making jalapeño poppers for five years now. We’re not just at the end of the year—but the end of...
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The Inbox Pioneer
Today in Tedium: Tedium, with a now half-decade track record, has taken a lot of directions over the years, but sometimes, my flights of fancy and big ideas get lost along the way of the mission of...
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My Modular Mind
Today in Tedium: CES is here, and with it lots of technology you don’t need. But sometimes, something stands out to you so much that it gives you a little bit of hope for the future of the tech world....
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Moldy Oldie Marketing
Hey all, Ernie here with a lightly refreshed favorite from the archives, complete with a pan flute soundtrack. You fill up my senses like a night in the forest. Today in Tedium: When I grew up, I...
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Mistakes Were Made
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from Andrew Egan, who last hit us with a couple of holiday-themed pieces. This time around, he ponders how enterprise technology vendors screw up in totally...
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3DS, In Retrospect
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from David Buck, who is proving with this piece that it’s never too soon for the nostalgia train to begin. The 3DS is still in stores—though it’s clearly seen...
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The Email Appliance
Today in Tedium: It was not a sure thing that digital convenience would someday fit in our pockets. For quite a long period of time, convenience simply meant a degree of portability mixed with the...
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Throw It In The Pile
Today in Tedium: Is there anything more nerve-wracking than having to sell yourself to a prospective employer? They don’t know you. You don’t know them. And much of the pressure of making sure that...
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Tinker Tech
Today in Tedium: For some reason, despite the fact that our devices can seemingly do anything with an impressive level of polish, there are folks who want to learn from the tech they use. They want a...
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Dinwiddie’s Dream
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Calvin Kasulke, who previously wrote about body wash for us. This time, he talks about indie basketball shoes sold by Spencer Dinwiddie, a guy who just did...
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Headbanger’s Ball
By Joanna McKittrick, University of California San Diego and Jae-Young Jung, University of California, San Francisco Slamming a beak against the trunk of a tree would seem like an activity that would...
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