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Browse Minimally
Today in Tedium: One of the more controversial pieces I’ve written over the past few years made an argument that seemed designed to annoy huge parts of the internet-browsing public. I told people that...
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The Backlink Economy
Today in Tedium: Today’s Tedium is about something that I make a point of never putting in Tedium. Maybe it’s a point of pride, or a desire to keep my more than 500 articles in a relatively pristine...
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Painting Outside The Lines
Hey all, Ernie here with a refresh of a classic Tedium issue. (Lotta busted backlinks in this one that are now fixed.) This is a fascinating tale of shareware being the great equalizer. Read on! Today...
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Bye Bye, Buffet?
Today in Tedium: Is there any worse line of business to operate in 2020 than a chain of buffet-style restaurants? Despite the fact that many restaurants are likely to recover and bounce back after we...
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Capos On The Brain
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from our resident musician, David Buck, who decided that the content you needed right now was (of course) content about guitar capos. Enjoy! Today in Tedium:...
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Elementary, My Dear Soundtrack
Hey internet, Ernie here with a fresh piece from Andrew Egan, who decided to nerd out on a very specific theme. If you like the theme songs to detective shows, especially those inspired by a Holmesian...
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Now You’re Playing With Power
Today in Tedium: Recently, I felt compelled to find a good way to upgrade my internet in my home, but I had a bit of a problem: my home is old, and that meant that trying to expand its ethernet...
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Jagged Little Tapes
Today in Tedium: A lot has happened in the past few months, and it can all blend together. One heartwarming story you may have missed in this morass of bad news is the tale of Wheatus, the band behind...
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Peel The Labels
Today in Tedium: Today is a sad day in adhesive history, as the U.S. Postal Service, apparently because they don’t have any taste whatsoever, is killing something cool that was sold under their...
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The Payment Comes After
Today in Tedium: For reasons clear to basically every home consumer in the U.S. who purchases products in 2020, we tend to pay for the things we buy ahead of time, with the goal of having a simple...
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Power Outage
Today in Tedium: Perhaps the highly anticipated moment that I’m going to contextualize today is totally inevitable, in a way. For years, there’s been a rumbling that Apple would take its knowledge of...
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Flight Risk
Hey all, Ernie here with an updated piece about in-fight entertainment, a concept whose potential demise has been in the news in recent weeks due to COVID-19. Updates and refreshes throughout—cheers!...
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This Is Definitely A Test
Today in Tedium: You don’t know Norbert D. Larky and David D. Holmes, but you’ve most certainly seen their work many thousands of times in your life. It’s the kind of thing that has existed in the...
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Meet Our Virtual Contestants
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from David Buck, who last hit us up with a piece on guitar capos. This time, he has something for the Nick Arcade generation. Read on! Today in Tedium: I always...
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What’s In a Hoax?
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Andrew Egan, who was inspired to talk about hoaxes thanks to a “lost film” that wasn’t. Here goes: Today in Tedium: It’s no secret that we’re great fans of lost...
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Fourth Failures
Today in Tedium: If there’s something I hope that people take away from this newsletter that I’ve worked on for five and a half years now, it’s that, you should take a chance and try something,...
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Having a Cow, Man
Today in Tedium: Around this time three decades ago, you could not go anywhere and not see a shirt featuring some variation of Bart Simpson on the front of it. These variations were everywhere, to the...
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Blue Flashing Light
Today in Tedium: There’s a light on the front of my TV set—a 55-inch TCL Roku TV set, of the kind that people who just want an inexpensive big TV buy—that I find annoying. It seems like a light that...
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No Room for Design
Today in Tedium: Internet culture has evolved in numerous ways over the years, from its chaotic roots on Usenet and bulletin boards into the modern social networks that have become key to our digital...
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We Were Promised Skynet
Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed piece on satellite internet access, a concept that has sucked for years, but may soon suck far less. Here’s a refresh to explain its history and the changing...
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