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Web the RIPper
Today in Tedium: Bulletin boards, love them or hate them, quickly became relics of their time for a few reasons. One of the most visible, for obvious reasons, was the graphics. Say what you will about...
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Putting Order In Its Place
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from Andrew Egan, who brings his knowledge of restaurants to a fresh Tedium piece. Read it in order. Today in Tedium: In the absence of ordinary things, how...
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A True (NES) Advantage
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh one from David Buck, who decided to write a piece about one of the most iconic game controllers of all time. Here’s the Nintendo-shaped hole that the NES Advantage...
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Blister In The Store
Today in Tedium: We owe a lot to plastic, which helps to create and protect many of the products we use on a regular basis. Plastic can be used to design many great things. But it can also be used in...
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Brains And Buzzers
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Michael Bentley of the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence, a major figure in the world of quizbowl. He shares with us a piece on quizbowl’s long...
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Tales Of Type
Today in Tedium: Typography has been one of the key ways that the computer has distinguished itself from more traditional physical forms. Here’s what I mean: In the 1930s or 1940s, if you wanted to...
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News In Small Bytes
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh coat of paint on a piece dating all the way back to 2016. This one discusses the unusual dynamic of the newspaper industry during the earliest days of online services...
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Putting Beer On Ice
Today in Tedium: Of all the things that can get you through this weird time in our lives, one of the most obvious is beer. Beer is a beverage that should be had in moderation, of course, but these are...
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Epic MegaFight
Today in Tedium: A couple years ago, I tried Fortnite for about 10 minutes, felt like it went a bit over my head, took it off my phone and deleted it. I prefer my adventures in two dimensions (or in...
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Donglevision
Today in Tedium: As you may guess from the stuff I write about, I have a lot of computers, of various shapes, sizes, and functions. Some of them I only mess with occasionally; some are frequent...
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Thirsty? Oh Yeah!
Hey all, Ernie here with another great piece from David Buck. He’s been doing some experiments with powdered drink packets, I hear. Today in Tedium: We can all use a cold sugary drink once in a while....
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Retry Mock Toys
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Andrew Egan, who is aiming for the sky with his latest. Read on if you love rockets (or expect to love rockets by the end, obviously). Today in Tedium: Spending a...
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The Tough Climb
Hey all! Before we get any further, I just wanted to point out that today’s Tedium newsletter features a design refresh, as I explain below. (For those reading on the web, I put a version online...
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The Glitch Equation
Today in Tedium: For the past few decades, Intel has been by far the largest and most influential maker of processor chips in the world, long outlasting many competitors such as Motorola and IBM on...
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It’s All In The Cards
Hey all, today’s issue is a refresh of a 2017 Tedium issue that has a pretty significant update to highlight, caught by my pal Matthew Keys, who runs a great media and tech blog called The Desk. More...
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Life After Death Metal
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from a new contributor, Fahad Sperinck. He shares a really impactful story about the lives of death metal musicians. I hope you find it as fascinating as I did. Today...
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iBook Stampede
Today in Tedium: There’s been a lot in the news of late about kids trying to embrace the weird world of remote learning. The problem is that the technology, while it’s ready to handle such use cases,...
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Let’s Talk About Stuff
Today in Tedium: With today’s issue, I’m going to throw the internet a bone. Recently, I found myself inspired by something a smart creative person named Sara Dietschy said about creativity. It may be...
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A Requiem in Stereo(scope)
You ever hate it when you predict the future? Hey all, Ernie here with an updated piece from David Buck, who wrote this piece just nine months ago predicting that the Nintendo 3DS would see its...
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FTP Fadeout
Today in Tedium: Here’s a small piece of news you may have missed while you were trying to rebuild your entire life to fit inside your tiny apartment at the beginning of the COVID crisis: Because of...
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