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Scanning And Sorting
Hey all, Ernie here with a refresh of an old piece of mine that I think deserves a few more eyes on it. There’s nothing like a bunch of checks to help you think differently about automation. Today in...
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Distorting The Electron Gun
Today in Tedium: As you read this, you are likely in a room surrounded by screens. We all are. They are everywhere, in giant, slab-like form; in moderate, tablet-like form; and in handheld sizes that...
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Marketing That Sticks
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck on something I personally dislike. I have never chewed gum; it honestly grosses me out. But I do love the history of marketing, and he did a great job...
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Ignoring The Warnings
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Andrew Egan, who writes this time around about a sports history tale, one you’ve likely heard about, with surprising relevance to the modern day. I’ll let him get...
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Thunderbolt Road
Today in Tedium: Two decades ago, the fastest data connection that we could hope for from a standard personal computer was 1 gigabit (125 megabytes) per second in speed, first brought to the broader...
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37’s Signals
Today in Tedium: I’m endlessly fascinated by stories of the quirks that were built into the TV system where the well-laid plans of the system simply fell apart because it was asked to do too many...
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Even Better Than The Real Thing
Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed piece on what might be the ultimate Tedium topic: the cottage industry of fake electronics. Read on—this is a weird one! Today in Tedium: Marketing, for better or...
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Caddy Confusion
Today in Tedium: The first time I ever saw a CD-ROM, I had never seen a regular CD before, and I thought that it came in a giant plastic case. To be fair to me, I was in middle school, and I had...
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Tangential Juice Innovation
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece on juice boxes. This past week has seen a surge of subscribers, in part thanks to a BBC Radio appearance by me. Welcome to the list, all! Look forward to serving you...
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Newsletter, Untethered
Today in Tedium: Recently, I got an opportunity to write something, which is most assuredly nothing new to me, but it was actually a pretty interesting experience. Basically, this website called...
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Novell Cooperation
Today in Tedium: “Whatever is good for our competition is good for us” is not usually a sentiment used in the cutthroat business world, especially in a space like technology where large companies are...
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No Shortage of GPUs Here
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Andrew Egan, who has a story to share about GPUs, the chips whose economics are really annoying a lot of gamers right now. Today in Tedium: Names change. Perhaps...
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They Might Be Trailblazers
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck about one of the great nerd-rock bands of all time and their expert use of technology. Let’s give They Might Be Giants their flowers. Today in Tedium:...
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Bridge To Nowhere
Today in Tedium: As you probably know about me, I used to spend years working in newspapers. But of the many things that were in newspapers, one of the things I never understood was why most...
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Make Digital Preservation Easier
Today in Tedium: Look, I’m not going to tell you that Yahoo Answers was the height of cultural artifacts. But the thing is, it had value. And the reason why it had was because of the amount of time...
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Europe’s Big Tech Bet
Today in Tedium: You may have heard something about a semiconductor chip shortage in the news recently—driven in part by a shortage of display driver chips, which automobiles have come to increasingly...
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Too Terrible For Television
Hey all, Ernie here with a freshly updated piece from the archives about a practice that was once common but you’re probably not aware of—how TV networks dumped unsold pilots on the air during the...
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Hesitancy On Display
Today in Tedium: I have to admit something about myself. I’m color eInk curious. The technology has been finally hitting reaching regular consumers for the first time in recent months thanks to ebook...
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So Much Stuff Out There
Today in Tedium: Every few months, I like taking a step back from the weekly grind of building out long Tedium pieces and doing something of a “grab bag” style of post, where there isn’t really a...
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The Other Q
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from a new contributor, Andrew Paul, who has a musical mystery to share involving a film you’ve likely seen. Here’s how it plays out. Today in Tedium: There are two...
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