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The Internet Will Be Televised
Today in Tedium: Terrible product ideas are a dime a dozen, but what about ideas that are fascinating, and perhaps executionally sound, but conceptually flawed? How often do they come about? And how...
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We Screwed Up
Today in Tedium: Despite the name of this internet publication, I've never mentioned what might perhaps be the most tedious part of the world's modern existence, the most basic of building blocks that...
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The Big Data Jukebox
Today in Tedium: Discovering new kinds of music is easier than ever, something we can credit Napster for—along with its later legal followers, particularly Spotify, Pandora, and Apple Music. (Oh, and...
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When It Rains, It Pours
Today in Tedium: Umbrellas are a good way to protect your head in case of inclement weather. Problem is, they’re not a perfect way. And that is made obvious by the fact that you’re sometimes hit by at...
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Adapters, Unplugged
Today in Tedium: Power outlets are frustrating, but the devices we use on a daily basis? They don't necessarily make things easier. In fact, the bricks that come with many modern devices, from your...
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Make Every Piece Count
Today in Tedium: You may not like meat, but even if you do, you may not think of it in terms of innovation. It sounds like a concept incompatible with the idea of meat—we do so many things with cows,...
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Getting The Next Word In
Today in Tedium: Word processors are generally kind of boring—they do their job, and that's about it. Most people don't put a ton of second thought into their word processors. As you might have...
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No Acquiring This Taste
Today in Tedium: We love things that taste good. We hate things that taste bad. Perhaps it's for that reason we don't spend a lot of time talking about terrible-tasting things. But there's plenty of...
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We Were Selling Computers All Wrong
Today in Tedium: The big-box technology store isn't dead yet—and in the case of Best Buy, it's actually doing pretty well, beating financial estimates by a country mile. But as a whole, the concept of...
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The Halloween-Industrial Complex
Today in Tedium: When a retail chain or store inevitably shuts down, it leaves an open sore in the real estate sector—with no more Blockbuster nights to be had nor any fresh tenants to be found...
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The Internet's First Election
Today in Tedium: For the past 20 years, a familiar trend has exposed itself with the turn of every U.S. presidential election cycle: Each one is ever-slightly more defined (heck, even redefined) by...
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Own To Rent
Editor’s note: Today’s issue is created in partnership with the folks at Make Room, a nonpartisan organization sponsored by the housing nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners. Today in Tedium:...
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Such Great Heights
Editor’s note: Today’s issue is a piece from writer Andrew Egan, who had a great story he wanted to share about something really risky. It took him to a few interesting places. Here’s his story. Today...
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The Original In-App Purchase
Today in Tedium: Before software, purchases generally worked like this: You walked into a store, you bought a physical object, and that object was yours until it became damaged or outdated, and you...
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War, Peace, And Action Figures
Today in Tedium: The '80s were by and large a time of peace for the United States. The Cold War was thawing, and most of the conflicts the U.S. did get in took place over secured phone lines, rather...
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News In Small Bytes
Today in Tedium: Publishing words on a computer is not a difficult task these days. We have so many options to write words and distribute them through a computerized interface that we take the whole...
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Anything But Politics
Today in Tedium: If you’re in the U.S.—and perhaps, even if you’re not—every other message you’re getting right now is probably about this dang 2016 presidential election that’s coming to a close as...
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Junk Food’s Happiest Accident
Today in Tedium: They change the color of our skin. They get stuck in our teeth. But for some reason, we can’t stop eating cheese curls, the puffiest snack food ever created. But these corn-and-powder...
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Lessons From The Video Professor
Today in Tedium: Home computers and infomercials were always meant to go together. Here were these devices, arguably the most complex products ever to enter homes in Middle America, and they needed a...
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A Big Idea, Synthesized
Today in Tedium: In the late 1970s, a man who had changed the business world by turning massive calculators into handheld devices decided that he wanted to scratch another itch. And with that itch...
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