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Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about bionic arms. You know, like the ones Jax has in Mortal Kombat. They’re kind of like regular arms, but they’re more powerful. He can do a lot with them. It...
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A Dossier Container Dossier
Hey all, it’s me again, the guy who is supposed to be publishing on Sunday night but got too tired to hit the publish button. Happy Monday! I think for your sanity and mine, I’m going to switch up the...
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The New DVD Bargain Bin
In recent years, we’ve complained a lot about Warner Bros. Discovery, in part because their decision-making has seemed almost toxic and damaging to the creative community. A movie studio that...
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Broken Bits
A lot of stuff happened in 2024, but one of the most annoying, yet under-the-radar things involved the long-forgotten image-sharing service Photobucket. Based on their email habit, they really wanted...
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The Eggshell’s Outer Shell
Today in Tedium: You know something I haven’t had much of lately, at least not intentionally? Eggs. Despite being a key ingredient of many meals, especially anything baked, eggs cost a lot these days....
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The Legacy Of SNARF
Nine years ago, a pair of employees of a popular viral news site decided to test the capabilities of the platform they were targeting by grabbing attention in the most effective way possible: By doing...
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New Rust, Old Drama
I don’t expect folks here to read the phrase, “there was a big debate about the Rust programming language on a mailing list,” and not have their eyes glaze over. But the truth is, the programming...
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The USB That Wasn’t
Today in Tedium: If you know your tech peripheral history, odds are, you know about the Universal Serial Bus like the back of your hand—in part because every device you own supports it. But you...
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Windows On Linux, The Clever Way
Hey all, the day job got in the way of my normal posting schedule, but here’s what’s I’ve been digging into these days.I didn’t think I’d be writing this, but I am running the latest version of...
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Hooked On Velcro
Hey all, Ernie here with a lightly refreshed piece originally from 2018. Hope you like the noisy adherence of hook and loop—because you’re going to get a lot of it.Today in Tedium: I’m about to retire...
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Framing Element
Over the years, I don’t think there’s a laptop I longingly looked at more without buying than the Google Pixelbook.Dating to 2017, the machine combined a very thin aesthetic with a clever use of...
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Mission Drift
Recently, I attempted to purchase a Chrome Industries messenger bag to replace the one I‘d been using for the past decade or so. It was fine, but it was showing its age. Fraying inner-lining? Check....
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Dial-An-Advertiser
I’ve decided to stop being so unfair to myself with these long-form pieces by forcing myself into a hard and fast deadline. I’m going to go with a “when it’s ready” approach, so you get the best...
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Tiny Type On Yellow Pages
Here’s an entire section from yesterday’s piece on phone books that I cut out to keep it at a reasonable length. If you like it when I do follow-ups to pieces I just wrote, let me know!If you enjoyed a...
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Everything To Everyone
Recently, word emerged that Amazon had topped Walmart in quarterly revenue for the first time, a big deal and a surprising one. I was sure they had done so five years ago.The reason the company was...
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Shaking The Wasp’s Nest
Today In Tedium: You probably have noticed, just like me, that online culture has been a bit chaotic of late, and it’s been hard to even have a conversation without it feeling like a fresh argument is...
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Could &udm=14 Break?
Over the past year or so, I have had this unusual web presence in my life in the form of udm14.com, a website designed to make it a little easier to reach a cruft-free Google search.It is nothing...
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The Fasten, The Furious
Trying Something …So, I’m going to try something this week. We are going to publish three separate times, each on different wrinkles of the same topic, and we’re going to see how this goes. Each post...
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2 Fasten, 2 Furious: Oh, Snap
Hey all, still trying something with what we’re calling “fastener week.” After Monday’s issue about side-release clamps, let’s talk about snap fasteners.On the scale of things you fasten, odds are that...
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Fasten Furious: When Laptops Had Hooks
OK, here’s the final part of our weeklong series on fasteners. This one actually has a technology angle. But if you wanna learn more, be sure to give our prior issues on side-release buckles and snap...
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