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Dark Tourism
Editor’s note: After doing such a great job with his last piece, I brought back Andrew Egan for another post. Check it out. Today in Tedium: Governments, or more specifically, their tourism boards are...
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Out Of Memory Error
Today in Tedium: Computers often seem like they’re above the supply chain. Putting aside hot devices like the latest iPhone and the different variants of the Microsoft Surface, it’s generally easy to...
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Security In Stereo
Today in Tedium: Car stereos play an important role in making traveling in vehicles bearable. They give radio a reason for continued existence. They help to downplay the dull noises of wheels hitting...
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12 Volts Of Horsepower
Today in Tedium: With Black Friday past us, this is about the time of year when gift lists start being written by kids who are still fairly new to writing. Over the years, toys like Teddy Ruxpin and...
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An Annoying Clicking Sound
Today in Tedium: As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive got a heck of a lot further than most of its competitors. It managed to improve on a format people were used to (the...
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Smaller Airports, Lower Stakes
Editor’s note: Hey all, our excellent contributor Andrew Egan is back again; apparently not sick of working with me just yet. Enjoy! Today in Tedium: This is my third Tedium piece in as many months....
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The Digital Fine Print
Today in Tedium: You know who’s had a bad week? The folks at Evernote. They’ve been raked over the coals by their users over a change to their privacy policy, that document on nearly every webpage...
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Gifts For People You Don’t Like
Today in Tedium: You’ve already checked off the people you know and love. Maybe even the people you know and tolerate. But what about gifts for folks you have a distaste for? That’s where our...
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The Sound Of Science
Today in Tedium: Odds are that sometime in the last couple of decades or so, someone in your group of friends or family has received a snazzy countertop radio from a loved one. But it wasn’t their...
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The Many Lives of Packard Bell
Today in Tedium: Let’s go back in time about 20 years, to two days after Christmas, 1996. On this day, as I was becoming accustomed to Bush’s second album, millions of families around the United...
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The Difficult Second Album
Testing 1, 2, 3: Two years ago, Tedium got its start based on what I like to call the "difficult second album" theory. "The cliche that you have a lifetime to make your first album and only a year or...
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A Finish Line In Sight
Today in Tedium: Can you believe we’ve been publishing this newsletter for two full years now? (Our anniversary hits on New Year’s Day, just like with my last project, ShortFormBlog.) There’s a good...
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Let’s Be Frank
Behind the Mask: It takes a certain kind of human being to create a persona for yourself, and—by all accounts—Chris Sievey was very much that person. The British musician made his name in the ‘80s with...
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Who Doesn’t Love Pickles?
Today in Tedium: Of the many things that we lost in 2016, one of the saddest losses might have been a purely cultural one. At the end of 2016, the Carnegie Deli, an iconic slice of New York City,...
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A Bigger, Better Tape
Start the tape: Roughly a year and a half ago, I made a pitch that we were due for a magnetic-tape comeback similar to the one we’ve seen for vinyl. (I titled it after a Frank Turner album, because...
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Streaming Before Netflix
Today in Tedium: Earlier this week, I got a little grumpy over at Product Hunt, due to an undercurrent of snark around the fact that Netflix still has a DVD service. The reason for this was that too...
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Let's Talk About Forks, Baby
Utensils are the great equalizer. "I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks, and it was way too literal for me," late philosopher and one-liner king Mitch Hedberg apparently once said. It may be the...
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Countering the Counterculture
When someone mentions the phrase “Christian music,” what comes to mind? Beyond hymnals, maybe DC Talk, Jars of Clay, Kirk Franklin, or Amy Grant? Those are all good answers—answers that highlight the...
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Cutting A Rug
Today in Tedium: I have a song stuck in my head right now. A jingle, really. It’s been stuck in my head for the last 15 years, at least. It’s probably stuck in your head, too—and if you’re near...
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Weirdest Ransom Note Ever
Back in the ’80s, it was a big deal when a frustrated satellite dish operator overrode the HBO feed for a few minutes on a Saturday night. But late last year, a saga involving a programmer whose family...
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