Tag Archives: technology
Down with apps…really.
With a little tweaking, this can be applied to the ultimate app—Windows 8: Want to use an inconsistent version of our OS where you can’t get your work done without constantly having to toggle back and forth between two separate, … Continue reading
Point of GNOME Return
I don’t know why people hate on GNOME Shell so much: I am convinced that Gnome has no future. It will soon be pushed into obsolescence by its own suicidal design. For those who want traditional, there’s Cinnamon or KDE. … Continue reading
The Artist Formerly Known as eBay
Bland is the new bold, as is evidenced by eBay’s freshly updated logo. “We wanted something that would be easy on the eyes,” says Adlai Atkins, eBay’s faux-marketing director, “something noticeable, but not outright memorable. The last thing eBay wants … Continue reading
The Ignorant Pipsqueak’s Ultimate Linux Fail Checklist
This rant was originally instigated during the Fedora Core 5 days (as outlined in I will not use GNOME until…), and has been building steadily ever since, reaching a crisis point thanks to my recent purchasing of the Dell Inspiron … Continue reading
Not the Good Kind of Full-Frontal
(Image via nscarr.) Beloved pr0n site YouPorn has, through an embarrassing data breach, inadvertently forced its users to go full-frontal. This choice quote from the Neowin article pretty much sums it up: In an odd twist of fate, YouPorn finally … Continue reading
Agree to Agree?
(Inspired by my brother’s innocent question, “How do you get Windows and Mac to read the same files on a USB hard drive?” …and the tears of frustration and disappointment that followed shortly thereafter. And yes, there’s also a T-shirt … Continue reading
TV Won't Steal Your Vision After All
A recent Scientific American article offers up some insight regarding that modern-day question of the ages: Does TV ruin your eyesight? I know until I hit my mid-teens, my mother was always yelling at me and my brother to “sit … Continue reading
The New Literacy
Clive Thompson has an article over at Wired.com that hints reports of the death of writing may have been greatly exaggerated. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn’t a school assignment. Unless they got … Continue reading
The Teletype
You think your shiny new laptop is pimpin’? Check out this beauty from 1968: Without an introduction, you’d never know if the man in the picture was carrying a computer or a marionette doll in his case. One thing is … Continue reading
The End of the World (For Just a Few Days)
Yay! My Internet’s back up. I never knew a few days’ time offline could feel like forever. Ugh, the follies of addiction. MegaTokyo #1196 showed up in my feed reader, and has reminded me why I got hooked on the … Continue reading
