1. Lists are guaranteed to have useful information. Before you clicked this link, you knew there would be seven distinct, interesting pieces of information. How else could we have gotten as far as seven? There was so much to say that we literally had to divide it up and present it in a disposable,...
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For some reason, I remember the first time I ever saw “Friends.” My sophomore year of college had just ended. I was sitting at a friend’s house back home, waiting while he got dressed, or argued with his parents, or cooked up heroin or something. The TV happened to be on, and here was...
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Fracas. That’s what this is, it’s a fracas. A couple of programmers discovered a little file nestled within each of their computers. It seems their iPhones had been tracking location, and saving the data in an unencrypted file on their desktop machines. So they checked, and sure enough, this was happening to all iPhone...
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Chris likes If you’ve ever tripped on the sidewalk and then walked on like nothing ever happened, LIKE THIS! Chris likes Sometimes when I get mad, I break something useful Other times, I break something expensive. Chris likes LIKE THIS IF YOU NEED A HUG! Chris likes Hey guess what? I wasn’t even gonna...
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The Internet is weird. Every twisted and desperate thought humanity ever had is rendered in loving detail, thrown into a corner, and forgotten. And hell, that’s just Wikipedia. Everyone knows this, at least on an academic level. But it’s nice to see occasional proof that yep, the Internet is still the Crooked Attic of...
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Some of you may have heard that the Internet recently marked its fortieth anniversary. Technically this is true — the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANet) established the first link between distant computers in late 1969. It’s kind of like saying that television is sixty-five million years old because that’s when the dinosaurs were...
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