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RIP My Hard Drive, 2008-2012 [Rant]
This morning, I woke up to find my MacBook barely functioning, frozen, and plagued by a near-constant spinning rainbow of death. Long, painful story much shorter: my hard drive crashed and I can either have a new one installed, tomorrow at the earliest (I'm writing tonight from the completely emp...
Facebook Is Going To Be Even More Annoying Now That It's Public [Facebook]
Facebook is public now. And that means you're going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself. It has to do all those deeply creepy it's already doing, but more more more. It is going to sell you to advertisers, to shareholders, to anyone it can.M...
The One Place That Needs More Censorship [Video]
This week's Internet-based teapot tempest swirled around the venerable TED talks, which were accused by one presenter of censoring his talk because he spoke truth to power and talked about income inequality.More »
There's Not an App for That: When Will Our Smartphones Be Recognized as Valid Forms of ID? [Rant]
Over the weekend, I flew to LA to attend the wedding of my mother's cousin, a beautiful ceremony, right on the ocean, at a hotel in Santa Monica called Shutters. Vows were exchanged and champagne flowed and as soon as we were seated inside for dinner, I was hit with a world of ridiculous.More &ra...
I Lost All My Money Betting On the Windows Phone Horse [Video]
True story: I bet on Windows Phone yesterday and lost. Actually, I bet on a horse named Hansen, a Kentucky Derby contender sponsored by Windows Phone. Hansen turned out to be a disappointing loser. More »
Why Poison Oak Is the F&%*ing Worst [Giz Explains]
My mortal enemy is not a man. Nor is it a beast, a virus, an addiction, or a female secret agent. It's a plant. A stupid, fucking, plant. Poison oak, poison ivy, and/or poison sumac (depending on where you live) is pure, insidious evil. Oh, and it's going to be extra bad this year.More »
Please Stop Hauling Out Steve Jobs' Ghost [Apple]
It is easy to speak for the dead—after all, they can't correct you. You can safely put words in the mouths of the deceased and trot their lifeless bodies out in public to wag a finger or nod in approval, with no fear that they'll complain. This is especially true of Steve Jobs.More »
An Open Letter To the 5 Million Confused People Who Bought a Samsung Galaxy Note [Rant]
"Bro, it's so big." That's an actual thing I heard from an actual person. The man was a personal trainer at my gym, the "it" was a Galaxy Note mutant phone. He clenched the massive thing in his iron grip.More »
We're Done With Kickstarter [Rant]
I'm done. Over it. Completely fed up. Kickstarter is ruining the world I live in. I used to love crazy gadgets, because I had some measure of confidence that, behind the idea, was some reasonably competent team or plan or, like, anything.More »
Texting While Parking Is Not a Trend (But Still Makes You a Good Person) [Rant]
Shocking news! This weekend, The New York Times reported that people are pulling over and parking sometimes to use smart phones, and sometimes that makes other people angry. Oh my willakers! This is nonsense.More »
