January 2010
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Zombie Technology: What Came Back From the Dead In... →
Records? Obsolete! Not!
Jan 13th
Incase-I-Die sites that became obsolete before we... →
Imagine for a moment that you died. Isn’t imagination a wonderful thing? When I went to sleep-away camp at age nine, my mom had to fly to California on business and she decided that, should the plane go down, she’d miss out on telling me all sorts of important things about adulthood and life and love. So, she wrote me a long letter and left it on my desk. The good news is that she didn’t die....
Jan 12th
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“A laptop, the freelancer’s tool, inconveniently doubles as a never-ending...”
– What Freelancers Do While You’re At Work: Watch Internet Porn - Gawker A reminder how the laptop has rendered both thesauruses (thesauri?) and porn mags obsolete! But that’s it. You know, I think it’s also obliterated attentions spans. Because I don’t remember what the start...
Jan 12th
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The Needle Scratch, the Surprise Phone Call, and... →
Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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The Nighthawk of Manitoba  →
Hello, Manitoba! I’m going to be on the radio waves this eve around 11:15 Eastern. The show is on CJOB 68 and is called Nighthawk. Isn’t that sexy? “The Nighthawk of Manitoba.” Feels like it should be a Tennessee Williams play. Or, the name of a serial killer. But I’m going to go with plays. I like plays. I was interviewed by Geoff Currier at CJOB. Real nice guy....
Jan 8th
SmartMoney has a new list of things that are... →
Like…my patience with such lists.
Jan 8th
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AOL's 3,000 Year CD Time Capsule  →
I just wrote this piece for Motherboard. Remember AOL? And no, I’m not talking about Amanda Olivia Levin from East 67th Street.
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Computers: Those Amazing Machines!
I found some great images that Brian Cook took of this book about yesteryear’s computers. I feel like I remember flipping through books just like this in third grade. Quite the reminder of how far we’ve come. Amazing in their ability to keep me from doing anything else with my life other than staring at one? Yes, Amazing. That poor family! They all had to gather around one little...
Jan 5th
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Yet another "Things Now Obsolete" list!  →
I thought they’d end with the decade, but no.
Jan 5th
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Jan 2nd
21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education... →
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CUTE ANIMALS WITH OBSOLETE THINGS: Vol. IV, Is. 6 →
(via gizmodo)
Jan 2nd
Where Are They Now? 25 Computer Products That... →
Hayes Modems… Monochrome Displays… MiniDiscs… Dot Matrix Printers…
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
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“While magazine editors still attend to “the mix” — the sequencing of articles,...”
– Virginia Hefferman discusses what magazines are and what they were. The Medium - Articles of Faith - The Existential Crisis of Magazines Online - NYTimes.com
Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
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Michael Musto on 2000-2009
Happy 2010, my noodles. I just treated myself to some banana bread and coffee at El Biet on Bedford, and then sat and read the paper! Heaven! Okay, usually “the paper” in my life is The New York Times. Today, however, it was The Village Voice. I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Musto’s essay on the end of the year and the decade. He talks a bit about how privacy and good old tact...
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