May 2010
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Man's Spare Room Filled With Almost Every Apple... →
An oldie but goodie…(via Jesus)
Baby's First Internet Sex →
My friend Jason Bitner of Cassette From My Ex fame recently launched the website How I Met Your Motherboard. Andrew Sullivan has written about it for the Atlantic, and Jason recently discussed the idea with the New York Times, which is a N-E-W-S-P-A-P-E-R.
You can read my contribution to the site here. All the pieces are a pleasure to peruse, but I have particular fondness for “It Only...
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Did you hear the one about the unstamped letter? ...
I just went to the post office in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and was told that they no longer will postmark an envelope for you—you have to buy the correct number of stamps and then apply them yourselves. This, of course, is inconvenient if you already have one stamp on an envelope but need to add more. I needed 54-cents. The lady said “We don’t have 54-cent stamps right now, but I can...
Obsolete Anonymous: My name is Print Journalism,... →
J.A. Kowrath wrote this humorous piece which features obsolete technologies conversing at a twelve-step meeting.
A computer program is writing great, original... →
Salt Lake Tribune: Those with obsolete skills... →
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WatchFor anyone who may have missed it, I present Obsolete on Nightline!
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Could the Floppy Disk Be the Next Icon of Retro...
I just wrote this piece about cassette tapes and the recent death of floppies for Vice’s MotherBoard.TV. Check ‘er out!
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"The elderly use canes, the youth use phones."
There’s lots of talk about how technology is forcing people into constant contact, but sometimes this can mean lack of contact with others in the physical world. You know, the place where there is stuff like water, beds, Cheerios, ferns, handicapped parking spaces…
In the Boston Globe, Charlotte Steinway, one of the authors of the excellent anthology RED, wrote this interesting (and...
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Guest blogger: Jonathan Bender on Lego and...
My friend Jonathan Bender is the author of the fantastic new book Lego: A Love Story. Lego (it’s never plural!) isn’t obsolete, but there is a kind of nostalgia value to these colorful blocks that is undeniable.
I asked him to put together this nice little gallery of obsolete objects made out of Legos. Uh, I mean, Lego. Anyway, take it away, Jon!
I have very few holdovers from the...
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