Tag Archives: techculuture
Looks like someone forgot to tell NFL defensive back Ricky Manning Jr..
April 25, 2006
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Got $200,000,000,000,000 on you? From Technocrat comes The Death of Common Sense: Here’s one for the books, showing how far society can go to completely avoid common sense when the automated machinery tells you such and such is reality. Some … Continue reading
April 12, 2006
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A plan for a new internet “domain” for pornography has once again been shelved, dealing another blow to the US-backed addressing system that acts as the glue holding together the unified global internet. This really saddens me. I know people … Continue reading
April 5, 2006
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Interface Hall of Shame, Part 2
This one is perhaps not as horribly ugly as my last entry, but in its own way it is still quite amazing. Unfortunately, a simple screen shot doesn’t really express the horror that is ASUS Update. You get just a … Continue reading
I wish I had a prize to give out, but nevertheless — can you top this? I’m sure you can. Video and audio card manufacturers have been racing for years to produce terrible interfaces. Surely someone has made a bigger … Continue reading
Hardware Sucks
Fresh after a hardware disaster, I decided to list a few frequently-overlooked hardware failures. In no particular order: Fluctuating power supply – 5v is supposed to be 5v. 12v is supposed to be 12v. And so on. If your power … Continue reading
I wish I could take credit for this, or even that it was a recent thing to find. But nevertheless, Paper is calm. …one thing about paper which is as important as all this wizardary is paper is calm. It … Continue reading
Jeremy Hermans experienced an emergancy landing and lived to blog about it. But it looks like Alaska Airlines employees should do less dogging on company time and maybe spend more time on its planes.
December 30, 2005
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PCWorld a list-washer?
Got this in response to a spam report. Yes, I said spam — I’ve never subscribed to any PC World mailings, and have years of archives to prove it. Unfortunately, since you chose to have SpamCop conceal your actual e-mail … Continue reading
On Wikipedia, II
More discussion on wikipedia’s accuracy over on slashdot, where accuracy between Britannica and Wikipedia was compared: I wonder if the newspaper people then fixed the inaccuracies in the wikipedia articles, making it 0 to 3, which would be a clear … Continue reading