Tuesday - March 2, 2010

"Going Postal" Could Become Quaint Term By 2020  @3:55 PM

The US Postal Service is once again pleading with legislators to allow it to make its service less efficient and more expensive. Postmaster General John E. Potter told an assortment of lawmakers that the Internet and organizations like FedEx are but a few of the ills plaguing this country's mail system, and that his agency will probably lose some $238 billion over the next 10 years if he can't make some cuts. READ MORE 9

Monday - January 25, 2010

Waiting for the Apple Tablet, with Joel Johnson  @1:50 PM

So the first thing you should know about the Apple Tablet is that I just bought a van. It's fucking creepy. Mary HK Choi hadn't even seen a picture yet before she called me "shady." This dashed my hopes of driving to New York and taking her from Maine to Florida, eating things covered in mayonnaise all the way.

The reason I bought the van is that even when I am in the process of wanting to drop out of society, "get back to nature," etc., I can't do it without spending $5K on a fuel-snorting machine. It's what tech dorks do when we look at the world: try to find a thing to purchase through which to realize our fantasies. READ MORE 24

Tuesday - January 12, 2010

“May our tongues be gentle, our e-mails be simple and our websites be accessible,” said some media-savvy English churchman during a blessing of smartphones and laptops. I guess that's the kind of prayer I can get behind, except for the BlackBerries, because the suffering endured by their users provides way too much joy. 3

Friday - October 30, 2009

Huh? Congress Ethics Inquiry Doc Leaked by "Peer-to-Peer" Software  @9:00 AM

Can anyone explain how this Congressional ethics inquiry document leaked? (The document, from July, summarizes internal investigations into members of Congress, most of which were previously known, some of which were closed.) "The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network," is how the Washington Post put it in their email blast last night, and then "it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations." (Which means someone was digging through this network looking for docs, and then sent it to the paper.) And in the paper, they write: "The committee's review of investigations became available on file-sharing networks because of a junior staff member's use of the software while working from home, Lofgren and Bonner said in a statement issued Thursday night. The staffer was fired, a congressional aide said." Like, was it in his iTunes and stuff? Did he put it in his Limewire shared mp3 folder? This is more obscuring than informative! 4

Tuesday - May 19, 2009

If this post were a "light messaging" phone it would be pulsing red right now.  @1:30 PM

Mood rings are the new iPhones! RELATED: I hate everybody. 5

Wednesday - May 13, 2009

The Penisphones Of Caracas  @1:21 PM

The Venezuelan government has introduced a cell phone that costs $15 and is named the Vergatario, which loosely translated, means "first-class cock." 6

Wednesday - May 6, 2009

Kindle DX Blah Blah Blah  @11:32 AM

There is a new Kindle reader. It is larger than the previous one. It will cost $489. You can pre-order it now (sorry, "reserve your place on line"), although it won't be available until summer. Will it save the newspaper industry? Too soon to tell. But so far it has certainly done wonders for the liveblogging the new Kindle press conference industry. 11

Thursday - April 30, 2009

iFlu  @3:48 PM

Hey, look, it's an app for your iPhone that will help you track swine flu! Maybe next they can come up with an app which reveals how absolutely germ-ridden your iPhone is just from everyday use. 4