PC Magazine’s guide to strange kitchen gadgets, including the evergreen “Hog Wild Twirling Spaghetti Fork.”
August 15, 2007
Kitchen Gadgets
July 31, 2007
Reconsidering the Cell Phone
Wired has a bunch of reasons you might reconsider having a cell phone. I just got rid of mine a few months ago. My top reasons from the article:
It’s horribly expensive
Total Cost of Ownership. Apply that idea to everything, not just cars and mortgages. The fact is that most cellphones will cost you thousands over the life of the contract. Short of paying-as-you-go with a Wal-Mart crapdybar, you’re in it for a good $1,000, and about $2,000 or so with a smartphone.
And if you get a new cell phone, locking you into a new contract, you just perpetuate it even longer.
It enslaves you to a one-sided contract
This is the magic that allows the previous item to happen, but is sufficiently vile to warrant an entry of its own. Everyone is at it, but the most iconic example of how times have changed is AT&T: Ma Bell has reglued itself together with almost Marxian inevitability, but now has the advantage of having countless customers under astonishingly abusive contract terms. Take that, deregulation.
Market power anyone?
It makes you perpetually available
If it’s on, they can get you. If it’s off, they wonder why they can’t get you. It’s a lose-lose situation for your Zen.
This is perhaps the top reason. If you have one, it simply becomes an expectation that your are always available by phone. There’s no room for uninterupted serenity or leisure.
July 17, 2007
Greatest Video Game Scandals
Not terribly in depth, but here’s a list of the “Gaming’s 10 Biggest Scandals.” In other news, video games are good for you.
May 6, 2007
February 7, 2007
Top 10 Philosophical Quotes + 1
Cheating on the top 10 list thing. But this is a pretty great collection of quotes.
January 17, 2007
EDGE of existence
Help save some the earth’s most evolutionarily diverse and globally endangered species. That is, if they are still around; number 1 on the list, the Yangtze River Dolphin is probably already extinct.
October 23, 2006
Biggest Computer Flops
Top 10 biggest flops in computing. The story about CP/M stretches credibility – anybody have any idea whether it is true or not?
September 30, 2006
Top Science Myths
Ok, so it isn’t actually a top 10, it’s a top 20, but I liked this list of the top myths (corrected by science.) Available via Live Science, vote for your favorites.
August 23, 2006
Misanthropy
A website is attempting to collect 10,000 reasons the human race is doomed. Now that I’ve found the site, they’re going to have to up the limit…