Tag: technology
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North Koreans, Pissed At Chuck, Launch Bomb Strikes
I guess I’ve pushed it to far, making fun of North Korea. They’re coming for me, with everything they have. Meanwhile, in the bowels of hell, the old madman is laughing, and I’m just stuck here warily watching the skies.
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Stupid Stuff Micro-Post: Apple Watch
Stupid Headlines that show up in my news aggregator, and maybe even other Stupid Stuff that I find–a new tradition I talked about here. Who knows? No one knows–it’s a big, damn mystery. But the world is brimming with Stupid, and I’m setting out to document it and share it with you on days that…
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What To Name A Generation?
I recently read a moderately interesting article from NPR about generation names, where they came from, and how they evolve. Towards the end, the author mentioned how the generation now referred to as Millennials were, for a long time, called Generation Y–a nod to my group, Generation X. The Gen Y name, according to the…
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Colleges Ban “Selfies” At Graduations
Just when I’ve reached maximum smugness in my quest to be the stodgiest, crankiest, post-luddite resister to technology, a bunch of college administrators have gone and made me look like a card-carrying member of the electronic cognoscenti–a real live, glowing tech wienie. Go figure. To be clear: I loathe our society’s fetish for new technology…
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Functioning Hoverboard–Changes Everything
What they’re not telling you here is that the current HUVr Boards are not yet commercially available and face years of testing before they will be. The prototypes in the video cost more than $1 Million each–but the fact of the matter is that this changes EVERYTHING. Once the costs come down, we’ll see this…
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