Mastodawn

Kevin Lawver Nov 10, 2023

It's a shiny new blog post called: Just go read this, and then write something

https://lawver.net/2023/11/just-go-read-this-and-then-write-something/

Just go read this, and then write something

Thanks to Terence Eden for point me towards this lovely essay about writing on the internet by Henrik Karlsson. I’m not going to write anything better than that today, so… just go read …

Ultranormal

Ernie Smith Nov 16, 2018

REVIEW: The Phone Relief hands-free system helps you go hands-free while making you look like a total goober in the process. https://t.co/kxxy8DOkdG #DailyTedium

Phone Relief Review: Keep Your Hands Off This

Inspired by something I saw online, I bought Phone Relief, an “As Seen On TV” product that turns any phone into a hands-free phone—so you don’t have to.

Ernie Smith Jul 18, 2018

Yay, I did a #DailyTedium! I wanted to get some thoughts down about an awesome-but-doomed effort to make Duck Hunt work on modern TV sets. A nod to you, Modern Mallard. https://t.co/qmDze1LY3c

Modern Mallard: Duck Hunt's Missing Upgrade

What if someone solved one of retro gaming’s biggest headaches and few people noticed? Such is the tale of the Modern Mallard, the great Duck Hunt fix.

Ernie Smith Jun 19, 2018

I wrote a whole piece about why Unsolved Mysteries is a new old experience in 2018. https://t.co/VglyrxaouA #DailyTedium

Unsolved Mysteries: Still Being Updated After All These Years

The surprising place that Unsolved Mysteries holds in modern culture—as a show that’s still being updated, years after being taken off the air.

Ernie Smith Jun 5, 2018

Dear California gubernatorial candidate (and puppeteer) Chris Carlson: Please run for president, thanks. https://t.co/Y8ftsRmViK #DailyTedium

2018 Fringe Candidates: Meet Puppeteer Chris Carlson

Puppeteer Chris Carlson, currently running for California governor, might be the long-shot political candidate the world needs in 2018. Please keep running.

Ernie Smith Mar 12, 2018

For my latest #DailyTedium piece, I make a case that 1989 was alt-rock's weirdest year, and point out the unlikely success of Adrian Belew's "Oh Daddy" as evidence. https://t.co/PvPuivOrtP

Ernie Smith Mar 6, 2018

Do we use half a billion straws a day? An odd problem with a widely cited stat: https://t.co/EowRhwJizp #DailyTedium

Ernie Smith Feb 19, 2018

Just wrote a #DailyTedium piece that makes a controversial argument: Newspapers should use the end of "Nancy" and the death of Mort Walker to spend some time rethinking their funny pages. https://t.co/CU7sRiRera

Ernie Smith Feb 14, 2018

For my latest #DailyTedium, I want to discuss an album that's become really important to me in the past few months—Ernest Hood's "Neighborhoods." Here's its story. https://t.co/NlD8tz0jkV

Ernie Smith Feb 7, 2018

Why MagSafe is the greatest racket Apple ever pulled on its consumers. https://t.co/B0vUdrml8X #DailyTedium

MagSafe: Apple's Expensive Proprietary Charger Racket

Why Apple’s MagSafe connectors are both incredibly great and incredibly wasteful—in that they’re expensive, proprietary, and break very easily.