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The Hulu Dance
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Ever see the video Shovel in Head? It’s three seconds of pure gold, proliferated via internet in the mid 90’s. |
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War and peace
Published Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The American psyche has a habit of romanticizing war. |
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Making Muggle magic
Published Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
When Gutenberg set his first lines of moveable type, he probably thought, “Well, this is it.” |
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The death of analog
Published Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008
The countdown has officially begun: T-minus 408 days until the country is awash in glorious ones and zeroes. |
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Heir to the wizard
Published Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007
If anyone is to blame for Wires, it’s the late Don Herbert. |
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Web comics suck (mostly)
Published Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
A while back, Wires got all hot and bothered about Web animation with its Dancing Banana Awards, our intent being to immediately follow with a similar tribute to online comics. |
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Helmets, balls and the Internet
Published Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007
Here’s a hypothetical: say you grew up in a Northern state and spent your autumns and winters glued to a television glowing with football and baseball while snow piled up to the windows. |
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Pimp my costume
Published Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007
Humanity’s greatest achievements to date have been the 1980’s TV show “Knight Rider” and the candy-and-costumes celebration we call Halloween. |
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Peripherals, please
Published Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007
To introduce this bizarre, seemingly out-of-the-blue column, two random facts about your diligent tech-nerd |
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Paranoid androids
Published Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007
We’ve narrowly escaped Armageddon twice in 10 years. |
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Free music*
Published Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007
Spiral Frog (spiralfrog.com) went live on Sept. 17 offering free and legal music downloads. |
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Perfecting the iFlub
Published Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007
We’ve reached a precarious intersection between history and technology. |
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To boldly go...
Published Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007
Captains Kirk and Picard have been telling us for years that space is “the final frontier,” a place reserved for Starfleet Captains and diaper-wearing, boyfriend-stalking NASA-types. |
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The no-buttons club
Published Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007
The iPhone proves one thing for certain: Steve Jobs despises buttons. |
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Performance Enhancement
Published Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007
Aesop moralized that slow and steady wins the race. But in today’s supersized world of instant everything, speed is essential. |
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