Do you consider yourself technologically knowledgeable? Well maybe you’re a modern-day wirehead, but how much do you know about the basics of modern technologies — engines, fluid dynamics, flight, etc.? Take this quiz and find out if you were stranded on a tropical island with six random associates if you would be the guy making radio transmitters out of coconuts and palm fronds or the guy who falls out of his hammock every night.
(I got 7 out of 10 correct, which earned me the qualification of “useful”. Hey, there has to be a first for everything, right?)
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
