Archive for July, 2003

Yay technology!

A very special Mark Morford article is up now on Nerve.com. Will it be the same as the the one in tomorrow’s Morning Fix? Time will tell. But if it isn’t, you’d better hurry up and read it now, before Nerve moves it to the pay archive!

Resisting the allure of rent-to-own shops

I’m somehow amused by the fact that this story is being reported on by USA Today. Talk about leveraging some synergies!

Words are just a bunch of letters

And you don’t knead a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Loaded Question

Who likes USB doo-dads? (Including phone chargers!) Did I mention… Retractable cables? Oh yeah…

Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women

Looks like I missed my calling. Oh well, maybe next year?

So many overlapping memes

Pretend it’s 1993, and this is a zine or something. Excep that then there wouldn’t be anything like Friendster, and we’d all be wearing fake auto mechanic t shirts with other people’s names embroidered on them.

Bored?

Nerdy? Do you like… the universe? (Thanks cDc)

Well that’s just great

The seventh seal has been broken, and lo, the shiny plastic apocalypse is at hand!

Information Warfare

This is some pretty heavy stuff (but presented in a light-hearted manner =) about the new round of browser wars. Things are, apparently, much more complicated this time around. You can read this article at work, and legitimately claim to be doing research! Unless you’re like, a hairdresser or something. Or like, if your DNS server decides now might be a good time to bite, you might want to fix that first =P

Shut Uuuup!

That was a real nice secret society we had there, Lenny! Ps. Ashcroft sucks and so does his new best friend, Karen Tandy.