Because, obviously, if I’m going to get a medium-sized Bluetooth speaker, I’m also going to need a stapler. Q.E.D. Bonus: The stapler apparently runs on Windows. Of course, I hate having to defrag those things.
Tag Archive: Internet
Feb 21 2013
Starbucks on the Death Star
Why I love the Internet: I thought to myself, they often talk about overseas military bases as being places where a lot of famous chains come and claim territory (the obligatory McDonald’s in Baghdad or what have you), and presumably Starbucks would be one of those chains. So if the United States really did ever …
Feb 19 2013
Jack White Turns into John McCain
Before his time, Jack White shakes his fists at the clouds. Via The Verge: “Getting out of your chair at home to experience something in the real world has started to become a rare occurrence,” White says. “Why go to a book store and get a real book? You can just download it. Why talk …
Feb 06 2013
The Stream of Invective, a Price Well Paid
Wikipedian Brandon Harris takes to Quora to talk about how he felt being the subject of a lot of Internet derision during his famous banner appearances throughout Wikipedia’s fundraising drive. His words were, to say the least, helpful. None of it is real. There is a stream of invective from people saying that I look …
Feb 03 2013
Too Cute By Half
You know, I actually kind of dig Seth Godin. He really does drop some useful wisdom about work and creativity here and there, things I do try to remember and take to heart. But then, you know, he’s also Seth Godin, the “look at the mischievous upper-half-of-my-bald-skull” guy who is, let’s face it, sometimes pushing …
Dec 27 2012
Social Lasers of Cruelty
Jaron Lanier, a kind of web reverse-guru, perhaps the Anti-Shirky, talks to Smithsonian magazine about what he sees as the existential threat of Internet anonymity. “This is the thing that continues to scare me. You see in history the capacity of people to congeal—like social lasers of cruelty. That capacity is constant.” “Social lasers of …
Dec 19 2012
Why Instagram, Anyway?
As the nation loses its mind over the controversy that is Instagram's new terms of service (Instagate?) it occurred to me to think about why the hell we use Instagram in the first place. The furor over its new policies must have its emotional root in the fact that we use it to such an …
Dec 18 2012
Instagram Changes = Mayan Apocalypse [Updated]
Since my previous post in which I sigh resignedly at the further encroachment on our privacy and information, as exemplified by Instagram’s full integration into Facebook and its accompanying policy changes, several folks have commented or tweeted that it really is something to be spooked about. It also seems to be the accepted wisdom of …
Dec 17 2012
Plucky, Spunky Instagram to Become Douchey Corporate Sellout
NYT outlines the ways in which Instagram is about to become creepy and sleazy. The long and the short is that they can share your information, use your photos in ads without your permission, use pictures of folks in ads who may not even be Instagram or Facebook users, and will show advertising content and …
Aug 26 2012
An André / Thoreau Move
I’ve been kind of rolling my eyes at the series by Paul Miller at The Verge on his year away from the Internet, which I’ve prejudicially thought of as a bit contrived and a little too cute by half. (I even get the unsubstantiated impression that his colleagues are just bemusedly humoring him.) But in …
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