From the Tedium Archives: Generally dill-flavored, always salty, and often found in iconic Jewish delis, the pickled cucumber is an icon of strong flavor. (As is pickle juice.) 

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Willow’s Second Wind

Why the NES game Willow somehow resonates more than the film that inspired it. It might have been the mindset of the company that made it.

Math + The Mechanics

The story of the Curta Calculator, a stylish portable mechanical calculator that doesn’t use electricity and has a surprisingly dramatic origin story.

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Ernie is a signatory on Fight for the Future’s Authors for Libraries petition letter. It’s the first petition letter he’s ever signed in his entire career in journalism. Check it out to learn more and see his thoughts on controlled digital lending.

A Tale of Two Tablets

A year after the JingPad dropped on the market and its parent company immediately disappeared, a new entrant in the Linux tablet game, the Fydetab Duo, aims to do things the right way. Can it succeed?

A Sealant Story

How caulk became a standard household building and maintenance staple. If you own a house, you probably have a caulking gun lying around.

Stuffed With History

Breaking down the 50th anniversary of Stove Top, the foodstuff that changed our relationship with stuffing. There’s a lot of herbs and spices here.

Rejection, In Four Parts

How rejection shapes the way we think, for good and bad—and if we let it, we take important lessons from it. (Tylenol helps in this process, we hear.)

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MidRange and Tedium are now of a single piece. My secondary newsletter, which I’ve been running on Revue since last year, is now a part of the Tedium CMS. There’s some stuff still to fix, but hopefully you find it fascinating. Read and subscribe over this way.

Floppy Copy Classics

A few copy-protection schemes, of varying levels of success, you’ve possibly run into over the years. Don’t lose your code wheel.

Blaming the Messenger

Who needs e-bikes when your legs can do all the hard work? Inspired by a recent competition in NYC, we’re talking bike messengers.

The Death of the Key Change

One of the key changes—pun intended—to the pop charts in the last 60 years is the demise of key changes. What happened?
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