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Novel Check-in

Spare thoughts on the state of novelty and nostalgia from our in-house expert on both of those important (if oft-cast-aside) things.

Sounding Board

After pissing off half the internet with our list on faded graphics formats, we’re doing the same thing with outdated audio formats. We’re fearing the worst.

Weapon of mass dimensions: Michael Pick, a.k.a. The Casual Engineer, has developed a gigantic Nerf gun that’s 12 and a half feet long and weighs more than 200 pounds. It is an impressive way to deploy Nerf darts as needed. Is your mind blown? Yeah, so’s mine. Be sure to check out my story for Vice on his giant Nintendo Switch.

Surfing Upstream

In an era when hundreds of free web browsers exist, Orion Browser has a novel idea: It wants to charge money. Why’s that? Simple: It wants to fix the paradigm.

Let's Get Sauced

Yes, this is an article about ranch dressing. And yes, ranch dressing was invented at Hidden Valley Ranch. Here's some stuff you didn't know about ranch.

Lessons in Pivoting

The story of an online education platform that learned something about its own ability to survive during the pandemic.

Prize Patrol Immortality

Why Publishers Clearing House, a famously low-odds way of becoming rich beyond your wildest dreams, suddenly wants to pass down your winnings … if you win.

v4

Tedium has a new, fresher coat of paint, with a design intended to get you to dive in even deeper, if you so choose.

The Leech Machine

The parasitic creatures that could have been the key to Victorian-era meteorology, and the guy who had that weird idea.

Arbitrary Calendar Marker Commentary

Another year of Tedium is behind us, and gotta say—it’s looking like another thousand years of it. Here’s the tedium you should expect in 2022.

Down Is Up, Up Is Down

Pondering why “natural scrolling” exists, despite the fact that the first thing a lot of people do when setting up a new computer is turn it off.
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