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→ January 18, 2012
There once was a time when portable storage was quite the opposite of what it claimed to be—portable. If you were born pre-1992 (and if you weren’t, welcome) you might recall the first and—at the time—revolutionary Zip disk. It was like a 3¼-inch disk and a 5½-inch floppy had a baby and then bought it a [...]
→ December 19, 2011
Politesse dictates that one should always split the bill evenly when in a group situation, however, sometimes circumstances vary. When planning to spend a night on the turps with friends, unfortunately not everyone drinks at the pace of a wharfie. These so-called “men” presumably sit down to urinate. Now there’s an app to accommodate the [...]
→ December 8, 2011
Do you love your iPad a little too much? Do you take it to bed with you at night, supposedly to read but ending up clutching it protectively, much to the chagrin of your partner? Do you wonder what your iPad is doing when you’re not around? Get over it. It’s not a Tamagotchi, it’s [...]
→ November 22, 2011
Everyone’s heard the same old formulaic pick-up lines: “Do you have any <Insert nationality here> in you?” “No” “Would you like some?” Foul. Perhaps what is even more repugnant is that those horrible lines have worked on others before? I don’t want to imagine that kind of person who would accept such a proposition. Not [...]