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Why normal people should only buy Apple products. And why I don't.
Submitted by thecroz on September 1, 2010 - 9:56am
If you’re a normal person—and by normal, I mean, anyone who doesn't know what the Turing Test is—then you should only buy Apple products. Seriously. Sell your Windows PC, Crackberry or Android phone right now. Why? Because, by comparison, non-Apple products frankly suck. | Read more »
An incompletely researched, half-assed treatise on the demise of trying.
Submitted by thecroz on June 1, 2010 - 7:30pm
This once-proud nation has fallen on hard times of late. America’s manufacturing industry is in the toilet (mostly because that toilet was made cheaper in China). Our non-immigrant kids are no longer the best in math, science or anything that doesn’t involve racking their ’nads. And now it seems that even our criminals are getting lazy. They’re no longer putting in long hours or taking dangerous risks. So whose fault is the demise of our criminal’s work ethic? Most likely, yours. | Read more »
Brain-dead backup and stupid-easy sync for numbskull-noobs.
Submitted by thecroz on October 30, 2008 - 5:59pm
I just learned of a free, online backup service that creates a folder on your computer where you can drop files. Anything you put in the folder is then securely uploaded to their website (great for backing up important files). Better yet, you can install it on multiple computers—both Macs AND PCs—so you can send large files back and forth from one computer to another, or from one family member to another. | Read more »
Google genius solves U.S. energy crisis in spare time, still stumped by ‘girls’
Submitted by thecroz on October 3, 2008 - 4:00am
Why does it take Google to do real math and create a policy suggestion for ending our nation’s energy crisis? (Don’t we have government types who are supposed to generate these types of plans?)
So while our politicians are scrambling desperately to bail out the sinking financial Titanic they themselves have allowed to side-swipe sub-prime icebergs in recent years, Google has been figuring out how to save the country. | Read more »
Coca-Cola to stop giving children Parkinson’s disease, liver damage.
Submitted by thecroz on May 27, 2008 - 5:08am
In response to my earlier blog post about the dangers of Diet Coke—or more realistically, recent charges that Sodium Benzoate is altering the DNA of children—the Coca-Cola Company has finally decided to remove this "taste-protecting" substance from all their sodas, including Fanta, Dr. Pepper, Sprite and Diet Coke (although not regular Coke).
How to prevent being manipulated by evil advertising types (like me).
Submitted by thecroz on October 28, 2011 - 6:34pm
Working in the advertising business, I’m privy to a lot of online “services” which are dedicated to tracking your every move on the Internet. Their hope is to figure out who you are, learn all about your interests and activities, tie all that information to your public records and finally sell a frighteningly detailed and accurate personal profile to anyone with literally $39. So, as a public service, here are a few things you can do to thwart these nosy bastards. | Read more »
A workable plan to save the publishing industry. You're welcome.
Submitted by thecroz on November 4, 2010 - 6:18pm
All over the world, magazines and newspapers are struggling to survive, fending off certain death like Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland. It's an industry-wide problem that's affecting even progressive pubs like the New York Times and Wired Magazine. Despite huge traffic numbers, their current ‘advertising-only’ model isn't going to let them keep paying qualified journalists for much longer. So they know they need to move to a different model. But which one? Well, how about this brilliant one? | Read more »
