Smash Nomophobia!

Nomophobia, or "€œno-mobile-phobia,"€ sounds as stupid as luposlipaphobia. At least the latter"€”the fear of being chased by wolves on slick kitchen linoleum while wearing ...

Foxconned: Who Makes our Computers?

Ghosts were the first thing I remember frightening me as a child. Arthur C. Clarke once said, "€œGhosts are at least as real as dreams."€ This is the most intelligent ...

Don’t Fear the Robot: Why I Finally Joined Facebook

I recently joined this cool new social-networking site called “Facebook” because my publishers told me I had to use it to promote my book. I was reluctant to join because ...

Over the Hill at 35

A lady recently asked Barack Obama why the government is issuing and extending H-1B visas—that is, guest-worker visas for any occupation “which requires the theoretical ...

F-35

The Golden Dodo Bird in the Sky

The F-35 is the latest marvel brought to us by the military-industrial complex. It’s presently years behind deployment schedule. It is also the most expensive military ...

How’d You Like Them Apples?

The man in the Apple store lied to me. He LIED TO ME. But then, I knew he would. I hate the Apple Store. My kids, of course, love it. The stuff in there is so sleek, so stylish, ...

Obama’s Astronots

Tomorrow marks the closing of perhaps the most magnificent period of human achievement in all of Earth’s lengthy span. On Friday, America’s final space shuttle shall rocket ...

Obama’s Eight-Ton Lemon

The Beast's arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus"€™ Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the ...

Obama’s Eight-Ton Lemon

The Beast’s arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus’ Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the ...

1964 Ford Galaxie

Why Are New Cars So Ugly?

I looked out my bedroom window last night and saw Will Smith stepping into a 1967 Ford Galaxie. He was leaving the old-timey diner across the street with Tommy Lee Jones because ...

Google as Fat Elvis

Every company"€”no matter how trendy or cool, no matter how many Goth girls on rollerskates they employ, no matter how many simpering genius autistics in silver pants they have ...

Mr. Assange’s Digital McCarthyism

Upon superficial inspection, still-living superstar hacker Julian Assange and long-dead commie-stalker Joseph McCarthy seem like natural-born enemies and political polar ...

Cybershark Feeding Frenzy

The perverse coupling of surveillance and exhibitionism forms a cornerstone of American technocracy. Most Americans, be they liberals or libertarians, are unnerved by government ...

Bing Maps: Borgesian Fantasy or Nightmare?

At a conference last month in Long Beach, Cailfornia, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Microsoft's Bing Maps, demonstrated a host of exciting features for the mapping site, ...


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