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Nothing lights up the obsessive-compulsive side of my brain more than cable management. It can be very satisfying to find ways to organize all of the cables required by my electronics. But it can also be a frustrating process of make-shift solutions and…
Earlier this year, I wrote about how music-sharing site This Is My Jam would be closing. And while This Is My Jam is still slated to go into archive mode, a new service named Nusiki has popped up to carry on…
San Francisco is often described as an “interesting” place. For decades, it was home to hippies, beatniks, and other counter-culture holdouts. In more recent times, the City By The Bay has seen an influx of tech-industry workers, causing the city…
It can be a gamble upgrading to a new version of any operating system. The latest iteration of iOS has proven this true once again. Users are reporting a wide range of bugs and quirks after updating their iPhones and iPads to…
One of my favorite things on the Internet is this chart, created by DeviantART user DirkLoechel. The chart contains a large selection of spaceships from a multitude of different science-fiction themed TV, movie, and video game franchises. The chart itself…
Flown primarily by British Airways and Air France, the Concorde supersonic jet was an impressive achievement in aviation technology. The delta-wing style plane first flew in 1976. After a few years of operation, the Concorde was relegated mostly to transoceanic…
It’s safe to say that video games were a lot less sophisticated back in the 80’s. This was a limitation of the hardware of the time, certainly. But it was also due to the fact that the industry itself was…