Deciding on whether to take out cell phone insurance is a tricky issue: it costs a heap, but it could save a stack of cash when you drop your smartphone onto bare concrete. Chances are, though, if you do ever make a claim, it will never be as ridiculous as any of these. More »
The iPad Mini hasn’t even been announced yet and people are already making fun of it. That’s pretty typical for any big Apple product launch but it seems like everyone calling the iPad Mini stupid had the same revelation about it: a smaller iPad is just an… iPhone. More »
The smartphone fanboy wars seem both ridiculous and eternal. It’s like everywhere you go on the Internet, a simple statement of preference—even one that isn’t pig-head and disparaging—can serve as the flash point for a fanboy skirmish. Isn’t it about time we signed a peace treaty? More »
Everyone’s got their own proclivities in the bedroom; the important thing is just to be open and honest about what it is you like, and be accepting when your partner does the same. Unless your partner’s is absolutely horrifying, that is. More »
I registered designskunkworks.com, thinking it would be a good name for an Internet product company, not realizing that Skunkworks was a real, trademarked facility run by Lockheed Martin—or that you can now threaten to sue people just for registering a domain name. More »
What Was Life Like Before iPhones?
Posted in: Today's Chili Our children won’t know what life was like before smartphones took over our every waking hour. But when you inevitably try to gather them around to tell them about all the time we spent not staring at screens? Well, as Doghouse Diaries points out, good luck with that: More »