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No wonder today’s students can’t understand capitalization rules. Informal typing is one thing, but then there is this ridiculousness. First, this is how election results (in this case, Iowa’s) look on CNN’s website. There isn’t a single capitalized letter to … Continue reading →

“Area Dad Concerned He’s Running Out Of Family Photos To Digitize” I assure you, this is not physically possible.

Apple said, We upped our photo-management system…now up yours! [This is a rant that needed to be written seven months ago, when the event actually happened, but nothing would have changed if it had. I know that, you know that, … Continue reading →

BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT GETS CONVEYED WHEN YOU DO IT IN ALL-CAPS. (Something happened at the start of the year, not sure what, but now everything on the news page has an all-caps headline.)

I don’t go to the movies as often as I used to, partially because I no longer have a theater in walking distance, partially because so much out there is uninteresting dreck*. So it was a surprise when I went … Continue reading →

“Farming simulator is way bigger, more fun than you think” from Vice: I’ve done many challenging things in games recently, from slaying hordes of humanoid rats in Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide, to beating the magic-casting game Magicka 2. But the most … Continue reading →

My iMac turned six years old this month. I still use it as my main machine. It runs Mac OS 10.6.8, the last release that allows use of PowerPC applications. It’s also the last version before form began running roughshod … Continue reading →

KMXG-FM in Davenport started its merry-making a week ago. There oughta be a law against this sort of thing.

…now what? UPDATE: Instead of sweeping, the Cubs got swept, and we haven’t abolished lawyers. This is the timeline that sprung from when Marty didn’t hit the Rolls-Royce on Oct. 27, 1985. Future imperfect, indeed. UPDATE II: USA Today has … Continue reading →

The Associated Press announced July 23 that it and British Movietone have recently posted over a million minutes of historic film and video news footage to YouTube. All have an AP watermark, but the bulk of the clips are newsreels. … Continue reading →