How was Léon Theremin to know that the revolutionary, magical electronic instrument he developed in the 1920s was going to inspire, decades later, bland, repetitive techno music that only works if you’re peaking on contraband pharmaceuticals. We can forgive him this lack of foresight; for the most part, the Theramin has been used sensibly since [...]

Why Jailbreak?
Apple’s Iphone is a very clever, groundbreaking device capable of running hundreds of thousands of micro-apps, so why bother “Jailbreaking” or opening up your phone to software unblessed by Apple. Many people don’t see the point and are afraid that they will do permanent damage to their phone, or void their warranty. It’s not common [...]

The Clover
Quite a few coffee shops around town have a “Clover” machine sitting on their counters but are customers baffled?

Protopod
Long-time Youtube video blogger “suttsteve” has acquired a fringe notoriety online because he’s incredibly fascinating, absurdly boring and highly prolific. He started posting daily video blogs in 2005 when Youtube was first getting started. A year ago, 500 plus video diaries later, he mysteriously ceased activity and closed down his massive archive on Youtube. Good [...]
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