Archive for October, 2007

Bulldog Shredder

At my company chili cook-off yesterday, I won a door prize.  A Fellows™ “Bulldog” shredder.  Last night I hooked it up and terrorized every piece of paper that had ever caused me grief.  “Aha!  YOU!  YOU GAVE ME A PAPER CUT!  Mwahahahaha!  Into the shredder with you!  INTO ZEE SHREDDER!  Mwa-hahahahahahaha!”
Knock on the door.  Instant [...]

Planned Obsolescence

Before you right now is one of the prettiest, and most glaring, examples of planned obsolescence.
This is the iPod Touch.
Apple released it without a hard drive, so that you only have up to 16 GB of memory on it. Meanwhile they also released an iPod Classic that costs less but features ten times that [...]