Archive: October 2016


Why Apple doesn’t care about professional Mac users anymore (October 31, 2016)

The Apple that made the systems pros love has been dead for a long, long time. Here’s why

Presenting a bit of history: the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations (October 27, 2016)

Download the secret Cold War regulations that would have gone into effect if the US was struck by a devastating nuclear attack

Book review: “The Insurrectionist” (October 24, 2016)

A fictionalized treatment of the life of John Brown that fails to justify its existence

The Dyn attack: what non-nerds need to know (October 21, 2016)

Meet a software Eye of Sauron that could put the whole Internet at risk

Oktoberfest in Winchester (October 16, 2016)

Another random road trip, this time to the Shenandoah Valley

There is no good reason to ever buy an inkjet printer (October 12, 2016)

Despite their enormous popularity, inkjet printers are always a bad deal

It’s raining in Charlottesville (October 11, 2016)

Notes from a random road trip

My big idea to save Twitter (October 6, 2016)

Let people buy extra characters

Book review: “Everything Belongs to the Future” (October 5, 2016)

Very good speculative sci-fi, set in a world where medicine has conquered death

I bought a zoo (October 2, 2016)

No, wait. A car. I bought a car