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The K Ohle #4: The Boat Show with Matt Braunger

Kurt is joined this week by comedian and boatswain Matt Braunger. We try to get to the bottom of what rivers are, how to “Braunger” a boat, and why knowing the difference between port and starboard is not as important as it once was. Follow @Braunger on Twitter and listen to his podcast Ding Donger with Matt Braunger! Thanks to Nick Thorburn from Islands for creating the theme song! Follow @… more

The Island Of Misfit Tech

While I’m waiting for my new printer to be delivered, I needed to scan something.  (Okay, if you must know, it was a baseball card, for the piece about how… more

FCC Passes (Sort Of) Net Neutrality Order

It’s official: By a 3-2 vote, the FCC has passed its Net Neutrality order. I’m not going to go through the pros and cons of the regulation here, because if… more

Dead Printers Society

My printer died Sunday night. Cause of death: Undetermined spontaneous occurrence. Time of death: approximately 5:30 pm Pacific Standard Time, December 19th. Age of decedent: Approximately three years old…. more
 

Google Books Ngram Viewer: Best New Toy on the Internet

Google Labs recently provided the internet with a brand new toy: the Books Ngram Viewer. This “research tool” allows you to search the occurrences of words or phrases from over… more

What To Do If/When Delicious Dies (UPDATE: Maybe It Won’t)

Yahoo! (remember the exclamation point, folks) is apparently shutting down a bunch of its “underperforming” websites, according to news that raced around the Internet today.  The screenshot from a… more

Sale Alert: Time Wasters For A Buck

In case you’re into iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad gaming, you might want to know that EA Mobile has dropped the price of almost every game they have to 99… more
 

When Your Pocket Just Isn’t Big Enough

From the annals of Space-Filling Articles For Slow News Days comes this piece in the New York Times asking men a critical question: Where do you put your iPad when… more

There’s An App For Reminding You That Your Life Didn’t Go The Way You’d Hoped

A South Korean company is selling an iPhone app that pretends to be the user’s girlfriend. For the equivalent of $1.99 US, it sends four video calls a day… more

Highway Vigilantism Made Easy, Sort Of

My dad, like all dads, used to get very agitated by the bad driving he perceived as plaguing every lane of every road, everywhere. He would fantasize about ways to… more