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WHY YOUR NEXT HOME COMPUTER SHOULD BE AN OLD XEON The amount I paid for a HP Z420 workstation, a machine that, seven years ago, could be had for just below $3,000 in its base configuration. (And upgraded for many thousands of dollars more.) My model, produced in 2013, supports many of the same components as the just-retired 2013 Mac Pro, including the same kinds of RAM and Xeonprocessors.
FLEXI DISC HISTORY: VINYL'S THINNER COUSIN The two-sided 12-minute recording, which can be heard on YouTube, makes a fascinating aural document, but it also represented something else: It was a coming out party for the flexi-disc, thanks in no small part to the fact that the record went to 4.5 million people.That’s right—the record was technically four times platinum before it even reached a single eardrum. AC ADAPTERS: WHY THEY'RE SO FREAKING HUGE An AC adapter removes a point of failure from the product itself. But these devices come with a lot of complications. The biggest, perhaps, is the fact that the bricks aren’t horribly efficient at their jobs, which is why they tend to overheat. But the other problem is their size—the earliest designers of AC adapters were attempting to BREYERS "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT": IT'S NOT ICE CREAM Basically, some of Breyers’ flavors fail to meet a basic criteria for ice cream set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: One, that the dessert is make up of 10 percent milkfat, and that the ice cream has an overrun of 100 percent or less—that is, the ice cream shouldn’t be mostly made of more than 50 percent air bubbles after it’s WHY BOB VILA LEFT "THIS OLD HOUSE" An image of Bob Vila during the early days of This Old House. (WGBH press photo) How Bob Vila became the face of home repair. This Old House represented an interesting opening salvo in the way home renovation was presented on television.. Every season, the show would highlight an aging house, and renovate it, step by step, over the span of a number of episodes. UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: STILL BEING UPDATED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS More than 30 years ago, onetime Eliot Ness stand-in Robert Stack found a way to embellish his legacy in the modern era. The solution was through a show named Unsolved Mysteries, one of the first reality-based shows of the modern era, mixing scripted plots with true stories.First appearing as a special in 1987, it became a full-fledged series not long after the success of a similar program CRISCO HISTORY: BRANDING WITHOUT TELLING YOU WHAT’S INSIDE For most of the 19th century, cotton seeds were a nuisance. When cotton gins combed the South’s ballooning cotton harvests to produce clean fiber, they left mountains of seeds behind. Early attempts to mill those seeds resulted in oil that was unappealingly dark and smelly. Many farmers just let their piles of cottonseed rot. DEPARTMENT STORE GUITAR HISTORY: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE Established by Wilhelm Schulz in 1892, Harmony quickly became one of the largest manufacturers of stringed instruments in the world. Harmony guitars were sold at around $6.00 - $8.00 early in that 1896-1897 catalog and were pretty high quality. Harmony wasn’t the only manufacturer of Sears-Roebuck’s catalog instruments, either. POLITICAL YARD SIGNS: ARE THEY EFFECTIVE? The cost, per sign, to purchase 2,000 full-color, double-sided yard signs from the website Dirt Cheap Signs, a price that includes metal H-stakes to embed the signs into the ground. (The full cost of the sign buy is $6,140.) Purchasing yard signs is a game of scale—buying just one doesn’t make a lot of sense, but buying thousands or tens of thousands is relatively cost-effective. VIRGIN COLA: RICHARD BRANSON'S GREATEST FAILURE Rethinking Sugar Water. The story of Virgin Cola, Richard Branson’s bold attempt to take on Coca-Cola and Pepsi at their own game. Of course it failed, but it did so stylishly. Today in Tedium: Everything has a story, and today’s Tedium tells the story behind a two-decade-old press kit, covered in plastic, that I recentlyacquired.
WHY YOUR NEXT HOME COMPUTER SHOULD BE AN OLD XEON The amount I paid for a HP Z420 workstation, a machine that, seven years ago, could be had for just below $3,000 in its base configuration. (And upgraded for many thousands of dollars more.) My model, produced in 2013, supports many of the same components as the just-retired 2013 Mac Pro, including the same kinds of RAM and Xeonprocessors.
FLEXI DISC HISTORY: VINYL'S THINNER COUSIN The two-sided 12-minute recording, which can be heard on YouTube, makes a fascinating aural document, but it also represented something else: It was a coming out party for the flexi-disc, thanks in no small part to the fact that the record went to 4.5 million people.That’s right—the record was technically four times platinum before it even reached a single eardrum. AC ADAPTERS: WHY THEY'RE SO FREAKING HUGE An AC adapter removes a point of failure from the product itself. But these devices come with a lot of complications. The biggest, perhaps, is the fact that the bricks aren’t horribly efficient at their jobs, which is why they tend to overheat. But the other problem is their size—the earliest designers of AC adapters were attempting to BREYERS "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT": IT'S NOT ICE CREAM Basically, some of Breyers’ flavors fail to meet a basic criteria for ice cream set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: One, that the dessert is make up of 10 percent milkfat, and that the ice cream has an overrun of 100 percent or less—that is, the ice cream shouldn’t be mostly made of more than 50 percent air bubbles after it’s WHY BOB VILA LEFT "THIS OLD HOUSE" An image of Bob Vila during the early days of This Old House. (WGBH press photo) How Bob Vila became the face of home repair. This Old House represented an interesting opening salvo in the way home renovation was presented on television.. Every season, the show would highlight an aging house, and renovate it, step by step, over the span of a number of episodes. UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: STILL BEING UPDATED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS More than 30 years ago, onetime Eliot Ness stand-in Robert Stack found a way to embellish his legacy in the modern era. The solution was through a show named Unsolved Mysteries, one of the first reality-based shows of the modern era, mixing scripted plots with true stories.First appearing as a special in 1987, it became a full-fledged series not long after the success of a similar program SHRINK-WRAP PLASTIC HISTORY: A LITTLE HEAT GOES A LONG WAY The year that Ralph Wiley, a Dow Chemical employee, accidentally discovered polyvinylidene chloride, a type of plastic that found common use in wraps, particularly Saran Wrap, starting in the 1950s. The high quality of the material, initially developed as a a spray, made it desirable as a food wrap, because of its ability to hold in odors, survive microwaving, and cling to itself. TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN HISTORY: FROM ENGINEERING NEED TO The year that the Domain Name System was first introduced.The first top-level domain at the time was .arpa, which was intended basically to manage the internet’s infrastructure and serve as a bridge between ARPANET, the internet’s predecessor, and the newly global internet.(The top-level domain, which was intended to be temporary, ultimately stuck around and is used as the basis of modern SECOND SLEEP HISTORY: A TALE OF MEDIEVAL INSOMNIACS Edison famously declared that he needed only three to four hours of sleep at night, and so begrudging was he of the whole affair that he predicted its eventual obsolescence: “In the old days man went up and down with the sun. A million years from now we won’t go to bed at all. Really, sleep is an absurdity, a bad habit. WHY YOUR NEXT HOME COMPUTER SHOULD BE AN OLD XEON The amount I paid for a HP Z420 workstation, a machine that, seven years ago, could be had for just below $3,000 in its base configuration. (And upgraded for many thousands of dollars more.) My model, produced in 2013, supports many of the same components as the just-retired 2013 Mac Pro, including the same kinds of RAM and Xeonprocessors.
DALE CARNEGIE VS. LIN YUTANG: HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND The sum of money, per year, that economic historian Robert Skidelsky ventured to name that John Maynard Keynes would have considered “enough” to live a good life—$57,000 or €46,000 at today’s exchange rates—an update to Virginia Woolf’s £500 a year driven by data. The basis of the calculation appears in Keynes: The Return of the Master, though the number varies according to ageTAG RESULTS: ZIPLOC
Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. TAG RESULTS: POLYETHYLENE Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. TAG RESULTS: PLASTIC WRAP Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. TAG RESULTS: HEAT-SHRINK Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. TAG RESULTS: SARAN WRAP Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. CRISCO HISTORY: BRANDING WITHOUT TELLING YOU WHAT’S INSIDE For most of the 19th century, cotton seeds were a nuisance. When cotton gins combed the South’s ballooning cotton harvests to produce clean fiber, they left mountains of seeds behind. Early attempts to mill those seeds resulted in oil that was unappealingly dark and smelly. Many farmers just let their piles of cottonseed rot. DEPARTMENT STORE GUITAR HISTORY: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE Established by Wilhelm Schulz in 1892, Harmony quickly became one of the largest manufacturers of stringed instruments in the world. Harmony guitars were sold at around $6.00 - $8.00 early in that 1896-1897 catalog and were pretty high quality. Harmony wasn’t the only manufacturer of Sears-Roebuck’s catalog instruments, either. POLITICAL YARD SIGNS: ARE THEY EFFECTIVE? The cost, per sign, to purchase 2,000 full-color, double-sided yard signs from the website Dirt Cheap Signs, a price that includes metal H-stakes to embed the signs into the ground. (The full cost of the sign buy is $6,140.) Purchasing yard signs is a game of scale—buying just one doesn’t make a lot of sense, but buying thousands or tens of thousands is relatively cost-effective. VIRGIN COLA: RICHARD BRANSON'S GREATEST FAILURE Rethinking Sugar Water. The story of Virgin Cola, Richard Branson’s bold attempt to take on Coca-Cola and Pepsi at their own game. Of course it failed, but it did so stylishly. Today in Tedium: Everything has a story, and today’s Tedium tells the story behind a two-decade-old press kit, covered in plastic, that I recentlyacquired.
WHY YOUR NEXT HOME COMPUTER SHOULD BE AN OLD XEON The amount I paid for a HP Z420 workstation, a machine that, seven years ago, could be had for just below $3,000 in its base configuration. (And upgraded for many thousands of dollars more.) My model, produced in 2013, supports many of the same components as the just-retired 2013 Mac Pro, including the same kinds of RAM and Xeonprocessors.
FLEXI DISC HISTORY: VINYL'S THINNER COUSIN The two-sided 12-minute recording, which can be heard on YouTube, makes a fascinating aural document, but it also represented something else: It was a coming out party for the flexi-disc, thanks in no small part to the fact that the record went to 4.5 million people.That’s right—the record was technically four times platinum before it even reached a single eardrum. AC ADAPTERS: WHY THEY'RE SO FREAKING HUGE An AC adapter removes a point of failure from the product itself. But these devices come with a lot of complications. The biggest, perhaps, is the fact that the bricks aren’t horribly efficient at their jobs, which is why they tend to overheat. But the other problem is their size—the earliest designers of AC adapters were attempting to BREYERS "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT": IT'S NOT ICE CREAM Basically, some of Breyers’ flavors fail to meet a basic criteria for ice cream set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: One, that the dessert is make up of 10 percent milkfat, and that the ice cream has an overrun of 100 percent or less—that is, the ice cream shouldn’t be mostly made of more than 50 percent air bubbles after it’s WHY BOB VILA LEFT "THIS OLD HOUSE" An image of Bob Vila during the early days of This Old House. (WGBH press photo) How Bob Vila became the face of home repair. This Old House represented an interesting opening salvo in the way home renovation was presented on television.. Every season, the show would highlight an aging house, and renovate it, step by step, over the span of a number of episodes. UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: STILL BEING UPDATED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS More than 30 years ago, onetime Eliot Ness stand-in Robert Stack found a way to embellish his legacy in the modern era. The solution was through a show named Unsolved Mysteries, one of the first reality-based shows of the modern era, mixing scripted plots with true stories.First appearing as a special in 1987, it became a full-fledged series not long after the success of a similar program CRISCO HISTORY: BRANDING WITHOUT TELLING YOU WHAT’S INSIDE For most of the 19th century, cotton seeds were a nuisance. When cotton gins combed the South’s ballooning cotton harvests to produce clean fiber, they left mountains of seeds behind. Early attempts to mill those seeds resulted in oil that was unappealingly dark and smelly. Many farmers just let their piles of cottonseed rot. DEPARTMENT STORE GUITAR HISTORY: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE Established by Wilhelm Schulz in 1892, Harmony quickly became one of the largest manufacturers of stringed instruments in the world. Harmony guitars were sold at around $6.00 - $8.00 early in that 1896-1897 catalog and were pretty high quality. Harmony wasn’t the only manufacturer of Sears-Roebuck’s catalog instruments, either. POLITICAL YARD SIGNS: ARE THEY EFFECTIVE? The cost, per sign, to purchase 2,000 full-color, double-sided yard signs from the website Dirt Cheap Signs, a price that includes metal H-stakes to embed the signs into the ground. (The full cost of the sign buy is $6,140.) Purchasing yard signs is a game of scale—buying just one doesn’t make a lot of sense, but buying thousands or tens of thousands is relatively cost-effective. VIRGIN COLA: RICHARD BRANSON'S GREATEST FAILURE Rethinking Sugar Water. The story of Virgin Cola, Richard Branson’s bold attempt to take on Coca-Cola and Pepsi at their own game. Of course it failed, but it did so stylishly. Today in Tedium: Everything has a story, and today’s Tedium tells the story behind a two-decade-old press kit, covered in plastic, that I recentlyacquired.
WHY YOUR NEXT HOME COMPUTER SHOULD BE AN OLD XEON The amount I paid for a HP Z420 workstation, a machine that, seven years ago, could be had for just below $3,000 in its base configuration. (And upgraded for many thousands of dollars more.) My model, produced in 2013, supports many of the same components as the just-retired 2013 Mac Pro, including the same kinds of RAM and Xeonprocessors.
FLEXI DISC HISTORY: VINYL'S THINNER COUSIN The two-sided 12-minute recording, which can be heard on YouTube, makes a fascinating aural document, but it also represented something else: It was a coming out party for the flexi-disc, thanks in no small part to the fact that the record went to 4.5 million people.That’s right—the record was technically four times platinum before it even reached a single eardrum. AC ADAPTERS: WHY THEY'RE SO FREAKING HUGE An AC adapter removes a point of failure from the product itself. But these devices come with a lot of complications. The biggest, perhaps, is the fact that the bricks aren’t horribly efficient at their jobs, which is why they tend to overheat. But the other problem is their size—the earliest designers of AC adapters were attempting to BREYERS "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT": IT'S NOT ICE CREAM Basically, some of Breyers’ flavors fail to meet a basic criteria for ice cream set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: One, that the dessert is make up of 10 percent milkfat, and that the ice cream has an overrun of 100 percent or less—that is, the ice cream shouldn’t be mostly made of more than 50 percent air bubbles after it’s WHY BOB VILA LEFT "THIS OLD HOUSE" An image of Bob Vila during the early days of This Old House. (WGBH press photo) How Bob Vila became the face of home repair. This Old House represented an interesting opening salvo in the way home renovation was presented on television.. Every season, the show would highlight an aging house, and renovate it, step by step, over the span of a number of episodes. UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: STILL BEING UPDATED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS More than 30 years ago, onetime Eliot Ness stand-in Robert Stack found a way to embellish his legacy in the modern era. The solution was through a show named Unsolved Mysteries, one of the first reality-based shows of the modern era, mixing scripted plots with true stories.First appearing as a special in 1987, it became a full-fledged series not long after the success of a similar program SHRINK-WRAP PLASTIC HISTORY: A LITTLE HEAT GOES A LONG WAY The year that Ralph Wiley, a Dow Chemical employee, accidentally discovered polyvinylidene chloride, a type of plastic that found common use in wraps, particularly Saran Wrap, starting in the 1950s. The high quality of the material, initially developed as a a spray, made it desirable as a food wrap, because of its ability to hold in odors, survive microwaving, and cling to itself. TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN HISTORY: FROM ENGINEERING NEED TO The year that the Domain Name System was first introduced.The first top-level domain at the time was .arpa, which was intended basically to manage the internet’s infrastructure and serve as a bridge between ARPANET, the internet’s predecessor, and the newly global internet.(The top-level domain, which was intended to be temporary, ultimately stuck around and is used as the basis of modern SECOND SLEEP HISTORY: A TALE OF MEDIEVAL INSOMNIACS Edison famously declared that he needed only three to four hours of sleep at night, and so begrudging was he of the whole affair that he predicted its eventual obsolescence: “In the old days man went up and down with the sun. A million years from now we won’t go to bed at all. Really, sleep is an absurdity, a bad habit. WHY YOUR NEXT HOME COMPUTER SHOULD BE AN OLD XEON The amount I paid for a HP Z420 workstation, a machine that, seven years ago, could be had for just below $3,000 in its base configuration. (And upgraded for many thousands of dollars more.) My model, produced in 2013, supports many of the same components as the just-retired 2013 Mac Pro, including the same kinds of RAM and Xeonprocessors.
DALE CARNEGIE VS. LIN YUTANG: HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND The sum of money, per year, that economic historian Robert Skidelsky ventured to name that John Maynard Keynes would have considered “enough” to live a good life—$57,000 or €46,000 at today’s exchange rates—an update to Virginia Woolf’s £500 a year driven by data. The basis of the calculation appears in Keynes: The Return of the Master, though the number varies according to ageTAG RESULTS: ZIPLOC
Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. TAG RESULTS: POLYETHYLENE Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. TAG RESULTS: PLASTIC WRAP Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. TAG RESULTS: HEAT-SHRINK Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. TAG RESULTS: SARAN WRAP Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in. CRISCO HISTORY: BRANDING WITHOUT TELLING YOU WHAT’S INSIDE For most of the 19th century, cotton seeds were a nuisance. When cotton gins combed the South’s ballooning cotton harvests to produce clean fiber, they left mountains of seeds behind. Early attempts to mill those seeds resulted in oil that was unappealingly dark and smelly. Many farmers just let their piles of cottonseed rot. DEPARTMENT STORE GUITAR HISTORY: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE Established by Wilhelm Schulz in 1892, Harmony quickly became one of the largest manufacturers of stringed instruments in the world. Harmony guitars were sold at around $6.00 - $8.00 early in that 1896-1897 catalog and were pretty high quality. Harmony wasn’t the only manufacturer of Sears-Roebuck’s catalog instruments, either. POLITICAL YARD SIGNS: ARE THEY EFFECTIVE? The cost, per sign, to purchase 2,000 full-color, double-sided yard signs from the website Dirt Cheap Signs, a price that includes metal H-stakes to embed the signs into the ground. (The full cost of the sign buy is $6,140.) Purchasing yard signs is a game of scale—buying just one doesn’t make a lot of sense, but buying thousands or tens of thousands is relatively cost-effective. FLEXI DISC HISTORY: VINYL'S THINNER COUSIN The two-sided 12-minute recording, which can be heard on YouTube, makes a fascinating aural document, but it also represented something else: It was a coming out party for the flexi-disc, thanks in no small part to the fact that the record went to 4.5 million people.That’s right—the record was technically four times platinum before it even reached a single eardrum. WHY YOUR NEXT HOME COMPUTER SHOULD BE AN OLD XEON The amount I paid for a HP Z420 workstation, a machine that, seven years ago, could be had for just below $3,000 in its base configuration. (And upgraded for many thousands of dollars more.) My model, produced in 2013, supports many of the same components as the just-retired 2013 Mac Pro, including the same kinds of RAM and Xeonprocessors.
WHY BOB VILA LEFT "THIS OLD HOUSE" An image of Bob Vila during the early days of This Old House. (WGBH press photo) How Bob Vila became the face of home repair. This Old House represented an interesting opening salvo in the way home renovation was presented on television.. Every season, the show would highlight an aging house, and renovate it, step by step, over the span of a number of episodes. BREYERS "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT": IT'S NOT ICE CREAM Basically, some of Breyers’ flavors fail to meet a basic criteria for ice cream set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: One, that the dessert is make up of 10 percent milkfat, and that the ice cream has an overrun of 100 percent or less—that is, the ice cream shouldn’t be mostly made of more than 50 percent air bubbles after it’s FINGERNAIL TRIMMING HISTORY: WHAT WE DID BEFORE NAIL CLIPPERS — A passage from an article about superstition published in the Boston Globe in 1889 (though credited to the New York Sun), discussing a superstition of the time that suggested people couldn’t cut their fingernails on weekends out of fear that it might lead to back luck. Let’s be honest: This superstition sucks. A much better superstition: The idea that white specks on the fingernails VIRGIN COLA: RICHARD BRANSON'S GREATEST FAILURE Rethinking Sugar Water. The story of Virgin Cola, Richard Branson’s bold attempt to take on Coca-Cola and Pepsi at their own game. Of course it failed, but it did so stylishly. Today in Tedium: Everything has a story, and today’s Tedium tells the story behind a two-decade-old press kit, covered in plastic, that I recentlyacquired.
AC ADAPTERS: WHY THEY'RE SO FREAKING HUGE An AC adapter removes a point of failure from the product itself. But these devices come with a lot of complications. The biggest, perhaps, is the fact that the bricks aren’t horribly efficient at their jobs, which is why they tend to overheat. But the other problem is their size—the earliest designers of AC adapters were attempting to CRISCO HISTORY: BRANDING WITHOUT TELLING YOU WHAT’S INSIDE For most of the 19th century, cotton seeds were a nuisance. When cotton gins combed the South’s ballooning cotton harvests to produce clean fiber, they left mountains of seeds behind. Early attempts to mill those seeds resulted in oil that was unappealingly dark and smelly. Many farmers just let their piles of cottonseed rot. DEPARTMENT STORE GUITAR HISTORY: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE Established by Wilhelm Schulz in 1892, Harmony quickly became one of the largest manufacturers of stringed instruments in the world. Harmony guitars were sold at around $6.00 - $8.00 early in that 1896-1897 catalog and were pretty high quality. Harmony wasn’t the only manufacturer of Sears-Roebuck’s catalog instruments, either. POLITICAL YARD SIGNS: ARE THEY EFFECTIVE? The cost, per sign, to purchase 2,000 full-color, double-sided yard signs from the website Dirt Cheap Signs, a price that includes metal H-stakes to embed the signs into the ground. (The full cost of the sign buy is $6,140.) Purchasing yard signs is a game of scale—buying just one doesn’t make a lot of sense, but buying thousands or tens of thousands is relatively cost-effective. FLEXI DISC HISTORY: VINYL'S THINNER COUSIN The two-sided 12-minute recording, which can be heard on YouTube, makes a fascinating aural document, but it also represented something else: It was a coming out party for the flexi-disc, thanks in no small part to the fact that the record went to 4.5 million people.That’s right—the record was technically four times platinum before it even reached a single eardrum. WHY YOUR NEXT HOME COMPUTER SHOULD BE AN OLD XEON The amount I paid for a HP Z420 workstation, a machine that, seven years ago, could be had for just below $3,000 in its base configuration. (And upgraded for many thousands of dollars more.) My model, produced in 2013, supports many of the same components as the just-retired 2013 Mac Pro, including the same kinds of RAM and Xeonprocessors.
WHY BOB VILA LEFT "THIS OLD HOUSE" An image of Bob Vila during the early days of This Old House. (WGBH press photo) How Bob Vila became the face of home repair. This Old House represented an interesting opening salvo in the way home renovation was presented on television.. Every season, the show would highlight an aging house, and renovate it, step by step, over the span of a number of episodes. BREYERS "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT": IT'S NOT ICE CREAM Basically, some of Breyers’ flavors fail to meet a basic criteria for ice cream set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: One, that the dessert is make up of 10 percent milkfat, and that the ice cream has an overrun of 100 percent or less—that is, the ice cream shouldn’t be mostly made of more than 50 percent air bubbles after it’s FINGERNAIL TRIMMING HISTORY: WHAT WE DID BEFORE NAIL CLIPPERS — A passage from an article about superstition published in the Boston Globe in 1889 (though credited to the New York Sun), discussing a superstition of the time that suggested people couldn’t cut their fingernails on weekends out of fear that it might lead to back luck. Let’s be honest: This superstition sucks. A much better superstition: The idea that white specks on the fingernails VIRGIN COLA: RICHARD BRANSON'S GREATEST FAILURE Rethinking Sugar Water. The story of Virgin Cola, Richard Branson’s bold attempt to take on Coca-Cola and Pepsi at their own game. Of course it failed, but it did so stylishly. Today in Tedium: Everything has a story, and today’s Tedium tells the story behind a two-decade-old press kit, covered in plastic, that I recentlyacquired.
AC ADAPTERS: WHY THEY'RE SO FREAKING HUGE An AC adapter removes a point of failure from the product itself. But these devices come with a lot of complications. The biggest, perhaps, is the fact that the bricks aren’t horribly efficient at their jobs, which is why they tend to overheat. But the other problem is their size—the earliest designers of AC adapters were attempting to SHRINK-WRAP PLASTIC HISTORY: A LITTLE HEAT GOES A LONG WAY The year that Ralph Wiley, a Dow Chemical employee, accidentally discovered polyvinylidene chloride, a type of plastic that found common use in wraps, particularly Saran Wrap, starting in the 1950s. The high quality of the material, initially developed as a a spray, made it desirable as a food wrap, because of its ability to hold in odors, survive microwaving, and cling to itself. THUNDERBOLT CABLE HISTORY: HOW LIGHT PEAK SOMEHOW BECAME Today in Tedium: Two decades ago, the fastest data connection that we could hope for from a standard personal computer was 1 gigabit (125 megabytes) per second in speed, first brought to the broader computing world in the year 2000 by the Power Mac G4 and the PowerBook G4. USB (at first) was slow; Firewire (at first) was fast, but it was less than a third of the speed of Gigabit Ethernet. POLITICAL YARD SIGNS: ARE THEY EFFECTIVE? The cost, per sign, to purchase 2,000 full-color, double-sided yard signs from the website Dirt Cheap Signs, a price that includes metal H-stakes to embed the signs into the ground. (The full cost of the sign buy is $6,140.) Purchasing yard signs is a game of scale—buying just one doesn’t make a lot of sense, but buying thousands or tens of thousands is relatively cost-effective. SECOND SLEEP HISTORY: A TALE OF MEDIEVAL INSOMNIACS Edison famously declared that he needed only three to four hours of sleep at night, and so begrudging was he of the whole affair that he predicted its eventual obsolescence: “In the old days man went up and down with the sun. A million years from now we won’t go to bed at all. Really, sleep is an absurdity, a bad habit. TAG RESULTS: POLYETHYLENE Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in.TAG RESULTS: ZIPLOC
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