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Cortana is the Microsoft version of Alexa, who is the Amazon version of Siri, who is Apple's version of an embryonic Skynet, as fantasiz...

... and I'm out (previously: In which I am about to cancel my Verizon home DSL and Verizon update ). The service continued to be terrib...

An update: the squeaky wheel does, indeed, get the grease. After being maximally noisy in a public forum (Twitter) and expressing, at len...

I have not had home internet service since July 18th. My provider is Verizon DSL. At this point I have called, emailed, tweeted, and interac...

From Gaby Dunn's podcast, "Bad With Money", episode "Get Rich or Die Vlogging" @ 19 minutes: Youtubers are allowed...

There now exists a Lego store in Paris. The two things that delighted my constructor-child's heart were: (1) it is possible to buy Lego...

Forgive the poor lighting conditions, I snuck this photo in a darkened airplane. My neighbor had a delight-inducing sticker on the back of h...

Some translations are inexplicable. I  thought, foolishly I now see, that Darth Vader was a fictional character whose two-word referent wa...

Metafilter  pointed me to a BBC documentary with a series of interviews with men, apparently travelling salesman, who talk about their [comp...

No spoilers: It was cute, with the expected (large) amount of fan-service, call-backs, and foreshadowing of predictable events. The villain ...

I am as much a datavore as the next internet-inhabiting member of my socio-economic-educational cohort. Right now, with a few clicks, I can ...

I recently had a series of excellent customer service experiences with Swatch . I bought a watch -- very brightly colored -- and after weari...