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Six Things The Phone Book’s Actually Still Good For

The phone book. There’s perhaps no more outmoded, unnecessary, downright wasteful collection of printed information in the known universe. But Doghouse Diaries has a few suggestions that might make them useful after all.


How Long Should You Spend On Making Tasks More Efficient?

These days, everyone wants you to hack your life in order to make your day-to-day existence more efficient. But there are times when the effort’s not really worth it — and this chart should help you work out what to spend time on, and what to ignore.


Everything Wrong With Iron Man 2

Hot on the heels of pointing out everything wrong with the original Iron Man film, the folks at CinemaSins have passed their fine toothed combs over the sequel, finding a mountain of errors that even a robotic supersuit can’t fix.


The Real Instruction Manual For Your Shared Office Printer

Working in an office with other people is fraught with all kinds of tensions and politics*, but there is nothing more divisive than the humble shared printer. Here’s the instruction manual they forgot to include in the box that behemoth of a colour laser arrived in.


Why Time Travel Is Confusing

Actually, time travel is confusing on many levels. What the hell did happen in Twelve Monkeys exactly?


The Small Victory Your Admin Account Wins You If Your Laptop’s Stolen

Of course all your email accounts, social networks, cloud services and payment details are up for grabs if someone grabs your laptop while it’s logged in — because, really, we’re all to lazy to log-in over and over. But at least your drivers are safe!


The Problem With Every Adobe Update

You know that something somewhere has gone seriously wrong when every last software update requires you to update a proprietary download manager before you can even think about getting your hands on whatever trivial bug fix that’s on offer.


Marvel Is Giving Away 700 Free Comics To Everyone Again

Hey, look, free stuff! Marvel is taking another shot at giving away more than 700 #1 issues of its comics through its digital service. That’s thousands of dollars of comics, for free.


The Old World Translations For Modern Day Social Networks

You know all the social networks we use? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, hell even LinkedIn and everything else? They’re all just replacing old stuff we used to do by ourselves at our desks.


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