Geek Out

Imagine The US Postal Service Opened All Your Letters

Think about it: US Postal Service employees actually opening and scanning all your letters, and then sending you emails with their content with the option to receive the physical letter if you choose to. Scarily unreal? Not if you’re Finnish.


March 10, 2010
Science

Pluto Files Hate Mail Declassified

If I were Neil deGrasse Tyson — host of the Pluto Files and director of the Hayden Planetarium — I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. Not after reading the hate mail from thousands of outraged American kids.


February 14, 2010
Geek Out

In Defence Of The Letter

Analogue means more than digital. It’s real, for one thing. Something real is maimed in the process of recording. And it’s slow. Pulp doesn’t teleport, like bits. If you write somebody a letter, you mean it.


October 6, 2009

Apple’s Job Offer Letters Look Like This

If this is indeed a real job offer packet from Apple, the guy who posted it might not be working at Apple after all. I don’t know — call it a hunch.


February 20, 2009
Cars

Reader Email: Why We Should Stop Picking on Segway

Dean Kamen is brilliant, but I’ve always felt Segways were kinda for lazy people. Well, I did think that, until I got this email from Allen, a segway using reader with a disability. Doh!