With a new president comes a new design for the Oval Office, and alongside a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. and a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, President Joe Biden has made one other crucial change. He’s ditched a little red button that Trump used to call forth a White […]
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Covid means Zoom, social media and streaming dominate our lives. The mute button is sanity.
Where I currently live, the TV goes on before 7 a.m. each day and stays on until 10 p.m. every night. The awkward staccatos of morning news cascade into an endless cacophony of cable —the dour melodies of WWII documentaries, the tinny early-Western gunfights, the crunch and wail of cop […]
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The LinkedIn ‘add hashtag’ button is the epitome of befuddling design
Whatever you want to say about LinkedIn, it’s hard to deny it’s been successful in cornering a specific segment of the internet. A good segment? Lord no, the worst, but it’s a segment all the same. Anyway, I very rarely use the social network, but am amused enough by it […]
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Netflix is testing a shuffle button so you don’t have to choose what to watch next
“What should I watch next?” is an age-old question, and there’s no simple answer to it. You can ask your friends for some suggestions, or browse sites like JustWatch or Lazyday to look for your next watch. Now, Netflix wants to make this decision for you, by introducing a shuffle […]