Category Archives: Technology

Four Fails + One FTW: It's Our Fault That Tone Deaf Children Are Our Future

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

FAIL: The New York Times Stumbles Out Of The Gate, Trying To Get The Toothpaste Back In The Tube By now, some of the more voracious readers of the internet may have been hit with the Pay Us Now ultimatum … Continue reading →

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Where Are Your Grocery Dollars Going?

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

In March, the USDA released the newest figures in a series of data entitled The Food Dollar; an annual breakdown of food prices that tracks where each dollar spent on groceries actually goes.  The results are startling.  For 2008 (the … Continue reading →

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The MESSENGER to Mercury

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

I spend several hours a week babysitting for an almost-three-year-old boy who knows more about the solar system than you do unless you’re an astronomer yourself. No joke: several months ago he caught me off guard by rattling off the … Continue reading →

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4 Fails and a FTW: Nobody Likes The #Dickbar

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

Four Fails & A For The Win, how much explanation is needed anymore? Even if your cultural touchpoints go back to Hollywood Squares, the phrase “Sandy Duncan for the win!” might ring a bell. So let’s get started with the … Continue reading →

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The Busy Signal Diavlog Series: SimmonsWorld.com?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

When news broke that Bill Simmons’s Editorial Project, which Deadspin.com has code-named “The Bill Simmons Manhattan Project,” was a new website wherein Simmons would break his content free from the control of the editorial overlords at ESPN, Collin Orcutt and … Continue reading →

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Four FAILs and a FTW: The Stumbling Old Guard

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

Welcome to the second edition of Four Fails & a For The Win, four mistakes in (or related to) the tech sector, and one great item—or in this edition, an amazing moment—that’s actually good for the tech ecosystem. As I … Continue reading →

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Thorium Nuclear: The Race We Started and Are Now Losing

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

While China’s GDP is still only roughly one third of the US’, China is gaining fast, with Deutsche Bank predicting that it will surpass the US by the early 2020s.  So, if China were to embark on a research and … Continue reading →

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Four Fails and a FTW: The Daily, Gawker, HuffPAOL, Angry Birds, and my new substitute for Microsoft Word.

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

Technology is a game of revisions, from the alpha to the beta to the 1.o release. One of the biggest reasons why the evolution of technology is constant is the need to fix horribly glaring problems that hamper your original idea … Continue reading →

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The Last Laugh: Vincent Connare, Comic Sans and the Triumph of Indecency

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

I consider myself a man of science.  I believe fiercely in the tenets of evidence and reason.  I reject baseless speculation and willful ignorance.  It is not an unrelated matter that I also consider myself an aesthete.  I search for … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: The Social Network or a Really Terrible Movie that Sucks by Dan Wilbur

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Henry T. Casey

Awhile back I was told by an acquaintance (a former friend) that 500 Days of Summer was “our generation’s Annie Hall.”  Comparing generation-defining works is a silly notion in itself since (though Annie Hall “holds up”) the whole point of an emotionally wrought … Continue reading →

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