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Card Sharks: The 1980s proved surprisingly fruitful for licensed greeting card mascots. It turns out American Greetings understood the Marvel playbook before Marvel did. https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1741 6577/greeting-cards-care-bears-cartoons-history
Vibe-Coded Flattery: I’ve seen a strange problem in my inbox that I haven’t been able to put into words. A saga involving a botched app release helped me figure it out. https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1741 0919/vibe-coding-insincerity
The Earnest Era Ends: When we lost Glen Hansard last week, his work still fresh and lively, it was a reminder that the world has changed more than we think it has. https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1740 4612/glen-hansard-passing-reflection
Put A Tag On It: The pricing gun should have been a dead technology years before it actually was. But state laws artificially kept it around as a shield against the scary barcode. https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1739 9769/pricing-guns-vs-barcodes-history
Fa Fa: My brain-breaking trick for weaning off of Facebook involved creating a fake URL for Google News. Blame the home row. https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1738 8904/facebook-home-row-keyboard-trick
The Terminus: When a really long road ends, why don’t we do more to celebrate the staggering amount of collective work that went into it? The ancient Romans really outclassed the federal highway system on this front. https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1738 2177/terminus-road-ending-history
Bring Back The Kiosk: With Sony clobbering the physical game market and Grand Theft Auto 6 eschewing discs entirely, it makes one long for kiosks that could make disks on demand—a model that actually once existed in the UK. https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1738 1035/edos-disk-copying-system-history
Boxed In: At what point do the creative limitations you create for yourself actually harm your ability to create? And what can ALF teach us about that? https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1737 5642/alf-paul-fusco-creativity-constraints
Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them? https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1737 1410/online-web-forums-retrospective
Hazy Memory: Who’s to blame for the memory crisis that turned Macs and Steam Boxes into unobtanium this week? The memory-makers have a convenient answer. https:// feed.tedium.co/link/15204/1736 9108/apple-micron-ram-shortage-vertical-integration
