Tedium
The dull side of the internet. A newsletter by @ShortFormBlog's Ernie Smith. (You may have seen us at @motherboard, @atlasobscura, or @neatorama. We're busy.)
Why Bob Vila, perhaps the most famous handyman in history, may have set the stage for a digital era in which stars aren’t afraid to cash in on their names.
From board games to stunted game systems, the many attempts to turn VHS into a platform for games ran into a big problem: There was only one way forward.
A case in favor of browser tab minimalism, or closing the tabs you’re not using. Sometimes, information overload has its limits.
What’s it like to be a film composer, anyway? An expert on the subject pads our knowledge of film composition, what might be cinema’s most subtle art form.
How a court battle involving groundbreaking disk-compression software foreshadowed Microsoft’s status as an antitrust darling.
Clip art gets a bad rap as an artform, in part because it’s everywhere. Let’s give it some grudging respect by filling in some historic gaps.
