Extras > Tangents 101 Home > Extras > Tangents 101 Articles Protect your rights and help fight the Broadcast Flag Computing Unplugged Magazine - July 2004 It appears that the U.S. government is again looking at a bill that will substantially degrade our rights as consumers, while simultaneously not even helping the corporate interests it appears to protect. Matt Haughey, who runs one of our favorite blogs, PVRblog wrote what is probably the most cogent explanation of the Broadcast Flag proposal we've read. Please read it, and then contact EFF or your local congresscritter and tell them what you think. Special thanks to Matt for allowing us to republish it here. Customer disservice Computing Unplugged Magazine - June 2004 News Editor James Booth is pissed off, and he's not afraid to tell you about it. Have you had crappy customer service? Then you'll definitely understand this article. Are you being technopatronized? Computing Unplugged Magazine - January 2004 This month we ran a story about women buying technology. One of our authors suggested that even though women buy much of the gear, they're often technopatronized. Are you? It's 2004. Where are all the robots? Computing Unplugged Magazine - January 2004 Considering the technological level of these robots twenty years ago, and Moore's Law governing computer technology advancement, shouldn't we have artificially intelligent synthetic humanoids by now? It's 2004, people. Where are all the robots? David's guide to surviving Thanksgiving (and some computer stuff) Computing Unplugged Magazine - November 2003 Our fearless leader tells us how he became fearless about Thanksgiving celebrations. If you're celebrating Turkey Day with your family, you owe it to yourself and your family harmony to read this article. Oh, and he also talks about some computer stuff as well. Here comes trouble Computing Unplugged Magazine - October 2003 Sometimes my job comes with some very special perks. This is one of those times. My mom recently wrote a charming little story about, well, a family friend. When she read it to me, I realized it was a story nearly all of our readers would be able to identify with. And so, it brings me great pleasure to announce the ZATZ publishing debut of my mom, Marilyn Gewirtz. -- David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief The morbid fascination that is Palm, Inc. PalmPower Magazine Enterprise Edition - September 2002 David Gewirtz compares his long-standing morbid fascination with Apple to his more recent morbid fascination with the mystery that is Palm, Inc. Parody: Palm IX hits retail stores, wows consumers PalmPower Magazine - July 2000 This parody originally appeared in The Motley Fool. We found it so amusing, we had to share it with you. Welcome to the new millennium Pocket PC Life Magazine - January 2000 Somehow, our intrepid leader managed to get Bill Clinton, Milli Vanilli, Karen Carpenter, cigars, loincloths, IBM, Eudora, pointy-eared Vulcans, flush-toilets, and Charlemagne all into one reasonably lucid editorial. What can we say? Read it and see if he somehow succeeds in pulling it off. It's not Y2K, it's stupidity! Pocket PC Life Magazine - September 1999 Tonight, I decided to get on my soapbox. Hundreds of thousands of people read our publications. Maybe if we all started a "let's not be friggin' stupid" campaign, Y2K would work out fine. You're all pretty influential folks. Don't ignore your companies' Y2K efforts. Check into them. Make sure they're spending time making critical systems work and not screwing around being idiotic. Let's try not to put the fate of the world into the hands of a bunch of poorly-trained temps reading off a script. PalmPilot etiquette PalmPower Magazine - June 1998 If Miss Manners was a guy writing an etiquette column, this would be it. Slightly politically incorrect. Slightly in poor taste. But containing things you just gotta know: Can a PalmPilot bring down an airliner if you loose at PilotChess? If you've managed to get a woman to give you her number, will she regret it while you fumble with Graffiti? If you draw pictures of M&M's in DinkyPad while in a business meeting, will you get caught? Enquiring minds want to know. OK, so Miss Manners might be horrified.

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