iGroan

Let it be known that there is nothing in the world that I covet more than an iPhone. But when the miraculous day comes when I receive my communicative and mechanized manna, I do not want it to do this. Ew.I give this one a big, Nancy Kerrigan "Whyyyy?!?!" (I...

R.I.P.

Author and examiner of the "American small town, Protestant middle class," John Updike died yesterday at 76. His 1984 novel The Witches of Eastwick was criticized by many for its misogynistic undertones. Updike was too smart not to know this ahead of time,...

iGroan 2.0

Recently a friend accosted me about this post in which I expressed displeasure at an iPhone application called Wobble that enables people to manipulate images by pinpointing an area to be distorted in various directions in rapid succession when the phone is shaken,...