Let’s be honest — Barbie has never been a shining beacon of progressive thought. Her figure looks more like Jessica Rabbit than Jane Doe, and her physics-defying measurements would kill an ordinary girl. That said, her latest fictional adventure, Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer, hits a new low. Back in 2010, Mattel released Computer […]
Why I’m not buying the Apple Watch (my beef with redundant functionality)
The Apple Watch is redundant functionality, kitschy, overpriced, and everyone will buy it. Seriously, I could marshal a wealth of facts and present a detailed analysis (and I will) of the watch’s functionality, but a broad swath of consumers would buy a shiny brick with an Apple logo. And they’d swear the Cupertino giant reinvented […]
Why Russia’s anti-blogger law should terrify you
In case you missed it, Russia isn’t exactly copasetic with the whole “democracy” thing. Case in point: Vladimir Putin recently turned bloggers into vassals of the state. Back in May, Putin signed a “Bloggers Law” requiring any blogger with more than 3,000 daily unique visitors to register with the Roskomnadzor, the state body for media […]
The F-35 will cost a fortune
Captain Obvious? Is that you? I’m sure this comes as no surprise, but the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is expensive. Very expensive. So expensive that, according to one estimate, the money spent on the program could buy every homeless person in the U.S. a $600,000 mansion (Not that this would be sound fiscal policy, but […]