Hypercritical

The domain name hypercritical.co no longer points to this Tumblr site. I’d always planned for Tumblr to be a stopgap solution until I could get my own site up and running. Turns out that proc...

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Watching the CES coverage out of the corner of my Internet eye, I’m reminded of exactly how bad most hardware makers are at writing software. Mat Honan summed it up nicely last month: No One U...

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This article originally appeared in issue 2 of The Magazine on October 25, 2012. Journey for the PlayStation 3 is the best video game I’ve played in a long time. I’m going to use it to i...

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As I have for the past 13 years (yikes!), I wrote a review of the latest major release of the Mac operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion , for Ars Technica . There are several ways to read it....

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I like pasta. I’d like to help people make better pasta. It pains me to think about all the poorly prepared pasta being served and eaten in America. My advice will focus on plain old store-boug...

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This past year was an eventful one for someone like me who has already passed most of the common milestones of adulthood (college, marriage, home ownership, children). The highlights: I started...

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The following movies were released in the summer of 1982. An Officer and a Gentleman Annie Blade Runner Conan the Barbarian E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Fast Times at Ridgemont High Firefox ...

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Here’s my brief entry in the speculation derby surrounding the departure of Mark Papermaster from Apple . Assuming Papermaster is out at least partially due to the iPhone 4 antenna and not som...

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Many years ago, I recall talking with some of my Mac-nerd friends about how strange it was, after Apple’s near-death experiences of the late 1990s, to be living in a world where it’s just ass...

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2012 is an awful movie. I knew this when I added it to my Netflix queue, but I wanted to stay up to date on the latest in computer-generated apocalyptic destruction. I’m a fan of special effec...

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I’ve never considered Obama a very good speaker. It may be because he speaks slowly and pauses a lot, all of which drives my fast-talking-Italian-New-York-native-self up a wall. Whatever the re...

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I have a blog where I write about technology stuff, and I have a Twitter account where I write about whatever strikes my fancy. When I want to write something non-tech-related that’s longer t...

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