2021-9-25
Over the past six and a half years, Tedium has existed to answer a simple question: Can boring things be made interesting? Can we uncover the #history of things that usually don’t have histories written about them? And can a voice be given to areas of life that generally aren’t thought about that much? It took us a while to get there, but the answer is yes. We think.
#magazine
2021-9-25
Part of what makes IKEA unique is their product names. Each name means something, often in a funny or ambigious way. When IKEA went international, they decided to use the same Swedish names everywhere. This makes sense from an organizational sanity standpoint, but it deprives most of the world of this particular joy.
#siteoftheday
2021-9-25
In 1967, Jim Henson was contracted by IBM to make a film extolling the virtues of their new technology, the MT/ST, a primitive word processor. #throwback
#vidoftheday