Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Someone’s Facebook
This girl is happy. Oh wow, she just went skiing in Colorado. Who is she making out with on the slopes? Oh, it’s her boyfriend. Wow, it looks serious. I remember lurking her last boyfriend on Facebook. He seemed cute and nice. But he was also clearly “The Boyfriend You Have In College”, you know?…
How IBM Technology Jump Started the Holocaust
The Nazis’ persecution of Jews was brutal, methodical, and horrifyingly efficient. However, their perverse efforts were only realized with the assistance of a Hollerith Machine – IBM’s custom-built tabulation system. IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black explains. When Hitler rose to power, German intellect descended into madness. The Nazi movement was not merely a…
Behind the Design of the Greatest Windows Laptop EVAHHHH
Here’s an idea for an IBM centennial prank: Swap one of those newer ThinkPads on display at Best Buy—say the ThinkPad L520—with the original model, the seminal IBM ThinkPad 700c. See how long it takes customers to notice. Although the insides have been upgraded many times over since the ThinkPad 700c’s debut in 1992, the…
