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Why your WiFi is slow in December

It's science!

December 2, 2015 at 6:07PM
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This knowledge, properly deployed, may earn you the reputation as a wizard. Cult of Mac:

Specifically, the ones that do this.

PS: if the word "this" isn't doing anything, your browser probably blocks it because it's annoying. The inventor of the annoyance explains himself here.

ARCHITORTURE This hotel is not for the claustrophobic:

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Those are two rooms. The bathrooms are communal. The article says it's targeted at young travelers who live a "digital lifestyle," which is nonsense. Unless they are converted to 1s and 0s at the end of the night, put on a flash drive and tossed in the chamber. What they mean are "young people on a budget kicking around Europe," and in that case it's much, much better than a hostel. At least in my experience. In Rome we stayed in a barracks built for the 1940 Olympics - they didn't happen, due to the unpleasantness. It was a fascinating and slightly horrifying place, what with all the fascist architecture; big blank mean statues of idealized lunks with gas masks around their necks. But the rooms were damp and clammy and everyone snored.

KAWAII Amazon has a dog mascot. In Japan. He has Fire tablets for ears.

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Question: is the arrow his smile? If not, what is it? It's like the Transogram logo, which confused me as a kid. Is that an eye? Or a nose?

80s One of the cheddar pretenders that took on Goldfish: Quackers.

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It's from this recollection of the 1987 airing of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. The writer gushes over the commercials more than the show, and I understand; they have a potent appeal if they're from a particular time in your childhood. Kids born after 2010 probably won't have the same interest. Commercials are the things you skip before YouTube.

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