The Schrug

Just about any piece of home theater equipment you buy these days comes with what the manufacturer says is a “universal remote.” What that really means is that you can take what they give you, spend an hour trying to figure out how to program it to control other devices, and then realize that the [...]

My brother got me an iPod nano for my birthday. (I think it’s the first Apple-manufactured device I’ve owned in 10 years.) Now I have to decide what to put on it besides music. So far I’ve subscribed to four NPR podcasts: Car Talk Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me Fresh Air Krulwich on Science [...]