Many people these days are saying that print is dead. While it’s true that many newspapers have seen declining subscriptions, print is definitely not dead. Despite competition from online publishers, print media is truly alive. According to Wikipedia: Reader’s Digest is still the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States, with a circulation of over [...]
Whether you believe in global warming or global cooling, I think conserving energy and natural resources is a sound idea when practical. However, I do not agree with Al Gore’s suggestion to buy a programmable thermostat. Why buy a programmable thermostat when you can achieve the same savings by manually adjusting an old-fashioned thermostat? Simply [...]
The Low-Tech Times has produced it’s first video. Despite a press release and television commercial, it appears that Apple’s MacBook Air is not the world’s thinnest notebook: Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));
While black and white television is almost obsolete these days, black and white photography has remained popular over the years. O. Winston Link was one of America’s premier photographers, famous for capturing the last days of steam railroading in stunning, nighttime images. In the 1950s, O. Winston Link spent five years traveling in Virginia, West [...]
Earlier today, Arbie left a great comment on the Low-Tech Times’ Cable/Satellite vs Free TV article. Here’s an excerpt from the comment: When someone making $12/hour (or less) has a $120/month cable bill and $180 cell phone bill, I think they need to recheck their priorities. Somehow we all survived without it all 20 years [...]