Time:
Cursive started to lose its clout back in the 1920s, when educators theorized that because children learned to read by looking at books printed in manuscript rather than cursive, they should learn to write the same way. By World War II, manuscript, or print writing, was in standard use across the U.S. Today schoolchildren typically [...]

NPR has a fascinating story about video footage shot on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission that was lost (possibly even destroyed) by NASA itself accidentally:

Lebar and others spent hours and hours in a vast government storage facility known as the Washington National Records Center, a place that Lebar compares to the giant warehouse [...]

From Apple:
Dear MobileMe member:
As a final reminder, on July 7, 2009, the .Mac HomePage web application will be discontinued. As of this date, you will no longer be able to create new pages or edit existing pages using HomePage. Any pages you’ve already published will remain live at their current web address for as long [...]

It happened last year, and it’s happening again this year: the iTunes servers are crumbling under the load of millions of users upgrading to 3.0.
I hate to say, but I told you so.

TUAW:
One of the most awaited features, push notifications, requires a constant data connection. While the iPhone 3G can handle data and voice simultaneously when using a 3G/HSDPA connection, on EDGE (the cellular data service that the original iPhone uses) you are unable to take calls and maintain a persistent data connection. As a result, if [...]

Relevant Magazine:
In the 1970’s, every self-respecting music fan had a basement or bedroom that contained big, big speakers and crates of vinyl.  In the 1980’s, the CD player became popular, and the shiny plastic discs were still mostly played through larger home stereo units.  In 2009, a large amount of music listening is done through [...]

Over the last few months, I’ve grown increasingly annoyed by social media – and those trying to make a buck off of it as “social media gurus.”
So what does CNN do? Give me someone else to dislike:
Many of these older folks use social networks to keep tabs on younger family members and they often find fruitful connections with [...]

Macworld:
Businesses can make use of Twitter as a public relations channel, but they need to be aware of security when sharing ideas, market-research firm Gartner has said.
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Many businesses are using Twitter as a public relations and marketing channel, Gartner said. Businesses are “tweeting” about corporate accomplishments, distributing links to press releases, and responding to other [...]

Macworld:
MobileMe users have been receiving a new phishing e-mail that informs them that their annual subscription is set to renew automatically on a certain date, but that “attempts to charge your credit card have failed.” It then offers to let you log in to update your information. 
Maybe I’m a jerk, but I have a hard [...]

Wired has an interview with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. Here’s some of what she has to say:
Our society right now is filled with lovely distractions — we have so much portable escapism and mediated fantasy — but that’s just one issue. The other is interruption — [...]