Small Dog Key West’s star technician and assistant manager, Taylor Amon, could often be heard saying the following: “The internet is a silly place.” And I don’t think I’ve encountered anything as silly as Zack Danger Brown’s Kickstarter project which is simply…potato salad. Seriously.

The project started with a reasonable goal of $10 to produce some potato salad and included backer rewards such as a photo of Zack making the dish and a potato salad-themed haiku. As more and more blogs picked up the story, it gained more and more backers and it’s well over $50k at this point, with 17 days to go as of this writing.

While I can see some shaking their heads in confusion or rolling their eyes in disgust, I can’t help but laugh. I like to imagine that the project founder is actually an experimental artist subverting the conventions of Kickstarter as we know them, transforming the most ordinary task into a product to be desired. But, he’s probably just some dude, with a silly idea, on the internet.

I will not be donating, however, for I have had my yearly fill of that creamy, starchy salad over the July 4th weekend (America!) and I am quite full. I will instead focus my interest on repairing some computers and posting some great articles about the world of technology. We’ll start things off with your individual User folder (where your data is) and where you can find it, great DIY advice for cleaning your old hardware, and an answer to the puzzling “other” category in your iOS device’s data breakdown.

-Mike
miked@smalldog.com