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No comments onDo not let the Twilight Saga ruin Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” for you. The use of this piano piece over the ending of Ocean’s Eleven is bar-none the most beautiful execution of it in its 132-year history. For a movie as fun and bombastic and sharp as it is, there’s no reason why it…
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Paint colours from Farrow & Ball, or invented swearwords from The Inbetweeners?
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The FCC’s crest is metal! Check out the eagle harnessing the vast power of the wires and the waves. I like to think the white dots and stars are LEO and GEO comms sats.
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How anyone could have believed that Mars One wasn’t garbage, if not a complete scam, is beyond me. Part of the problem was that it suited many publications to pretend that the venture was maybe possible.
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Dǎoháng, or how to navigate in China
When you request an Uber in Shanghai, chances are they’ll call or text to find out where you’d like to be picked up. This poses a problem for people who can’t speak Mandarin, like myself. What to do? Reply with a single word: Dǎoháng. Supposedly, this means “just go where your mobile phone map tells you…
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The second case in Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective was a lot easier, taking under an hour to fully solve. The game’s mechanics continue to fascinate me and I can see all sorts of ways to extend them with apps…
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Isle of Dogs, 2018 – ★★★½
Funny and impeccably directed but lacking the depth of soul of Grand Budapest Hotel and Fantastic Mr. Fox. And while it’s more about dogs than it’s about Japan, the whole “westerner hero” bit was… odd. Still, I enjoyed it and the asides were magical. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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The Cultures Ep 241: Ethics in Tech, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, Social Support Networks
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Listen to episode 241 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Ethics in Tech (Stack Overflow Survey, Babylon Health) Can one use Facebook without being part of this bullshit and if so how? (Guardian article, Facebook data info page) When Your Social Support Networks Become Oversaturated
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Voyage, into the deepest darkest blue Tapestry by Dovecot Studios, of a work by Garry Fabian Miller.
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Played the reprint of the classic Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective last night. First chapter was solid, and I was struck by the gameplay similarities with Her Story (in a good way).
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