Author Archives
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Time for your compulsory home camera installation
Hello! We’re here to make some upgrades to your home. No, you have no real choice. Yes, we’re fitting cameras to every room, but we’re only using them to monitor for Bad Things which we define and can add to… Read More ›
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We need more Alfreds
(Flight Attendant Speaks) Passenger Taped To Seat After Attacking Flight Attendants On Flight. Fair to say that Alfredo is brave, funny and unbelievably likeable. We need more Alfreds in the world.
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A round Apple Watch with unlimited faces?
Titled the Apple Watch Loop, this concept by Felipe Duarte does two things – it brings variety to Apple’s smartwatch offering and adds a beautifully-basic ‘Air’ variant in Apple’s watch lineup, just like with their other products like the iPhone… Read More ›
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$649 Dyson Fan vs. $15 Walmart Fan
When I was young, I was a little obsessed with how cool Dyson fans were. But are they actually worth that amount of money? In this relatively silly video, I’m going to compare it to my $15 Walmart fan with… Read More ›
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The Trump Card
“The card you select will be carried by Patriots all around the Country,” the first email said. “They will be a sign of your dedicated support to our movement to SAVE AMERICA, and I’m putting my full trust in you.”… Read More ›
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Apple planning to scan U.S. iPhones for child abuse imagery (surely not!)
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is planning to install a software on U.S. iPhones that will scan for child abuse imagery, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter… More here. This cannot be happening. Surely it can’t…. Read More ›
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McGST Episode 73 (is competition good or bad?)
I started off by talking about competition, with myself, while waiting for my daughter in the car. Excuse the sound quality, but I only had my iPhone handy at the time. When I got home the conversation continued with my… Read More ›
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The problem is not that our politicians are more devious but that we have stopped caring
As a man of tremendous integrity, humanity and constitutional understanding, Hennessy is the embodiment of what a “good chap” might look like. But the theory itself is more doubtful, either as an account of the past or an explanation for… Read More ›
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How The Left Wrist Became The Right Wrist
And what happened next? You know what happened next. The pocket watch faded into oblivion, except as an object of fascination for the few, and the wristwatch became the ubiquitous and universal tool for portable timekeeping. And most of the… Read More ›
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How does this person get through the day?
This tweet struck me in so many different ways, and few of them are positive. It would appear that the word Pfizer = 666 if you discount the letters P, Z and E, and if you turn the 9 upside… Read More ›
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