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The 10-piece Death Star Ultimate Collector Set
Kross Studio collaborates with Lucasfilm on an extremely limited-edition Star Wars inspired set, paying tribute to the iconic space saga. The 10-piece Death Star Ultimate Collector Set is made for those who savor Star Wars history as much as high-end… Read More ›
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Literary Clock Made From E-reader
Really the only thing needed is an e-reader (and a USB cable to connect to it). For this project, a Kindle was donated to me by a friend. It is a Kindle 3 WiFi (nicknamed K3, or K3W). You will… Read More ›
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What is the best digital note taker?
My iPad Pro (1st generation) is close to death. The battery is holding a charge for an hour at most, often less, and the cost of fixing it is prohibitive. I can get it done for £150 by a third… Read More ›
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No lie off limits for Boris Johnson
In theory, a two-hour session before the liaison committee – the supergroup of select committee chairs – should have been rather more demanding. In his first two outings as liaison chair, Bernard Jenkin had confounded the critics who believed he… Read More ›
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The Persistence of Memory
Before the emergence of formalised structures of watch production in the early 19th century, serving as precursors to the modern watch manufacturing houses we know today, watchmaking existed in a cottage industry like setting where watchmakers pursued their métier “independent”… Read More ›
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Window lights / light windows
Constructed from steel rods with a hinge opening method, the minimalistic lamp fixtures can be peeled open to form multiple sets of different angles. When Māyā’s steel rods are fully unfurled, forming an obtuse angle with the lamp’s hinges, the… Read More ›
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How Leonard Cohen Lived Between The Hour And The Age
Songs of Love and Hate stayed the course. Over fluttering Spanish guitar, 36-year-old Cohen hangs his head in self-recrimination and psychic pain, details shuddering loneliness and the grotesquery of human performance. His vocal offering comes, as ever, via his gravelly… Read More ›
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That was truly ………. Weird 😬
The title is what a friend of mine sent me in WhatsApp about the above version of The Greatest Love Of All and the video, but for me it is a different experience. Arguably this version is much worse than… Read More ›
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QOTD: What are your preferred apps?
A simple question, but one which may help others find decent solutions. What are your preferred apps in the key areas? Mine are as follows- Notes: Apple Notes (simple, fast and very effective)Tasks: GoodTask (a shell over Reminders, but highly… Read More ›
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“People need relationships”
I don’t remember anything about the experiments, but when I found out about them in my late 20s, a remarkable thing happened. Which is that years after her death, I had a reconciliation with my mother. Because I’d been so… Read More ›
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