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A Vancouver Island octopus wrestler’s Rolex
A Vancouver Island senior is six figures richer after parting with a rare Rolex wristwatch that was once instrumental in his brief but successful career as an octopus wrestler. The Rolex Explorer, circa 1953, sold at a New York auction… Read More ›
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The Heritage Memphis Lady
This is an excellent throwback, but I do not agree with the ‘Lady’ referencing. At 34mm many men could wear this and it would not look out of place at all. I may sometimes struggle to understand gender neutrality, but… Read More ›
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Deep Nostalgia: creepy, but…
The above is a ‘photo’ of me taken when I was 21 years old. I uploaded it to the MyHeritage animation tool and was half amazed and half creeped out by the end result. You can try it here or… Read More ›
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QOTD: What’s the oldest piece of tech you still use today?
Air Vice Marshal Rich Maddison is a senior RAF officer with decades of flying experience. “As an Air Force we are as high-tech as you get, but this, this is just me.” He is referring to a miniature computer with… Read More ›
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The history of Snake
There are a couple of moments from my childhood that I’m sure many others can relate to. The first takes me back to an afternoon on the school bus, eagerly waiting for my Bluetooth polyphonic ringtone of Akon’s Beautiful to… Read More ›
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An unbreakable SSD?
In the amount of time it took you to read this sentence, you could transfer 2 Gigabytes worth of data to or from the ECLLPSE High-Speed Portable SSD… and by the time you finish reading this article, you could potentially… Read More ›
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£140 for 50g of chocolate!
An unusually dry and overcast growing season, combined with a mild roast and minimal conching, has produced arguably the most floral edition of To’ak chocolate thus far. This is our attempt at emulating the historic flavor profile of Heirloom Nacional… Read More ›
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Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State
On the morning of August 16th, the county police in Koktokay, near the mine in northern China where he was based, summoned him to a meeting. At the police station, officers led Otarbai to a room lined with spongy, yellow… Read More ›
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The search for the perfect watch had to end somewhere
* Warning: if you are not interested in watches it would be advisable to jump to the next article. If you are interested, I hope you enjoy it * The title sounds like hyperbole and the words of someone who… Read More ›
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NHS GP practice passes into hands of US health insurer
One of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has quietly passed into the hands of the US health insurance group Centene Corporation, prompting calls for an official investigation into what campaigners claim is “privatisation of the NHS by stealth”. The… Read More ›
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