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• How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

  By Shaun on February 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Earlier that day, Twitter’s management accused the unassuming 32-year-old of accessing thousands of user profiles without authorization to pass their identifying information — including phone numbers and IP addresses — reportedly to Bader al-Asaker, the head of Saudi Crown Prince… Read More ›

• The case for keeping things

  By Shaun on February 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  A common refrain on The Repair Shop is that we live in a “throwaway society”—a society that produces cheap, low-quality goods we would rather discard and replace than repair. The show aims to change this by example, demonstrating the joy… Read More ›

• Resisting the obvious

  By Shaun on February 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I spotted the Omega Speedmaster 326.30.40.50.02.001 in a store window yesterday for the princely sum of £2,800. That is actually priced about right for what it is, with box and papers, and I continued to stare for some time. It… Read More ›

• Part of All

  By Shaun on February 23, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Tom is such a genuinely nice person who just happens to be an excellent songwriter with a brilliant voice. I should hate him because he is so talented, but I just can’t!

• Britons increasingly shun relatives and neighbours in favour of smartphones

  By Shaun on February 22, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  It found the proportion of those saying they felt they belonged to their neighbourhood had fallen to 62 per cent compared with 69 per cent four years ago. The proportion who regularly stop and talk to their neighbours has also… Read More ›

• The ANORDAIN MODEL 1

  By Shaun on February 22, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Obviously there’s much more to the Model 1 than the dial, but everything on this watch is there to show off the enamel, and with good reason. Very few materials achieve the depth of color that enamel does, and, given… Read More ›

• Bulova’s new automatic WW2-issue Hack Watch

  By Shaun on February 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Bulova is releasing a new version of its WW2-era Hack Watch with an automatic Miyota movement. This edition of the Hack Watch features a 38mm case, a vintage-inspired 12/24-hour field watch-style dial, a leather NATO-style strap, a grey or silver… Read More ›

• inner-me vs inner-child vs inner-dog

  By Shaun on February 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As a child I developed a heightened sense of rationality – I would someday have to justify myself, via words and logic, to a righteous God who might choose to send my soul to burn forever in hell. So what… Read More ›

• The theme system

  By Shaun on February 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The idea of Yearly Themes is something that CGP Grey and Myke Hurley have been living by for a number of years. Instead of resolutions, we set an overall idea of how we would like to approach each year or… Read More ›

• Double wristing

  By Shaun on February 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  A few weeks ago, Nicholas Kenyon and I got into a bit of a row over whether it was a crime or indeed sublime to double wrist a mechanical wristwatch and an Apple Watch. Kenyon was firmly in the sublime… Read More ›