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Vintage Marlin
The Gentleman’s standard – then and now. This reissue of a 1960s timepiece pairs the purity, precision and pleasure of a hand-wound mechanical movement with the timeless sophistication of a sleek design. As Seen in Esquire Magazine, November issue… More… Read More ›
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Rubika B601
Now that is a bookcase I would love to own. More details here.
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72 hours with the iPhone X
Well it has been quite a ride so far and I find myself internally echoing a lot of what I have read online about the iPhone X so far. The screen, speed and form are unquestionably great so there is… Read More ›
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Apple sold this many devices per day in the last quarter
Those numbers appear to be quite healthy. Phew! Tweeted by Neil Cybart.
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Samsung Galaxy: Growing Up
Good advert actually and the guy’s haircut in the queue near the end is very funny.
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The Man Behind Meat Loaf
So playfully constructed is Steinman’s work that the Wikipedia entry for the Meat Loaf classic “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” from the “sequel” album Bat Out of Hell II features a lengthy subsection on the… Read More ›
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The universe in one image
The universe is so vast it’s almost impossible to picture what it might look like crammed into one field of view. But musician Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to do it by combining logarithmic maps of the universe from Princeton and… Read More ›
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The Jolt
The Jolt ebike, created by a guy named John Madden, is selling now at an early bird price of $499. That’s a quarter of the final price and a great deal on an ebike. The bike is about the same… Read More ›
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Taxes
The world’s most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show. They reveal how Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its controversial Irish tax practices by actively… Read More ›
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The reason…
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” Marcel Pagnol
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