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• Meet the internet hoax buster

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  On 13 May 2012, friends of Dana Dirr, a 35-year-old surgeon in Saskatchewan, were greeted with a distressing message when they logged into Facebook: “URGENT PRAYERS NEEDED.” A post written by Dirr’s father informed her friends that Dana was fighting… Read More ›

• Kingsway: an RPG set in Windows 95

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The latest announcement from Adult Swim Games is Kingsway coming to PC in summer 2017. The announcement trailer is run as an old-school infomercial for a new computer operating system, but it is absolutely a point-and-click RPG styled to look… Read More ›

• You can’t built a bridge between technology and tradition

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 5 )

  I have been having some strange thoughts recently about the Apple Watch. Sorry to bang on about it, but it is annoying me despite the fact I am still wearing it every day. I really want to wear my Seiko… Read More ›

• Can the Surface Phone, or any other non-iOS or Android phone, succeed?

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “I sincerely think its too late for Microsoft to succeed in the smartphone business no matter what they come up with,” comments a reader going by Osokona. “No one is going to switch their investment in iPhhones and aPhone and… Read More ›

• Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  In fact, the panel’s experts say there’s almost one psychopath for every 100 people, with rates shooting up in the workplace, especially in leadership, thanks to psychopaths’ ease with manipulation. Research finds that nearly 4 percent of corporate CEOs are… Read More ›

• The Unwound Podcast

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Join watchsmith Seth Roberts and collector Dan Benjamin as they unwind watch culture and discuss the history, allure, community, and study of watches through the lens of their shared obsession, from inspecting movements to spotting fakes, from vintage Seiko to… Read More ›

• “Honey Is That You ?!”

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  There’s a great sequence in the wonderful Back to the Future film, where a young Marty McFly picks up a guitar, sits in with a smooth dance band of the day, and rips into a Chuck Berry riff – morphing… Read More ›

• An adventure-ready watch concept

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Concepts are technically nothing, but the concept watch above struck me for a number of reasons. The completely over the top bezel, the tiny face and the obscene proportions mark it out as a tool watch above all else. I… Read More ›

• 54 F-100

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  1954 Ford F-100 Pickup Truck. Snapseed, MonetHD, Swipe, Repix, Procreate… Full-size here. I happened to notice this photo somewhere and it struck me just what clever creative people can do with a phone and a few apps.

• I’m kind of sick of some of the bullshit Apple spin…

  By Shaun on March 20, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Pardon the language that follows, I’ve been drinking, but just a little 😀 I can JUST see Apple’s point, they don’t want to support some of this stuff forever, but does it really hurt anything? I’m kind of sick of… Read More ›