Author Archives
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The Growroom
SPACE10 envision a future, where we grow our own food much more locally. To spark conversations about how we can bring nature back into our cities, grow our own food and tackle the rapidly increasing demand for significantly more food… Read More ›
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The sad state of the centre console experience
Ever seen a well-design centre car console? No, thought not. Tweeted by Nick Finck.
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Podcasts worth checking out
Podcasts have become even more of a common form of entertainment for me recently and so I thought I would recommend a few. If you would like to add yours to the comments, I will post them as a future… Read More ›
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Apple Watch: Convenient? Yes. Indispensable? No
I don’t consider my Apple Watch indispensable. Of course, while reading the comic about losing your phone, I don’t consider a mobile phone indispensable either. A major convenience, certainly, but indispensable, as in life or death? The trick with any… Read More ›
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Tech industry thinks journos are too mean
The industry-funded think tank has cooked up an 18-page report [PDF] that laments what it says is a shift in the media from a “positive” attitude in the 1980s and 1990s to one that is more confrontational in the past… Read More ›
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Desert roads blocked with sand
If you want to see more strangely beautiful roads blocked by sand, check out iHerok on Instagram. Thanks to Present & Correct.
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What if we didn’t need jobs?
These days, everybody from Left to Right – from the economist Dean Baker to the social scientist Arthur C Brooks, from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump – addresses this breakdown of the labour market by advocating ‘full employment’, as if… Read More ›
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Bespoke Watch Straps
I went to my loft, where my shoe overspill is located: yes, I have well over 100 pairs of footwear from Converse and other sport brands to smart shoes from Church’s and Grenson. I removed the canvas from the sole… Read More ›
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Grandaddy, ‘Last Place’
Jason Lytle was burnt out. In the years following the release of Grandaddy’s beloved The Sophtware Slump at the turn of the century, the Modesto, Calif., indie-rock band had hit a wall of diminishing returns and inter-band frustrations. And Lytle,… Read More ›
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The Origins of the White Collar Worker
They labored in poorly lit, smoky single rooms, attached to merchants and lawyers, to insurance concerns and banks. They had sharp penmanship and bad eyes, extravagant clothes but shrunken, unused bodies, backs cramped from poor posture, fingers callused by constant… Read More ›
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