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• Google Maps is ruining your neighbourhood

  By Shaun on July 21, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Since 2008 – when the Google Maps mobile app first launched – traffic has increased, with the number of vehicles on UK streets rising from 34 million to nearly 39 million at the end of 2019. However, traffic on the… Read More ›

• I am so f*cking angry

  By Shaun on July 21, 2022 • ( 0 )

  How dare they. This government has done so many bad things over the past 12 years that they are almost impossible to count, but effectively making strikes invalid and potentially destroying worker’s rights in a world where so many corporations… Read More ›

• What fresh hell is this?

  By Shaun on July 20, 2022 • ( 1 )

  Obviously no one can be worse than Boris, but Liz will give it a damn good try.

• Startling Tech

  By Shaun on July 20, 2022 • ( 2 )

  Google. It snuck up on me as the fallback search for Yahoo back in the day. When I realized it did a much better job of searching my site than my own homebrew search functions… and it was doing that… Read More ›

• Britain’s system is working (is it really?)

  By Shaun on July 15, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The British constitution is far from perfect—none are. And plenty of written constitutions function well. The British constitution was not flexible enough to stop the country from breaking apart in 1922 when the Republic of Ireland seceded. It may not… Read More ›

• Foley Sound Effects

  By Shaun on July 15, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Foley artists have historically worked in pairs. (Certain sounds are so complex that they require the labor of four hands.) Roden and Roesch are two of the masters in their field. David Fincher, the director of movies including “The Social… Read More ›

• Persistent Lock Screen Ads (on Android of course)

  By Shaun on July 11, 2022 • ( 2 )

  Glance, a tech company based in India, will soon be putting ads on your Android lock screens, aided and abetted by your friendly wireless carriers. Glance is a $2 billion advertising technology (adtech) company backed by Google and other investors…. Read More ›

• Dismantling the Windows advantage

  By Shaun on July 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  I should point out that this ratio between platforms is not just an exercise in arithmetic. It’s a measure of leverage. The advantage of dominance is realized in an ecosystem which creates lock-in and additional economies in marketing. Ecosystems become… Read More ›

• What happens to your brain when you don’t get enough sleep?

  By Shaun on July 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  First, when we accumulate a sleep debt, we lose some of the subjective ability to judge how that lack of sleep affects us.Second, even though we don’t realize it, objective tests show that we continue to have “deficits … in… Read More ›

• The RM UP-01 Ferrari

  By Shaun on July 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The RM UP-01 Ferrari is 1.75mm thick, $1,888,000 and appears to be somehow good value for money. Genuinely, it’s ridiculously amazing. Sporting mechanisms that are as elegant as they are immediately recognisable. An identical obsession with excellence, precision, reliability and… Read More ›