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• 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 ›

• The most British of things

  By Shaun on July 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Love this for so many reasons. Let’s just hope that today is the beginning of the end of the Johnson reign… Thanks to Marc.

• Apple Wallet is the stickiest of sticky things

  By Shaun on July 4, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Now, with its foundation being laid over the last decade, Apple is putting its foot on the accelerator to make Apple Wallet inescapable, for better or worse. Apps will soon be able to get ID and age verification (enabled by… Read More ›

• Rudderless HTC

  By Shaun on July 4, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Presumably the buzzword gimmicks are meant as a distraction from the fact that the HTC Desire 22 Pro is a generic-looking mid-range phone. It has a Snapdragon 695, a 120 Hz, 6.6-inch, 2412×1080 LCD, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage,… Read More ›