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• Back To The Future Day

  By Shaun on October 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s almost Back to the Future Day – the date Marty and Doc crashed the future in the second of the three time-hopping sci-fi adventure films. The sequel was released in November 1989. Feeling old? I am. More at the… Read More ›

• Michael Dell

  By Shaun on October 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  This may be a comedy, but having bought 2 cheap Windows laptops in the past year, I suspect it is near the truth for some PC makers.

• “The internet will suck all creative content out of the world”

  By Shaun on October 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “Personally I don’t really “get” the appeal of streaming music. If you had told me fifteen years ago: “here in the future people can buy any song they want – as a single even! – for around a buck, and… Read More ›

• We all sleep the same

  By Shaun on October 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “A study just published in Current Biology by Jerome Siegel of the University of California, Los Angeles and Gandhi Yetish of the University of New Mexico tries to provide an answer. Dr Siegel and Mr Yetish looked at three groups… Read More ›

• Print your own Halloween masks

  By Shaun on October 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “We supply the templates and instructions that enable you to turn unwanted card into beautiful 3D masks that you can build and decorate yourself. The instructions are easy to follow so that the masks can be assembled by anyone, using… Read More ›

• Is Apple’s new 4K iMac a total ripoff?

  By Shaun on October 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “The biggest issue I have is that Apple decided it would be fair to give customers paying $1,499 for a new computer a 5,400 rpm hard drive as standard. Sure, it has 1TB of storage, but it’s going to be… Read More ›

• Mr. Robot on Prime

  By Shaun on October 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  So far the Amazon Prime video service has proved to be pretty good, but the arrival of Mr. Robot takes it to a whole new level. I have only watched one episode so far and that alone has easily lived… Read More ›

• 2+ weeks with the iPhone 6s

  By Shaun on October 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The period of genuine excitement seems to be getting shorter with each new iPhone release for me, and this year I have already fallen back into the pattern of just using my phone and not marvelling at all of the… Read More ›

• Stan Herd

  By Shaun on October 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “From the artist’s 160 acre portrait of Kiowa Chief Satanta in 1981 through 35 monumental earthworks over the next 40 years, Stan Herd would become known as the ‘Father of Crop Art’, a term coined by Dan Rather on CBS… Read More ›

• The land of giants

  By Shaun on October 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape. Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become… Read More ›