The video depicts a man being murdered. Someone is stabbing him, dozens of times, while he screams and begs for his life. Chloe’s job is to tell the room whether this post should be removed. She knows that section 13… Read More ›
Articles
Only digital brings stress
The Apple Watch is gone and has been replaced with a mechanical that simply tells the time. Kindle books are gone and I read from these strange things made of paper. Task lists on my iPhone are gone and replaced… Read More ›
Behind the dial
While in these respects Tudor and Rolex movements diverge, both companies test their prototypes the same way. In a lab just a few metres from Tudor’s conceptors, designs are put through their paces using identical processes and equipment to the… Read More ›
When my son was 6 I used a Treo 650…
My son is 18 years old now and in 2006 we travelled to Orlando to take him to Disney for his 6th birthday. It feels like an age ago, but is in fact just 12 years. Think about 12 years… Read More ›
Apple’s strange guarantee for Steve’s replacement devices
A friend at work, Steve, is now on his third pair of Beats X headphones because the previous two started to lose audio quality. He called Apple support and was asked to take them to his nearest Apple store where… Read More ›
Music
In the beginning (well, my beginning anyway) there were LPs and my parents old 33s. Then cameth cassette tapes and behold the radiant wonder of the CD. Upon this time was a golden age of mixtapes, whereupon one might assemble… Read More ›
Impossible to function without the big five tech giants?
The technophobic tendency to attribute this failure to lack of moral fibre should be resisted. It’s not easy to cut yourself off from a system that links you to friends, family and employer, all of whom expect you to be… Read More ›
On Death
It’s a brilliant thing he’s doing. His response to the guy who lost his wife is, to borrow a phrase, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. tweeted here. Nick Cave is a special human being. They would not be able… Read More ›
Tudor Black Bay GMT thoughts. Too good for me?
A grail watch that is so good it just doesn’t feel right For many years I have wanted a Tudor Black Bay Heritage. It has always been the watch I look at and consider to be ‘the one’. I cannot… Read More ›
RIP WAP (or don’t, we don’t care)
I’m impressed at the combination of technical depth and strong feeling of that article. WAP was horrible. And like the article mentions but my summary leaves out, the nickel-and-diming of the usage fees kept people away in droves… More here…. Read More ›
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