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Sinatra and Kennedy

The sequence of events seems essentially right, except for the quaint idea that Bobby—or anybody else who read a newspaper or gossip column over the previous twenty years—was unaware of Sinatra’s fraternizing with the Mob. If Frank’s fondness for gangsters… Read More ›

It keeps hitting you…

It hits you. It keeps hitting you. You don’t know when it’ll end, because there’s some things you simply cannot prepare for. A loved one dies. A loved one dies suddenly. A loved one dies tragically. You might feel numb…. Read More ›

Inside Wayback Machine

Today, the Wayback Machine houses some 388B web pages, and its parent, the Internet Archive, is the world’s largest library. The Internet Archive’s collection, which spans not just the web, but books, audio 78rpm records, videos, images, and software, amounts… Read More ›

App Scams

Last summer Apple deleted an app scamming $80,000/month from iOS users. At the time, Apple promised to pay closer attention to subscription apps to prevent similar schemes in the future. Clearly, however, some are still slipping through… More at Forbes…. Read More ›

A moment of sanity

I spent some time yesterday looking at the Oris Carl Brashear limited edition and just for a moment thought that the asking price of £3,600 was reasonable. It was one of those moments when reason had left the building, when… Read More ›

The Spring Bar

If you feel like ordering at least a hundred, Otto Frei will sell them to you (at the time of this writing) for the low, low price of exactly 94 cents a pop (“assembled by hand in a small village… Read More ›