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• The Fears Brunswick Salmon

  By Shaun on October 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Graceful and complex, the curvaceous Brunswick is an exacting object to create. It takes its inspiration from a gentleman’s cushion case watch in the Fears archives, first made in 1924, and a dial colour used in the 1940s and 50s…… Read More ›

• Apple Watch Momentum Is Building

  By Shaun on October 2, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  When Apple unveiled the Apple Watch in 2014, wearable computing on the wrist was more of a promise than anything else. Apple created an entirely new industry – something that isn’t found much in the traditional Apple playbook. After years… Read More ›

• The Pretender

  By Shaun on October 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  None of Dave’s employees nor his business partner had seen or talked to him for almost two weeks. He hadn’t picked up or returned their calls. They had received responses to texts, but Dave usually dictated his messages, which made… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 16 (Looking up, looking down and judging everyone and everything in between)

  By Shaun on October 1, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Jo and I discuss a potential post-Covid world, what makes us the people we are (nature verses nurture) and why we are living in a time that could be about to change in a bad way for many. This is… Read More ›

• Swearing parrots separated

  By Shaun on October 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  No one had complained about the parrots, Nichols said, but they were separated for the sake of young visitors and in the hopes that they would pick up natural calls from the other African greys. “People have come to us… Read More ›

• The Q Timex Reissue Digital LCA

  By Shaun on October 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Despite being a sub-$200 watch, the Digital LCA is of pleasantly good quality. The stainless steel case sports alternating brushed and polished surfaces that would do credit to a luxury steel sports watch, and the printing on the dial, as… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 15 (Spatially sounded icons and widgets)

  By Shaun on September 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AirPods Pro Spatial Sound and automatic (not!) switching Ted Lasso Is Apple losing control in some areas? Icons and themes and widgets Locked down and locked in to tech again Music by Tom Munch

• $750

  By Shaun on September 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The returns are some of the most sought-after, and speculated-about, records in recent memory. In Mr. Trump’s nearly four years in office — and across his endlessly hyped decades in the public eye — journalists, prosecutors, opposition politicians and conspiracists… Read More ›

• Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian

  By Shaun on September 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  During the darkest periods of the polar night, Tromsø only receives two to three hours of indirect sunlight, shining into the sky from below the horizon. Yet its inhabitants do not show the kind of wintertime depression you might expect… Read More ›

• Should We Separate the Art From the Artist?

  By Shaun on September 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the first “canceled” artists Stephen and Angela discuss is, of course, Michael Jackson. To learn more about the allegations against the pop star, read this New York Times article by Ben Sisario, or watch the 2019 Emmy-winning documentary,… Read More ›

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