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• Abstract: The Art of Design

  By Shaun on February 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Abstract: The Art of Design looks great, especially the footwear design episode, and all of the episodes are available on Netflix now. Core 77 has covered that particular episode well- “Solving problems” is something you continually hear Hatfield say throughout… Read More ›

• ‘Give Us Your Passwords’

  By Shaun on February 14, 2017 • ( 2 )

  “What sites do you visit? And give us your passwords.” That’s what U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly wants foreign visitors to hear before they’re allowed to enter the United States. “If they don’t want to give us that information,… Read More ›

• The Galileo system may not be available to the UK

  By Shaun on February 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The Galileo system, developed in partnership between the European Union and the European Space Agency (a 22-country, non-EU organisation that the UK will not be leaving), has been years in the making, and was built to end the dependence of… Read More ›

• How Many Combinations Are Possible Using 6 LEGO Bricks?

  By Shaun on February 14, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Mathematician Søren Eilers was intrigued by a LEGO-related math problem. Let’s say you have six “standard LEGO bricks” (the rectangular 4×2 bricks seen in the original LEGO patent). If you fit them together, how many possible structures can you make?… Read More ›

• After Not Scoring For 5 Straight Games…

  By Shaun on February 14, 2017 • ( 1 )

  That is genius!

• Apple gets a 30 year old Mac SE Running

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Great idea.

• Giant Bear Gives Out Valentines

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  That is so sweet.

• Is the latest iOS eating your battery?

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  A strange thing has been happening with my iPhone SE recently in that I am needing to charge it twice a day to keep it powered. By lunchtime I am hitting 20% and then again by 6 or 7pm. My… Read More ›

• It feels immoral to just give up and detach utterly

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The above comic resonated for me. Lately I’ve been thinking about that balance between fretting over the world and tending to one’s own garden, so to speak. On the one hand, I recognize my relative helplessness to make meaningful change on… Read More ›

• The 10 most influential mobile phones

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  From Motorola’s oh so 80s DynaTAC brick to the Nokia 3310 with its changeable covers and Samsung’s explosive Galaxy Note 7 – these are the phones that matter the most… More at The Guardian. A good list, but in the… Read More ›

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