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• A photo, a meteor and an erupting volcano

  By Shaun on November 12, 2016 • ( 0 )

  So, you are sitting by a volcano and it erupts. A meteor then passes by and you happen to have your camera with you. That’s cool. More here.

• Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

  By Shaun on November 12, 2016 • ( 0 )

  In 1969 Leonard Cohen released a record entitled Songs From A Room. The fifth track on that album is “Seems So Long Ago, Nancy.” The song has become one of Cohen’s more popular ones; it has found its way onto… Read More ›

• In Flanders Fields

  By Shaun on November 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

• There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in

  By Shaun on November 11, 2016 • ( 3 )

  The title of this article is my favourite line from my favourite Leonard Cohen song, which just happens to be my favourite song. It sums up so many things for me and gained more relevance when my father passed 2… Read More ›

• Photographer creates silhouettes from Star Wars toys

  By Shaun on November 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  The above image is created with a toy. So clever. 

• Newsweek recalls 125,000 copies of its souvenir Madam President issue

  By Shaun on November 11, 2016 • ( 1 )

  Newsweek and a partner that prints up special commemorative issues has been forced into an embarrassing recall, after it sent out 125,000 copies of its Madam President issue designed to celebrate Hillary Clinton’s win… More at The Telegraph.  No one… Read More ›

• What Did Nietzsche Mean When He Wrote “God is Dead”?

  By Shaun on November 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  The quote inspired an anxious 1966 Time magazine cover, and a preachy 2016 movie franchise that works hard to inoculate the faithful against atheism’s threatening seductions: “God is Dead,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1882 book of incisive aphorisms, The… Read More ›

• The Hamilton ODC X-03

  By Shaun on November 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Having supplied the wristwatches used in Interstellar, the hit 2014 movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, Hamilton recruited Nathan Crowley, the film’s production designer, to create a watch inspired by the movie. The result is the ODC X-03, a… Read More ›

• Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base review

  By Shaun on November 10, 2016 • ( 0 )

  It’s expensive, the design is slightly odd, but it is very impressive in a variety of ways.

• Seiko SKA369P1 Watch Review

  By Shaun on November 10, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The SKA369P1 is not a watch that receives as much attention as the automatic diver’s watches from Seiko, but it does offer a variety of advantages that make it hard to ignore. It is a bulky timepiece which is designed… Read More ›

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