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• Last Night In Soho

  By Shaun on January 23, 2022 • ( 0 )

  I watched Last Night In Soho a few days back and was somewhat perplexed by what I saw. It initially felt contrived and unoriginal, but I thought about the film and, strangely for me, watched it again the next day…. Read More ›

• Heaven Can Wait

  By Shaun on January 23, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The epic was developed from composer Jim Steinman’s rock musical called Neverland (based on Peter Pan) and produced by Todd Rundgren. In 1972 Steinman had Bette Midler sing the 1972 demo for “Heaven Can Wait,” but it found a home… Read More ›

• What happens now to the clinically vulnerable?

  By Shaun on January 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Starting from a far higher level of risk, those with suppressed immune systems also get less protection from vaccines and are accounting for an increasing proportion of ICU admissions and deaths. Yet many feel like a “forgotten minority”, according to… Read More ›

• Buy your books from Waterstones, not WH Smith

  By Shaun on January 22, 2022 • ( 4 )

  “When the last Richard Osman came out, Penguin bought the number one spot on all WH Smith in-store bestseller charts so it had to be displayed as the bestseller in every single store, whether it actually was or not,” Barry… Read More ›

• 100 seconds to midnight

  By Shaun on January 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Every January, the scientists assess how close the world is to ending, in their view, and use knowledge of how things have changed to move the clock either closer or farther away from midnight. To quote Prince’s prescient 1999 lyrics,… Read More ›

• Famous for cajoling killers into confessing to their crimes

  By Shaun on January 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The woman was Bobbie Sue Hill. Nearly a decade before this conversation, kids had stumbled upon her body in a creek bed under a bridge, less than a mile from Driskill’s home. Investigators pieced together that she was a 29-year-old… Read More ›

• The BBC cannot see a queue, a very big queue

  By Shaun on January 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  This is becoming a very big problem, one that was easily seen way before Brexit changes came into effect. And it seems that most of the British media cannot see it, or to be more accurate are (being told?) choosing… Read More ›

• Marking Apple messages as unread

  By Shaun on January 21, 2022 • ( 0 )

  But the most popular messaging app on iOS, Messages, has never implemented “Mark as Unread” even though users have been clamoring for it for years and it’s been rumored that they tested it. What’s even wilder is that iMessage doesn’t… Read More ›

• Drawings of Root Systems

  By Shaun on January 21, 2022 • ( 0 )

  We know that plants can inspire art. If you, personally, still require convincing on that point, just have a look at Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants, the drawings of Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious… Read More ›

• Should Apple buy Peloton?

  By Shaun on January 21, 2022 • ( 1 )

  Peloton is having a very bad week. On Thursday, CNBC reported that the company is putting the brakes on the production of its products for at least the next two months. It’s as clear a sign as there is that… Read More ›

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