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Monocle has quickly joined my list of “must read” magazines (along with The Atlantic, New York, Vanity Fair and...
HP12C.jpg Originally uploaded by fernandogros. Some things are hard to improve upon and the HP 12c financial calculator is...
Planet Telex is a great blog, but I couldn’t agree less with Darren’s post on the relative value of...
Hugh MacLeod's latest cartoon brilliantly captures why great ideas always struggle to gain acceptance.
Amongst pop and rock music fans (especially those of the High Fidelity variety) there are few hotter topics than...
Jonatha Brooke – Careful What You Wish For – Great songs, great production, great performances. Jonatha Brooke has loads...
Slavoj Zizek has, for quite some time, been one of my favourite philosophers. So, I struggle when people claim...
A selection of the comments, ideas and insights that have got me thinking (and in one case salivating) this...
In the last few weeks, the locally transmitted channel, BBC Entertainment, has started broadcasting reruns of https://www.bbc.co.uk/later/. I’m loving...
Three times this week I have lost blogposts! Earlier this week I hand drafted a blogpost on paper, took...
One of the most important ideas in Fooled By Randomness is the notion of survivorship bias. As Nassim Nicholas...
Time to clear out the backlog of film and DVD reviews (again). Here’s some brief comments on a few...
The memory is still vivid for me of the first time I saw a modern, VHS and TV based...
I am in love! Tonight was the first event I attended as part of the Le French May arts...
Some thoughtful ideas and comments from around the blogs this week… Volf Embraces Economic Freedom – Like Mike I...