January 2012
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In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi... →
“But then one gray morning did Internet Explorer 6 no longer load The Google. Refresh was clicked, again and again, but still did Internet Explorer 6 not load The Google. Perhaps The Google was broken, the people thought, but then The Yahoo too did not load. Nor did Hotmail. Nor USAToday.com. The land was thrown into panic. Internet Explorer 6 was minimized then maximized. The Compaq...
Jan 24th
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A note to Alternative Music Scribes having trouble... →
Great letter from Popjustice that is, of course, partially about Lana Del Rey, but mostly about alternative music writers.
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Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment →
8-Bit games based on Greek myths. How many times will you try to get Sisyphus’s rock to the top of the hill?
Jan 12th
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Review: The Book of Kings by James Thackara →
Twelve years old, but still one of the most cutting reviews I’ve ever read: “What sets Thackara apart is quite a simple fact. He can’t write. After a while, the incredulous reader starts to play a game: to open the book at random and try and find a tolerable sentence. Save your effort - you will never win. Thackara is always ahead of you, with his uncanny knack for the...
Jan 10th
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Diane Abbot's so racist - it's just like David... →
On the currently rather quiet Five Chinese Crackers, the way in which Toby Young will defend David Starkey’s, but not Diane Abbot.
Jan 10th
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Dear Steven Moffat: Sherlock – A Scandal in... →
Ed Whitfield’s take on the ‘modernising’ of A Scandal in Bohemia and the changes to Irene Adler’s character in the Steven Moffat / Mark Gatiss rehash. I think it’s a fair point.
Jan 10th
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December 2011
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ListenYes It’s You by Sweet Charles What I want...
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Font swap in iBooks →
Font geek Glenn Fleishman on the new fonts available in iBooks.
Dec 16th
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The moral and aesthetic nightmare of Christmas →
Hitchens on the festive period.
Dec 16th
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Christopher Hitchens on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit... →
“To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity,...
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MG Siegler on Apple fanboyism →
“I’m a fan of Apple’s work because it’s great. I suspect my peers he would criticize would say the same thing. I’ve been a fan of Apple’s products for about 6 years now. Before that, I didn’t own one. You could even say that I hated Apple products back in the 1990s when I was going to midnight launches of Microsoft products. Why did that change? It’s not some spell or some bullshit...
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Massive great white shark filmed on iPhone →
Brr.
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