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Smartphonestand
Dezeen reports on a way to make those video calls a bit more comfortably: A besetting sin of designers is to imagine that all of the world’s problems can be solved with “design”, of the blandly...
View ArticleAnother perceptual flip to add to the collection – and why I find such things...
Yes, I do like these optical tricks that computer graphics makes it so easy for computer graphicists to play on the world. Says Steve Stewart-Williams of his latest discovery in this genre: If you...
View ArticleAnother Twitter dump
I had a Twitter dump earlier. It feels so good to be getting this stuff out of my system, so here’s another. Again, in no particular order, and not chosen for bang-up-to-dateness, just funness and...
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A shortcut to a Blockbuster photo
I’ve been a bit of a latecomer to the use of shortcuts to favourite photos. Now I find them essential, simply to keep track of where my most favourite photos from long ago times are to be found on my...
View ArticleFeline Twitter dump
I earlier promised a creature-related Twitter dump. It turns out it’s pretty much all cats: Another optical illusion that works on a nonhuman animal. Can cats pass the mirror self-recognition test?...
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Roz Watkins talks about her latest book – and about animals
Crime writer Tony Kent does a fifteen minute video-at-a-distance interview with fellow crime writer Roz Watkins. Roz is my niece, which is partly why I keep mentioning her here. But the bigger reason I...
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One year ago today: “You cannot do that!”
I love to photo the front pages of newspapers, while in shops from which I also buy things I still want: And that was the front page of The Times of a year ago tomorrow, June 1st 2019. The headlines...
View ArticleTime-lapse of braces doing their thing
I think Steve Stewart-Williams is now my favourite Twitterer. Never really understood these contrivances until now.
View ArticleRioters and the ending of the Lockdown
Scott Adams: Serious question: Did any Republican lose a business to rioters? I began thinking of my answer, but the first tweet-in-response said it for me: I bet some future Republicans did. I’ve been...
View ArticleCandace Owens – alarm clock for black America
My thanks to Scott Adams for telling me about this video speech to camera by Candace Owens. (When I watched this video at the Scott Adams twitter feed, the top of her head was sliced off, sometimes...
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How to keep busy during Lockdown
Farvardin Daliri passed the time by building a Giant Kookaburra: “If a bird can laugh, why not me?” said Mr. Daliri, 65, who unveiled his work this week by towing the kookaburra, a beloved Australian...
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A garden centre in Vauxhall
Just after checking out that China Works Tower, on May 25th, I walked along Black Prince Road, under the big railway that goes into Waterloo, and turned left into Newport Street. There I came across...
View ArticleThe shocking brutality of nature?
Via SS-W, this video of two cats having a disagreement. I think the winner shows magnanimity in victory. It could have been far more brutal.
View ArticleShelby Steele talks to Peter Robinson
I just watched this video of Shelby Steele being interviewed by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute. If, like me, you’ve not been paying attention to this man, this interview would be a good way to...
View ArticleHe just walks it off and goes straight into the pub
Here, via David Thompson. As a commenter comments: adrenalin is a wonderful thing. Because actually, as another commenter reports: “Mr Smith suffered two fractures to his shoulder and ribs, as well as...
View ArticleRobot dog progress
Researchers publish open-source, lower cost design for 3D printed robot dog. What are the future applications of of such a “dog”? Some rather unconvincing tasks are mentioned in the above report, like...
View ArticleAntlerball
Here. It would appear that dogs aren’t the only ones who copy what their humans do. (That link is to a posting on the Old Blog featuring a photo of my sister and her dog. I copied it over from the Old...
View ArticleFriday creatures Twitter dump (2): Confirmation that Nature sucks
More evolved ghastliness news from Steve Stewart-Williams: This unfortunate snail is infested with a parasitic worm, which is mimicking a caterpillar so a bird will eat it. The worm will then reproduce...
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Friday creatures Twitter dump (3): All the others
Further proof that a dog will put up with just about anything, including being biffed by a cat half its size, if it has been subjugated by humans and if the humans say it mustn’t retaliate. Well that...
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An England v West Indies memory – at least I got how the stumps looked...
Tomorrow, assuming I have it right, a test match begins between England and the West Indies, in Southampton. There’ll be no spectators, but they’ve all played either English county cricket or whatever...
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