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2022
March
Can’t Afford the Gas to Cook
Tolkien, Orwell and Simple Living
Little Links & Notes
Little Links & Notes
Legs Look Weird
Low Birth Rates and High War Deaths
Economic Sanctions Cause Discomfort in a Very Comfortable Modern World
Enablers of dirty Russian money in London + What's an 'Unexplained Wealth Order'?
Just pay Russian soldiers to surrender?
'Why the Russians Are Struggling'
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Sigmund Freud aged 26 and 36
“Humanity is just not what I think it is.”
February
Highly anticipated experiences are often underwhelming
'My first web3 webpage'
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February 26th, 2022
A Trip to Windsor Castle
Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Friday, February 18th, 2022
'Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer busts myths about how humans burn calories—and why'
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The Chronicles of the Rings
Pencil drawing or satellite image?
One third of all Swiss exports are drugs
Wealth is money you don't spend
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WordPress -> Hugo part 2
Stealing the word "Freedom"
WordPress --> Hugo
"You learn to spend what's in your pocket"
Caffeine, late nights and book introductions
Feminine exclamation
Review: The Last Dance
Review: The Power of the Dog (2021)
Some links
Attempting yoga for the first time
January
Review: The Alpinist (2021)
Some links
CloudFront's first 1TB of bandwidth is free
Some links
Today's lunch
1994 Instagram
Websites seem to have a different sort of downtime nowadays
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
How To with John Wilson (Season 2)
I only want TV shows that have ended, and ended well
The North Water (Season 1)
Brandon Taylor's Substack
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
The French Dispatch (2021)
The Watch (2012)
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
Black Knight (2001)
The Economists 'daily briefing'
Random webpages #1
2021
December
"And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on evil.
"Plotting over brandy." Terry Pratchett on evil.
Confident and proud? Or arrogant?
The Mandrake Plant
September
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Photos of Americans and their pets from 125 years ago
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
'Going private: Increasing numbers of Britons are abandoning the NHS and paying for medical treatment'
Franz Liszt by Henri Lehmann
You can own the 'speakers on wheels' rig from Mad Max: Fury Road!
Michael Chapman has died
'Instead'
Eat, sleep and feel better
When to quit a bad book
'Anti-Aging: State of the Art'
Effeminate looking men banned from Chinese television
People keep on using 'gaslighting' incorrectly
Will you get a day off work when the Queen dies? Is it a bank holiday?
The actor who plays the Know-It-All kid in the Polar Express looks exactly how I'd expect him to look
Cunningham's Law
Salman Rushdie's next novel will be serialised on Substack
August
'China to Cleanse Online Content That ‘Bad-Mouths’ Its Economy'
Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show explained. What can they film?
'The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World.’
'UK truck driver shortage signals a broken labour market'
Dickens house
Landlord Lloyds
'Hospitality crisis deepens chef shortages'
'Ben Franklin’s bitter regret that he didn’t immunize his 4-year-old son against smallpox'
Choose an expert
There's always some dude inexplicably loving it
July
Just invest
February
Watched – Week 5, 2021
The Power of Netflix
The Price of Whisky
January
Watched – Week 4, 2021
'How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?'
Open Top Sandwiches
Outlaws
Pay-as-You-Go Reading
The Man Who Invited the World Over for Dinner
January 26th, 2021
Dressing Gowns Are Stupid
'Their Noses Paid the Bills. Then COVID Took Their Sense of Smell'
'Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy'
Brutalism
The Parler U.S. Capitol Riot Video Archive
'Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump'
Dr Martens To Go Public
Snow and the iPhone