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THINGS I HAVE NOTICED THIS WEEK: Alistair Coleman’s Pithy, Witty and Hilarious Weekly Celebrity Newspaper Column
“I don’t pay two pounds to look bewildered, muddled and confused by simple, commonplace technology. If I wanted that, I’d buy an XBox, or whatever it is young people use for entertainment these days” Imagine: The editor’s expecting 700 pithy and quirky words on some aspect of my life, and being the genius that I…
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Scaryduck: A brief history of chippy tea
“And then they had Chippy Tea on the way home.” So wrote JRR Tolkien at the very end of The Lord of the Rings, the battles won, Sauron defeated, the One Ring destroyed, and friendships maintained. Those final words in what is arguably the greatest saga written in the English language confirms one thing that…
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Scaryduck: On the futility of NFTs
Nothing loses its value faster than an NFT. You might be aware of The Guardian’s Headline of the Year-worthy story “Man who paid $2.9m for NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet set to lose almost $2.9m”, as a prime example of this. Anything that is offered as an “investment opportunity” with no actual evidence linked…