- Webcurios 15/04/16 - Reading Time: 32 minutes In a week in which we have appear to have returned to the 1980s (Tory spanking scandal? Celebrities* all over the papers BUT ONLY THE FOREIGN ONES? We’ll all be doing cocaine and talking excitedly across each other nex…oh), it’s been cheering to see that the future is still happening, what with the whole SpaceX…
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- Webcurios 08/04/16 - Reading Time: 33 minutes HELLO WE ARE BACK! That was a slightly longer break than planned, for which apologies – not that I imagined you noticed, though, what with all exciting events of the past few weeks. By ‘exciting’ I obviously mean ‘tremendously dispiriting’, but that’s sort of par for the course with THE MODERN WORLD. Which, frankly, is…
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- Webcurios 18/03/16 - Reading Time: 25 minutes Did you hear that, young people? THAT WAS FOR YOU! Forget about the fact that you’re going to have to work until you’re in your 80s, that we’re bequeathing you a planet that is soon going to be banjaxed beyond all utility, that we’ve taken all the houses and that you can’t have any, that…
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- Webcurios 04/03/16 - Reading Time: 29 minutes So this week it’s all been about FEAR! FEAR! SCAREMONGERING! FEAR! Without wishing to get bogged down in the minutiae of an already-tediously hyperbolic debate, I’m not sure that the ‘let’s stay in the EU’ side of the debate can really be said to be ‘fearmongering’ when you compare what they are saying to all…
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- Webcurios 26/02/16 - Reading Time: 25 minutes Well, now we know. 4 months of tedium as a bunch of dullards attempt to convince a largely ambivalent electorate of the validity of their point of view – I thought we did this last year, but it turns out that referenda are even WORSE than general elections from the point of view of them…
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- Webcurios 19/02/16 - Reading Time: 26 minutes HELLO AGAIN EVERYONE! Rejoice, for 2016 can finally properly begin – Web Curios is BACK FOR GOOD (barring additional holidays, sickness, a general continuation of the overall lack of anything resembling a regular audience for this, the publisher pulling the plug, death or serious illness, or just the eventual victory of the crushing sense of…
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- Webcurios 29/01/16 - Reading Time: 32 minutes HELLO LOOK WEB CURIOS IS BACK! Yes, look, fine, I know that noone really reads this and therefore noone really cares, but I care, OK, and I need to do something ease the frankly terrifying buildup of internetpressure inside my skull in order to avoid painting my kitchen an unpleasantly bloody shade of grey matter…
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- Webcurios 11/12/15 - Reading Time: 30 minutes [image missing] Alex Liivet, CC licence https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexmartin81/21467769946/ I went to Amsterdam! It was fun! We played videogames and smoked weed and did mushrooms and all those sorts of stereotypical Amsterdam-type things – what LARKS! Then last weekend my little brother died and the glow of carefree fun sort of wore off a bit. WOAH! Big…
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- Webcurios 27/11/15 - Reading Time: 28 minutes [image missing] Everything’s fixed! All that talking and opining about What Must Be Done has sorted EVERYTHING OUT! Praise be! ONLY JOKING! It’s all still a total fcuking mess, whichever way you look.The only people with reason to look happy at the moment are the arms manufacturers, and they tend to grin suspiciously most of…
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- Webcurios 20/11/15 - Reading Time: 33 minutes [image missing] John Harwood, CC https://www.flickr.com/photos/john_t_harwood/2853642055 Well that was vile, wasn’t it? Let’s accept that there’s little or nothing edifying I can say about Paris and associated issues and move on – except that I was watching Question Time last night and a few things struck me which I will share in passing: You know…
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