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Month: August 2022

CIPC #288: Ninja in the killing fields

Posted on August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

Today, we’re going to talk about an obscure niche of pop culture you quite probably have never heard of: Hong Kong hack jobs. That’s not…

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CIPC #287: Guinea-Bissau Ruy López stamp

Posted on August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

When I first saw this stamp, I wondered where it was issued. It clearly says Guinea-Bissau, but why on Earth is there a big Finlandia…

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CIPC #286: Dennis the menace 29-07-2022

Posted on August 16, 2022August 16, 2022

There are certain fictional characters that one only starts to appreciate with age. Homer Simpson, for example, to a child seems like a boring loser.…

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CIPC #285: Fishbone, Party at ground zero

Posted on August 9, 2022August 9, 2022

Long, long time ago, when music videos were a new thing, almost anybody could get some airplay. Even a rock band with a short, random…

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CIPC #284: Calvin and Hobbes 10-09-1989

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022

What’s the best newspaper comic of all time? Many will say it’s The peanuts. Some people might prefer Dilbert, or The wizard of Id. Maybe…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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