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CIPC #359: Macintosh 1984 keynote speech

Posted on January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

This year, it is precisely forty years ago that the first Macintosh computers were released on an unsuspecting world. With a full one hundred and…

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CIPC #358: De Rode Ridder Vol.14, De galmende kinkhoorns

Posted on January 24, 2024January 24, 2024

Looking back on last year’s posts, you see American shows, British shows, singers from France or the Netherlands, commercials from all corners of the Earth…

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CIPC #357: Washington Post Christmas search 2023

Posted on January 17, 2024

Just half a month ago, ’twas the season to be jolly. But now ’tis the season to acrimoniously — and sanctimoniously — bemoan the varied…

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CIPC #356: Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) E8, Whoever heard of a ghost dying?

Posted on January 10, 2024January 10, 2024

A new year, a new British detective series. Well, new isn’t exactly the right word, seeing that it aired in 1969. It features, as title…

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CIPC Extra: The best and worst of 2023

Posted on January 3, 2024January 3, 2024

Compiling the usual end-of-year list has been harder than usual this time. I’ve been more consistent, it seems. That means that this year’s bests are…

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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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