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CIPC #436: Skinny ad

Posted on July 29, 2025July 29, 2025

I had never heard of Skinny, but it’s apparently a New Zealand provider of mobile telephony and data plans. In 2020, they launched an apparently…

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CIPC #435: Twin Peaks S2 E13, Checkmate

Posted on July 22, 2025July 22, 2025

Twin Peaks is weird. Twin Peaks is deeply weird. Twin Peaks tackles painful and uncomfortable truths about human nature. Twin Peaks is rather funny at…

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CIPC #434: Jethro Tull, The zealot gene

Posted on July 15, 2025

Did you know Jethro Tull is still around? Yes, the rock band with the flute that brought a decomposed version version of the Bourrée from…

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CIPC #433: Larsson, Schackspelet

Posted on July 8, 2025July 3, 2025

Every once in a while, I like to give this blog a temporary and unconvincing sheen of refinement by spotlighting a painting. Since the current…

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CIPC #432: “Hukkunud alpinisti” hotell

Posted on July 1, 2025July 2, 2025

Today, we’re dealing with an Estonian film, of all things. It’s based on a novel by the Strugatsky brothers of the same name, which apparently…

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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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