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CIPC #458: Siemens ad

Posted on December 31, 2025December 31, 2025

As the year draws to its end, all its calamities and horrors parade once more before my eyes and I realise it’s been a particularly…

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CIPC #457: Globi Vol.31, König der Spassmacher

Posted on December 24, 2025December 24, 2025

When I wrote my first blog post about blue Swiss parrot Globi, I had no idea I had stumbled upon a whole stash of material.…

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CIPC #456: The thing from another world

Posted on December 16, 2025December 16, 2025

When John Campbell published his collection of short stories Who goes there? in 1938 on a grand total of 3000 copies, he would nary have…

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CIPC #455: Fiido ad

Posted on December 10, 2025December 10, 2025

To me, Fiido sounds like someone has lost his dog and is now calling for it everywhere, 1 hoping against all hope that it will…

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CIPC #454: František Chochola, The young king of Easaidh Ruadh

Posted on December 2, 2025

František Chochola is perhaps not a household name, but he was quite an accomplished man. He has the illustrations to countless books to his name,…

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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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