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CIPC #229: The great dictator

Posted on July 7, 2021

Today, we dissect the greatest of the great, because The great dictator is probably the greatest movie by the greatest silent movie actor: Charles Chaplin.…

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CIPC #228: Chess-nuts

Posted on June 30, 2021January 3, 2022

Betty Boop is one of the very many things in the world that I just can’t get my head around.1 She is a very old…

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CIPC #227: Etsy ad

Posted on June 23, 2021January 3, 2022

Etsy is quite famous in America but I think it is far less popular here in Europe, so perhaps a little background information is in…

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CIPC #226: The Perry bible fellowship, Primate checkmate

Posted on June 15, 2021January 3, 2022

Today, we go visit the digital lagerstätte and dig up one of the dinosaurs of the internet: The Perry bible fellowship. Before Twitter, Facebook, and…

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CIPC #225: Crime doctor’s warning

Posted on June 8, 2021January 3, 2022

Have you ever heard of the Crime doctor franchise? It is about doctor Ordway, a criminal psychologist who helps the police solve cases. Nowadays, it…

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CIPC #224: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes S1 E6, The speckled band

Posted on June 1, 2021

If ever some dimwit decides to feed my blog posts into a machine learning engine and make it produce one of its own, it will…

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CIPC #223: Taylor, Women playing chess

Posted on May 25, 2021January 3, 2022

It is time to parade some high culture in front of your eyes again while I talk condescendingly about paintings like I can tell undoubted…

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CIPC #222: Inspector Morse S8 E8, The remorseful day

Posted on May 19, 2021

In the ranks of British tv detectives, inspector Morse occupies a prominent but slightly strange position. He is not a brilliant eccentric like Poirot or…

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CIPC #221: The office, S5 E26

Posted on May 11, 2021

There are certain things the internet loves far more than it should. Not that they’re bad per se, but the internet just obsesses over them.…

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CIPC #220: Cyma ad

Posted on May 5, 2021January 3, 2022

Ex oriente lux. Also, really weird pop music. In Europe, one mainly hears about k-pop, the Korean pop music which has been taking the world…

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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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