CIPC #232: Chanel ad
All too rare are examples of the happy few, the names that everybody knows, the a-list celebrities, that show up at the chessboard. Consequently, the few cases there are —...
CIPC #231: D, In the name of justice
Take a good look at the picture below. It comes from the music video for the song In the name of justice by the metal band D.1 What country do...
CIPC #230: Robot & Frank
Last week, we talked about one of the most well-known movies of all time. Today, we look at a far lesser known one: Robot & Frank, a 2012 movie about...
CIPC #229: The great dictator
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. But it is a very...
CIPC #228: Chess-nuts
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 cartoon character created by Max...
CIPC #227: Etsy ad
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 order. So here we go:...
CIPC #226: The Perry bible fellowship, Primate checkmate
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 YouTube, before xkcd and Cyanide...
CIPC #225: Crime doctor’s warning
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 is almost entirely forgotten, but...
CIPC #224: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes S1 E6, The speckled band
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 probably write about a murder...
CIPC #223: Taylor, Women playing chess
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 Rafaels from Gerard Dows and...
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