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They sold six million copies and made a big profit from Myst, which they presumably invested in the company, to make the next game, with the profits from that (and the diminishing …

I can remember the Thatcher years when redundancies for hundreds of thousands was routine, with the unemployment figures going stratospheric. The miners, auto-workers, ship workers…

In the UK a typical Gateway 2000 desktop PC came with a Trinitron screen, made by Sony in South Wales. Their business model for the UK was the same tax scam as Apple, Dell and othe…

To complement the treat rewards, can you get the cat wheel to power a small pump to provide a water fountain for the cat? Assuming the treats are dispensed after a variable amount …

Erotica != porn... What is the difference between erotica and porn? I am no expert, however, the former requires and stimulates the imagination, whereas the latter doesn't do that,…

Ruby first became known to me as a vegan contestant on the BBC Great British Bake Off. I think she is fab, however... (I write this for the American reader.) The essay didn't menti…

Wool thief! That industry was ours, in Gloucestershire and in Devon. All that red cloth that native peoples the world over wanted, and clothed every soldier, that was our broad clo…

Carlton Reid, the guy who started the trade website BikeBiz, is my source for this, and his is a name to look out for, his writing is consistently good and his advocacy based on a …

Transport museums in the UK are fascinating because they are full of machines that didn't solve any problem satisfactorily. My local museum has the bicycle well represented along w…

It wasn't so much tarmac, it was just anything passable between towns. When the trains came along (to replace the canals), people just took the magic teleportal that was the train,…

I hate to burst your bubble, but... The Wright Brothers started in a bicycle workshop, as did practically every auto maker, in Europe, in the early days. The bicycle workshop was t…

What has yet to be mentioned is why Hollywood, in the first place? Out of the many reasons, one is quite simple: daylight. This used to be really important with film. Historically,…

Paul Graham writes about this in an essay on procrastination. Procrastination doesn't have to mean time on the couch, the person that keeps their house 'unreasonably tidy' is also …

https://epson.com/company-history It started with the watch making, EPSON was the spin off technology, developed for the 1964 Olympics, when printers were needed, along with precis…

If you work in the West End and want to go to the pub with your workmates, you soon find that one lives in Greenwich, another in Twickenham, another in St Albans, another in Bright…

Wasn't there a Microsoft idea to build data centres in shipping containers a few years ago, again using the ocean for cooling? What happened to that? Given the expense of the lates…

It could be just a filter, along with dietary requirements. In this way the one webpage can be made to work for everyone. Honestly, although fast food is normalised in America, the…

This might be the better application. Some of us from outside the US do not want to eat ANY American food unless it has come from the actual ground or a tree, seen actual daylight …

If I was their mischievous uncle, I would get them a full feature drum set, maybe with extra percussion instruments. Hopefully the kids will show the same enthusiasm for it, before…

As one miracle is solved, another is opened. I had the guy rocking up in his truck to spend a day doing carpentry for our AI overlords, and could not see the magic wand. So now we …

Allegedly many an American 'believes' that Jesus will be back some time right about now. They are serious about this belief, however, it is never explained as to how he waves a mag…

Yes and no, the skin connects to the spinal nerve in regions known as dermatomes, there being 31 spinal nerves and 30 dermatomes, with left and right sides. Some nasty rashes get c…

Before we developed a taste for fish, marine life was far more abundant, particularly in rivers. There are rivers that we consider to be in good health today that have a fraction o…

Substack also comes with a brand, and having a substack is a social cue that you are a higher status person, it goes with the beefed up LinkedIn profile, playing tennis and conspic…

People always want to make a place their own with renovations, which means a new bathroom, a new kitchen, a complete lick of paint and the list goes on. They would prefer to throw …