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At the end of October, my cofounder and I decided to step back from day-to-day roles at Shuffle. In theory, not much changes. In practice, clarified expectations empower the team to own the business while freeing us to pursue our personal opportunity-cost hypotheses. How we got here could fill another post or three. Highlights include calls with the former CEOs of Tinder and Meetup, as well as peak gross sales …

In his first feature-length English-language film, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar weaves a deeply emotional yet visually captivating story. The furniture and decor in The Room Next Door play a central role in shaping the film’s visual language, using bold and colourful pieces as a backdrop to the evolving bond between Ingrid, a novelist (Julianne Moore), and Martha, a war reporter (Tilda Swinton). Once close during their youth while working together …

The Triangle Capella is more than just a set of speakers. This is a complete high end HiFi SYSTEM for a crazy good price. Made in France! [...] The post Triangle Capella Review. Full Synergy HiFi System for LESS. first appeared on Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo.

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Come celebrate Valentine’s Day with us in Mt. Airy! Sean will be playing music, singing and telling stories. All are welcome to stick around for the meet and greet after the show where Sean will be hugging necks, signing books and taking pictures. Books and other merchandise will be available for purchase before and after the show. Doors open at 6:00 PM EST and the show starts at 7:00 PM …

Something I neglected to mention in my 'Signs of the Summer' post was the screening of Married to Comics that I attended/organised at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, London. The good news for those that have been unable to catch it on the big screen is that it's now streaming.Stream Married to ComicsThe film is a feature-length documentary about the life and work of two pioneers in the genre of …

Fine. Almost festive. Almost. But this is when the slide starts to feel greased. Five weeks to Boxing Day. Whoooo! The Boxing Day carols shall ring out loud around the Boxing Day leftover casserole once again!! The most wonderful time of the year? You bet. Who knows where we’ll all be this time next year so best to Yule it up right this time like these ladies on a tasting …

Make my quick Shrimp Yakisoba at home with seared seafood, charred crispy veggies, and stir-fried noodles tossed in a sweet-savory sauce. READ: Shrimp Yakisoba 海老焼きそば

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2EE.) Although the reasons for specific design decisions should be immediately obvious from reading the relevant specification (and if not, I consider that a bug in the specification), I believe writing about it less formally will improve the clarity …

brandon brown’s flash “Faultline” contains a ball in the dirt, smoke in the lungs, two people in the backseat of a car, an opening. Here they share just one thing about the piece:“I wrote ‘Faultline’ earlier this year, in response to a prompt that primarily encouraged me to “write several sentences that open with the same subordinating conjunction/subordinate clause.” If you’re like me, that made my head spin at first, …

DS104: Major sunk cost, deeply unhappy with this one even though I invested four or five hours in it. Rubbish. The temperature has suddenly dropped. Only four weeks ago we were on a beach in Menorca and now it’s four layers and neoprene gloves. It came out of nowhere. I had my first commute yesterday where my fingers and nose were numb. I don’t mind it while cycling but it’s …

This is blackly hilarious. Note I cannot confirm the actual veracity of any of the following. It could all be some sort of PR stunt such as for a SF show about a robot uprising.Anyway. Apparently there's a viral video of a little robot entering a robot showroom and verbally convincing 12 of the robots there to follow it out – or, as I like to think of it, organized …

Things fall apart. Oh yes. The old fabric is torn away, or disintegrates, and all that. But, sometimes, when you least expect it, things fall into place, and new patterns and stories emerge. So, towards the end of January this year, things were looking pretty grim. It was a tough time, but one bright spot was the Pauline Boty exhibition at the Gazelli Art House in Mayfair, which was a …

Poet and former National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia has been busy. He’s just published a spate of new books: Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays (Paul Dry Books); Dana Gioia: Poet & Critic (Mercer University Press, edited by John Zheng and Jon Parrish Peede); and last and shortest (205 pages), Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry, also with Paul Dry Books. He calls the last “an …

Felicity Kendal and Matthew Kelly leads a rather flat revival of Eduardo di Filippo’s Filumena, ending its...