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32 switches to play ambient sounds. Looks like a nice piece of furniture as well. #

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A route planner for the Roman Empire. Includes seasons and various means of travel. Splendid! #

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"Nothing became him in life like the leaving of it, says a character from “Macbeth” of the traitor Cawdor’s acceptance of his execution. Boris Johnson may have once been commissioned to write a study of Shakespeare but he has never taken that particular line to heart. Perhaps that’s why he returned the publisher’s advance." – What a way to start this piece. I like it. #

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While I completely understand the necessity for this service, the whole premise would also make for an amazing (horror) film. #

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Unfathomable to me how people can steadily produce books, let alone write so much they decide to publish under an additional pseudonym. #

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Can you believe it's been almost twenty years since the publication of "Atlanta Nights"? I think I might still have my copy somewhere on a hard-drive. #

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"The problem with AI right now isn't that it's smart. It's that it's stupid in ways we can't predict." - A very apt conclusion to a pretty good segment about Artifical Intelligence by John Oliver. #

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I only just found out that film genre scented candles and air fresheners exist. The documentary one, according to its description, is a fragrance of "university library archives, weathered newspaper clippings, a timeline of the events. found footage, the opinion of an expert, competing narratives, court documents (newly unsealed), the fog of memory, time." We live in strange times, folks. #

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"It injects a ton more diversity and serendipity to my daily reading. I wind up seeing, knowing, and hearing about far more things than I’d ever find out about in an algorithmically-sorted social-media feed." - I agree and I'm glad things are moving more in that direction in general. #

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