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The Rise of Skywalker, The Fall of Abrams
Meh. (Minor spoilerettes ahead.) Much like The Force Awakens, as a movie, and even as a Star Wars movie, it’s hard to find fault with how Skywalker rises. Granted, J.J. Abrams seems terrified of showing any emotion, judging by the way he cuts off any meaningful exchange before it finds too much depth. And–again like […]
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Schaamteloze Anti-Journalistiek Op NOS Radio 1
Heel Nederland staat op zijn kop vanwege een terugroepactie vleeswaren van supermarkt Jumbo. De besmette vleeswaren zijn allang uit de schappen en Jumbo heeft netjes een lijst gepubliceerd van producten die klanten mogen terugbrengen. Maar dat verhaal is voor de NOS niet smeuïg genoeg. Opgetekend uit de monden van een “journalist” van de NOS voor […]
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Why I Don’t Debate Climate Change Deniers Anymore, But Unfriend Them
Earlier today, I came close to unfriending a guy on Facebook over climate change. He wasn’t even too rabidly fundamentalist about the topic. Nevertheless, his way of arguing his climate change point of view had all the hallmarks of the widespread climate change denial disinformation strategy. Which is why I refuse to engage in this […]
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SurveyMonkey Business
Some twelve hours after I blogged about SurveyMonkey’s theft of 60 euros of my money, and a couple of hours after I mentioned in these pages that they’d doubled down by changing the price for everyone, SurveyMonkey has apparently relented. Late Thursday night I received an email from Kaleigh with apologies, an explanation, the announcement […]
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The Shamelessness Of Monkeys
Update 2: SurveyMonkey has caved under the pressure of hundreds of page hits, shares, and retweets of this blog post, and granted me a full refund and a 6-month complimentary subscription. In zoos, I’ve seen monkeys fornicate and masturbate in public, eat their own vomit, and even dine without the benefit of cutlery–or clean hands. […]
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SurveyMonkey Steals Your Money
Update 2: SurveyMonkey has caved under the pressure of hundreds of page hits, shares, and retweets of this blog post, and granted me a full refund and a 6-month complimentary subscription. Update: SurveyMonkey has reacted to my complaint by restructuring their entire pricing model. Repeat after me: Sur – Vey – Mon – Key Steals […]
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Even Science Mags Murder Science
When even a scientific magazine like Wetenschap in Beeld (Science in the Picture) makes huge errors like this, errors in their thinking as much as in their facts, it’s no wonder that less and less people really understand science, and more and more people lose faith in it. In their April issue, WiB printed an […]
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Terug Naar De Jaren Vijftig Met Apple Family Sharing
Wie had kunnen bevroeden dat uitgerekend Apple ons stevig in de jaren vijftig geworteld wil houden? Ja, je kan in iTunes vroege rock’n’roll kopen. Maar die vijftiger jaren bedoel ik niet. Ik doel op de jaren vijftig van de traditionele rolverdeling: een kostwinner en een thuisblijvende ouder, met liefst nog pappa als de eerste en […]
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Reset Buttons Are Evil
Dear web designers, Can you please STOP ADDING RESET BUTTONS to your forms? There hasn’t been a single user in the entire history of the interwebs who filled out a web form, and then went, “O wait, all of that isn’t right, I’ve entered the wrong information! What to do, what to do, but pull […]
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Sleeping Beauties: An Almost Evil Vintage King
As a metaphor for what’s wrong with present-day American society and culture, this book is a success. But not the way Steve and Owen intended, I think. On the surface, Sleeping Beauties is another trademark Stephen King novel. So much so, in fact, that one is left wondering what, if anything, Junior contributed. There’s the […]
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