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Latest — Jan 17, 2025

Your Movie Suspense Scale Deal Picker

I embed above a "system for rating new horror movies, comparing them with classics along a 10-point scale". As framed by Slate. They score on a trio of criteria; suspense, spookiness, gore. I came across it over festive downtime wondering if I ought suggest the movie Longlegs. One day I

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High Performance Tennis Vibe

The tennis world is fascinated by the seemingly left-field combo of Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. The former raging against the twilight of time (& amazing crop of generational youngsters), appointing the recently succumbed to that very Winter three-time Grand Slam title champion latter, as coach in his quest for one

How Fire Retardant Is Your Sales House?

Pics of that three-storey structure above (& at foot) flooded feeds over the weekend. This "home seemed to emerge as the improbable lone survivor along the ravaged coastline". Remarkable. Although not quite as it seems. As different angles of the same beachfront shows. But still, given the swathes of utterly destroyed

Zuck When Talking About Something Important

The latest in the recurring series of World's Richest Tech Bros change-the-world video monologues hit early this New Year. Mark Zuckerberg spent 5 minutes 17 seconds justifying a sudden political volte-face. Worrying those forever inclined towards more regulation. Welcomed by free speech campaigners. He began; "Hey everyone. I want to

Sales Lessons From World Champ Wonderkid Luke The Nuke

Awesome. A 17-year-old lad becomes Darts World Champion. It's one of those strange pursuits, the 'arrers. At once both fringe yet mainstream. A game that everyone can, and probably has, tried. Where the live audience, whether serenading their crowd favourite more, raucously cheer for both players; ♫ stand up if you

Elite Football Probability Added Data Edge

The rise of the data geeks has seen sports worldwide chasing the best number crunchers. For instance, I've blogged before on altmetrics [2019], an Indian statsdog [2013] and more cricmetrics [2010]. There's many a health warning. One sample jibe; 'the guy in Moneyball won nothing'. Yet in football the clamour

Cuppa Power

It was revealed this year that a British lab broke the record for the energy generated by a controlled nuclear fusion reaction. The fuel weighed as much as a fruit fly, but created enough energy to make 600 cups of tea (surely the standard unit of energy for any British

Rolling News Telly Zoomscape From Lewis Schaffer

At the studio reading tomorrow's #Headliners on @GBNEWS. 11PM tonight. I can't smile without you! pic.twitter.com/O6puuQ646n — Lewis Schaffer (@LewisSchaffer) January 5, 2025 Inside an anonymous office block in Paddington. From London to the world, prep for the best next-day's papers review show out there. Headliners on GB

Chart Graphics of 2024

My longlist for this post was fifty strong. Criteria for inclusion was not necessarily data I felt affinity to. More that the visual representation was something we could build on in our solution sell endeavours. A chart can really make the winning difference on a bid. A skill I'm all

What Are Your Fins?

Over the festive period a cooking innovation tickled my new product antennae. Always keen to see how a self-styled disruptor promotes themselves, the pot as seen above on the right is positioned as far superior - in one respect an astonishing 80% so - to the old school option on