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NFT Goldrush Bubble Craze

Do you understand how a “cryptoart” jpeg can be worth [https://qz.com/1982872/an-nft-backed-jpeg-sold-for-69-3-million-at-a-christies-auction/] seventy million dollars? Me neither. No matter how many NFTs Explained pieces I read [https://news.artnet.com/market/the-buyer-of-the-69-million-beeple-nft-metapurse-1951561] , watch or hear. Move over, Bitcoin. There’s a new dog in town. If my

Your Covid Press Conference Prop

This man has become a bit of a cult figure during the coronavirus pandemic. Earning the nickname JVT from his initials; Jonathan Van-Tam. He is a professor and also currently England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer. This snapshot above came from the daily UK government press conference of 17 March.

Bun Bun Bun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzQik2wPSc Here’s a current American burger chain ad. I note it first for its attack on their biggest competitor. I never like this approach. Whether in advertising or selling, to knock the competition so openly and blatantly seldom succeeds in my view. I’

Trait Representations By Line

This is from a drawing class given by an artist called Bettina. Her instruction was to use pencil lines to convey the state labelling each cell. Dashes, dots or smudges all allowed. Every person brings their own, different emotion to any line. I believe this particular task was meant to

Different Perspective Meme Slide of Clever Techie

The cuddly toy mobile the parents see is cute smiley faces. The baby though, gets a whole less appealing view. Parents blissfully unaware. A techie in so deep they bought crypto in its earliest of days, had to give a presentation on direction. They do not like slidedecks. In fact,

UK Covid19 Stats Data Cards

> The #COVID19 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Dashboard has been updated: https://t.co/NksBC7dY3d On Wednesday 10 March 2021, 5,926 new cases and 190 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported across the UK. A total of 22,809,

Adding Markers To Bars

[https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2102017] Here’s an interesting chart treatment. From Monday’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2102017]). Reporting first-run vaccine success against variants which mutated into view after initial release. What do all the

Deepfake Tom Cruise Backdrop Tips

> Just saw the #deepfakes [https://twitter.com/hashtag/deepfakes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] of Tom Cruise and feel like a monkey looking at a spacecraft pic.twitter.com/CRO5NpEMFa [https://t.co/CRO5NpEMFa] — Angad Chowdhry (@angadc) February 26, 2021 [https://twitter.com/angadc/status/1365241498787225602?ref_src=twsrc%

Have You A Rabbit Like Rishi?

> The Super Deduction makes our tax regime for business investment truly world-leading, lifting us from 30th in the OECD, to 1st. For the next two years, we’re allowing businesses to claim 130% of their new machinery cost as a tax cut #Budget2021 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Budget2021?src=hash&

Best #Budget2021 Reporter Chart

The UK’s big annual political financial set-piece took place Wednesday. The Budget was unusually given a fair reporting by elements of the perennially, overwhelmingly hostile tv media. The main thrust being as articulated by one parliamentary Leftist grandee; > To be successful in politics, you have to ride two political