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Carpool Diamond

If you drive 'round the French capital you may know what this new road sign means. The inside lanes of their Paris orbital, Boulevard Périphérique aka the Périph, now exclude those driving solo. Otherwise nasty €135 fines prowl in wait. What struck me was that this, in its seemingly most

Black Hole Event Horizon Escape Velocity

Do we non-astronomers know what any of that title means? Lately, I've suffered frustration in how 'black hole' becomes a label applied to anything resembling simply a big hole. This is inaccurate. Yet such irritating metaphor persists. You don't have to be a physicist to be a pedant on this.

A-List Stylist Mood Board Tip

The world of stylist Jamie Mizrahi is one in which few roam. Creating red carpet looks for Oscar winning actresses like Jennifer Lawrence and superstar singers like Adele. Making me happy to learn of her central visual building block; “I always think it’s good to put together a mood

Are Your Presentations Now A Third Off?

I note a new instruction. TED Talks. Remember them? Once owning the web. They were famed for being twenty minutes of wonder. The distillation of a meaningful marvel for our curiosity. Often with the point of making us think differently about ourselves and our surrounds. As from the initials used,

What's In Your Lobby?

The lobby of the SpaceX Starlink factory in Bastrop, Texas. The 'Earth to Mars' orbital transfer ellipse. pic.twitter.com/f1KunMGgA5 — S.E. Robinson, Jr. (@SERobinsonJr) May 19, 2025 Whilst not perhaps a fully-fledged logo it certainly is a brand marque of sorts. The three rings of the Hohmann transfer

Pledge Backdrop For Brussels

Above is the top of a piece from The Times [sub'n req'd] of London. Reporting on the week's speech for eurocrats cloaked with liberal elite alignment yet presumably principally aimed at extending niceties to Microsoft. As partly evidenced by the chosen url of said publisher; Microsoft vows to fight any

Comings and Goings

Election night somewhere in the Free - if not necessarily always free-thinking - World. Embedded above is a painting I saw in coverage adorning the wall of where the eventual front runner watched on as results rolled in. Such abstract art can leave many scratching their heads, I know. As

Relative Silvered Switch

Barrier or Breakout? The "hours of work required to buy an ounce of Gold" indicator is approaching a familiar sticking point and historical stumbling block for the gold price. From: https://t.co/eAgeSgepVQ pic.twitter.com/QfEYN14mYx — Topdown Charts (@topdowncharts) December 20, 2024 A guy with mining experience across

Easy Peasy AI Squeezy

I asked the AI for the least inspiring inspirational poster and I weirdly like it pic.twitter.com/gaxWyL33QB — Arthur Dent (@ArthurCDent) April 11, 2025 Casandra or Pollyanna? Which are you? Perhaps of greater import, how about your prospect? Even if you feel it's too early to tell, preferring to

Oversize Presentation Board Makes Global Waves

Who made this chart? Aesthetically pleasing 📊 pic.twitter.com/RviMBMW6cR — vanG0AT (@VanG0xH) April 2, 2025 Seldom can a presentation aid garner so much global media coverage. Let us, if we can, separate the message from the medium. For I am known to bang on about this particular tactic once in