And, what, saying it was a complete and utter gamechanger for absolutely everything, fine art included? Wasn't it? Do you think say Guernica would look like it did in the absence of photography? (View Post)

Nostalgia the other night when someone in an early 2000s movie had some top secret info on a zip drive on a SCSI chain. (View Post)

It goes further back than that, there's a school report at Eton saying he is a conceited little shit who thinks he has a God given right to be made head boy, and 2 months later they make him hea… (View Post)

yes. The prep/public school/Oxford system is or was bizarrely weighted towards the classics, for reasons rooted in 19th century snobbery, to the extent that if you have an aptitude for translating gr… (View Post)

Yes, never mind the headline pro or con position, read it for things like "So next week she will start uniquely weak for a Prime Minister, with no base of positive support anywhere." "… (View Post)