If
there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond
endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas.
It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but
you.
- Million Dollar Baby
New South Wales premier denies she approved grants allocated to Coalition seats before the last state election.
Copies
of shredded and deleted documents at the centre of pork barrelling
accusations against NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian have been recovered
through a ...
MentalFloss – “In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl+alt+del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Here’s the story of how the key combination became famous in the first place…”
Get a rep on the phone faster & get better help – This site has a fee component but the search engine is free and provides actionable information at no cost. Note – if you want to speak with a person (not a chat bot) you may have to be on hold a very very long time. This site actually gives you an accurate estimated hold time. I waited two hours to talk to a “human” representative of a major communications company, and the individual was very helpful. Keep working while you are on hold and re-dial immediately if you are dropped and stay in the queue. Do not give up.
OpenCulture – “There is no one Blade Runner. Ridley Scott’s influential “neo-noir” has appeared in several different versions over the past 38 years, both official — the “director’s cut,” the “final cut,” and lest we forget, the now-derided first theatrical cut — and unofficial. So has Blade Runner‘s soundtrack, the first official release of which lagged the film by about a dozen years, and even then didn’t include all the music so integral to the unprecedented aesthetic richness of the futuristic setting. Then, about a dozen more years later, followed an expanded soundtrack album, which for many fans still proved unsatisfying. In the name of completeness and sonic fidelity, at least five widely distributed bootlegs have attempted to fill the gap. Now, in our 21st-century age of streaming, we have fan-made “remasters” of the Blade Runner soundtrack like the above, the 5.7-million-times-viewed work of a user called Greendragon861. Running just over one hour and 52 minutes — nearly the length of the various cuts of Blade Runner itself — this sonic experience includes, of course, the well-known electronic pieces by composer Vangelis, those that come right to mind when you envision the flame-belching industrial landscape of 21st-century Los Angeles or a police “spinner” taking to the skies. But it also incorporates background music, sound effects, and even snatches of dialogue from the movie. The result feels a great deal like watching Blade Runnerwithout actually watching Blade Runner…”
The National Risk Index (The Index) is an online tool to help illustrate the nation’s communities most at risk of natural hazards
Wallabies from Australia have gained a foothold in the U.K. and may be there for good
Magnus Carlsen on Queen’s Gambit and other matters
Supermarkets drop brand of coconut milk after allegations of forced monkey labor
Best inventions of 2020?
Frege’s Puzzle and the Meaning of Words, by Graham Seth Moore.
No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis by Serena Parekh is reviewed by Kate Tuttle at The Boston Globe.
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne is reviewed by Sophie Lewis at The Baffler.
