/watchesAfter shipping delays, my phase 2 purchase of the G-SHOCK x BAKLAVA GA-2100 “Desert King” has arrived. Honestly, I'm very impressed. Photos don't do the colours justice. It's more brown than flesh-coloured, the bullbars and buttons are a deep gray metallic finish, and the red
/coffeeOur little community is growing quickly; we're now 350+ members strong. This also means that spam has hit us. Some slipped past the automatic filters and I was offline, which meant it persisted. Per rule 4 of the community: No advertising or spam. Sharing your own videos or
/gamingI am rooting for Marathon to find its audience. I am not particularly interested in it myself but I always like to see healthy competition in the gaming industry. However, a footnote in the Marathon pre-order trailer caught my eye — the Collector's Edition of the game doesn't
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/photographyOne of the things I was most excited about seeing in Tokyo was The Tokyo Toilet project. The Nippon Foundation commissioned the construction of these public toilets for the 2020 Olympic Games. Each toilet was designed by a different architect. Due to the pandemic, these works
/musicRecently, I was thinking about the radio and mourning the loss of interesting music discovery on it. I then remembered that there’s hundreds of online radio stations; NTS popped into my mind and I checked it out. The hosts are all really chilled out and the music they play is i
/diggPersonally, I’d like the top cards to only include the communities I am a part of. I have particularly chosen to exclude some communities from my feed yet they are the top ones on my cards. Will this feature change? Will we be given a choice?
/technologyAre Apple moving forwards or backwards with their UI design? Liquid Glass is proving to be very divisive already. I liked it initially but I’m holding off on forming a proper opinion once I’ve used it myself. The overall direction they’ve taken with the design of app icons is,
/diggThere’s a lot of optimist talk about Digg remaining a positive platform where people can politely challenge each others opinions, however, we all know that some people will unfortunately not abide by this ethos and therefore it might be nice to have the option to block them. My
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/technologyPoolsuite FM (formerly Poolside) is a really cool corner of the internet. Founded by Marty Bell, the Poolsuite crew have gone on to found Vacation Inc. which make great sunscreen. They also dabbled in NFTs and are still pushing them somewhat. Poolsuite is a great chill-out es
