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Protecting your Mac against malware and intrusion

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Security, like terror and debt, is a concept that can generate nightmares, or deep indifference, depending on your level of paranoia and anxiety.

February 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Enough enough

Enough is a common enough word in the English language that we never stop to think how strange it is.

February 24, 2015 Language

Favourite Paintings 7: Camille Pissarro, Setting Sun and Fog, Éragny, 1891

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A simply golden landscape at sunset, by the central figure in Impressionism and father of Post-Impressionism.

February 23, 2015 Painting

Beyond words and pictures 4: modern painting, and conclusions

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Is modernism different with respect to its use of visual tropes such as metonymy? The answer leads us to conclusions about the reliance of language and painting on metaphor and metonymy.

February 23, 2015 Language, Painting

Lambs’ tales

I hate the word ‘cute’, but these newly-born lambs really are, complete with their black boots.

February 22, 2015 General, Life

Beyond words and pictures 3: metonymy and synecdoche

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Examines the use of metonymy, synecdoche, and symbols in representative painting prior to ‘Modern Art’ in the twentieth century.

February 22, 2015 Language, Painting

Something for the weekend, sir? Contraception before the ‘pill’

A glimpse into the social history of the condom.

February 21, 2015 General, Language, Life

Favourite Paintings 6: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Blue Rigi, Sunrise, 1842, and Norham Castle, Sunrise, c 1845

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Two late paintings portraying tranquil sunlit scenes of dawn over still water, remarkable in their anticipation of Impressionism.

February 21, 2015 Painting

Faint words of apology: Lenovo and Superfish

We are only human, and each of us screws up on occasion. Large multinational corporates also screw up, […]

February 20, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

Warming your hands, and men in tights

One of the better-kept secrets of keeping your hands and feet warm, what wristlets are, and why some men wear tights.

February 20, 2015 General, Life

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