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Last week I took a photo to illustrate the Wikipedia article about the Apple Polishing Cloth. I have an Apple Polishing Cloth, but it was grubby despite my washing it, so ridiculously I spent another £19 just for the photo. (Yes, given the exchange rate and that it costs $19, it should cost fewer pounds.) But perhaps I can resell it – would you pay extra to own the thing that’s in the photo on the Wikipedia article about the thing?
(It’s not a very good cloth. A bit of old T-shirt or pants will do just as well.)
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The Acquired podcast is a business podcast about business things. It can be infuriating, galling and partial but I’ve been listening to it a bit.
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They had an episode where they interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried before all the fraud he was doing became known. To their credit, it’s still available to listen to, but it’s pretty boring. The biggest red flag is the appalling sound quality – remarkable that a then-billionaire wouldn’t have a better audio recording setup.
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The four-hour episode on Coca-Cola didn’t touch on two of the three things I know about the history of the fizzy pop: the Peckham Spring fiasco, and the 7.5 cent coin and the “official blank” that were mooted to solve the problems with vending machines that made it hard to raise the price for a long time.
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CMAT (h). Having arrived late, and then dithered at the bar – the local venue no longer has any astringent local cider on tap – I resigned myself to spending the evening with a concrete pillar in my face. But then the Dunboyne Diana herself appeared not on the faraway stage but on a fellow’s shoulders just the other side of the pillar, so that was cool.