Kevin Donovan

1 week ago | architectureandgovernance.com | Kevin Donovan

By Kevin DonovanOver the weekend, I came across a study from Yale published in Neuron that explored the effects of visual clutter on the brain. It was striking—not only for its implications in neuroscience but for its uncanny parallels to one of IT’s most persistent challenges: technical debt. The study showed how visual clutter disrupts cognitive performance. It drains our mental resources, diminishes focus, reduces working memory, and elevates stress.

2 weeks ago | tvmovie.de | Kevin Donovan |Jackie Chan |Jennifer Love Hewitt |Jason Isaacs

Als Geheimagent Devlin (Jason Isaacs) bei einem Anschlag verletzt wird, schlüpft sein Chauffeur Jimmy (Jackie Chan; u.) aus Neugier in dessen schwarzen Anzug. Der verleiht seinem Träger Superheldenfähigkeiten. Die benötigt Jimmy bald, denn er soll einen Finsterling (Ritchie Coster) ausschalten, der die Wasservorräte der Welt verseuchen will.

1 month ago | thespec.com | Kevin Donovan

Three former patients of private rehab Muskoka Recovery have filed a $40-million lawsuit against the facility and its owners. The owners and staff of Muskoka “have deliberately and systemically misled, lured, financially exploited, abused and endangered vulnerable people seeking treatment at the facility,” according to a statement of claim filed in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice.

1 month ago | thespec.com | Kevin Donovan

A grainy security video seized by police in the early days of the Barry and Honey Sherman investigation shows “suspicious activity” in the driveway beside the Sherman home just before the billionaire couple was murdered. Two SUVs pull into the driveway, four individuals get out, they move around the neighbour’s property for at least an hour. At one point, one of the mysterious figures can be seen running from one part of the property to another.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kevin Donovan

I first met the writer Keith Dewhurst when he came to talk to students, including me, at a tech college in Nottingham in the 1960s. We corresponded intermittently, but my attempts at TV scripts ended in flames; he returned the charred remains of some suggestions I had submitted with a note explaining that we had been the victims of “yer actual vandalism”. Someone had set fire to the pillar box at the end of the street in Huyton, where I had deposited my master work.