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Thanks to Fox, who cheerfully provided the link to this Youtube video about the Perv Detector a little while back at my place:
I used to think that there was simply no word in English that captured the essence of schadenfreude or 幸灾乐祸, but thanks to Luciferous Logolepsy, I’ve learnt that the word ‘epic …
Takchek reports that neurologists at the National University Hospital (for Oriental Magic), in collaboration with the Hogwarts school nurse, have published a summary of magical outpatient cases in the Annals of the Academy of Medicine in Singapore.It’s a comprehensive study of the records of the magical ailments of 5500 magical folk, comprised of “908 wizards, ...
This morning’s International Herald Tribune runs parts of an interview with Lee Kuan Yew. It’s always illuminating to hear from LKY, because no one can deny his integral influence in the past and current trajectory of Singapore.And quite an insightful interview, it is. Full of survivalist bravado, as are many of his interviews, but here ...
Seen on BoingBoing sometime back, but it’s hilarious even now. A bunch of anime friends meet on the streets of Akihabara and do a cosplay dance, then get busted by the police:Apparen …
If you are a scholar or other person who has signed a monetary bond contract in exchange for labor, there is now a Facebook application for you to help you watch the value of that immense sum dwindle as you slowly work it off toward an asymptotic value of zero.
In the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, a E. V. Tsiper of the George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC managed to slip by what I consider to be the funniest citation that I’ve ever seen make it into a staid scientific journal.In the opening paragraph, a citation ...
This week’s Youtube Monday isn’t hosted on Youtube, but it’s cool nonetheless. Seed Magazine has produced a nice video clip entitled Science In Silico, which is a nice survey of pretty pictures from the burgeoning labs engaged in computational science.Click To Play
It’s the forty-second birthday of the state that can claim me to be its citizen by birthright. As I write this, millions of my fellow countrymen (and -women) are probably watching the festivities on the other side of the globe, either in person at wherever the celebrations are this year, or remotely via state-owned television ...
More specifically, I wasted most of the day reading entries in the quote database on bash.org. Most of them are somewhat banal, scatological, or just sexual; some are gems, such as #85403: You know, I think there’s a point in your life when you realize that life’s just not worth it ...
In this week’s Youtube Monday, Penn and Teller, in their documentary series Bullshit!, successfully get hundreds of activists to sign a petition for the banning of that nefarious chemical, dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). You may, of course, recognize DHMO written in its more traditional chemical notation H2O.
The Cold ReadingsComparing a science fiction tale to user readability.Macaron « the odd jokerInteresting degustation place
I have six available invites to pownce, the new file sending/event planning thingy-bob in the Web 2.0 universe. First come, first served. Contact me any way you like.
The amazing BBC Documentary Archive has made a documentary about maids available online. I highly recommend it, considering the very substantial coverage of maids in Singapore and their human rights abuses around the world.The statistic that struck me most was how human rights organizations have documented over 147 cases of maids plunging to their deaths ...
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