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It gives me great pleasure to interrupt my hiatus from blogging to bring you this short excerpt from my IM log.Acidflask: i am starting an AcidFlask Fan Club. Only $50 for ordinary member, $100 will get you Honorable Mention on my blog and $1000 will buy you my undying love. on or not?Cowboy Caleb: depends ...
“I enjoy reading these articles, hehthey are definitely not very nutritiousbut it’s like reading a children’s bookif you know what I meanit’s very cute”- IM c …
Glass Castle: Born in 1965, you in essence grew up side-by-side with the nation of Singapore. Could you talk a little about the evolving expectations for women in society over your lifetime?Sylvia Lim: I did not feel it in my family as my parents treated boys and girls similarly. But I have seen evolution outside ...
In a moment of unbridled silliness, I doodled this Venn diagram in skitch.Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
Thanks lancerlord for discovering this Rueters site:acidflask will kill us all!Eh, mine got picture leh!
[youtube{{{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ZY4Bn6q2s}}}]Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen, the Finnish artists who came up with the idea for Complaints Choir series (and previously featured on this blog here), have now brought their Singapore project to fruition, only to cancel all its public performances due to pressure from the Singapore authorities.Thanks a lot, Singapore, …
Dedicated to the snowtrucks, salt temples and street scrapers that keep the roads going.Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
People visiting your university for a conference shouldn’t have to read a campus map and a map of the town just to figure out where things are. How much would it have cost to put up strategic signs to tell people how to walk from the hotel to the lecture hall to the poster room, ...
If your native language is not English, please consider enlisting the help of an English-speaking colleague in preparing the text. - Physical Review and Physical Review Letters: Tips for A …
And the BBC has an excellent description of how the peace symbol was constructed.Happy first day of spring, Round 1 of March Madness, end of spring break and Easter. Peace out.ReferenceKathryn Wescott, BBC, World’s best known protest symbol turns 50, 2008-03-20.
Thanks to The Online Citizen, I watched this amazing piece of media coverage about the poor in Singapore by Al-Jazeera.Look, it’s Chee Soon Juan and he’s not a rabid monster! And ooh, did she just utter phrases like “tightly-controlled media” and comments about “the government liking criticism even less than it does welfare”? Oh …
The Gulf Stream will flow through a straw provided the straw is aligned to the Gulf Stream, and not at cross purposes with it. - Ann Lamont, Bird by Bird, p 121
Photograph © 2007 REUTERS/Nicky LohCongratulations to Nicole Mok, whom according to REUTERS “was first in line to purchase the latest Harry Potter book in Singapore, celebrates after …
I was out for lunch and saw a guy sitting down with a friend and a burger. In gleeful tones, he exclaimed to his lunch:I’m gonna turn you into poop!
Elia Diodati posted a photo:I took this photo about ten minutes before totality. Saturn can be seen in the lower left corner, and Regulus is above the moon.
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