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For most people, the only thing stopping them from doing the things they really want - like splurging half their salary at Geylang - is the fear of being recognised while they're at it.Fear not: now with the new and aptly-named Stupidiotic Black Bar Glasses, anyone who wishes to remain incognito can. The catch is you'll look like something from a mugshot or an autopsy …

I was happily minding my own business in my cubicle, doing my usual "tech research", when suddenly a sub-editor approached me out of the blue and asked:"I ask you a question, you don't be offended or anything okay?"I felt my left eyebrow go up as my right went down. I nodded."Don't be offended ar? Sure?"I nodded again, and put my hands behind my …

Journalists from the BBC and such have to cover wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and risk getting kidnapped a la Alan Johnston.Me? I get assigned to cover wars too - in the blogosphere, that is. Like the recent one, sparked off by who else but Photoshop queen Xiaxue, who suddenly felt a need to spread the hate around after being the sole recipient of so much of it.Out of the …

Let me first warn you that this is no makansutra-style post: to put it mildly, you are highly unlikely to develop an appetite after reading this.The recent execution of China's food safety head shed some light on the horrendous 'food' products that Chinese producers are coming up with just to shave costs. So what's on the menu? For starters, you could have their tofu cakes, …

I've been a Sandman fan for many years now, and have built up quite an extensive collection of the comic series.Needless to say, I enjoyed the series very much: although it's in comic form, some of the stories and some of the issues that they dealt with and ideas were more profound than most of the text-only books I've read (okay, I admit, I don't read a LOT, just enough to …

Transforming tape-deck Soundwave was predictably left out of the Transformers movie for being obsolete in the iPod age - but now he is back and badder than ever.Equipped with an SD memory card slot and MP3 playback capability, no one will ever dare call him outdated again, without risking being obliterated by that plastic laser on his right arm.From being one of the has-beens …

One small step for a man, a giant leap for the UK.Tony Blair has revealed at a Labour Party fund-raising event that he has finally learnt how to send a text message on his phone.The reply to this history-making message was: "Who are you?"This is the latest in a string of high-tech achievements for the former British PM: last year, he registered his own e-mail …

I'd forgotten how exciting swimming in a public pool can be, with all the interesting and scandalous things that one can observe if one would just look beyond his swimming lane.But I managed to refresh my memory today, when I finally began my training for the OSIM triathlon - two weeks before it's going to happen - by heading down to the Yishun public swimming complex to …

Don't blame your lousy photos on your 1.3-megapixel phone camera - it's possible to take professional-looking shots on them!Let the Camera Phone Book teach you the tips and tricks of makin …