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One of my favourite writers, Dean Allen, is back online after a long hiatus.Welcome back, Dean.
My dad came to Singapore as a young boy with absolutely no money and worked incredibly hard his whole life. With a combination of sheer hard work, luck and some help from the Big Guy Upstairs, in just one generation, he managed to break out of the poverty cycle. I will always remember his tenacity, ...
A mildly depressing song from Blur’s 1991 album Leisure, Sing also appeared in the Trainspotting soundtrack. Despite the melancholy, it’s a beautiful track. Sad, but uplifting in a weird way…
Everybody loves fireworks during the annual National Day Parades, but with every passing year, it feels more and more like an excessive indulgence. We do need to mark our independence but all the blinding lights, screaming jets and massive pyrotechnics seem very exuberant and expensive. Maybe the money for the electricity, fuel and fireworks could ...
The battles of yesterday were fought over land… Those of the present center on oil. But those of the future, a future made hotter and dryer by climate change in much of the world, will focus on a much more basic resource: water.›› Desertification of the landscape may be a real threat
The difference between the fastest and slowest car is perhaps three or even four seconds per lap. So the fastest driver in the slowest car would still be nowhere, whereas the slowest driver in the fastest car would be quite successful.›› Wired Magazine on last season’s Formula One spy scandal
The Racontuers released their second full length studio album, Consolers of the Lonely on vinyl, CD, MP3 and in all other formats and media on 25 Match 2008. There were no promo copies for the media, no ‘first week sales’ stats, no nothing — you and I could hear it at the same time as ...
Evgeny Parfenov is a freelance Russian illustrator who has a wide variety of styles in his toolbox. My personal favourites are the very strongly geometric, almost dystopian/propaganda style portraits that he seems to do quite regularly.
Keep your windows closed at high speeds—drag from open windows can reduce a car’s fuel efficiency by 10 percent.Cleaning 100 pounds of junk from your car will get you up to 2 percent …
Some crap corporate cliche classics mentioned in this BBC write-up on office speak include “idea showers”, “a holistic, cradle-to-grave approach”, “pre-prepare”, “conversate”, “not let the grass grow too long” and “close of play”. My personal favourite is “You can’t have your cake and eat it, …
Back then, if you couldn’t sing or write a song and yet you needed to express your feelings for someone, you’d have made a mix tape. Armed with a dual tape deck, our crappy musical tastes were a form of creative expression, with the analogue cassette tape as the canvas. Nowadays, I hear that the ...
This is the stuff boyhood dreams are made of. Nicely done, Nike and Guy Richie.
If you have never heard of Mother Love Bone before, here are three main things that summarise their short history. Fact 1:They were one of the pioneer bands of the Seattle grunge scene of the late 80s/early 90s. Fact 2:Their exuberant lead singer Andrew Wood died of a drug overdose at the age of 24 ...
This quite slick looking device from Belkin connects to your high-definition video sources (like Blu-ray players, HD set-top boxes, Wii, PS3 or Xbox consoles) and wirelessly transmits the video and audio around your house. Thanks to the FlyWire, you can hide away all your devices and cables and have your HD TV hang grandly on ...
Keep getting “ActionScript 2.0 class scripts may only define class or interface constructs” errors in Flash? Here’s how you fix the damn problem!
What made this song so awesome in 1990? The mullets? The high cut shoes? The awful freestyle dancing?It’s all so gross now that I look at it again.
Iranian born Swedish producer Aril Brikha’s Ex Machina is filled with groovy beats, fat basslines, trippy strings and ambient soundscapes. Pleasant all-round and never jarring, this is a good album, which is especially enjoyable when you are just spacing out at home on a Friday evening. It’s a pity that, given the high standard of ...
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