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A literal music video (literal video version) parodies an official music video clip, where the original lyrics are replaced with lyrics that describe what can be seen in the video. It is especially effective (and of course funny) in music videos which place more emphasis on impressive visuals rather than concrete meaning. DustoMcNeato (aka Dustin ...
“Eye of the Beholder” is the 6th episode of the 2nd season of the The Twilight Zone’s original TV series, first aired on 11th November 1960, written by Rod Serling and directed by Douglas Heyes. The popular series ran for 5 seasons, from 1959 to 1964, and had 156 episodes. Sure, everybody has their own ...
I first came across her blog sometime in 2011 with her bluntly honest take on Kota Kinabalu. Perhaps that time nobody took notice, but this time could be different. Hong Yi, 26 is a Sabahan who’s working as an architect for an Australian company in Shanghai. On 10th January 2012, she uploaded to youtube a ...
Requirements: on first listen, you’d be immediately smitten by the melody, whether or not you understand the lyrics is secondary. IMHO the catchiest of them all is La Marseillaise, the French national anthem: It’s followed by the Soviet Union’s anthem: Followed by Das Deutschlandlied, Germany’s national anthem: Followed by the national anthem of …
It was reported by the BBC on 5th January 2012 that the government of Sweden has formally recognised a new religion called Kopimism just before Christmas 2011, and this has been hailed by its “spiritual leader,” Isak Gerson, 19. The Missionary Church of Kopimism’s core “belief” is that everybody has the right to file-share i.e. ...
Guerrillero Heroico (Heroic Guerrilla Fighter) is a photograph of the the charismatic and controversial Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, then 31 years old, wearing his black beret. It was snapped by Alberto Korda (1928-2001) on 5th March 1960 in Havana, Cuba during a memorial service for victims of the freighter La Coubre’s explosion at Havana’s port; ...
After a year’s break, we went to see the annual Salim Restaurant 1-hour lion, unicorn and dragon dance show. It’s usually held on the evening of the second day of CNY, which this year fell on the 24th of January. The announced time was 9.45pm, the actual show started 10 minutes later. We were very ...
While performing at a Jewish orthodox synagogue in Slovakia, violinist Lukas Kmit was interrupted by a mobile phone ringing, that very familiar Nokia jingle. After pausing and giving the guilty party an annoyed glare, Kmit did the unexpected: continuing his performance with an on-the-spot improvisation of that ringtone, earning him applause from the appreciative crowd. ...
In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope took an image of the “Pillars of Creation” of the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. It contains NGC6611, a young hot star cluster that sculpts and illuminates the surrounding gas and dust, consequently causing a large hollowed-out hole and pillars. The tallest pillar is ...
Updated 20 Jan 2012, based on The Star Online posted 5.38pm The Star revealed that the winner is a retiree in his 70s, who worked out the winning combination by “diligently studying all the numbers that had been drawn before to find out the trend, then creating number combinations to bet on.” So there’s a ...
In the third set of a men’s singles second round match in the 2012 Australian Open on 18th January 2012 between unseeded Marcos Baghdatis (world no.43) and 21st seed Stanislas Wawrinka, Baghdatis was 2 sets down (6-7, 4-6), and during a changeover, he snapped: That’s 4 rackets destroyed in less than a minute: possibly a ...
On 16th January 2012, Ngidi Msungubana, 25 was bitten to death by a shark while surfing at Second Beach in Port St Johns, Eastern Cape province, South Africa (Eastern Cape). The beach faces the Indian Ocean. It has been called “the world’s deadliest” due to this being the sixth death since 2007 due to sharks ...
The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922), who has been described as one of the most influential people in history. He was awarded the first US patent for the telephone on 7th March 1876. 3 days later came the famous first phone call, when, from his Boston lab, he uttered “Mr. ...
A few months ago, I mentioned a problem I’m having with birds pooping all over some of my window frames and windowsills. In looking for a solution, for a while I seriously considered going for those expensive anti bird spikes. But later on I stumbled upon a very cheap and very effective solution. The Vinyl ...
Silke Schoenfleisch-Backof en, 39, of Frankfurt, Germany is only 3′ 8″ tall but she’s been nicknamed “Power Frau” (mighty woman). She’s been working as a prosecutor at the Frankfurt State Court for 8 years, most of the time handling business law. She reportedly decided to be a lawyer after being refused entry by a medical school ...
Back in 1990, Barack Obama, then 28, was elected the first black president of Harvard Law Review. In an interview with the New York Times that year, he said he planned to spend up to 3 years working in law and then go into politics or community work. In 1991, he presented a Black History ...


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