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This is hilarious, not only for its mildly satirical take on science, but also because I listen to The Beach Boys sometimes but never realised how the songs could be categorised.
“The special forces guys — they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down,” he says.
“Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That’s what we do, that’s our business.”
“Any address of such a complex and sensitive subject must surely begin with proper, factual knowledge of it. For only through knowledge, can we understand the truths about our human nature, and only through understanding, can we take into account the needs, instincts, capabilities, etc of this human nature, in the formulation of values that will fit in with those of our society as a whole.”
Siew Kum Hong’s take on the AWARE EGM.
“Think of it as everything you would need to go into the cruise ship business,” Pham says. “Everything that you would need to run a cruise ship line, short of the entertainment, you need to run a piracy operation.”
Igotanenvelope is a continuous art project where people leave empty self-addressed stamped envelopes in public places to be picked up and filled by others, who then send them back.
A refreshing idea or guerilla marketing campaign?
Don’t invest in people who are going to ruin you emotionally.
Proving once more that people simply enjoy missing the forest for the trees.
“囧 (jiong), which first appeared on oracle bones about 3,000 years ago, has become one of the most frequently used icons by the Chinese Internet community. The character has gained iconic status and has come to mean “sad and frustrated”, as it resembles a frowning face. The symbol, whose original meaning is “bright”, has attracted a lot of online buzz with its new Net definition”.