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Stuff you must read today (Tue, 27 Jul 2010)

Laremy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:56:10 +0000

The Little Story of One HDB Flat

I feel very strongly about this issue because I am someone who has been excluded from the public housing market because of the astronomical prices.

Jane Austen’s Fight Club

To hell with Inception… This is THE must-watch movie of the year!

Navel gazing: Academic inbreeding and scientific productivity.

A paper which suggests that it’s good for universities to hire PhD graduates who have not been trained by the same university so as to encourage diversity in thought, cross-fertilisation of ideas, etc.

Am posting this up because I remember having this conversation with someone back in NUS about this policy – NUS seldom (or never) hires faculty who have NUS graduate degrees.

Transcript of Dr Lim Hock Siew’s speech on the ISA.

How is this distorted or misleading?

New Spice | Study like a scholar, scholar

BYU produces a stunningly good parody of the recent Old Spice ad.

Familiar Horror Movie Scenes Ruined by the New iPhone

Why the future won’t the same – or as scary – with the advent of technology.

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Stuff you must read today (Sat, 17 Jul 2010)

Laremy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:32:44 +0000

The Creative Process

A Subnormality Comic.

10 couples caught naked daily on Terengganu beaches

The 48-year-old volunteer, who claimed to have caught 1,200 couples on the beaches since signing up as a volunteer in 2004, said he had had enough.

“I cannot take it any longer and am thinking of giving up this work. I have decided that enough is enough after six years as a volunteer,” he said.

Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed

“[Collective intelligence] holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead—because ideas are having sex with each other as never before”.

– LOL. (via)

Meet the Schweinsteigers.

What Bastian Schweinsteiger’s surname actually means!

The road to Farmville is paved with good intentions.

Win.

External Validation

Oh, God – Yes!

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Stuff you must read today (Sat, 26 Jun 2010)

Laremy — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:36:03 +0000

Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a… Oh look – new mail!

The NY Times article in question is here.

Filial piety: fine feelings and hard work

Why the “Filial Piety” ad is a bad one.

Don’t worry, be happy

“The photos might look bleak, but I don’t feel sorry for these gentle and giving folk. I admire their hardiness, humility and humour. You need these qualities to find opportunities in a puddle, a solitary slide or a computer lab stuck firmly in the early 90s.”

Are the effects of pornography negligible?

A Universite de Montreal professor refutes the demonization of pornography.

Toot

“This is also one of only five identified situations in which a vuvuzela is actually appropriate”.

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Stuff you must read today (Wed, 23 Jun 2010)

Laremy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:58:16 +0000

Don’t judge an estate by its report.

A Potong Pasir resident’s view of the Town Council Management Report (inclusive of a personal story which you must read).

Twilight for Men.

Someone needs to start writing this already.

Release of Statistics Booklet – Population in Brief 2010

Oh my. This is rather troubling.

Vampire Dog

Chupacabra!

The Live-and-Let-Live System in Trench Warfare in World War I.

Hmmm.

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Stuff you must read today (Mon, 14 Jun 2010)

Laremy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:26:10 +0000

30 Unique Logo Designs That Actually Say Something

Well-designed logos that not only communicate the name of the brand but the brand itself.

Jim's Pancakes

Alas, I know when I am beat.

Vintage Photo Effect

Good advice for a future music album or book cover.

NL architects: hong kong boundaries crossing facilities

An innovative idea to solve the problem of movement between two countries where motorists drive on opposite sides of the road.

Keynote Speech by Mr Peter Ho, Head of Civil Service and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore at iGOV Global Forum

I am rather shocked at how he has called the technology “disruptive” – he alienates himself even more from the very populace he is trying to reach when he uses divisive language like this.

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Stuff you must read today (Fri, 28 May 2010)

Laremy — Fri, 28 May 2010 06:41:13 +0000

“Why the humanities matter”

…the soft options are the ones that stay with you. All the other stuff – all that hard knowledge about finance and business – changes.

How to Name an Abortion Clinic

Don’t worry, this comic isn’t nearly as offensive as it sounds.

Why I’ll never volunteer again

An employee there then sent an SMS to him, which was accidentally sent to me as well. It read: “Call this dude, Mr Tan, Iras volunteer. So troublesome. Tks”.

– This is hilarious.

Why is it alright to eat animals, but not to have sex with them?

It is not alright to do either!

Two soldiers, not one, accidentally shot

Asked why the shootings were not reported earlier, the spokeswoman said it was usual practice for the ministry not to report on military training accidents.

– MINDEF Public Affairs FTW!

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Stuff you must read today (Wed, 26 May 2010)

Laremy — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:56:23 +0000

If I could travel back in time…

Meme-worthy but am a tad too lazy to carry this on. Anyone else?

The New Yorker: “Agreeable” by Jonathan Franzen

Short story about femininity and politics.

How The Male Angler Fish Gets Completely Screwed

Angler fish = some scary shit there.

Minimum wage

My sentiments exactly.

The Taxonomy of Barney.

Materials and Methods
In February 1994, we observed on television an animal which was there identified as a dinosaur, Barney. Its behavioral characteristics suggested that it was dissimilar to the diverse dinosaurian faunas that are so well documented. Even accounting for the probability that some dinosaurs were socially closely organized, and that some even may have been warm-blooded, Barney’s animated attitude, communication skills, and worshipful relationship with juvenile specimens of Homo, all pointed to an unrecognized aspect of reptile form and function.

– LAWL.

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Stuff you must read today (Sun, 23 May 2010)

Laremy — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:41:14 +0000

World country, but not First World wages?

For years, companies have creamed off a larger share of economic gains – larger than those in other developed countries or industrialising economies in Asia.

As a result, workers get a slice of Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) that is considered unusually small compared with their counterparts’ share in those countries.

how cpr should be taught

Signing up for this course… now!

If I could travel back in time…

Meme-worthy, but I am lazy. Anyone keen to take up the challenge?

Imagine

One thing I shared was that I hoped to see another teacher education institute. Why? For the simple reason that competition is good! As much as we brainstorm, we suffer from group think. And we might get complacent because there is no threat to what we think we do best.

– Respect, man.

Putting teeth in the fight against rape

Vagina dentata – coming to a store near you!

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Stuff you must read today (Sat, 15 May 2010)

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:54:37 +0000

Social research for diplomats

Read the section on Singapore. Do you notice anything odd re: business and racial lines?

The Tell-Tale Beat

You must read The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe before you understand this comic.

Kickstarter

Would you support me if I used this to set up Laremy Lee’s Endowment Fund?

Roulette Russian

Ternovskiy, meanwhile, sees school — and college — as a waste of time. “The last three years at school, I haven’t done anything,” he says. “I just can’t make myself. There’s so much interesting stuff in the world, and I have to sit there with textbooks?”

Happy Tax Day! Obama and Biden’s Tax Returns

It’d be nice if Singaporean politicians were similarly transparent.

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Stuff you must read today (Fri, 2 Apr 2010)

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:33:14 +0000

Google Romance

Pin all your romantic hopes on Google.

Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers

In no other profession are workers so insulated from accountability.

Keep up the adequate work!

Always say it like it is!

The Teriyaki Date

The Oatmeal goes on a date and has some issues with stir fry.

Singaporeans Seek Asylum Elsewhere

Subtitle: “A handful of the Lion City’s citizens want to abandon their homeland for less strict digs.”

I never knew about this/thought about this issue before!

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