Twistori is a website that displays Tweets containing mental verbs in a story format. A possible teaching resource, if anything.
Analysis of birthday greetings.
I turned 26 two days ago and I received quite a number of birthday well-wishes. This is a quantitative breakdown of the greetings – and the replies I gave. It’s mostly real, but it’s mostly tongue-in-cheek too. Enjoy 
The simple life.
Once upon a time, the simple life comprised waking up, making a nice cuppa tea and having lunch while tuning in to podcasts/The Simpsons/South Park for three hours.
If that was the simple life, then life has become infinitely more complicated – I just had to limit myself to watching/listening to three podcasts.
Very surprisingly, I complied. There’s work to be done, so even blog posts have to be constructed hastily.
Anyway, I’ve either been very deprived of entertainment, or the three podcasts I caught were really good. In any case, do catch them if you can:
- Midwest Teen Sex Show Episode 23: Vaginas.
- the mrbrown show: drive safe below
- the mrbrown show: new media gahmen
Also, do consider being friends with @yandao1957 if you can. He’s a poor chap, take pity on him.
Undergrads kicked out of hostel for streaking.
Hostel residents: Others have run naked before.
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By the way, I may have been the one (or at the very least, one of the people) who provided the tip-off about the story… And believe it or not, it was through Twitter. Here’s the chronology of tweets with some background information:
I posted these, and other ‘web’ tweets using tweet.sg when I returned to NUS for the India Trip exhibition thingy.
I learnt about the expulsion from Zee, who was “one of the KR guys” I met. I’m not going to comment too much on the punishment, but let’s just say that I believe it’s a fallacy for every action to deserve a punitive reaction, especially one of this measure.
It took a sharp-eyed journo who’s very in tune with the workings of social media to spot my Tweet, and before long, the reporters were on their way.
So ladies and gentlemen, if you ever need an example about how collaborative Web 2.0 technologies are, and the potential for these technologies, here’s a classic one for you. Cheers, and have a great weekend.
P.S. My reply:
