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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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!