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Feb 11, 2013 • I was mentally debating if I preferred the taste of sparkling water to distilled water (distilled, if you’re asking) as I walked into yet another management level meeting about keeping the lights off at night, and completing your timesheets. You know, the really important stuff. Naturally the mind drifts. What it caught on was a...
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Jan 12, 2013 • Just finished reading the New York Times latest article about the Indian rape victim (Available here.). It’s the followup article to the entire saga where 1. a girl died in a brutal manner 2. a nation is shocked at the manner in which she died 3. 6 men are now standing trial for the incident....
The new Standard Chartered Bank credit card is really well designed. It combines good engineering with good design to produce something quite extraordinary. Among the first of credit cards with a token feature:
Dave Brubeck, the pianist and composer who helped make jazz popular again in the 1950s and ’60s with recordings like “Time Out,” the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and “Take Five,” the still instantly recognizable hit single that was that album’s centerpiece, died on Wednesday in Norwalk, Conn. He would have turned...
With Flightboard, you can turn your iPhone or iPad into the Arrivals and Departures board for any airport in the world! FlightBoard lets you take a look at the boards of your favourite airports and view all the flight information in real-time. They used the board at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris as inspiration...
This is a simple way to clear landmines. Usually clearing a landmine costs more than a thousand euros but with this prototype, it costs only 40 euros. THE MINE KAFON is a Semifinalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. Very neat.
The Israel Defense Force live tweeted its strike that killed a Hamas leader. According to CNN: The military’s live spin about the strike, and Hamas’ response on a separate Twitter feed, have been called an unprecedented use of social media. “The IDF has begun a widespread campaign on terror sites & operatives in the #Gaza...
Interesting news bit from mungowitzend: A man from northern China who divorced and sued his wife earlier this year for being ugly has recently won the lawsuit, according to a report from PlanetIvy.com. Jian Feng said his issues with his wife’s looks only began after the couple’s daughter was born. Feng was appalled by the...
Was stuck at Junction 8 in Bishan till I took another route back home: Seems like the MRT has a power outage and this affects the Circle Line. According to CNA: SMRT train services on the Circle Line were delayed on Thursday evening. Initially, tweets from SMRT said train services between Dhoby Ghaut and Harbourfront...
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Apple is holding an event on Tuesday with the teaser “We’ve got a little more to show you.” So what is to be expected: Retina MacBook Pro, 13″ one this time A new iPad (again), this one is smaller — iPad Mini Updated Mac Mini, faster than the previous one Updated iMac, faster than the...
Now this is a scary thought: In 2030, more than half of all Americans will be obese, according to a new study; the cost to treat that epidemic could be as high as $66 billion. From Time magazine 1 October 2012, the still surviving news print publication.
