Month: April 2008
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Secret blog of a P65 MP: Part 5
Dear Blog, Lam Pin Min beat me to it again. I was just about to post this up, and I log on and find that he’s beaten all of us to the blog again. Well done, colleague. Speaking of colleagues, we are all colleagues in this team, whether or not we are in Cabinet. And…
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Shit for brains
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! If this is true, then it really, really sucks. Apparently there’s an “artist” called Guillermo Vargas who took a stray dog off the street and displayed it starving to death. And called it an art piece. From The Guardian: The Costa Rican has been called an animal abuser, killer and worse…
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Terror without trousers
Reuters’ headline for the topic of the week goes below the belt: “Singapore says militant escaped without trousers” (via I.Z. Reloaded). They’ve said that the dude’s a master of disguise, and the first suspicious character that came to mind was “Singa The Courtesy Lion”. The resemblance is uncanny. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!
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A good reason to localize: two killed over sms error
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Maybe rednano should try scare tactics. Localisation could have saved the lives of two people in Turkey (via Gizmodo): The surreal mistake happened because the ex-husband’s cellphone didn’t have an specific character from the Turkish alphabet: the letter “ı” or closed i. While “i” is available in all phones in Turkey—where…
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A rude and painful shock
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! So the report is out, and our apartment’s security guard intimated that there were some areas of Singapore where apartment security was stricter, and where security guards like him were instructed to always take down particulars of visitors and their vehicles and not let anyone who didn’t oblige with their particulars…