February 2012
22 posts
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's... →
Will there be a prescription pair?
Going to Pulau Sibu tomorrow. Not taking any electronic devices (save a phone). Will be completely disconnected from the world. I’ve officially become a hipster.
Dwight Schrute Knows Consumers →
Want to be a successful salesman? Follow Dwight’s proven method!
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Some Advice for Young People | The Awl →
“Job quitters are the happiest people around”, and How to Deal with Soulless Careerists
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Jean Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris join Bruce... →
This is going to be a mental film!
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Hugh Laurie announces the end of television show... →
Wow, completely unexpected. Not my favourite show, but certainly my favourite character. But it has been going on for a LONG time.
At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly -... →
As the consumer Web has matured, readers have become minipublishers, using social media platforms to share information they think will entertain and enlighten their friends. No longer is it just about so-called sticky content that keeps readers around, or even clicky content that causes them to hit a link; it’s also about serving up content that is spreadable.
Hit the right note, and your readers...
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Do iOS Apps Crash More Than Android Apps? A Data... →
Apparently iOS apps crash more than Android apps.
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A Modern Indian Woman's Struggle with... →
It’s not as though it’s any easier for Indian men!
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Real hero of the Facebook story isn't Zuckerberg,... →
What’s important here is that Zuckerberg’s genius could be embraced by half a billion people within six years of its first being launched, without (and here is the critical bit) asking permission of anyone. The real story is not the invention. It is the platform that makes the invention sing. Zuckerberg didn’t invent that platform. He was a hacker (a term of praise) who built for...
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52 things to do in Singapore in 2012 | CNNGo.com →
Awesome one a week. Let me tick of the things I’ve done and get started on the rest!
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RRKidz | Offical Site →
LeVar Burton launches Reading Rainbow, a tablet app curated for children’s books.
Facebook files for IPO, seeks to raise $5 billion... →
I tried to stay awake, but BOOM
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Petition to Apple: Make the iPhone 5 ethically →
Apparently they have gotten over 40,000 signatures. But when the iPhone 5 ends up costing hundreds of dollars more, will people actually want to buy it?
January 2012
37 posts
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Abhiroop Basu | re.vu →
Check out my infographic CV on re.vu
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Larry Page’s “Beautiful” New Google | PandoDaily →
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She Walks in Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely...
Webcam Hacker Luis Mijangos (GQ) →
A frightening tale of how a self-taught programmer hacked into over 230 computers and proceeded to spy on their owners through their webcams.
xkcd: Sustainable →
Also don’t forget words like “development”, “change”, “green”, “eco-friendly”, blah, blah, blah.
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class -... →
China isn’t succeeding economical because of a cheap labour force. It started that way, but now no country can match China’s speed, flexibility and know-how,
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Why the feds smashed Megaupload →
The closing of MegaUpload is a good example of why SOPA and PIPA are not required. This was a foreign company, and using the courts and existing legal tools, the enforcement agencies were able to coordinate a successful multi-jurisdictional takedown.
On a more general note, it’s ludicrous that MU was taken down in the first place. The US DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyrights Act, the...
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Brake the Internet Pirates - WSJ Comes Out in... →
The amount of FUD being spread by the WSJ is inversely proportional to the amount I’m going to read it from now onwards.
How’s that for irony: Companies supposedly devoted to the free flow of information are gagging themselves, and the only practical effect will be to enable fraudsters. They’ve taken no comparable action against, say, Chinese repression.
Because the WSJ has...
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Moviegoers Ask for Refunds After Finding Out The... →
While this may get a lot of people sniggering, I don’t think it’s totally unjustified. Nowhere does it say (on the poster or otherwise) that the film is silent. In fact on IMDB you have to scroll down and under “Sound Mix” it says “silent”.
The film is clearly about a silent movie star, but that doesn’t necessarily imply that the film has been shot...
Island Letters - POSKOD.SG →
For those of us who grew up in the 1990s, to be contactable on the move meant requiring several elements to align – having a pager, a phonecard, and a public payphone within stomping distance: none of us ever took for granted the act of getting in touch. This was a pre-mobile phone age when we could only ever receive telephone calls in our homes, and when caller ID was still rarely available....
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English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in... →
In protest against the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act in the US House of Representative and the Senate, respectively, the English version of Wikipedia will be completely blacked out for 24 hours, from 1pm 18 Jan to 1pm 19 Jan (Singapore time).
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I wanted the vet to email me Asterix’s consultation reports. Her reaponse: it’s on the computer, so I can’t email it.
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Google, Facebook Fight Indian Censorship Demands →
the high court judge told the companies at a hearing earlier this week that they must find a way to monitor and delete offensive content, or India could go the way of China and start blocking entire websites more actively
No, no, no, no! Have the judges forgotten that India is a DEMOCRACY! One of the things that makes India a great example of how a modern democracy can survive is the ease with...
Apple television: Companies want to replace the TV... →
Farhad completely misses the point in his article and by extension Apple’s agenda. Whenever they make a product, for better or for worse, it is a complete industry changer.
They were one of the first companies to integrate the mouse into their OS, they were the first to remove the floppy disk drive, they were the first to allow major software upgrades over USB, and recently they have...
Lower pay increases expected this year as... →
The story isn’t that difficult to wrap your head around, but this must be the most confusing headline I’ve read in a while :S
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Changi Airport staffer recognised for helping... →
I applaud their thoughtfulness, but has humility ceased to exist in our world?
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#122 Cover Letters from Unemployed Overachievers «... →
Hits a little close to home :(
Does Microfinancing Really Work? A New Book Says... →
I’ve supported some really interesting ideas on Kiva, ideas that can change communities. But, more often than not, the individual on the receiving end is not going to be able to repay the loan.
Did I turn my boyfriend into a vampire? →
Please read this
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Michael Fassbender: A Charm That Knows No Shame →
Ever since seeing him in Band of Brothers and then later in Inglourious Basterds, Fassebender has become the no. 1 actor I want to see in all future films. He is one of the few actors on screen today that can play any role flawlessly. Truly a chameleon.
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