Monthly Archives: November 2006

Tabloid journalism rears its ugly head online

The blog post titled “When a Crane Flies, Duck” by Joe Wilcox under Microsoft Watch not only flies in the face of good taste, the pun is also lame, to say the least. This creeping tabloidization, where heretofore respectable news organisations are succumbing to the subjects and techniques of tabloid journalism, exploits visceral emotions aimed… Read More »

India-cent proposal

An Indian chap was deeply in love with a pretty foreign girl, but he did not have the courage to talk to her in person. With the help of a dictionary, he wrote a letter of proposal to her: Most worthy of your estimationafter a long considerationand much mediation.I have a strong indicationto become your… Read More »

Oh shit!

A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman goes to the first house in his new territory. He knocks, a woman opens the door, and before she has a chance to say anything, he runs inside and dumps horse dung all over the carpet. He then proudly announces, “Ma’am, if this vacuum cleaner doesn’t do wonders cleaning up… Read More »

Better than Ronaldinho

Now that there’s so much buzz about Vietnam due to the APEC Summit in Hanoi, I just thought it might be timely to highlight a unique sport in neighbouring Myanmar. Called Chinlone, the goal of this non-competitve sport (or should it be dance?) is to push yourself and your team to attempt extremely difficult moves… Read More »