Monthly Archives: July 2007
S$2,500 to rent a 3-room flat?
Blogger Yawning Bread recently wrote an article pointing out the possible inflated claims made in a Straits Times report titled “HDB rents at 10-year high” (21 July 2007 – just in case the link becomes inactive due to archiving, you can download a saved version in Word format). In it, he suggested that the media… Read More »
Now you know why PowerPoint is useless
In an apparent thumbs down to multitasking, researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia are saying that the human brain is limited in the amount of information it can absorb. Hence, the glazed and distant feeling that overwhelms you when some sales droid starts his/her presentation is no reason for concern. This… Read More »
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10 reasons why the Titanic was actually a derivative
The downside was not immediately apparent. It went underwater rapidly despite assurances it was unsinkable. Only a few wealthy people got out in time. The structure appeared iron-clad. Nobody really understood the risk. The disaster happened overnight London time. Nobody spent any time monitoring the risk. People spent a lot trying to lift it out… Read More »
Incredibly useless website (10)
Let me visualise how your website looks like… Okay, I kid you not. This visualisation thingy isn’t just empty talk. At “Websites as Graphs“, you can type in the URL of your favourite website and a little java applet will spawn a host of coloured dots representing the site’s various tags and links. This is… Read More »