Crushed at having missed this year’s World Cow Chip Throwing Championship? Arrived in Las Vegas too late to show your hand in the 31st Annual World Series of Poker? It is amazing how many things are happening in the world around us every day. Welcome to What’s Going On, where you can be prepared by… Read More: Bizarre bazaar »
First, there was Google Earth, a three-dimensional, satellite-based mapping service that allows you to view any area of the Earth in detail. Then came Google Moon, which shows locations of all six Apollo moon landings. Yesterday, Google expanded its galactic reach by launching Google Mars, on the occasion of the 151st birth anniversary of Percival… Read More: Google reaching for the stars »
I was reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and it suddenly dawned on me that the choice of Christian Bale as Batman in Batman Begins was, to put it in Ellis’ term, “premeditated”. In the chapter titled “Nell’s” (page 206, Vintage Contemporaries, paperback), there is a paragraph that goes: “Daisy! And Patrick, you devil!”… Read More: Probably how “Batman Begins” began »
Seems to me that since the bird flu episode, chickens have been on the short end of the stick. Over the weekend, as part of a company excursion, I visited the Zoobic Safari in Subic Bay Freeport Zone and was “treated” to a tiger-feeding session using — you guessed it! — a live chicken. Essentially,… Read More: Run, chicken, run! »
Apple’s shares closed yesterday at $80.86 – on the very same day CEO Steve Jobs introduced the company’s first-ever Macintosh computers based on Intel microprocessors at Macworld Expo. 8086 was, coincidentally, Intel’s first 16-bit, x86 processor. It shipped in 1978, the year after Apple was founded. This was followed by the 8088, which was used… Read More: Mere coincidence? »
In one of my earlier articles (Straightening the Straits Times [6]), I wrote: “when Ho [Ching] mentioned family jewels, I believe it was a genuine Freudian slip”. But what exactly is a “Freudian slip”? Well, it certainly isn’t some kind of undergarment that women hide in their closets. But it’s close enough. In fact, one… Read More: Freudian slip: A case of mind over mutter? »