Jeremy Gutsche, Chief Trend Hunter of TrendHunter.com, may not have been the first to write about the dynamics of the current economic turmoil, but his new book, Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change, documents the many exploits you could make in these uncertain times. Wonderfully illustrated with easily digestible snippets… Read More »
My blog has magically reappeared, having gone AWOL for almost a week. Because of this, the pagerank for my blog has gone down to 0. Bloody hell! Also, it seems that the people at Blogger can login to your account without your knowledge and forcibly remove widgets and the underlying HTML codes. So much for… Read More »
Do you have what it takes to be a tobacco executive? Check out the 7-section Flash video on thetruth.com to find out. Or play games such as “Urea Collector”, “Tough Love” and “Addictor Click”. The site uses a bunch of interesting content to combat the slick advertising employed by Big Tobacco and show how cigarette… Read More »
A description of Harvard University by Chris Langan (from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers) that pretty much sums up the situation at SPH and the rest of the government machinery in Singapore: “The people running it are not necessarily searching for truth and knowledge. They want to be big shots, and when you accept a paycheck from… Read More »
Bill Clinton may be getting all the credit for the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two female American journalist detained by North Korea, but there may be a reason why it has taken so long for the hostage situation to be resolved: Years ago, police documented something called the Stockholm syndrome. Robbers had… Read More »
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