A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of RFK Stadium. Kitchens don’t have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead. Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds – unless… Read More: Things you would never know without the movies (2) »
Based on the premise that a black screen uses less energy than a white one, Blackle – a customised Google search engine – claims to save energy simply “because the screen is predominantly black”. The idea for the site was born from a 2007 blog post titled “Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year”,… Read More: The search for energy efficiency »
All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reached up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds. If staying in a… Read More: Things you would never know without the movies (1) »
Several years ago when I visited Beijing, I remembered observing with a tinge of sadness the presence of a Starbucks joint within the Forbidden City. At that time, I already thought it was sacrilegious for a commercial entity to taint the Forbidden City’s historical significance. Good thing now the Seattle-based coffee chain has been banished… Read More: Forbidden coffee »
Based on a “true story”, Evelyn is as heartwarming as a movie can get. The storyline is not particularly dense, but it is aimed at people with a mind and humanity, rather than MTV droids who can’t tell arse from elbow. A fascinating element is the huge impact the events in the movie had on… Read More: Evelyn »