Quite frankly, I am quietly joyous that Germany has beaten Portugal in the third-place playoff. In this World Cup and on the club level (remember Porto vs Celtic in the 2003 Uefa Cup Final?), Portugal has shown the world it could do well at amateur theatrics. In almost every game so far, you may have… Read More »
Not too long ago, TV news reporting was fairly safe, bar the escaped nipple from a neckline too low, furtive swearword, or the odd prurient commercial. Welcome to Naked News (www.nakednews.com), an extension of reality TV where the broadcasters themselves are the news sensation. According to Kathy Pinckert, a spokeswoman for the Web site, the… Read More »
Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s alpha blogger, is leaving the software giant for startup PodTech.net. In an interview with Microsoft Watch, Scoble said this about his soon-to-be former employer: “Another surprise? That every bad decision that I thought was bad had a logical explanation behind it. I didn’t always agree with the decisions, but there was always… Read More »
X-Men: The Last Stand is possibly the best of the three X-Men films so far. Why? Because it’s no long a simple good versus evil, mutant against homosapiens, “if you’re not with us, you’re with the enemy” kind of flick. But is this the final installment of the Marvel comics trilogy? If you’d stayed on… Read More »
So, the Manila city council has passed a resolution banning “The Da Vinci Code” in all cinemas in the city because the movie “is undoubtedly offensive and contrary to established religious beliefs which cannot take precedence over the right of the persons involved in the film to freedom of expression.” In a phone interview with… Read More »
Before we get carried away by the inroads made by the opposition parties in the recently concluded general election in Singapore, here’s a cautionary analysis of the election results by Law Sin Ling:Reflection on General Election 2006(The following observation is made under the assumption that the polling process had not been perverted by widespread fraudulent… Read More »