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The unholy trinity

Once again, Singapore’s prime minister (this time round, it was Lee Hsien Loong) took the opportunity on Labour Day to harp on the merits of the tripartite relationship between the government, NTUC and workers. Guess which party will be on the short end of the bargain?

Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot

Somehow, after reading about Steve Johnson’s six-hour ordeal with the iPod, I lost my entire faith in technology’s promise to rescue mankind from all its miseries. If an alleged Internet critic with a respectable organisation like Chicago Tribune can struggle with an idiot-proof product, what hope does the hapless man in the street have? But… Read More: Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot »

Probably how “Batman Begins” began

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 »