Words

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy—the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
–Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
Nuggets of good advice fall unexpectedly from unlikely places. I remember idling listening to a TV talkshow playing on the bus a few years ago, when the hosts turned […]

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Even though I have a policy of not watching trailers of movies I intend to catch, I just couldn’t help myself. :)

Charlie Wilson’s War, based on a book by George Crile, tells the true story of how a hard-drinking, womanising “Good Time Charlie” congressman from Texas teamed up with an assortment of characters–including a renegade […]

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This week’s Kal cartoon on Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia U was quite funny:

From: The Economist, 27 Sep 07

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A bad week for pirate catchers
Anime fans in Singapore have had a pretty bitter experience with the Odex saga. But really, if you found Odex’s operations spurious, then consider MediaDefender which surely must be the devil’s own.

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An unexpectedly good dinner
Not too long ago, P, ZC and I arranged to meet up at Harbourfront for the Chuang Yi comic fair.

While waiting for P to arrive, ZC and I somehow wandered over to the Poh Kim video store and found ourselves facing those Xedo VCDs.

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