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Beautiful Way To Carry Essential Cash And Cards
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 1:30 pm
My wallet is a big leather repository for the millions of tiny pieces of paper I accumulate everyday. I try to keep it clean, but somehow I’m still carrying years worth of membership cards, business cards and even foreign currency. And until I saw this elegant little money clip, I never really thought I had an alternative. The Slim money clip from Human Republic is a striking piece of design …
Read More >>How The Beauty Of Symmetry Applies To Even The Super Bowl
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 12:30 pm
Instead of breaking down how much force and energy is applied during a tackle, Minute Physics takes a look at the role of scientific symmetry in yesterday’s big game. A nice departure from the typical scientific breakdowns of the sport. It might not be as obvious to spot as the symmetry occurring in nature, but it’s certainly there in everything from complicated plays, to team formatio …
Read More >>How To Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo With Timeline
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 11:15 am
We love Timeline for Facebook. Maybe you don’t. Doesn’t really matter since Facebook is forcing everyone to switch. So what to do? We say have some fun with it! Since Timeline adds a big, splashy picture to your profile page, you can easily hack that big picture with your original profile picture to give your Facebook page some character (and make all your friends Like you). Here̵ …
Read More >>Under The Hood: Intel SSD 520 Series
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 11:00 am
Intel’s new SSDs have just launched with an eye to taking on the high end of the SSD market. Does Intel’s previous track record in SSD reliability make them a must-buy? The 520 Series SSDs — codenamed “Cherryville”, if you like that sort of thing — are certainly packed with promise. The inclusion of Sandforce’s SF-2281 controller and a SATA III interface …
Read More >>Bill Maher Piles On The Foxconn Shame-Fest
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 10:45 am
Bill Maher interviewed Mike Daisey last week on Real Time , adding to the scourge of recent negative publicity surrounding the conditions at Apple supplier Foxconn. Daisey is the actor who wrote and performed the one-man show The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs , a musing that faces the labour issue head-on. He actually went to China and talked to workers outside the infamous Foxco …
Read More >>Brazil Is Suing Twitter For Tweeting DUI Checkpoints
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 9:15 am
Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it’ll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country demands it to. We just might see Twitter’s first high profile case sooner than later because Brazil just sued Twitter for allowing accounts to tweet where DUI checkpoints are. The rami …
Read More >>Firefighter Rescues Man From Stuck Lift, Both Get Trapped In Another Lift
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 8:00 am
Getting stuck in a lift is rare, but you assume the experience would fall somewhere between the opening of Speed and a late-night Cinemax flick. A Chicago man turned it into Groundhog Day when, after being rescued from one lift, he promptly got stuck in another on the way back down to safety. Firefighters initially rescued a man between the 21st and 22nd floors of his 49-storey a …
Read More >>Russian Power Station Goes Haywire
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 7:45 am
You’re driving south of St Petersburg, listening to some John Lennon. The traffic is a little heavy. God, this song is so great — and now, let us pause for an enormous electrical explosion that dominates the entire horizon. The video comes along with this article from Fontanka.ru, so poorly Google-translated that I’m only able to ascertain that the fire department showed …
Read More >>Did You Know Earth Is Getting Lighter Every Day?
By Hong Kiat at 6 February, 2012, 2:00 pm
Earth is getting 50,000 tonnes lighter every year, even while 40,000 tonnes of space dust fall onto our planet’s surface during the same period. So, why are we losing so much weight? You will be surprised. At least, I never considered this and I was surprised to hear the reasoning in More or Less , a BBC Radio 4 program about statistics and numbers. According to Dr Chris Sm …
Read More >>Rumourmodo: Telstra To Launch 4G Galaxy Tab 8.9 In March?
By Hong Kiat at 6 February, 2012, 1:00 pm
The rumours are flying thick and fast regarding Telstra’s next step in 4G after USB modems and the HTC Velocity 4G. The latest suggestion is that we’ll see an LTE-enabled version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 sometime in March. Once again it’s over to Ausdroid — who were also suggesting over the weekend that Telstra would release a 4G Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note — wh …
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