"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." - Sir William Bragg

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"I am afraid that due to copyright considerations - both The Economist and third parties - not all the cartoons are not available at Economist.com.

I am sorry for any disappointment caused."

Damn, disadvantages of reading it online...

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Elia Diodati on skipping lessons to visit places: excellent
knowledge is transient
but tourism leaves lasting impressions

i bet you won't remember all those utility functions in a year's time but will still remember your hypothetical trip to the red light district open house, for example

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"MARS-VENUS RELATIONSHIP WORKSHOP

SDU (Social Development Unit), in a join-collaboration with Mars-Venus International has invited 2 acclaimed speakers who have worked with Dr. John Gray (Author of the Best Selling Book “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”). They will be speaking in at workshop held at The Grassroots Club on the 25th Feb. Publicity matters are handled by NUSSU PRU... This will be an excellent networking opportunity for participants, as this workshop is aimed at inter-varsity level, meaning SMU as well as NTU students will be attending the workshop as well."

Talk about social engineering!

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Within 2 minutes, I got spammed a similar message from IPs 211.90.167.10, 72.36.227.50 and 68.87.64.105. Wth. This was repeated a short time later (from different IP ranges).

Yahoo has failed me yet again - my mail account got deactivated and all my mail deleted despite my logging in only a few days before that happened and my not requesting them to close my account. This is on top of the database error a few months ago that temporarily locked me out of my account for a few days, claiming that it'd been deleted for violating their policies. The best part is that after an initial cut-and-paste reply to me, they stopped responding even when I explained that I had recently used the account, giving them no reason to deactivate it. I'm so happy Yahoo is not my primary mail provider.

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Escapa! - "Click and hold the red square. Now, move it so that you neither touch the walls nor get hit by any of the blue blocks. If you make it to 18 seconds, you are doing brilliantly!"

To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me - "One student skipped class and then sent the professor an e-mail message asking for copies of her teaching notes. Another did not like her grade, and wrote a petulant message to the professor. Another explained that she was late for a Monday class because she was recovering from drinking too much at a wild weekend party."

TrendCall - This has an interesting gimmick - it will credit your account if people call you. Too bad it there's a minimum 1 year contract though.

MeatSpin.com where you get the spin on meat! - StumbleUpon review: "Damn, why do I always click random links on people's pages? I've been suckered into goatse, tubgirl and lemonparty, and now I can add meatspin to the list."
lemonparty was a new one for me.

Ultimate Utopia XXIII - "Enter the world of Ultimate Utopia XXIII where real life and video game collide! A mock on RPGs, particularly Final Fantasy."
Cute proof of concept, but too Jap-centric for my liking.