"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Simeon Strunsky

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In the MOE HQ building, there's a section set apart from the rest of the complex - the Customer Service Centre, as well as the toilet beside it, presumably compartmentalised so outside people can visit them freely. I wanted to go to the toilet, but had to get a security pass before I could pass. Maybe they're afraid someone will blow up their toilet.

Someone pointed out to me that the flaw with an epistemological framework based on the existence of objective truth is that we don't live in an arid thought experiment world. This is true enough, but neither do we live in the idealised world beloved by those of the "never make generalizations" school of thought. For example, having the maxim "Don't discriminate against furry monsters" is all well and good, but if 90% of the furry monsters your firm hires are prone to feral fits and eat your customers, you're not going to hire them. In the real world, you don't have the luxury of unlimited time and resources, no matter how noble your aspirations.

SMS from Patch: "Chinese Sign seen outside no1 color centre photoshop advertising for job opening which welcomes malays. Who, i guess, must be bilingual." Unfortunately, he didn't manage to get a picture. If anyone is passing by Toa Payoh Block 69, I'd appreciate a picture.

"Mongol Experors of the Liao dynasty tortured prisoners by placing them under large bronze bells, whose continued ringing ultimately killed them."

I wonder how Colin Matthews feels about Pluto being demoted.

Never trust theories of male sexuality formulated by women and/or gay men.

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Foreigner Gets Punished As He Impersonates Japanese AV Stars at TV in Japan - "This is how you make fun of people from other cultures. By getting them to do female orgasm impressions. And then wacking them with bats. On TV. In Japan."

YouTube - Windows Vista: Photos are Memories? - "We have receive an unbelievable response from the first 2 videos that Eden put together. Now, by popular demand, here is number 3! This is a fun spoof of M$'s previews of Windows Vista."
I never use the inbuilt OS tools anyway.

YouTube - Monty Python - Hitler in England - "Over here is Mr Hilter... This is Ron. Ron Vivventrop."

One Man + Six Pool Tables + Japanese Television Production Values = Awesome at TV in Japan - "This might just be the most amazing trick shots ever seen on TV ever before. Plus, it has smoke, shiny lights and a very animated old man just kicking ass. If guys did this kind of stuff here, trick billiards might just finally make it over to regular ESPN."
This is better than the Tornado Shoot.

Woman is fitted with 'bionic' arm - "A former US Marine has become the first woman in the world to be fitted with a "bionic" arm that she can control by her thoughts alone."

Researchers learn to extract crude oil from pig manure - "Inside a white metal building nestled among fields of corn and soybeans, the students pressure-cook the messy muck until it becomes thick, black, energy-dense crude oil remarkably similar to the stuff pumped from deep within the earth. As oil and gas prices continue their steep climb, the dedicated crew of engineering researchers at the University of Illinois are refining an economical process to transform smelly hog droppings into piggy petroleum that can be refined into industrial fuel."
HARAM!!!

Two judges scolded for behavior in court - "The Washington State Commission on Judicial Conduct has admonished two local judges, one for leading a football cheer before sentencing a man for manslaughter and one for forcing a Muslim woman out of the courtroom when she wouldn’t take off her head scarf... When Grant came into the courtroom, she instructed approximately 100 onlookers – mostly family members of Teang and Patricelli – to cheer for the Seahawks, who were to play in the Super Bowl that weekend... Grant even filed the formal complaint against herself."