Tim on April 27th, 2008

Been practically “off the grid” the past week – discovered and promptly became a fanboy of How I Met Your Mother, a CBS sitcom now in it’s third season. A little surprising for me since after the end of Friends and Will and Grace I thought the whole “group of young adults in [...]

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Tim on April 23rd, 2008

I think it’s amazing how US politicians are able to make fun of themselves (in a good way).
The Colbert Report was held in the University of Pennsylvania last week during the Democrat primary (For all the whiners about advertorials, it was titled “The Colbert Report: Doritos Spicy Sweet Pennsylvania Primary Coverage From Chili-Delphia – The [...]

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Tim on April 19th, 2008

You reach the season end of a show you recently started watching… :(

BUT then you notice the scrollbar at the bottom - there was another episode left to watch!!

How I Met Your Mother has been growing on me . Been getting cranky after being too long away from sitcoms! It seemed lame at first but blossomed out after the middle of the first season. Surprising for a show that tells you [...]

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Tim on April 16th, 2008

Note: I was planning Snippets to be just a mishmash of everything interesting I find on the Web but would never have the time to blog about. I thought making it a fortnightly thing would be fine, but it appears a lot happens in two weeks :/. Oh well.
Malaysia

Hamilahton, mother of maths prodigy Sufiah Yusof [...]

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Tim on April 9th, 2008

99% of anything free runs on advertising. That much is true. I don’t have anything against adverts, heck I work for an advertising company and I go early for movies to catch trailers.
But intrusive advertising only serves to turn people off, a kind of reverse branding.
Straight to the point, from the newly redesigned (i.e. more space for ads ) Star Online:

Riots in Tibet? Time for DiGi!

Sunbear dies in [...]

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Tim on April 8th, 2008

Before the Flood, there was a canopy over the Earth. This canopy protected the Earth from harmful UV rays. This canopy protected the Earth from harmful UV rays. During the Flood, the canopy fell onto Earth as water, meaning that after the Flood there was no longer a protective canopy.
As a result of this, life [...]

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Malaysiakini recently reported on a study by the Centre for Independent Journalism which analysed the election coverage by the mainstream papers:
According to the report, The Star was the most partial among English newspapers in terms of elections reporting in favour of Barisan Nasional (BN) with 63.12 percent its election reports being ‘pro-BN’.
The daily was also found to have had [...]

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