Tim on May 26th, 2009

Mat rempits make our blood curdle nowadays, which is why Nando’s new recruitment poster is arresting:
 
Well granted unemployment contributes greatly to the growing rempit menace, but it still somehow gives me shudders. At least it makes it more likely your order will arrive on time, though?

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Tim on August 20th, 2008

Lim vs Koh, tonight 9pm TV9 ( repeat at 12.30 am). Don’t miss it!

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Tim on July 28th, 2008

Just sharing a story I saw on the Web…

So this guy, Patrick Moberg, from New York, spots the girl of his dreams while waiting for a subway; love at first sight if you will. He’s 21 and a designer for Vimeo (a startup, think Youtube in high-res). Said guy quickly makes a sketch of her [...]

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Tim on July 11th, 2008

Interest

Two men raise a lion cub named Christian for years, and are forced to release him when he got too big. This video shows their reunion.
Impossible vertical 360 photo
What Google News would look like in utopia.
“Unicorn” found in Italy
Pennsylvania experiments with painted “speed bumps” – optical illusions – which can be produced for much less [...]

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Tim on June 2nd, 2008

Entertainment

A new Street Fighter movie is said to be in production. The title: The Legend of Chun Li. The star: Kristin Kreuk
A MacGyver film is rumoured to be in the works.
Hilarious Batman vs Iron Man video:

Russian Communist Party members threaten to beat up Harrison Ford if he ever steps foot there, following the negative portrayal [...]

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Tim on May 3rd, 2008

Apologies for missing this last week, was busying watching HIMYM :P
Malaysia

Dr. Mahathir joins the ranks of the unemployed lying females in Malaysia.
MCA newsletter editor Wong Chun Wai follows suit.
The Sun aggressively calls for reform of press freedom laws.
Newly appointed CM of Penang Lim Guan Eng is spotted flying economy class. Meanwhile, in a written reply [...]

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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 March 31st, 2008

Teh Internets

60% of all Photoshop users are pirates (sample size: 500).
Adobe launches Photoshop Express, a stripped down version of its flagship product. Focus is on community and “family” functions.
Torrentspy.com, which was once the most visited BitTorrent site, shuts down in the face of MPAA suits.
Firefox 3 will debut in June 2008, fixing its memory-hogging.
[I still [...]

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Tim on March 22nd, 2008

How many passes does the team in white make?

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