I have used the National Library’s microfilm collection a few times. They have issues going back to to the beginning of the Straits Times. If you are searching for an article with microfilm, you have to know roughly when the article was published. The microfilms have a number of issues on each reel. You load [...]
Month: March, 2009
Weird Warnings
A few strange warnings I’ve seen recently: Say ‘No’ to illegal cigarettes. As opposed to say ‘Yes’ to smoking? Caution – Our coffee is fresh and hot. If you’re going to caution me about your fresh coffee, I don’t think I want to know how putrid your stale coffee can get. Real (Madrid) demolition shows [...]
Correlation vs causation
Computer games are a convenient target for recent incidents. Comic by Randall Munroe from xkcd,reproduced under a CC BY-NC 2.5 Generic License.
Tweet about the weather
Twitter is really gaining traction. Once it was the domain of geeks and geekettes. Now, it seems non-techies are getting in on the tweet too. They are either signing up for accounts or asking about it. Ironically, Twitter is a difficult thing to summarize. My attempt, within Twitter’s word limit: Twitter is microblogging. A post [...]
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Not the best TED presentation I’ve seen, but a very important one. Reminder to self: think twice about that disposable plastic bottle.
