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.
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Correlation vs causation
Posted by acroamatic on March 10, 2009
http://deadpoetscave.com/2009/03/correlation-vs-causation/
Today EasyReader – Not so easy
Today has to be commended for providing readers with so many ways to access their newspaper. There’s the physical copy, available from MRT stations in the morning, and 7-Eleven and Cheers outlets in the afternoon. If you can’t get those, there’s a $10/month subscription. Get the paper delivered to your doorstep every morning. (They claim [...]
Posted by acroamatic on April 1, 2008
http://deadpoetscave.com/2008/04/today-easyreader-not-so-easy/
Another side to the story and Google juice
Often, I am asked: Why blog? Why bother with blogging and bloggers? 1. Blogs offer alternate views. We are supposed to trust MSM because they have editors and all sorts of checks to make sure that news is accurate and impartial. Can we? Let’s say you read this article about a project to build artificial [...]
Posted by acroamatic on October 30, 2007
http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/10/another-side-to-the-story-and-google-juice/
Gimme Banana
I was looking for something else when I came across this video. From what I can gather, it is an ad for a Brazilian MSM company’s web portal. I really couldn’t help but copy and paste the code to share this tv commercial. While I don’t agree with the advert’s point-of-view, I still found it [...]
Posted by acroamatic on September 12, 2007
http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/gimme-banana/
“I HAVE never, nor will I ever, read blogs.”
That’s what Ong Sor Fern wrote in the Straits Times yesterday. Of course, you can’t read the article ‘cos they charge you for to access their site. And their archives only go back seven days. Hey, a newspaper has to make money, right? You can guess that Sor Fern didn’t have many positive things to [...]
Posted by acroamatic on September 7, 2007
http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/
Tweet Tweet- acroamatic: RT @steelwool: Random rally attendant squatting under @acroamatic's umbrella. Haha! http://t.co/aBPt6Egy
- acroamatic: Sylvia Lim speaking as the rain gets heavier #hougangbyelection http://t.co/lV1oksur
- acroamatic: Ominous. There's lightning over Hougang field. #hougangbyelection
- acroamatic: "Huat, ah!" the crowd cheers at the WP rally #hougangbyelection
- acroamatic: @allanjits Yah, just meant for filling the gap if you're not at the computer. Oh yes, it's not optimised for iPad.