The significance of iPad's missing USB slot

Sometimes, it is what we buy into today that determines what innovations are left out tomorrow

Malay Engineer leaves Singapore due to Racial Discrimination, comment

 

‘Girls equal in British throne succession’, that’s a blow to equality, say ed

“Sons and daughters of any future UK monarch will have equal right to the throne, after Commonwealth leaders agreed to change succession laws. - bbc”

I really wonder what feminists and equal rights activists will have to say about this.  I really do.  Would some say that it is a victory for women’s rights and equality?

Thumbs-up to St Paul’s Demonstrators

Plans to scrap unfair-dismissal claims for 'lazy workers'?

Unproductive workers should lose their right to claim unfair dismissal, a leaked government report says.
The report, commissioned by the prime minister, argues this would mean more capable people would replace those sacked, boosting economic growth. - bbc

‘Too poor to buy clothes, but we still want 6 children’

....went the introductory link to the bbc video, ‘7 billion and counting’.

I have to say, I didn’t like the phrasing of the introductory link.  But then again, the BBC does come across as quite the racist and fascist boghole at times these days. 

Is it only mad dictators of the non-western world whom use ‘human shields’?

Alright.  Those amongst us whom aren’t self-absorbed ignoramuses know that some dictators, knowing that they are going to be under attack by western imperialists, surround their place of refuge with civilians in the hope that the attack would be thwarted by the alleged ‘humanity’ of the western elite.

product review: XLC Bahamas spectacles

Mine just arrived this morning.   I must say that i've seen similar quality frames for sale for hundreds of pounds.

the Lytro camera...defocusing photographers

I first heard about the Lytro ‘focus-free’ camera about a year or so ago.

Firstly, let’s clarify one thing.  It isn’t a ‘focus-free’ camera.  That’s a really silly term.  Really silly.  Alright.  Not silly.  Just plain stupid. We shouldn't be determing the function of a thing, i.e. the Lytro camera, on the basis of what we are, i.e. not needing to focus.

Is it your arse or your guitar that is environmentally unfriendly?

Are Gibson Guitars Killing the Rainforest?, goes the title of an article on the BBC.

Sometime i think that people tend to want to 'reduce their carbon footprint', or 'save the trees' by taking on major corporations, etc, etc, so as to distract themselves from the bigger problem and their own complicity in it.  

ed’s response to an Irate Indian on ‘ethnic Han’ singaporeans....n ed finally retires from this issue

Psychedelic Interlude: The Doors, 'People Are Strange'

The Doors. One of the few western bands i would consider as true artists....and which still has my attention after 2 decades. Video from, 'The Doors - Dance on Fire'

What a self-centred response looks like

Why we should boycott the iphone 5

Just imagine, all us consumers getting together and boycotting the iphone 5.  What do you think will be achieved?

Steve Jobs is dead. Long live the next bourgeois prick.

iRich uPoor

Curry & Crumpets...anyone?

now that's what i call music: The Doors, 1969 interview