TODAY: The ‘faceless’ up in arms
Bloggers riled about assertions that they are ignorant and lack creativity OVER the weekend, some local newspapers took to highlighting blogs and the elections. The Weekend Today ran a front page story about bloggers and whether “they know the rules” regarding the elections — complete with a cover photograph depicting bloggers as faceless people with […]
Podcast: mrbrown show 20 Mar 2006: Zhng My Car 7 (The Erection Special)
The problem with wearing these bags is that you can’t really remember where you were standing in a photoshoot… I think I’m on the left, and the one with the big bag is mrbrown So, Lee U-Wen calls me on Thursday to ask me a coupla questions regarding blogging and the elections. I tell him […]
Brad’s Pitts
After seeing LMD have so much fun with it, I went and tried MyHeritage.com’s face recognition thing, and I have to declare that MyHeritage.com is the bestest fucking website in the entire universe, bar none: Spitting Image: The other likenessess were of Emperor Akihito and a bunch of Japanese actors, but no Pat Morita Technorati […]
Saint Jack
I read Paul Theroux’s Saint Jack years ago when I was in junior college, and enjoyed it partly because I thought it was banned. I only found out this morning that it was never on the MDA’s banned wagon. (Thank you Rambling Librarian for setting me straight) But if I were to re-read the book, […]
TODAY: When bloggers go to the movies
The word-of-mouth effect – only far more effective When Tan Pin Pin’s documentary, Singapore Gaga (singaporegaga.com), was shown at a “press screening” for a select few in the media, several of us bloggers were a little surprised we were on the invite list. We didn’t ask too many questions at the Q&A that followed, and […]