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Author Archives: Junjie
Missing the point
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov muses about chess and computers:
The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know about [...]
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Annie Leibovitz’s “Rail Love” for Vogue February 2010
Annie Leibovitz’s “Rail Love” for Vogue February 2010
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A Classroom Divided
Watch A Classroom Divided
Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination.
Every student should go through this lesson.
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Aperture 3: I’ll Pass
No tethering support for Canon 5D2, or for that matter, any Canon cameras newer than the 350D.
Even the inelegant workaround, the Hot Folder Import Script doesn’t work. And even when it does, it is still more clumsy than Lightroom 2 or Lightroom 3’s implementation of Auto Import, requiring an additional script to work.
As much as [...]
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What Google’s Nexus One and Custom Made PCs have in common
The other reason why I stop buying PCs custom made from Sim Lim is because no one wants to honour the warranty when things go wrong. It’s pretty much the same deal with Google’s Nexus One. Oh, it’s a hardware problem, go to HTC; HTC says no it’s a software problem, go to Google.
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Things Development Status
Interesting UI and metaphor design for the development status page of Things. Bad news is that there’s no end in sight for Over-The-Air Sync.
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On Pastor Rony Tan
Instead of commenting on and attempting to “debunk” other religions when you know nothing about it, how about just concentrating on preaching what you’re suppose to?
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An undesirable feature
So the UOB guy calls and tells me that not having monthly statements sent to me is a feature of Campus accounts; you’re suppose to check your statements online, which only shows you the current and previous month statements.
But I’ll give it to them for giving me a checking account with interest (however pathetic) and [...]
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COM402 Media Law Notes
Update: notes updated Sep 19, 2009
Compiled with notes taken by Miak, Khaiyan, Ting Yi.
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Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Slams World Press Photo Awards