Category Archives: Links

Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Slams World Press Photo Awards

By Junjie | Published: March 6, 2010
Pulitzer-winning photojournalist, and winner of several World Press Photo Awards (19751, 19862) slams the selection of the 2009 World Press Photo winners: The World Press Photo of the Year is stunning for its lack of content or any other journalistic values. The jury’s selection is yet another setback for a profession that is already in deep [...]
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Missing the point

By Junjie | Published: February 20, 2010
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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A Classroom Divided

By Junjie | Published: February 13, 2010
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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Things Development Status

By Junjie | Published: February 9, 2010
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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Beggars flying private jets

By Junjie | Published: November 20, 2008
Memo to U.S. companies seeking a bailout: When visiting Congress to ask for money, leave the private jets at home.
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Screenwriting notes for the uncreative mind

By Junjie | Published: November 19, 2008
Writer for Sex and the City shares how she writes Pretty useful information, even for writing in general. Especially the portions on First Drafts, or Vomit Drafts. I found myself writing less because I spend too much time trying to get it right the first time round. Really zaps your energy away. Learning to [...]
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Why many photo-sharing sites and communities stink

By Junjie | Published: June 29, 2008
Petteri Sulonen is right on the money: I used to participate on Photosig, but I learned to hate it. It exerts a huge pressure of blandification — shooting for the lowest common denominator. Flowers, bug macros, anal-retentive “figure studies,” golden-hour landscapes, pouty soft-focus “glamour” ladies, you name it — every photographic cliché ever invented [...]
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Double standards

By Junjie | Published: February 9, 2008
Jason Panthera on the government’s rationale not to repeal the 377A because a majority of Singaporeans did not want to. Governments are elected to do what is right, not just what is most popular – otherwise, we wouldn’t have taxes, we wouldn’t have Electronic Road Pricing and there would be no National Service. I wasn’t [...]
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Relieve your Windows Experience

By Junjie | Published: August 26, 2007
Right here. Well existing Windows users shouldn’t torture themselves further, I guess.
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Fur Trade

By Junjie | Published: January 21, 2007
I read many comments on YouTube about “muthafuckin chinks and chinese”. I think they are missing the point here. By the way, it’s up to you which pill to take. The blue one would cause you less discomfort; the red one would cause them less.
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