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No bowl of soup is worth this

Gut-wrenching to watch the finning. (If you have time, you can watch the full-length version of Gordon Ramsey: Shark Bait) This is one aspect of Chinese culture we can do away with. And the swelling numbers of affluent mainland Chinese … Continue reading

07. September 2011 by hschin
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What do you use Twitter for?

I remember when I first heard of Twitter, I thought it was just another new instant messaging service (think ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype etc.), joining the already crowded market of IM services. Now that Twitter is 5 years old, … Continue reading

21. March 2011 by hschin
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The Future of Owner Manuals?

The Hyundai Equus is the first car that comes with an iPad as the owner’s manual. It certainly won’t be the last car to do that, but is this a sign of a trend of what owner’s manuals are going … Continue reading

16. December 2010 by hschin
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Zeitgeist 2010: Google’s Year in Review

Google Zeitgeist looked at how the world searched in the past year and from that data, gleaned the issues that have captured the world’s attention. From triumph and tragedy, to Youtube drivel, nothing escapes the attention of Google. This is … Continue reading

11. December 2010 by hschin
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Nuit Blanche

Really cool short film that “explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy. The filming was the easy part, taking place over four days. Putting in the visual effects took the director … Continue reading

09. April 2010 by hschin
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Google’s Super Bowl Ad: Parisian Love

For the first time ever, Google has an ad during the Super Bowl. I found it to be quite a breath of fresh air amongst all the usual ads focused on cars, beer and women. In an extremely simple yet … Continue reading

07. February 2010 by hschin
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Poison & Wine

I never fail to discover great new music on Grey’s Anatomy! This week, its “Poison & Wine” by The Civil Wars.

14. November 2009 by hschin
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Trillions: The future of computing

This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing age. An interesting way of putting … Continue reading

10. November 2009 by hschin
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Pee in the shower! Save the Atlantic rainforest!

A Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica has launched a campaign to encourage the country’s residents to pee in the shower to save water. They say that by peeing in the shower, each household will flush the toilet at least … Continue reading

20. August 2009 by hschin
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Launch of STS-127

Another amazing space shuttle launch yesterday. This time of Space Shuttle Endeavor on mission STS-127 “completing Kibo and fulfilling Japan’s hope for an out of this world space laboratory. This came after 5 previous launch attempts were scrubbed due to … Continue reading

16. July 2009 by hschin
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