Octopus tripod hangs on anywhere

Via LifeHacker, Cool Tools, this is a wonderful and nifty gadget for photographer, a must have for people who travel and take photos with their digital camera a lot. (Link)

Spamhaus’s project reveals World notorious spammers

Spamhaus identifies the top 10 worst spammers in the world today, the list of the 10 nations,

1. United States
2. China
3. Japan
4. Russia
5. Canada
6. South Korea
7. United Kingdom
8. Taiwan
9. Hong Kong
10. Netherlands

The photo you see here is Leo Kuvayev the BadCow who does most of the pirate CD spam.

(Link)

Internet is surely an evil place! I tell’ya

While GSThike and Petition online have gather more than 1000 ‘no’ to the increment of GST right now, there are some comments from the famous people. Some of them,

Moses Lim says...
What the hell? I won't be able to afford to eat at nice restaurants anymore.

Taufik Batisah says...
I refuse to do any more National Day shows. Anyway 7-11 wouldn't give me the time off work, so I will be helping small kids reach the Big Gulp machine again next year.

Hady Mirza says...
Personally I am moving to Malaysia now.

Andy Lau says...
If Singapore becoming so expensive, how you expect us to sing here??? How are you going to improve your arts and entertainments sector?

Gurmit Singh says...
ahem - in above post I was of course referring to the household polish named 'Pledge'

Great Internet anonymity!

Vintage Singapore matchbox labels

Some of the labels cannot be found in Singapore anymore, but now you know where you can. (Link)

@#%& 7% GST will kena everyone

They should have increase income tax, like that at least “steady” income people wouldn't kena.

Update: Look like I am not the only one, read here, and my favorite head line.

Thai zoo plans porn video for pandas in hope that they mate

Chuang chuang is six and a well behave gentlemen, for 3 years he lives, eats and sleep together with Lin Hui, have plenty of time alone but never laid a finger on her. So the zoo hopes that some erotic scene can help the couples. (Link)

But, isn't six too young for this kind of hanky panky?

Singapore $100 note with rare serials on Yahoo auction

Now you know it can be sold at a 20% profit, would you watch out for note with rare numbers? (Link)

Update: A friend of mine told me, since the number on note never repeat itself, every number that appears is thus unique in some way. So, he concluded that there is no such thing as rare number on dollar's note.

Pictures of innovative ads around the world

Toxic blog has photos of interesting ads around the World; some of them may even fool my kids if they see them. This false weight pole on the train was my favorite. (Link)

Hackers guides on home automation over Skype

Via Skype’s blog, hackers at SharpLogic has this amazing write up on how you can control your home appliances via Skype. Sounds intriguing! This should be great if it is simple enough to be rig up by lay men. (Link)

A very rare protest case in North Korea, Hoiryeong

The news source at Daily NK says that shop owners were unhappy with the reimbursement from the government. In few democratic countries like Singapore, protest is harder than slaughtering a chicken. If this piece of news is genuine, it is indeed surprising to know that even in a communist regime, mass protest is still possible. (Link)

China excuse web site assists you to cheat and lie to your partner

The site is developed and run by a lady surname He (贺), according to her, cheating on your spouse can be a good will sometime. The site offers services like fake invitation or letter etc, so you can go for officially “unofficial” trip to meet your first tier. The site even promises money back guarantee if the excuses are blown. What a service! (Link)

Update: Via Boingboing, there is also one in English Version. I wonder who came up with the idea first? (Link)

Elton John publicly expresses anti Religion view

It is all over the blogosphere right now. The famous pop singer openly says Religion is bad; it promotes hatred thinking and critical opinion about gay’s group, they should all be ban. Many MSM and bloggers are on this issue, which would not last for a week.

Maybe he is referring to particular Religion