Top 10 things to be silent on

Another Top 10 list of things not to talk about when online:

http://listverse.com/2009/11/18/top-10-things-you-should-never-discuss-online/

But read comment #5 by Thunderchicken3000 – it’s so funny.

The 1,300-dollar test

This is how the UK government is treating visitors:

http://blog.christinewongyap.com/2009/11/10/the-1300-test/

Know thyself, Hong Kong

Two posts brilliantly summarises Hong Kong:

http://en0ughsaid.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/only-in-hong-kong-one-volume-high

http://en0ughsaid.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/only-in-hong-kong-giving-way/

Note very carefully the last sentence in the second post. Every Hongkonger who spent more than three months abroad and comes back will confirm the veracity of this statement (much to their own chagrin).

(via drifting the intarwebz)

Entertained

“Is it just me or is life confusing as hell.  As soon as I think I have figured it out, I realize I don’t know shit.  Its like a neverending stream of experience and information that just keeps overlapping.  It is exhausting – just trying to keep up, but am I entertained?”

Read more here:

http://iloveketa.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/late-twenties-the-wonder-years/#comment-41

(Drifting the intarwebz, 09 November 2009)

Violent non-violence

“Wouldn’t it be nice to find a way to force you to explain it? It wouldn’t be violent, mind you, because you’re not the type who’s one bit scared of violence.”

(03 Aug 2009)

Expertism

“Well, seeing that [client]  is such a perceptive expert in all this, perhaps [client] would like to show us how it’s all done? I mean, we’ve only been doing this for half our lifetimes.”

(Alex in the office)

McSplittin’ this

Iceland is so messed up that even McDonald’s don’t see a future there:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/27/mcdonalds-iceland-reykjavik-franchise

(via conversation at the office)

Not so much blogging as it is sensibility

Youth and Me is doing it right. Whoever is behind the posts, he or she writes simply and directly but the ideas behind each are totally sensible. I highly recommend you to subscribe:

Youth and Me – http://wescat.wordpress.com

Every woman should know this

You don’t have to be a woman for this to make sense:

http://www.glamgalz.com/index.php/glam-fun/every-woman-should-know-this.html

(via email)

Nobel passbys

This is the kind of stuff that people should know as a matter of course (but don’t), which is such an indictment of the education systems around the world:

http://listverse.com/2009/11/04/top-10-people-robbed-of-the-nobel-prize/

(via personal email)