From the introduction to Architectures of Control : Increasingly, many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict...

Was vaguely aware of the Army Half-marathon run on Sunday; I had to wait twice as long for my bus to come from Marina. It turns out that a 2...

Excerpts from the BBC : Nazi board games under the hammer A collection of Nazi era board games - including one where players are given point...

You just can't write these stuff up. The Straits Times Aug 17, 2007 President's Scholar follows in dad's footsteps The money quo...

From the Iranian director who gave Children of Heaven to moviegoers everywhere and Homerun to Jack Neo , comes a rare movie revolving arou...

(Part 2 in a continuing series ) Very shortly after touching down in Singapore, Sir Ian McKellen begins to ask reporters for directions to t...

At the end of Kill Bill Vol. 2, Uma Thurman as The Bride walks out of the mansion with her young daughter- not into the sunset, for that fa...

This isn't one of those things that I'm happy to have done; but this isn't one of those things that I'm happier not to have ...

Choo Zheng Xi , currently a law undergrad at NUS and the co-editor of theonlinecitizen, has replied via MSN. He is the original author who b...

Mr Alfian Sa'at has emailed to clarify the questions raised in the earlier post, and I am reproducing his reply here word for word, with...

This is Alfian Sa'at on Trevvy . This is Ramlah Abu Bakar on The Online Citizen . Compare. Contrast. Question for Alfian Sa'at: Are ...

Dick Lee points that some NDP songs are just crap , but my friend the Samurai Blogger points out that this year's NDP song by Kit Chan ...

An incident, a talking point, a concerted campaign Dear readers, we've known for almost a full month that Alfian Sa'at has been sac...

Gam zeh ya'avor: this too shall pass Foucault's discourse theory places primacy on the zero point, the beginning point where a certa...

Khaw Boon Wan may be the stupidest man in the Singapore Cabinet, but his sheer destructive capability is dwarfed by the sheer mendacity and ...

"At first, we didn't know exactly what this was, but we've developed a theory. We feel that when citizens of your society were ...

I found out on Friday, but didn't get around blogging about this. At least we'll have the cold comfort of commemorating her and othe...

Duly noted: Singnet users have problems displaying their blogs . Explanation Affected blogger users, all logging in from Singnet accounts, e...

Not a good week for wankers, apparently. On one hand, the gang of wise old men are called out by Elia Diodati and twashers. On the other... ...

Duly noted: Ellia Diodati and twasher have set into motion what I call the Wankerdämmerung. Elia calls out the current Singaporeangle as ...