In which I just put up all the random articles I’ve found interesting over the last few days:
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The Least Essential Albums of 2006. An article that taught me about Neil Hamburger.
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Inbred dogs in Japan, land of fads. Very sad. And the part about dogs being mated with their offspring is just gross.
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David Pogue lists the top 10 ideas in technology. I like the flash drive fuel gauge.
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Regret the Error lists the best corrections of 2006. I particularly like the fake corrections (*IN previous issues of this newspaper, we may have given the impression that the people of France were snail swallowing garlic munching surrender-monkeys whose women never bother to shave their armpits.
We now realise that the French football team can stop the Portuguese – and in particular their cheating whingeing winger Cristiano Ronaldo – from getting to the World Cup Final which we so richly deserved to do.)*Speaking of which, Kill Duck Before Serving, the book about New York Times corrections, is pretty funny in its own right.
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Fodor’s has its list of five not-to-be-missed museum shows in 2007. Speaking of museums: the restoration of the National Museum here in Singapore was very, very well done; and the All the Best show at the Singapore Art Museum was great.
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The AP has an article on babies with “made-to-order defects”, such as deaf parents wanting deaf children.