It pleases me that two of the five ramen restaurants on this list have branches in Singapore. We have a lot of these ‘next level’ establishments selling a bowl of noodles for $15-20, but not enough street-style places where you can have a no-frills serving for under $8.
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➟ Japan’s "Charisma Man"
The Japanese have a comic book (and a name) for the foreign man who comes and steals their women: Charisma Man. This CNN video report is intriguing for how it doesn’t vilify the local women or suggest names for them the way we have “Sarong Party Girls” here in Singapore. The focus is on the visitor and how he’s just a nobody back home.The lamentations of the Japanese male population are given some airtime though.
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➟ Justin McElroy plays Nier
Joystiq reviews editor Justin McElroy spent a whole hour of his life trying to catch a fish in the new Xbox360/PS3 game from Square Enix, Nier. It’s an essential quest to save the character’s dying daughter, but so frustratingly and poorly implemented that it led to the creation of this outraged video rant. Funny stuff.
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➟ The Simpsons cover Tik Tok
As far as I know, this is the first time in 20 years that The Simpson’s opening couch scene has been done as a minute-long parody of a music video, bearing almost no resemblance to the usual format. It’s almost a paid commercial, but it’s also pretty awesome.Update: Original video was taken down, new copy linked.Link [youtube.com]
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➟ Badass mobile home commercial
Errol Morris loves this ad, and you have to admit it’s really something. Buy a mobile home from Cullman Liquidation, or don’t. He doesn’t care.The making-of video is cool too, and has Star (the token hot salesgirl) saying a few lines.
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➟ That Hair
Pretty sure this look is more “crazy homeless girl” when viewed outside the studio.
Link [oh! you pretty things]
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➟ A Microsoft Employee’s Guide to Humor
Microsoft thinks having a good sense of humor is an important “competency” for any employee to have, and has a page to help “improve proficiency” and avoid overdoing it. It also grades a person’s funniness on a four-level scale.Dilbert is listed under Recommended Readings.Where to find humor. There are topics that can be near universally humorous. Misers, bad drivers, absent-minded people, anything that is understood worldwide as the human condition. What’s a ridiculous situation you’ve been caught in lately? There are funny things in the workplace. The jargon of it, memos, ironic rules. And there is always the news. Humor that unites people rather than puts down people or groups is always safe.
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➟ Henry Kissinger on Lee Kuan Yew
High praise for the founder of modern Singapore, from Nobel Peace Prize-winning former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in the 2010 Time Magazine list of the world’s 100 most influential people.There is no better strategic thinker in the world today. Two generations of American leaders have benefited from his counsel.
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