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What are your global neighbours are buying? Check out this awesome NYT interactive graph

by Vince on September 17, 2008


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“Do I really spend all that money on my booze?” (Photo Courtesy of FlickR)

What Your Global Neighbours are Spending On

When you make some extra $, what do you spend it on?  Are you hunting for the latest D&G and Gucci wallets and purses, or looking for the next bargain deal on a 42″ LCD HDTV?  (or like me, diligently save it up… NOT)

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Are you kidding? Child Singer ‘faked’ at Olympics… cuz she was too UGLY

by Vince on August 13, 2008

Yang Peiyi and Lin Miaoke
Yang Peiyi was replaced by Lin Miaoke who mimed “Ode to the Motherland” as her face was “not suitable” for the Olympics opening ceremony. Photographs: AFP/ AP

Just saw this article on News 24.

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Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony 2008 - Fireworks Were (Partly) Fake

by Vince on August 11, 2008

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Beijing Olympic Ceremony 2008 Whitehouse.Gov

London’s Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony 2008 were actually computer generated.

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