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Monthly Archives: January 2005

School not enough students - might have something to do with the name?

NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy doesn’t have enough students for its Masters Programme in Public Policy. It currently has only 100 students in its first intake.
I wonder what’s in its curriculum.
‘Cracking Heads 101: How to break skulls and get your way’
‘Mentorship 102: Senator Palpatine - the art of shadow-control’
‘Eugenics 201: Graduate Mother’s [...]

Everything also got copyright!

Schoolgirl goes to museum. Schoolgirl sketches on drawing pad Matisse’s Large Reclining Nude. Security guard tells schoolgirl sketching not allowed ‘because of copyrights’.
What the hell?!? So the constant daily barrage about ‘intellectual property rights’ has created this monster where the average joe who knows shit about the law thinks that anything and everything has copyrights. [...]

Watch my sex tapes but don’t read my email

Someone’s been hacking into Paris Hilton’s Blackberry and reading her emails, and she has this to say:
“It?s one thing to have people looking at your sex tapes, but having people reading your personal e-mails is a real invasion of privacy.?
What the?!?
MSNBC via Joi Ito