When I wrote my guide to duckface in Taiwan a few weeks ago, I didn’t think anything could be more stupider than the act of pulling Duckface and taking a photo of yourself. But when this product came across my desk, it hit me: what’s the only thing stupider than duckface? A how-to guide on [...]
Love them or hate them, whilst it might not be the most organised of protests of late, it’s certainly undeniable that the Occupy Wall Street protestors in the US have captured the world’s attention. One particular aspect of the protests was the initial lack of media coverage of Occupy Wall Street by the mainstream American [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve eaten at a McDonalds Australia outlet but from memory, apart from the McOz (which is a promotional burger only), none of their other regular hamburgers contain bacon. Infact the only thing on the entire menu that contains bacon I believe is the Bacon and Egg McMuffin, available only during [...]
World Skills is the ‘global “skills olympics”. It is a competition for youth from 17 to 22 years to demonstrate their excellence in skilled professions.’ Started back in 1950, World Skills is run every two years in a member country and aims to ‘promote, through the cooperative actions of Members, a world-wide awareness of the [...]
In the last 24 hours Wikileaks has released a whole bunch of leaked diplomatic cables relating to China and Taiwan. The leaked cables cover a bunch of issues ranging from Google, internet censorship, various political and economic engagements around the world and more importantly, several cables specifically relating to Taiwan and China. Today I bring [...]
Back in March 2011 Taiwan’s FDA found traces of the plasticizer DEHP in a ‘routine check of beverages for banned chemicals‘. As details of the scandal emerged, turns out that various companies in Taiwan had been feeding the Taiwanese DEHP (used as a substitute emulsifier) for decades. With shrunk testicles, hormones all over the place [...]
Spend five minutes in Asia on a sunny day and you’re guaranteed to appreciate just how much Asians hate the sun. Pretty girls walk around with umbrellas, people on scooters are covered like they’re going skiing, cyclists look like ninjas and everyone is chugging vitamin D tablets because they essentially live like cavemen. About a [...]
One of the things I’m proud of Australia is the fact that, despite having people from all sorts of cultures, religions and creeds, it’s that for the most part we all get along with the same reasonably secular common law. Aborigines and their special courts aside, the rest of us abide by a system that [...]
Carnita Matthews hasn’t had a very good run at being a licensed driver in Australia. Since she first received her learner licence in 1998 at the age of 33, she has twice had her provisional licence suspended for totting up too many demerit points and twice had her licence suspended for non payment of fines. [...]
When I stop to think about what is actually in my chocolate milk, specifically where it comes from, I have a hard time not gagging about it. I mean really, if you think about it, I’m chugging down milky liquid that’s supposed to be for newborn calves. I balk at the idea of drinking human [...]
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