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• 25 Palaces of Dictators

  Megalomania drove dictators to build fabulous palaces without regard to their countrymen living in abject poverty and starving to death.

  in Politics — by Ken Lyen — on Nov 16, 2004

• 24 Iris Chang

  The Rape of Nanking is one of the most tragic events of WW2 and referred to as the Chinese holocaust.

  in Politics — by Ken Lyen — on Nov 11, 2004

• 23 Ranking Universities

  There is something about the competitive streak in human nature that makes us want to compare ourselves with everybody else.

  in Sci/Tech — by Ken Lyen — on Nov 07, 2004

• 22 Spim spam, flim flam

  Sometimes I make an expedition to the gallery of modern words to admire the sumptuous beauty of these new forms.

  in Sci/Tech — by Ken Lyen — on Oct 30, 2004

• 21 The Mozart Effect

  The Mozart Effect is less the raising of spatial-temporal intelligence, but more the effect of mass media in stampeding a herd mentality.

  in Sci/Tech — by Ken Lyen — on Oct 28, 2004

• 20 The Perfect Search

  Jealous of Google's domination, new search engines hope that they can vanguish this behemoth.

  in Sci/Tech — by Ken Lyen — on Oct 19, 2004

• 19 2046

  2046 is Wong Kar Wai's film about loneliness, longing, and the futility of escaping from the fetters of past memories.

  in Video — by Ken Lyen — on Oct 14, 2004

• 18 The Front

  Of all the films about McCarthyism, The Front affected me the most profoundly. It is the finest film on this topic.

  in Video — by Ken Lyen — on Oct 07, 2004

• 17 What a Racket!

  Technology has revolutionised tennis. The real breakthrough came when Howard Head developed an aluminium racket in 1976.

  in Sports — by Ken Lyen — on Oct 03, 2004

• 16 Mistyping Personality

  Woody Allen said: "I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype," which of course means the exact opposite.

  in Sci/Tech — by Ken Lyen — on Oct 02, 2004