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This is one right up soft's street and its denizens. This is a post from Tan Kin Lian's blog. His recent entries have been about the High Notes/Minibond debacle. I think he's planning to have people singing this at the Saturday session in Hong Lin. See if you want to make a stab at it: Do you...

The US National Debt is now: The estimated population of the United States is 304,879,686 so each citizen's share of this debt is $33,617.35 (as at 10 Oct 08 03:09:48 AM GMT). The US National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.29 billion per day since September 28, 2007! The...

Now you see it: Now you don't: "IT was like a magic show when Henry Tan discovered four of his 150-odd bus shelters in Kuala Lumpur missing early this week, with only wires left behind at the spots. “I was shocked when my site inspectors informed me that the bus shelters were missing. I...

Caught B-Quartet on Sat at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre. I enjoyed the show, especially Bani's drumming. Then Vertical Rush's first set couldn't start because of the rain. When it died down to almost nothing, the second set was canceled as well (30 mins to go before the 10pm start time). Don't...

OK, maybe not really how to succeed, but a war story (published in Today newspaper) from the trenches. Excuse the mud. For the sake of brevity, I extracted the "better" bits. This is the whole article. The fool of rock It’s a rough road to rock stardom, says our man (Christopher Toh) Thursday...

Punk music can get you in trouble. Heard on BBC that in Cuba, bands have 2 sets of lyrics - one for when officials are around and another when they are not. Don't try this at home. :mrgreen: Cuban punk rocker Gorki Aguila expected to face trial Friday By Frances Robles frobles@MiamiHerald.com...

from History Today: Opening of the London Olympics July 29th, 1948 The sun blazed down on Wembley Stadium in London on Thursday, July 29th, 1948, when the fourteenth games of the modern Olympiad were formerly opened by George VI in the presence of a host of dignitaries and a crowd of more than...

I was in the Intro to Siouxsie thread, and on a Friday, eve of National Day, an epiphany of sorts occurred. I was thinking that if the general Singapore population is really aging, then the corollary to this phenomenon must be: - The softie population must also be aging - Les Pauls will get...

This was in the news today.... You might call it an avocational hazard. A recent ITN News video in the U.K. shows that some London pedestrians have become so preoccupied with e-mailing and text messaging on their BlackBerrys and cell phones that they can't make it down a city block without...

Seems like suddenly there're lots of Fenders at good prices at Bras Basah Complex: 1. Swee Lee announced arrival of Fender electrics (quite a few models) at reduced prices. See: New Fender Arrivals at Swee Lee 2. Ranking has a whole side of their window display with some really nice Fender...

Is it possible to do this: Guitar > Pedal > Amplug > Headphones/"Hamburger" speakers Obviously I don't have the Amplug so I can't try this, and there's no info on Vox site. Thanks.

This is spawned off the Music Themed Films thread. We were talking about films with a music theme. Then it got to this.....(sorry a bit long, but I've put some of it here in one place for your convenience. You are welcome :mrgreen:).... Sage suggested this film about Iceland's music (we can...

This is a take-off from this other soft thread: Music Themed Films (didn't want to clutter it up with off-topic stuff) In the film, The Thing Called Love, you see people auditioning for spots in the legendary Bluebird Cafe. This is a real-life music club in Nashville and they are famous for...

Just watched this movie, "The Thing called Love" (DVD borrowed from the library). Not a new film (1993), but worth your time to check it out. It was not a commercial success, but is a cult classic (according to the director Peter Bogdanovich who incidentally made the film "St Jack" which was...

Any recommendation for a good, straightforward book on Electronics (starting from zero base)? Good enough to be able to do PCBs, troubleshooting, read schematics, etc. Don't have to be enough for getting an EE degree (!). Thanks.