nointrigue.com » nytimes http://www.nointrigue.com/blog Enoch Lau's Blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:27:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ High-Speed Rail http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/08/19/high-speed-rail/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/08/19/high-speed-rail/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:46:51 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=968 What Would High-Speed Rail Do to Suburban Sprawl? It’s often implicitly assumed that rail travel is beneficial in and of itself, but this New York Times blog post argues that the construction of high-speed rail in the US — mooted as part of the stimulus programme — could actually foster urban sprawl.

]]> http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/08/19/high-speed-rail/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ Finance as a career disgraced http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/04/16/finance-as-a-career-disgraced/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/04/16/finance-as-a-career-disgraced/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:32:48 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=636 With Finance Disgraced, Which Career Will Be King?: A correction for the better, I would say. It’s fantastic that investment bankers connect people with money to people with ideas, and business consultants optimise businesses, but ultimately someone has to come up with the ideas — and someone has to run the businesses that produces valuable output for there to be businesses to optimise.

]]> http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/04/16/finance-as-a-career-disgraced/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ “Let’s go for a laksa” http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/01/08/lets-go-for-a-laksa/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/01/08/lets-go-for-a-laksa/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:11:41 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=412 I was savouring the delightful descriptions of one of my favourite dishes, laksa, in this New York Times article, when I almost choked upon this surprising factoid:

Curry laksa is hugely popular in Australia, especially Sydney, where the pan-Asian culinary influence has turned “let’s go for a laksa” into common post-pub parlance.

Perhaps I don’t go to pubs often enough, but is this really so?

]]> http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2009/01/08/lets-go-for-a-laksa/feed/ 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ McCain, asleep at the wheel http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/11/04/mccain-asleep-at-the-wheel/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/11/04/mccain-asleep-at-the-wheel/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:01:33 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=349 Since everyone else seems to be blogging about the election, I might as well jump on the bandwagon as well.

While I was watching a McCain-Palin interview on the New York Times website, it happened to freeze right at this moment:

If you use your imagination a little, that’s how McCain might look like if he were to suffer a slight mishap while driving.

In any case, nointrigue.com for Obama! For all it’s worth, given I don’t actually have a vote…

]]> http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/11/04/mccain-asleep-at-the-wheel/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ The New York Times http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/09/09/the-new-york-time/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/09/09/the-new-york-time/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:15:04 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=293 Floundering in a sea of change: I still consider the New York Times to be the pinnacle of journalism, but is it floundering because of the collapse of the old guard, and “the cost structures and privileges of the old media are being swept away”?

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