Just try.

Designers Alex Tee and Evan Gant, of Massachusetts-based product innovation firm Altitude Inc., are hoping their LightLane bicycle add-on will make bicycling safer at night. (via Core77)

That sounds cool. If only we had bike paths here. :) Nah in Malaysia we do it kamikaze style. We ain't avoiding traffic, we be IN traffic.

The typical power adapter is the perfect symbol of design by engineers; it fits everything they need into that black box, and takes absolutely no consideration of the environment in which it will go, often rendering adjacent outlets useless.

Ideative's Socket Sense is a good solution, expanding outwards so you can "load" the outlets before compressing them together into a tidier bundle. Runs about 30 bucks US and is one of the better powerstrip solutions we've seen. (via Core77)

Now I could use one of those. There's way too many extension cords lying all over the place here and too many adapters to match them.

Here's something that's been bugging me for some time now. I'm sure everyone's questioned it once or twice before. When you're walking in the mall and looking for that part time job, you come across a rather cool (dark) anime/fashion/toy store that you think you could really like working in. You look at the HELP WANTED sign and the first thing you see is "CHINESE/MALAY/INDIAN only" and depending on your race, you somehow end up disappointed.

I understand that there's a need to communicate to some customers in a certain language. Couldn't they have said "Preferably able to speak Chinese/Malay/Tamil"? Yes I know there is no "CHINESE" language, but I could spend all day listing down the different dialects. I mean I know heaps of people who speak a wide variety of languages. Whenever I meet someone who isn't Chinese and speaks the language, I am immediately awed and somewhat pissed off knowing I can't speak a word of it myself and find that I am impressed by them. Wouldn't it be cool to walk into some manga selling shop and ask the Indian dude next to you something in Mandarin only to have him answer back fluently? I think so. Why specify the RACE of a person rather than the preffered LANGUAGE? I think I could be a huge disappointment for if I applied for a "CHINESE GIRL ONLY" job. I'd piss off the employer when I tell him/her I can't speak any form of Chinese worth peanuts.

And this is why we entertain Mat Sallehs so much.