the(new)mediaslut

Some Mac users have already commented that they loved this new ad from Microsoft. 

Compare this to the “WOW” ad Microsoft used to launch Windows Vista.

What took Microsoft so long? 

Seen the McCain ad that spites Obama as too much of a celebrity to be a president by positioning Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton?

Thanks to McCain’s “endorsement”, Paris Hilton has decided to run for US president too.

Here’s the McCain ad.

A couple of Singaporeans turned crocodile hunters when a retiree and his daughter caught a photo of about one meter long.

This despite advice from a crocodile expert who said crocodiles, like any wild animals, are unpredictable and advised the public to stay away from it.

Wrote The Straits Times,

Working jointly to trap the reptile are the PUB, the national water agency, and the National Parks Board.

Several other ‘hunters’ are on its trail as well: a mix of curious onlookers and nature lovers all eager to shoot it - with their cameras, that is.

Among the people combing the area for signs of the crocodile yesterday were Mr K.C. Wong and his son.

If text won’t work as a warning, maybe the authorities should screen the trailer of “Rogue” at the area to scare away buaya (Malay for crocodile, local slang for playboy) hunters wannabe.

Australia’s Channel 7 investigative journalist Mike Duffy has uncovered a Nike contractor putting workers in sweatshop conditions in Kepong, Malaysia.

Kepong is about an hour drive from Kuala Lumpur.

The journalists at Malay Mail have come down hard on the remarks made by the Malaysia Human Resource Director.

Wrote Frankie d’Cruz and Francis C. Nantha of the Malay Mail,

OUR Human Resources Minister apparently has not seen the Australian Channel 7 television report on “forced labour and appalling working conditions” at a Nike contract factory in Kuala Lumpur.

Otherwise, Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam would not have lashed out at Nike, the athletics apparel giant, for interfering in the internal affairs of Malaysia.

He had also said it was not appropriate for Nike to impose its own standards on a local supplier here.

Nike sweated out a reply saying “it is unsuitable and not up to Nike’s standard..”