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The ever-evolving, Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones title sequence impressed viewers with its clockwork globe of Westeros. It apparently also made an impression on the creators of a Singaporean kung fu drama set in the 1960s. More »
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Singapore has embarked upon the excavation of an underground oil reserve, expanding the city's industrial port beneath the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It is "no ordinary construction site," the BBC tells us, but an elaborate project of engineering and infrastructure currently underway "several hundred feet underground, below the seabed in Singapore." More »
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While visiting Singapore, Marvel Comics talent scout C.B. Cebulski discovered Dr. Who bottled water, an oxygenated beverage that has absolutely nothing to do with the television show. The legality of this seems somewhat dodgy, but hey, at least we now know that Dr. Who contains no sodium or carbohydrates. Also, the Singaporean Dr. Who travels in a screamingly branded truck, which is somewhat less conspicuous than a police box. More »
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In a recently proposed 10-year development plan, Singapore aims to go from being "a garden city" to "a city in a garden." The proposal marks the latest milestone in the city's decades-long effort to become an eco-city. More »
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You can't buy love, but can you engineer it? More »
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Remember the haunted-hayride depths of Daoist Hell? Well, that was a cakewalk compared to Singapore's Haw Par Villa. At this unique bemusement park, you can tour the annals of Chinese mythology, such as the 10 Courts of Chinese Hell. More »
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You've got to hand it to this Singaporean cosplayer for strapping himself into this giant Gundam costume, and it's just plum heartbreaking when he wipes out. What's a mecha's deadliest nemesis? An uneven floor. More »
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Well, not exactly. Yesterday Gallup released updated data detailing where the world's population would relocate if emigration were a non-issue. Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Botswana, and the United States were among the big gainers, whereas everyone wants to leave Somalia. More »
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The Clinic, a new restaurant in Singapore, is the mad scientist rendition of a fetish restaurant. Created as a tribute to pop artist Damien Hirst, it features waiters dressed in white coats and scrubs serving colorful pills and syringes of cocktails with names like "Nitro-Sangria" and "Sex on a Drip" to wheel-chair ridden customers. The rooms are shaped like pills, and the plates are surgical pans shaped like kidneys. And if you're still hungry at the end of the meal but tired of chewing, you can probably ask the waiter/nurse to put you on an IV and feed you dessert. The Clinic [Designboom] More »
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