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Eating Scorpion – Overnight in Hospital Story is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/ , a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I finally updated the story with the proper videos – the one of me in the hospital I don’t think I’ve posted here … Read full story >>>

Only In New York: Photographs From Look Magazine, edited by Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins, is the catalogue of an exhibition of images from the Museum of the City of New York archives. It features photos of New York from the 1940s-1950… Read full story >>>

It was Boxing Day, the day after Christmas and I quite fancied taking a ride into Udon Thani. A couple of days later we were due to take our pre New Year pilgrimage to the mountains of Loei Province to spend a few days visiting the annual Phu Rua Flower Festival. … Read full story >>>

Nich’s posting about Rachel Leow ’s website has prompted me to survey cyberspace for prominent blogs on Malaysia. Currently, there is no established ranking of bloggers or top websites in Malaysia. However, some individuals have attempted to put together such a ranking (refer here , here and here ). Here … Read full story >>>

This blog isn’t dead, it is just getting used to sharing the attention with another member of the family. Once all settles down Jonny Foreigner will back to normal again, for now he’s hugging his tear-soaked pillow tightly, reflecting the days as an only-child blog. Social media … Read full story >>>

Thai Takes By PHILIP GOLINGAI AT AROUND 3am on Jan 15, an M79 grenade was fired into the compound of the Thai Army headquarters in Bangkok, landing near the office of Army chief General Anupong Paochinda. The Thai authorities kept silent about the attack until the… Read full story >>>

Have previously blogged on GT200 “bomb detectors”, in reality they are just voodoo-like dowsing rod devices. After a BBC Newsnight investigation, the UK government has stated they will place limited export ban on such devices which would seem to include… Read full story >>>

Attention soccer fans in Bangkok: the World Cup trophy will be on display at Paragon tomorrow. BKK Post: http://is.gd/6N1XG # RT @ jfcarpio The political quadrant: http://humanknowledge.net/PoliticalSpace.jpg (Via @gabricalderon) # Read full story >>>

Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made, edited by Alison Castle, is a collection of ten volumes (Reference, Script, Production, Notes, Correspondence, Chronology, Text, Costumes, Location Scouting, and Picture File) packaged inside a large, hollow book. It’s outrageously expensive and extremely heavy (10kg), and is limited to 1,000 numbered… Read full story >>>

UPDATE: Anasuya of Channel News Asia also has a report on the bunkers. Have already blogged on the Justice Minister’s trip to Sisaket with the foreign media, but the Straits Times also reported (subscription only): The Thai authorities have built 340 bunkers in two schools … Read full story >>>

Ty writes in a comment and reminds BP of 1976: In 1976, before the October 6 massacre, the rumor went around that Vietnamese sappers had infiltrated Thammasat students. On October 6, the story was that the students who were killed were Vietnamese who couldn’t speak Thai, the unspoken message being that therefore it was all right … Read full story >>>

Artificial Intelligence – From Stanley Kubrick To Steven Spielberg: The Vision Behind The Film, edited by Jan Harlan and Jane M Struthers, is a portfolio of pre-production material from Spielberg’s film AI: Artificial Intelligence. AI was originally conceived by Kubrick, who worked with Brian Aldiss on a treatment and … Read full story >>>

CSM: “Forensics can help bring justice to this region,” she says during her investigation, under military escort, at a Muslim village in Pattani Province, where three militants were reportedly hiding out in a rubber tapper's rattan hut. “We want to find the [real culprits], so the police and the military won&#… Read full story >>>

Thai Takes By PHILIP GOLINGAI IN an editorial cartoon, The Nation ’s cartoonist Stephff answers a question that has recently been bugging Thais – What is really wrong with Hun Sen? Last week, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen offered political asylum to Thaksin Shinawatra, the … Read full story >>>

The capital’s labour force is still busy constructing the capital’s future – an impressive parliament complex and a presidential house are emerging in anticipation of the 2010 general elections. The total cost of building Naypyidaw remains a mystery, although a local businessman points out … Read full story >>>

Story Of The Scene: The Inside Scoop On Famous Moments In Film, by Roger Clarke, discusses the making of eighty classic film scenes, with a two-page chapter devoted to each film (except Spartacus, which has two chapters). The most interesting chapters are those which concentrate on one specific moment… Read full story >>>