2010 A Year in Review

A review of a whole year should take years! Well, a year more like. Here at Interesting Points of Interest we like to take an overview, which makes the review a hell lot shorter. An overview of a review. Furthermore the overview is only of the things that we know, "we" referring to the staff at Interesting Points of Interest, of which there is only one therefore this should be a really really short review.

Some stuff that happened in 2010 that we may remember: Earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, South Korean ship gets sunk by some unknown force which many think is North Korea but they deny it, the BP oil spill, Thai political protests, ship carrying activists and bringing aid to the blockaded Gaza strip were boarded and attacked by the Isreali Navy, Spain won the World Cup, Cablegate and Afghan and Iraq war documents leaked by Wikileaks, Liu Xiaobo of China won the Nobel Peace Prize, Lien Chan of Taiwan apparently won the Confucius Peace Prize though he was not aware of it until after the fact, UK student protests against budget cuts for education and raising the tuition fee cap, arsenic-based life form discovered in a lake in California (which means it's very likely that aliens do exist), and many more!

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Friends turning into spamming robots. Do you experience this? I don't mean they literally become robots. I mean those friends with whom you haven't kept in contact with for a few years. All of a sudden, you receive spam emails from them. And if you imagine them literally getting assimilated into some hive spamming mind and it's literally them writing those emails but it's not them but just their physical bodily shells with nothingness inside and they're not even looking at the computer screen because they can't see because they have no more nervous system it's just the hive mind senses the computer and the keyboard and the email address and password and logs into their hotmail or gmail and types the spam email and hits send to your email as well as other email address that look like yours but have a number or underscore added. THAT is a scary thought isn't it. I mean, what if, one day, your body gets taken over by the spamming overlord?



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I absolutely adore this song, you have no idea! All the way from the 1920s, those seem like good times... There are many covers of the song, this is just one of the many:



This awesome song warrants lyrics to be posted:

You're the cream in my coffee,
You're the salt in my stew;
You will always be my necessity
I'd be lost without you.

You're the starch in my collar,
You're the lace in my shoe;
You will always be my necessity
I'd be lost without you.

Most men tell love tails,
And each phrase dovetails.
You've heard each known way,
This way is my own way.

You're the sail of my love boat,
You're the captain and crew;
You will always be my necessity
I'd be lost without you.

But then you also have to check out this wicked pianist playing this song:



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Interesting Points of Interest - Yesterday was New Year's Even and I had a report to submit by that night. Today is New Year's Day and I have a report to submit by tonight. Happy New Year indeed. My fault for not completing them earlier.