GlobalIssues.org is a pretty good site with very well sourced articles managed by a single soul alone. Do check it out.

Useful for GP, KI and for general knowledge. We are too well fed to know of much of the suffering the world is submerged in.

There is something interesting with one of the headline articles in today’s papers. You can look it up under the title “$6.3b solar plant to be set up in S’pore by 2010″.

Anyway. the first thing of note is this paragraph which made me laugh when I read it. A quirky sense of humour, no doubt.

That means that the future is looking bright for Singapore’s ambition to become a shining light in the global marker for solar and other clean energy.

When I looked at this paragraph and the article title, I can’t help laughing.

And the second pick comes from someone who has studied too much. The journalist quoted the units “gigawatt” and “megawatt” wrongly as “Gw” and “Mw” respectively. According to some organization that governs the SI units:

This SI unit is named after James Watt. As for all SI units whose names are derived from the proper name of a person, the first letter of its symbol is uppercase (W). But when an SI unit is spelled out, it should always be written in lowercase (watt), unless it begins a sentence or is the name “degree Celsius”.

Basically, it should be “GW” and “MW” instead!

Alright, I was just bored.