More often than not, when an expatriate living in Bangkok answers a foreigner’s question regarding his or her residence, the response will be one of many variations, “Are you insane boy, what on earth are you going to do there?”

Bangkok has an international reputation as one of the most beautiful, ugly, hot, exciting, sophisticated, dirty, friendly, crowded, interesting and just plain confusing cities in the world. These and other descriptions are all accurate reflections of Bangkok, depending on the person’s perspective and own experiences.

The elephant in the room here at CES this year is truly Windows 8. Microsoft's talking about it, but not much. Manufacturers have hardware that should be running Windows 8, but has Windows 7 onboard instead and they aren't willing to say what their plans are. It's a shroud of mystery that Microsoft is trying to maintain until the public beta is out come late February.

However, some demonstrations of the pre-beta software are on the floor here, and today, we managed to corner a Microsoftie and get some actual hands on time with a Windows 8 tablet. It's truly exciting to see how far the device has come over the last few months. This is the same hardware that was given out at Microsoft BUILD back in September, just with updated bits inside. Here's what you'll see on an entirely stock Samsung Series 7 when it's booted and logged into for the first time;

Take a look at awesome interior projects, created by PIXERS, a group of Polish designers, involved in architecture, art and interior design.

A demonstrator dressed as Santa Claus is arrested by police during clashes with students demanding changes in the public state education system in Santiago. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is the profiteering in the state education system. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

You can not stop the vintage at the moment, and for those who have had hands the famous Walkman, what more vintage than audio cassette.

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Fight Club Soap is a real bar of soap that was created using the original props and artwork from 1999 cult classic Fight Club. This pink bar of caffeinated soap is a product from Omni Consumer Products, “a product development company…with a focus on licensing, defictionalization, and reverse-branding”. They are also known for their Stay Puft Quality Marshmallows and Tru Blood O Positive. Fight Club Soap is available to purchase at their website.

People walk past an activist during an Animal Naturalis demonstration to promote vegetarianism in Barcelona, Spain. (Albert Gea/Reuters)

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The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.

WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant polish around the new user experience, navigation, uploading, and imports. Check out this short video that summarizes the things we think you’ll find are the cat’s pajamas:

It appears that the ‘Setting Time Zone’ function in iOS 5 can lead to excess power drain because the device is repeatedly polling the user’s location in order to set the time zone based on their current location (which is useful when traveling). To disable this functionality, launch the Settings app, navigate to Location Services > System Services and turn off the ‘Setting Time Zone’ option. You should see a purple location services icon in the iPhone’s status bar disappear.

The first images of what is to be Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 device have leaked to the public. The design is essentially identical to that of the recently announced Nokia N9 (powered by MeeGo), however the images clearly show both the device running Windows Phone 7 and a different LED placement plus camera button on the body that give away it is not simply a fake superimposed image of the N9 running WP7.

Taking a look at the video (21 minute version here) from provided by Hungarian site technetblog, and you’ll see Nokia CEO Stephen Elop delivering a private and confidential meeting to a group of people eagerly awaiting images of something codenamed “Sea Ray.” Despite Elop’s emphasis on not taking any photos due to the confidentiality, a member of the crowd managed to snap some shots and video of the “Sea Ray” device presentation, which turned out to be of one of Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone devices.

There is not much else known about the device other than it is visually similar to the Nokia N9, which has a 3.9-inch 480x854 AMOLED display, 8 MP rear camera with LED flash and a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 based TI OMAP 3630 processor on the inside. Obviously at the moment the device (if it is the same as the N9 spec wise) fails to meet the WP7 device requirements (wrong screen size, unsupported processor), so it no doubt will have to be tweaked to be WP7-capable.

More on Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 portfolio should be revealed at their Nokia World Conference on October 36-27 in London, where it is believed the company will launch their first WP7 devices.