I subscribe to the RSS feed from Snopes.com: New Urban Legends. Pretty interesting and you get a good laugh from some of the more outrageous tall tales going around.
In the past two days I’ve actually had three people message me with links to a story that has been picked up by several news sites. The [...]
Continue reading about The Japanese aren’t Stupid (just weird)!
[Update]
You can read theCICAK’s “Ijok Exclusive” for a hands-on take on the issue.
Recently, the media carried articles on the lack of registered voters. You may remember my post on registering to vote. There are 5 million (actually 4,999,999 million since I registered) voters who are eligible but haven’t registered.
DPM Najib said that unregistered voters were [...]
Get a keyboard like mine:
On April 20th Pope Benedict XVI reversed an 800-year old Catholic tradition: the teaching of limbo.
Limbo is a place “between Heaven and Hell” and comes in two flavours: Patriach class, for the good people who died before Jesus’ Ressurection; and Child class, for infants and people who were mentally unhealthy. According to wiki: .
Saint Thomas [...]
From last Wednesday’s Sun on whether spending government (i.e. the public’s) resources on huge allocations to places where by-elections are being held is illegal (emphasis added):
“Morally, it is wrong but technically, it is not,” Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (Mafrel) chairman Abdul Malek Hussin said in an interview today.
“This reflects a serious discrepancy in Malaysian [...]
Sorry I won’t be able to update with anything substantial for the next week or so…busy with assignments.
LKS’s blogs today about Revathi Masoosai/Siti Fatimah – if you haven’t read the news, she deconverted from Islam years ago, and the authorities found out about her status after she gave birth. Her marriage is unregistered because her [...]
I read a blog today about Sitemeter installing “extra” stuff on the clients that load pages with the Sitemeter code.
Digging a little on the Net found more information: Apparently Statcounter, a competing website counter provider, was approached by an advertiser and offered $ to install data miners in all member sites. From their original post:
A [...]
MMU introduces a twist in its Engineers and Society course this year: as an assignment, all students are given MMU-hosted blogs, and have to update them regularly, as well as read their classmates’ posts. Link here [Might only be accessible from Malaysia].
This project is the brainchild of Pau Kiu Nai, who holds a bachelor’s degree from [...]
“Once a Free, always a Free”
Any of my ex-PFS mates who read that would be rolling their eyes at the oh-so-creative slogan we used to hear back then. And we always agree that our alma mater is going downhill – then again, maybe the generations before us thought the same thing…
But in some people the [...]
Apparently it was closed down for about three hours today after police received a tip-off. The International Herald Tribune has a story on it.
Prank or near-miss? …
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