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The Hinge: Three Dog Tales

http://eadotcom.blogspot.com/2008/12/kiss.html



Good read

Bye Bye Dubai

The bigger, brasher and taller they build, the harder they will fall. The lesson from the Towel of Babel has not been learnt yet, and will never be learnt it seems.

"In Dubai last month, a fireworks display was so enormous it could only truly be appreciated from the heavens (literally—it was visible from space). The occasion was the opening of the $1.5 billion Atlantis resort complex on an enormous artificial archipelago shaped like a palm tree. The point of the party, its promoters explained, was to show the world that Dubai is a land of fantasies come true, an over-the-top destination for good times. But among many of the guests, the mood was funereal. As the fireworks exploded, the global economy was imploding. "

Here is more for a good read

Algae Energy

Yes those green stuff in water. They multiply like crazy. A nuisance for aquaculture as they choke the life out of fish or shrimps by taking all the oxygen.

Nuisance can be good news too. They can be turned into energy by extracting oil from them.... ah the ubiquitous oil for a energy starving world.

http://www.originoil.com/

Waste Energy

This is a good time to talk about energy. Dropping oil price does not mean oil reserve will last, in fact it might deplete faster.

Now there is gold in rubbish. Electricity from the huge amount of waste we all throw away. Recycling is not it. Burning it for energy might be.

"Waste could fill many of nation’s wants by 2020, says fuel report"

Future Energy

Fossil fuel will eventually run out.

Despite the fall in oil prices world wide, governments must actively look for renewable energy sources soon before another world oil crisis due to speculations and cartels.

This caught my eyes today. Energy from the ocean tides and currents. This is perenial. As long as the earth spins round the sun and the moon around the earth there will always be tides. How to tap into this perpetual motion is the answer to the search.

Australian technology.

Holy Brawling

Brawling in the holiest place?

That is what happens when we place significance into insignificant places. Emphasising on the relics and forms. When the Spirit has left, what is left is bricks and stones. Dead lifeless acts remain.

And we will fight over 'our' tradition and square foot of earth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7718587.stm

Another Christian perpective. Our shame.

http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2008/11/monk-see-monk-do-disgrace-of-church-of.html

Conflict

One say no, one say yes!

Both from the same government.

Regarding the high court verdict on releasing RPK, the govt is not speaking with one voice whether they will challenge it or not!

KAJANG, Nov 7 - The Home Ministry will not dispute the decision of the court to release blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA), said its minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.
"That is the decision of the court. So, if he is released, it's the right of the court," he told reporters after launching the Kajang Prison Mosque, Hulu Langat, here today.- Bernama

(The Star) - The Government may appeal against the Shah Alam High Court’s decision to release Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin from the Internal Security Act (ISA) detention.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz said the High Court’s decision ought to be respected.
“But I think the Government will appeal,” he said yesterday.

So what is the govt saying?

Raja's Free!

Yahoo!

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/7/nation/20081107094618&sec=nation

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/92620

Thank God that some judicial sense still prevails.

Well Said, Zaid.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/11527-zaid-says-racialist-social-contract-a-1980s-umno-creation

Pray for more like him, willing to call a spade, a spade.

Change? Not Yet.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/11133-not-all-nep-elements-will-go-najib-aide-clarifies

Ah clarifications. Can we be blamed for being cynical?

Making the right noise

NEP will be changed, eventually. But is he talking one thing to one audience and another thing to his supporters?

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/11093-najib-ready-to-end-special-privileges-for-malays

Pray that it is true. And not in another 50 years.

Denial.

So it is not true that manifestation. Lord have mercy if it is true.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/10821-najib-denies-manifesto-that-has-country-buzzing

Does not look good

http://sloone.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/future-msian-pm-or-king-of-scandals-and-denials/

But when Abdullah took the lead, we were deeply disappointed after a while.

Can UMNO change? Will it change for the better or for worse.

Pray. Lord have mercy.

ISA abuse

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/18/nation/20081018165921&sec=nation

Used to detain an activist who posted information according to the police as false. But isnt the ISA for national security? Why cant they use other laws? Cheesed off.

Think Evolution is right?

Watch and think again.

http://aimediaserver4.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=ai4/harvard/harvard.swf&width=640&height=520

If evolutionist think all these are caused by chance, their faith is stronger!

Our Govt Ignores Polls

Even the Malays want the NEP on Economic affirmation based on race abolished?

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/10233-poll-shows-most-malaysians-want-nep-to-end

Why don't the govt listen? Personal benefits and failed delivery system that benefits the few.

This will be good

If true.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/9/nation/20081009125449&sec=nation

The poor is always God's concern.

Evolution Ending?

Why does evolution end today? What kind of Theory is that? It theorise the past and presume the future.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1070671/Evolution-stops-Future-Man-look-says-scientist.html

Ridiculous!

We need more within

Zaid calls for repeal of ISA in open letter to PM
KUALA LUMPUR, SEPT 30 - Datuk Seri Zaid Ibrahim, who quit as de facto Law Minister because he wasn't getting any support for his proposed reforms, has written an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for the abolition of the ISA.
Here is his letter in full:

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com.my/index.php/malaysia/9819-zaid-calls-for-repeal-of-isa-in-open-letter-to-pm

Straight A Students Better?

At Oxford, Mr Lim completed a master's in Chinese Studies, focusing on the work of Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and made it into the East Asian Studies PhD programme at Princeton University a year later.

Usually eloquent, Mr Lim was stumped when asked just how exactly he made good.
'I just don't think a three-hour exam is the best way to test any student's ability' was what he finally said.


http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,178065,00.html