Stupid voters
Oct 9, 2008 Sounds Like Pop
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show are just too funny. Check out the video below:
via videosift.com
You’d think that the percentage would be higher, considering they voted George W. Bush in for two years. ;) Then again, we aren’t known for voting in the smartest tools in the political shed either I suppose.
How’s that for a morning jab! heh heh That’s what happens when you wake up at 6.30am.
7.28am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: Elections, john oliver, jon stewart, the daily show, video
Brinking on child abuse
Oct 6, 2008 Sounds Like Pop
There can be no other way to describe the video below.
LOL!
7.44am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: nathaniel, seth, the soup, yo gabba gabba
John McCain is no maverick
Oct 5, 2008 Sounds Like Pop
The first time I came across this word, I was about 15 years old and thought it meant someone who could do special tricks. After all, it first heard of it watching the movie Maverick, starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster (which I enjoyed very much), which is about a conman who would trick people out of fighting him - or bashing him up.
Besides, doesn’t the word “maverick” sound a bit magic?
Of course, as I grew up, I got to understand what the real meaning (well, one of them, at least) of the word, that is, someone who doesn’t tow the line.
Of course, it’s not a word that I commonly hear in Malaysia (no one, I think, would even imagine using it on any of our politicians - although former de facto Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim standing up against the ISA has made him a maverick of sorts). Still, with the US Presidential elections hotting up - it seems to be a favourite keyword by John McCain and Sarah Palin - referring to themselves of course (syiok sendiri?).
Last night, I came across this article in the New York Times by John Schwartz headlined:
Who You Callin’ a Maverick?
The article is about the reference that McCain is a maverick - and, in tracing back the history of the term - declares that he is hardly one.
It was an interesting read - not only because it slams McCain *heh*heh* - but because I never knew that the term maverick was coined based on one particular Texan family who are actually called Maverick.
It even quotes one Terelitta Maverick, a descendant of Samuel Augustus Maverick whose “rebellion” made the word a catchphrase, saying:
“It’s just incredible — the nerve! — to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, ‘Oh, my God, he said it again.’ ”
10.25am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: John McCain, Maverick, Sarah Palin
Bernice gives the Low-down on DPM Najib’s site
Oct 4, 2008 Sounds Like Pop
Well, his web site at least.
A while ago (actually, as Bernice puts it, 10 years after the MSC was established), our Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak joined us all in the blogosphere and started his own blog called - 1 Malaysia at www.1malaysia.com.my (not to be confused with TM’s Gold Partner, a hosting company also called 1 Malaysia at www.1malaysia.com).
Anyway, I didn’t really bother bother visiting it, but I got an email referring me to an article by Bernice Low - who writes for popular website cNet - available here. Among other things, she takes on the images available on the DPM’s website, saying:
Let’s be honest here. You are neither a rock star, or a pop star, the latest teenage sensation, or a hot TV actor. You are a politician. With all due respect: WHO WOULD WANT TO DOWNLOAD PICTURES OF YOU ONTO THEIR DESKTOP?????
Just three words.
Fuyoh, ganas wei!
7.26pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: 1 Malaysia, bernice low, Najib Tun Razak
No privacy in China
Oct 2, 2008 Sounds Like Pop
Falun Gong
Taiwan Independence
Chinese Communist Party
Democracy
Earthquake
All those words above could get you in trouble if you live in China, according to Canadian human-rights activist. The New York Times has just reported that the activist have found a surveillance system which monitors and archives certain conversations of customers of communications software Tom-Skype.
The system, they say, identify and archive “politically-charged” conversations based on certain keywords, which of late includes “Milk”.
This is of course worrying, and not good for the future of the Internet. Sure, we can all talk about how everyone already know about China’s reputation for infringement of human rights and invasion of privacy. But who’s tho say that this can’t, or isn’t done in any other countries - especially, as the article states, corporations have worked with authorities previously by providing information on users.
Scary stuff.
9.15am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: china, SKype, Surveillance, Tom-Skype
