Some of you might have seen the teaser ads in The Star over the past few days. Well, the site is now live and kicking.

Reason why I’m writing about it is because a couple of my articles are featured in it. I wrote a couple of Twitter-related articles for the site, and am working on a couple more.

My first article is headlined: Tweets from Teoh Beng Hock. Don’t worry – it’s really not about him Tweeting from the afterlife (okay, maybe there is a reference there) but basically, I write about phweeters that exist in the Twittersphere. Altantuya Shaaribu, Kanye West and Ellen Degeneres gets a mention too (like lah, my mentions mean much hehe).

The second article is in a section called Just 140 where I will continue to feature an interview with some of the hottest Twitterers out there. The tagline for the section is:

What the hottest Twitterers are doing

First up is Jojo Struys, currently the host of Project Alpha. She talks about being a strange chic (sic), Twittering from the bath tub (serious!) and being nude with Daphne Iking (I know, right!). You can read the article here.

Enjoy the pedas-ness and have a good week ahead, y’all!

8.26am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

Update (10.30pm, Mar 22, 2009):

Another video for your viewing pleasure.
Portia de Rossi did this “PSA” for Jimmy Kimmel life, apologising for the grief she caused to many people because she got married to Ellen Degeneres. He he

Just wanted to share this video. With all the hype going on with Prop 8 appeals, and US President Barack Obama endorsing a UN Gay Rights declaration (which George W. Bush refused to sign before), I thought this was appropriate.

The show was aired on March 16, 2009 – exactly seven months after they got married. They spent a good part of the video below talking about being married, and I’m not sure about you but I sensed genuine affection and love.

12.50am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

Well, I am joining (not that I am as important, but every voice matters, I believe) a number of public personalities – and individuals – to speak out against Proposition 8 (or Prop 8). On Nov 4, when the people of United States vote for their new President (*fingers crossed* Obama, Obama, Obama), California will also be voting on Proposition 8, among others.

Prop 8 is a 2008 California General Election Ballot initiative measure titled:

Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry

If passed, this measure would allow for the California constitution to be changed, with this phrase “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California” added.

Among the people (and organisations) who have spoken out against Prop 8 (yes, those of you voting in California need to vote NO to oppose discrimination – weird how the world works, huh?) include Ellen Degeneres (who got married recently to wife Portia De Rossi), US comic Margaret Cho, Ugly Betty America Fererra, Apple Inc (the company just donated US100,000 to the campaign), Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden among others. TV personalities are also speaking out against Prop 8, like in the video below.

Some others – organisations and individiduals – who are saying NO on Prop 8 are listed here. College students too are out in force.

In August, the Los Angeles Times explained why people should vote NO on Prop 8.

“Proposition 8… would eliminate the fundamental right to same-sex marriage. The very act of denying gay and lesbian couples the right to marry – traditionally the highest legal and societal recognition of a loving commitment – by definition relegates them and their relationship to second class status.”

But Prop 8 is not just a sexuality issue – it is about fundemental human rights, and treating citizens fairly. Let this video explain.

No on 8 dispels some myths about Prop 8.

And why should it matter to someone like me, who doesn’t even live there in the US, let alone California? Because change needs to start somewhere, and because a yes win on Prop 8 will have detrimental effects on LGBT rights specifically, and human rights in general.

I join those personalities, organisations, my friends who live in California, and others like me who don’t live in the US also because this is an issue of fairness. The same way I fought, alongside with my friends, peers and contemporaries in Western Australia, for many things back when I was studying there even though – as a foreign student – I was not really affected by most things, and would eventually leave.

A dear friend to me back while I was in Australia recently created this video in support of NO on 8.

Nelson is Australian but now lives in South Africa, yet he feels strongly enough about the issue to take a stand. I am taking a stand too. I am a NO on 8 person. And if you’re voting on Nov 4 in California, I hope you are too.

9.33pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)