Archives: 2008October

TERLALU banyak spekulasi berkaitan peralihan kuasa 2010 kebelakangan ini. Begitu juga dengan cakap-cakap tentang pemilihan UMNO bahagian bermula Oktober dan Majlis Tertinggi (MT) pada Disember.

Sejak dua minggu lalu, ada sahaja perkembangan baru mewarnai senario politik UMNO menjadikan parti itu mendapat perhatian besar.
Hari ini, akan berlangsung mesyuarat khas MT UMNO yang turut mengundang desas-desus tentang […]

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Dr. Lo’ Lo’ Mohamad Ghazali [Titiwangsa]: Mohon laluan. Tuan Yang di-Pertua, terima kasih. Yang Berhormat Menteri, saya tertarik apabila Yang Berhormat Menteri mengatakan tadi tidak kira negeri, yang pentingnya adalah Islam.
Saya ingin bertanya, adakah usaha daripada pihak Yang Berhormat sebagai seorang menteri untuk memastikan masjid-masjid dan surau-surau ini diterajui oleh jawatankuasa yang dipilih oleh […]

Emails asking Maybank Berhad clients to help “put a stop to the increasing spam attacks and security problem on our online banking servers)” are being circulated.
The mail asks you to go to a certain website (starting with http://www.b-mg5-public-verifiedxxxx.xxx/Maybank-Online.htm) and if you do, you’ll be asked for your online banking login and password and before you […]

Cryptomundo reports that the sheriff?s department in DeWitt County, Texas, recorded a “mystery canid” running along the road. The canid looks very similar to an animal discovered in Cuero, Texas last year that a woman claimed was a legendary Chupacabra. DNA evidence found this canid to be a coyote but the conspiracy about the creature […]

Now you can carry the earth in your pocket! Google has released the Google Earth App for Apple iPhone and iPod touch, which lets you run the amazing technology in the palm of your hand.
The functionality of the iPhone and iPod touch enable you to browse Google Earth in more ways. Swipe your finger across […]

In this eighth part of a nine-part series on the Python programming language we focus strongly on two aspects of functions parameters and arguments. This article is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Python in a Nutshell Second Edition em written by Alex Martelli O […]

You can interact with some realistic looking dinosaurs at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. The L.A. Times reports on these sometimes free-roaming actor-puppeteer dinos.

Without any ballyhoo, the museum launched a new attraction in June called Dinosaur Encounters, in which actor-puppeteers don lifelike T. rex or triceratops suits and spend 20 minutes demonstrating how scientists […]

Why don’t people go to vote? Because they are busy working long job hours. Now CEOs of top companies are giving their employees one hour off work on election day on November 4 to go and vote and contribute in electing a new US President.

After reports that the most common reason that registered voters didn’t […]

You have probably heard of the jellyfish invasion but scientists are also concerned about a population explosion in the number of lionfish. Lionfish are venomous and they are considered a danger to people, coral reefs and commercial fisheries. They are considered a pest as they eat smaller fish. Practical Fishkeeping has an article about the […]