Samuel Morse : Google Doodle

today’s google doodle : the morse code


Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system. [source]

On the sea voyage home in 1832, Morse encountered Charles Thomas Jackson of Boston who was well schooled in electromagnetism. Witnessing various experiments with Jackson’s electromagnet, Morse developed the concept of a single wire telegraph, and The Gallery of the Louvre was set aside. The original Morse telegraph, submitted with his patent application, is part of the collections of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.[4] In time the Morse code would become the primary language of telegraphy in the world, and is still the standard for rhythmic transmission of data. [source]

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The indiscriminate use frames, annoying animated gifs, embedded midi files and seizure inducing blink tags were all the rage whenGeoCities was the spot on the Internet some 10 years ago. Providing users with a free lot in one of their many virtual cities, GeoCities kick started the idea of owning your own website as being cool.

Sure, a vast majority of the designs elements in GeoCities webpages were gut-wrenchingly horrendous, (then again, a quick visit to MySpace shows that not much has changed) but bad design habits alone weren’t enough to deter Internet big wigs, Yahoo!, from shelling out $3.56 billion in stocks and $1 billion in options in 1999 a take over bid.

I have many fond memories of GeoCities, as I’m sure most of you do too. I set up my first “website” there during high school, and it’s a little sad to see them finally closing their gates for good even though GeoCities still pulls a reported 11.5 million unique visitors a year.

Oh well… Au revoir GeoCities and thanks for introducing me to HTML coding!

[source : lowyat.NET]

ps.: geocities was where the place where i learned HTML codes and built my very first website.

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finally the Ubuntu 9.04 a.k.a Jaunty Jackalope is here!
get your the new Ubuntu 9.04 copy here or
download now here.

Ubuntu 9.04 Features

Productivity tools: Ubuntu supports all of your favourite web-based mail programs like Yahoo(TM) or Gmail (TM). For the office, Evolution provides all the calendering, contacts and office email you need. Pidgin IM also puts you in instant touch with colleagues and integrates with your personal IM services simply and easily.
Browsing: Includes Mozilla’s Firefox 3 as the default browser. Faster, safer and themed browsing for users.
Photos: Upload from your camera or phone to F-Spot and manage, tag, share and sort your photos and upload easily to your favourite social networking sites.
Accessibility: At the core of the Ubuntu philosophy is the belief that computing is for everyone and access should be free and complete whatever your economic or physical circumstances. Ubuntu is one of the most accessible desktop operating systems around.
Office applications: Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations can all be delivered through OpenOffice.org 3.0 featuring in this release of Ubuntu for the first time. And, they completely integrate with the proprietary office applications out there. The big difference is that they are free.
Music and video: Plug in your PSP, iPod, MP3 player; share playlists with your friends; buy in online music stores; visit your favourite sites like Last.fm, stream more live radio and content from the BBC and plug in more devices with uPnP (universal Plug and Play)

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It also free of windows’ virus, spyware, adware, worms.
Best part of all. It is TOTALLY FREE!.

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Perak govt to auction off Toyota Camrys

IPOH: The Perak state government will auction off the 16 units of Toyota Camry 2.4 which were used as official cars by executive councillors under the previous coalition government.According to a statement of an open tender sent to the advertising division of a Malay daily here Tuesday, the auction would be held from May 4 to 18.

The tender statement issued by the Perak State Secretariat said the auction would be carried out at the carpark of the Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan here from 9.30am until 4pm.

The statement said the vehicles could be purchased either in bulk or individually at a reserved price of RM148,000 each.

The cars, with the registration numbers AGS10, AFD11, AFD22, AFD33, AFD55, AFD66, AFD77, AFD88, AFD99, AFD333, AFD999, AFF33, AFF88, AFF99, AGS828 and AEU606, were all registered on Jan 9.

The statement also said that all the cars were bought new and used between one and two months with low mileage and under three-year warranty by the manufacturer.

However, it is learnt that the car with the registration number AGS10 which was used by former mentri besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin would not be auctioned off as he was said to have made a booking to buy the car.

Anyone intending to purchase the cars must submit their offer before noon on May 18. — Bernama

read more: pics – bharian; thestar.com.my ;bharian.com.my

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Earth Day : Google Doodle

Earth Day, celebrated April 22, is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth‘s environment. It is held annually during both spring in the northern hemisphere and autumn in the southern hemisphere. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries every year. [source]

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Ubuntu Manga comic now in English

Japanese Manga comics are hugely popular in that country and cover just about every topic imaginable from sport, to romance, to business, to games. Now there is a Ubuntu Manga comic – called Ubunchu – which has been translated from the original Japanese into English and focuses on three students getting into Ubuntu in their school computer club.

Originally written by Hiroshi Seo, the comic has now been translated by two ubuntu-jp LoCo members – Fumihito Yoshida and Hajime Mizuno – and DoctorMo into English and released.

The comic can be downloaded as a PDF (4.4MB) and there are also source files for others that want to translate the comic further.

This is not the first time comics have been used to promote open source software. Back in 2005 Schoolnet Namibia created its own series of comics, called Hai Ti!, to encourage students to use open source software.

[Source]

Download the Manga Comic Here (*.PDF)

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Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500

NEW YORK: Exxon Mobil has unseated Wal-Mart Stores to top the 2009 Fortune 500 list after a year the magazine called the worst ever for the 500 largest U.S. publicly traded companies.

Fortune ranks companies by revenue. Exxon shrugged off plummeting oil prices to take the No. 1 spot with $442.85 billion in revenue in 2008.

Wal-Mart had held the top spot for six of the last seven years.

The retail giant slipped to No. 2, with $405.6 billion in revenue.

Fortune released the list on Sunday, calling 2008 the worst year for the 500 companies on its closely watched list.

It says earnings fell 85 percent – the biggest one-year decline in the list’s 55-year history. – AP

ps.: “the rich getting richer, the poor … ”

read more:
Fortune 500 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2009 Fortune 500: Exxon Mobil back on top
Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500
Latest business news from AP-Wire

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Why Scr.im?

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Don’t share your email on public sites. Instead, use our free service that will convert your email address (joe@email.com) into a safe and short URL (for instance http://scr.im/joe). People willing to email you will go to this URL that will reveal your email address, after a simple test that automated scripts and bots cannot pass.

Don’t share your email. Don’t make yourself an easy spam target. Instead, share your safe scr.im URL -source: scr.im

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ps.: the above URL actually will be redirect you to gotbetterideaz.com

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer

Synopsis: The gruff, steel-clawed Marvel superhero Wolverine strikes out on his own in this X-Men spin-off starring series regular Hugh Jackman. The film is set up as an origin tale for the character, and will find him sharing the screen with Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), Gambit (Taylor Kitsch), John Wraith (will.i.am), Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), and Col. William Stryker (Danny Huston). Academy Award-winning director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) films a screenplay penned by Troy scribe David Benioff (Troy). Daniel Henney and Lost’s Dominic Monaghan round out the supporting cast. -source : www.tgv.com.my

Raging in Malaysia’s cinema on 29th April 2009.

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SURIMU-MAUSU-PISU (Slim Mouth Piece)

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ever wonder how to get a firm mouth and a slim face line ?
It called the “Slim  Mouth Piece” (pronounced  SURIMU-MAUSU-PISU in Japanese).
A japanese company, NOBLE Cosme Manufacturer has come out a device priced at 893 yen (RM33) believe can get a firm mouth and a slim face line by only expanding and contracting your face muscle.

It also comes in three types of strength.
regular
Strong SURIMUMAUSUPISUstrong
SUPASUTORONGU SURIMUMAUSUPISUextra strong

read more:
Noble : Slim Mouth Piece (Japanese)
Noble : Slim Mouth Piece (Tranlated in English)
themishmash.com

ps.: really admired the ingenuity of the japanese’s  inventions.

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“Pork”-ish truth : Waspada serunding babi di pasaran

Waspada serunding babi di pasaran

Awas! Serunding daging babi di pasaran negara jiran kita dan pelancong negara ini diminta berwaspada apabila makan sewaktu berkunjung ke Indonesia.

Penemuan lima jenama ‘abon’ (serunding) dan daging dendeng siap makan yang dibuat daripada babi di pasaran disahkan oleh pihak berkuasa Indonesia, lapor Bernama.

Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BPOM) Indonesia yang melakukan ujian DNA ke atas 35 jenama serunding dan daging panggang yang dijual di pasaran di Jakarta, Jambi, Bogor, Semarang, Surabaya dan Bandung, mengesahkan kandungan daging babi
dalam lima jenama.

“Sebenarnya tekstur serat babi lebih tidak kelihatan kerana banyak mengandungi lemak. Oleh itu, kita menguji di makmal dengan menggunakan alat bernama the real-time PCR (tindakan berangkaian polimera),” ketua badan itu Husniah Rubiana dipetik berkata.

Menurut sebuah akhbar negara itu Republika, jenama-jenama itu ialah:

bullet buttonDendeng/abon sapi (lembu) gurih cap Kepala Sapi 250 gram
bullet buttonAbon/dendeng sapi cap Limas 100 gram (keluaran syarikat palsu)
bullet buttonAbon/dendeng sapi asli cap ACC
bullet buttonDendeng sapi istimewa berjenama Beef Jerky Lezaaat (keluaran MDC Food Surabaya)
bullet buttonDendeng sapi Istimewa No 1 cap 999 (keluaran S Hendropurnomo Malang).

Husniah dilaporkan berkata satu daripada jenama itu didapati menggunakan tanda halal yang kononnya dikeluarkan Majlis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), manakala pengeluar lain menggunakan nama syarikat milik orang lain, menggunakan alamat tidak benar
atau tidak tercatat pengeluarnya.

Umat Islam – yang menggemari makanan itu termasuk kalangan anak-anak yang sukakan roti berisi serunding – boleh membezakan produk daripada babi yang warnanya lebih muda berbanding warna daging lembu dan serat babi juga lebih lembut, lapor agensi berita Malaysia dari Jakarta.

MUI dan Jabatan Kesihatan yang melakukan pemeriksaan mendapati para pengeluar itu pada mulanya mengakui menggunakan daging lembu tetapi setelah diuji didapati positif daripada babi.

via malaysiakini.com

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Malaysia’s Cabinet Minister 2009

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Perdana menteri – Datuk Seri Najib Razak

Timbalan perdana menteri – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri

Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon – perpaduan & pengurusan prestasi
Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz – perundangan dan Parlimen
Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop – Unit Perancang Ekonomi
Mej Jen (B) Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom – hal ehwal Islam

Timbalan-timbalan menteri:

Datuk Liew Vui Keong
Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim
Datuk SK Devamany
Ahmad Maslan
T Murugiah

Menteri kewangan I
Datuk Seri Najib Razak

Menteri kewangan II
Datuk Ahmad Husni Mohamad Hanadzlah

Datuk Chor Chee Heung (timbalan)
Datuk Dr Awang Adek Hussin (timbalan)

Menteri pelajaran
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin

Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong (timbalan)
Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi (timbalan)

Menteri pengangkutan
Datuk Ong Tee Keat

Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri (timbalan)
Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew (timbalan)

Menteri perusahaan, perladangan dan komoditi
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok
Datuk Hamzah Zainudin (timbalan)

Menteri dalam negeri
Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein

Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop (timbalan)
Jelaing Mersat (timbalan)

Menteri penerangan, komunikasi, kesenian dan kebudayaan
Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim

Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum (timbalan)
Senator Heng Seai Kie (timbalan)

Menteri tenaga, teknologi hijau dan air
Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui
Noriah Kasnon (timbalan)

Menteri kemajuan luar bandar dan wilayah
Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal

Datuk Hassan Malek (timbalan)
Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun (timbalan)

Menteri pengajian tinggi
Datuk Seri Mohd Khaled Nordin

Datuk Dr Hou Kok Chung (timbalan)
Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah (timbalan)

Menteri perdagangan antarabangsa dan industri
Datuk Mustapa Mohamed

Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir (timbalan)
Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan (timbalan)

Menteri sains, teknologi dan inovasi
Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili
Fadillah Yusof (timbalan)

Menteri sumber asli dan alam sekitar
Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas
Tan Sri Joseph Kurup (timbalan)

Menteri pelancongan
Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen
Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Abdul Taib (timbalan)

Menteri pertanian dan industri asas industri
Datuk Noh Omar

Datuk Johari Baharum (timbalan)
Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim (timbalan)

Menteri pertahanan
Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad (timbalan)

Menteri kerja raya
Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor
Datuk Yong Khoon Seng (timbalan)

Menteri kesihatan
Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai
Datuk Rosnah Rashid Shirlin (timbalan)

Menteri belia dan sukan
Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek

Datuk Razali Ibrahim (timbalan)
Wee Jeck Seng (timbalan)

Menteri sumber manusia
Datuk Dr S Subramaniam
Datuk Maznah Mazlan (timbalan)

Perdagangan dalam negeri dan hal-ehwal pengguna
Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Datuk Tan Lian Hoe (timbalan)

Menteri perumahan dan kerajaan tempatan
Datuk Kong Cho Ha
Datuk Lajim Ukin (timbalan)

Menteri pembangunan wanita, keluarga dan masyarakat
Datuk Seri Sharizat Jalil
Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun (timbalan)

Menteri luar
Datuk Anifah Aman

A Kohilan Pillay (timbalan)
Datuk Lee Chee Leong (timbalan)

Menteri wilayah persekutuan
Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin
Datuk M Saravanan (timbalan)
Source : www.malaysiakini.com

Read more:

Prime Minister Office of Malaysia

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/101993

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YTL Residence Kuala Lumpur

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Paris-based Agence Jouin Manku took on its first large-scale integrated architectural and interior design commission in 2003, when YTL Design Group from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, invited it to design the residence of a Malaysian power family.

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Completed in the latter part of 2008, the residence is the ultimate expression of the taste, influence and industrial-scale capabilities of the prominent family whose entrepreneurial activities have shaped Kuala Lumpur’s skyline.

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Three generations of the family inhabit the 3,000 square-meter residence designed to accommodate both private and public functions.

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The building includes nine bedrooms, two family rooms, a family kitchen and a private dining area, a family library, a game room, a study, a public reception area, a formal dining room, a ballroom, chapel, 21 bathrooms, a swimming pool, two guest suites plus indoor private and guest parking.

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The initial sketches exploring the owners’ usage requirements reveal resemblances to the boring stacked-boxes look still so ubiquitous in residential architecture. And while traces of the “heaped trailers” syndrome remain in the finished building, this is not the Jetsons, neither are we looking at EPCOT, Tomorrowland or the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

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We are in the lush vegetation of a posh Kuala Lumpur residential area, and in spite of the boxiness of the structure, an elegant circular softness manages to permeate the sightlines and key details of the building, making it an agreeable part of its landscape.

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Inside, prominent examples of this curvilinear elegance include the amazing staircases resembling the inside of a shell when viewed from above, and the round ballroom chandelier of 13,000 custom-designed undulating petals of unglazed cast porcelain biscuit.

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The curved walls both inside and out have a functional purpose of providing privacy and enclosing each function gently in its own space. The overall sweeping feel inside the spaces invites the viewer in and creates soft, arching vistas.

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The concept consists of three layers: the base for public functions, the ring for guests and the private house for the family.

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The inside of the magnificent residence is gorgeous with its high ceilings, large windows and abundance of light. White color and natural wood are dominant elements but they allow the view from the vast, mostly retractable, windows to remain the main visual attraction.

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The residence is also a wonderful study of contrasts between inside and outside, private and public, traditional and ultra modern, man-made and natural.

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YTL Design Group of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was the architect of record. The Agence Jouin Manku design team included Patrick Jouin, Sanjit Manku, Yann Brossier (architect), Richard Perron (designer). Officina del Paesaggio from Lugano, Switzerland was in charge of the landscape design, and L’Observatoire, New York, USA handled the lighting. – Tuija Seipell

Images: Roland Halbe

Source:  http://www.thecoolhunter.net/architecture/YTL-Residence-Kuala-Lumpur/


pergh..!!! (speechless)

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