links for 2007-11-16
16Nov07
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Silicon electronics are a staple of the computing industry, but researchers are now exploring other techniques to deliver powerful computers. Six advances that could spell the end of traditional computing. Quantum. Light. Spin. Chemicals. DNA. Plastics.
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Video footage has been released in Canada showing the last moments of an immigrant who died after being stunned with a Taser by police. Robert Dziekanski, 40, of Pieszyce, Poland, was killed at Vancouver International Airport on 14 October 2007.
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“The essence of Wahhabism is purity,” says Lawrence Wright, author of a Pulitzer-prize-winning book about al-Qaeda. “They are only interested in purification – and that’s what makes them so repressive.”
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Journalism in Malaysia seems to be ruled by a Code of Fear and Favour. Here, our mainstream journalists and editors are directly or indirectly on the State’s payroll, and therefore accountable to the State.
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Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on 10th December and it is almost the time of the year again when the Malaysian Bar celebrates the Day. This year, the Bar’s Human Rights Day will be held on Sunday, 9th December 2007.
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Film maker Fahmi Reza has reproduced pages from our own newspapers – reporting on Malaysia’s struggle for Independence in the late 1940s. These news reports show in black-and-white our forefathers’ struggle in the streets against the British.
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New indie movie, tentatively titled ‘London Calling’ by Justin Guber. Starring Justin Chan, Chermaine Poo, Melissa Maureen, Khairil M. Bahar and Johan John. Shot with Canon XM2 and the ‘Kabij’ lens adapter.
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This week on 101 East; Malaysia has just seen it’s biggest protest for almost a decade, with tens of thousands marching to demand electoral reform. Their call was met with tear-gas and water cannon.
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The Guardian recently introduced us to a series of images, produced by artists Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez, for a new project by Greenpeace. The images show us what Spain will look like in the future, in a world transformed by climate change.
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Artist Atsushi Fukunaga gives shape to Japanese giongo (onomatopoeia) in playful sculptures that have the zing of manga sound-effect graphics gone 3D.
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die
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Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
