Al-Qaeda: Code Name for a CIA Operation?

By MEMRI
MEMRI.org | August 31, 2005

Nese Duzel, of the center-left, liberal Turkish daily Radikal, interviewed Turkish professor, former Turkish intelligence officer, and newspaper columnist Mahir Kaynak(1) on the subject of Al-Qaeda's global terrorism.(2) Kaynak claimed that the U.S. government was behind both 9/11 and the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. The interview was also quoted at length by columnists from other Turkish newspapers.

The following are excerpts from the interview:

There is No Al-Qaeda; It's a Code Name for a CIA Operation

Nese Duzel: "The world lives in an Al-Qaeda panic [...] What does someone [involved in] intelligence [like you] think about an organization that is present everywhere, yet cannot be seen or found anywhere?"

Mahir Kaynak: "[I would think] that there is no such organization."

Duzel: "So, isn't there an organization called Al-Qaeda? Are others carrying out the terrorism, while we all look for a non-existent organization?"

Kaynak: "There is no such organization as Al-Qaeda. When you talk about a [terrorist] organization, it should have political goals. There is no answer to the question of what the goals of Al-Qaeda are. Nobody knows what it wants to achieve. Whereas terrorist organizations like the IRA and ETA all have concrete goals and well-defined geographic areas. Al-Qaeda has none of these. No staff and no geographic area. The whole world is their battleground."

Duzel: "It is said that Al-Qaeda wants to establish a Taliban-style regime in the Islamic world. Don't you think this is Al-Qaeda's goal?"

Kaynak: "The goals must be in line with the means. You cannot take a pin and attempt to kill someone with it. Al-Qaeda cannot establish its preferred regime in the Islamic world by its own strength. It does not have the means, the numbers, or the supporters. The reality is that there is no such organization called Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is the code name of an operation [undertaken] by an intelligence service. This is why we must first decipher this operation. There is an attempt to create some political consequences through this 'Al-Qaeda operation.'"

Duzel: "What political consequences are being created by Al-Qaeda terrorism?"

Kaynak: "The only results achieved by Al-Qaeda are the birth of anti-Islamic [sentiment] in the West and the identification of Islam with terrorism. We must find the answers to the questions of 'why is this result being sought?' and 'who wants this?' Al-Qaeda's actions are changing the balances in the world. It would be foolish to think that a small organization is [re]shaping the entire world. This is a large operation. One that first and foremost creates an anti-Islamic front of all the nations of the world."

Duzel: "What will be gained by the formation of an anti-Islamic front?"

Kaynak: "Today, there are two approaches to how the new world order should be built. One is the approach of the global capital. The other is the approach of Bush's America and Putin's Russia. The global capital adopts Huntington's 'Clash of Civilizations' thesis. It divides the world into Western civilization and those that remain outside of it, and wishes the 'new world balance [of power] to be built between the West and the others.' The second approach aims at reaching the [same] balance that existed in the past, with America on one side and Russia on the other. The current clashes in the world are about which way to choose to reach such balance [of power]. It seems that Bush's America and Putin's Russia are in agreement. Against them is the power of the global capital. Presently, there are no other powers with any political goals. The global capital has its own idea on how to govern the world."

Duzel: "What is that?"

Kaynak: "The global capital has a 'moderate Islam' policy. This is the policy of eliminating Islam's incompatibility with capitalism [...]. Global capital says, 'We will integrate Islam into the Western system and its markets and in so doing we will solve the problem.' Al-Qaeda, on the other hand, targets something very different [from the global capital]. It says, 'Let the Muslims become the enemy, the other.' The anti-Islamic front which is formed as a result of Al-Qaeda actions does not differentiate between moderate and radical. It sees all Muslims as terrorists. For an Islamic power center to create such results makes no sense. It is a Western power center that is doing all this. They are doing this in order to eliminate both the global capitalists' 'moderate Islam' model and political Islam."

Duzel: "Why would America want to destroy a 'moderate Islam' that does not clash with capitalism?"

Kaynak: "Because the global capital is [already] well organized within Islam. [...] Currently, there is a unity between the Saudi wealth and the global capital. America wants to destroy this. Otherwise, why would America want to change the Saudi regime, that was once deemed closer to the U.S. than any of its own states? Recently someone close to the Bush administration complained that a rich Arab had withdrawn his investments from the U.S. and directed them to Turkey, keeping the Turkish economy robust."

Duzel: "What is Turkey's place in this conflict?"

Kaynak: "Today, Turkey is one of the most important countries with its model of 'moderate Islam.' The [Turkish] government is not on good terms with America. Prime Minister Erdogan has complained that 'they are pushing buttons.' The Bush and Putin administrations want to eliminate the global capital thesis for moderate Islam. They [Bush and Putin] say that there can be no moderate Islam. 'Islam is one and all radical. You [the Muslims] will either become secular or you will disappear.' They want to stop Islam from being political. The conclusion is that the current clash is not between a man in the cave [i.e. bin Laden] and the world. The clash is between the global capital and Bush's America. Al-Qaeda is carrying out all the provocations on behalf of the side of Bush and Putin, to destroy the model of moderate Islam."

Duzel: "What do you mean by 'global capital?"

Kaynak: "Global capital does not run any corporation, industry and does not own them, but rather owns and uses the money. These people in the financial sector make use of funds that are not limited to their own wealth. [...] The global capital commands trillions of dollars and is as powerful as nation-states. They are not tied to any geography; the whole world is their place. If America fell, that would not disturb them either."

Duzel: "Is [George] Soros one of them?"

Kaynak: "Soros, Rothschild, [and] Rockefeller are representatives of the global capital. They have power that exceeds that of governments. The American and Russian governments are trying to eliminate the political power of the global capital. Al-Qaeda is [a tool] being used against this global capital and against Islam. But some continue to say that 'there is a man called Osama bin Laden in a cave in Afghanistan and he is fighting a war against the world.'"

The CIA is Carrying Out the 'Al-Qaeda' Operations... Terrorism is Carried Out by Governments... CIA Operatives Were Sent on Suicide Missions to Hit Their Own Twin Towers

Duzel: "Even if Al-Qaeda is the code name of an operation, there still is an organization that carries out the operation. How can there be an organization so strong that all the intelligence services of the world keep searching without success? In a way, it looks stronger than all of the intelligence agencies put together."

Kaynak: "The CIA carries out the Al-Qaeda operation, and the Putin administration knows about it. It may even be a partner to the operation. The intelligence services of other countries understand it, [but] it is not easy to do anything against America. Anyway, in operations conducted by states the truth does not emerge. [For example,] there is almost no doubt that Kennedy was assassinated by the state, but the evidence is never revealed. In this case, the men America uses are given the name 'Al-Qaeda.' For a certain act they select a few men and they carry out the action. They are not part of any organization, but just men that the CIA uses. This is terror that is committed by governments. They send these [men] on suicide missions. They hit their own Twin Towers. Such decisions are made by American policy makers. Bush may not even be aware. The CIA is an executive organ within the scope of a much greater power."

Duzel: "Did the CIA kill their fellow [U.S.] citizens by striking at the Twin Towers?"

Kaynak: "Why wouldn't the CIA carry out the [events of] September 11? What if they had told you that the alternative would be war? [That] had they not done this, they would have fought a war that would kill a million people?

"There were similar calculations during World War Two. There was a fight for the takeover of some areas, and it resulted in the deaths of 50 million people. Currently, the world is in a low-cost war. As parties to this war, we are shown Al-Qaeda on one side and the world on the other side. If you accepted this [as a fact], you would be totally irrational."

Duzel: "How so?"

Kaynak: "At the present time, results are being created that are similar to those at the end of World War [Two]. There is no way one can accept that [all] this is being accomplished by a handful of militants. [They say] that there is this power that, with its actions, is reshaping the world – but nobody is betraying the organization, no amount of reward money is helping, no information is being leaked. Why? Because there is no such organization called Al-Qaeda.

"According to the project, a few Muslims are used in the operations. They already knew such men, whom they had trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan against the Soviets. [...] These people are [usually] killed in action. All precautions are taken to prevent the leaking of information. The militant, for example, may not even know that he is a militant. You attract him to the secret service, then give him a bag to deliver. You blow up the bag by remote control. Here you've got a suicide bomber. You can ask a truck driver to transport milk and blow up [the truck] when it is on its way."

Secret Services Must Be Hiding bin Laden

Duzel: "Al-Qaeda has a ghost leader, just like the organization itself. He too cannot be seen or found. Can anyone being sought the way he is hide for such a long time without powerful support?"

Kaynak: "No, he cannot possibly hide. It must be secret services that are hiding him."

Duzel: "It is Al-Qaeda that linked Islam with terrorism. Thanks to Al-Qaeda, in the West the word 'Muslim' is associated with terrorism. Muslims are being persecuted everywhere. What could be Al-Qaeda's goal in linking Islam with terrorism like this?"

Kaynak: "Islam's political character is bound to be lost once it is associated with terrorism. The aim is to identify Islam with terrorism and thus disqualify Islam as an ideology or a political movement. If you want to kill a political thought, first you empty it of any ideal, and then you turn it into activism alone. This is how the Left was eliminated in Turkey. They first emptied the Left of thought, and then turned the Leftists' profile into one of 'armed activists.' It happened with the Kurdish movement too. It started as a movement of classes, then became terrorist. Today, the West is using the same method with Islam. The deep [i.e. covert] American government is eliminating political Islam."

Duzel: "Why do they want to get rid of 'political Islam'?"

Kaynak: "Political Islam was taking the place of the Left [in combating capitalism and imperialism]. Even in Western societies, the oppressed people had started seeing Islam as a religion of salvation. Now they are emptying Islam of its content, [and] at the same time they are ending the hegemony of the global capital in the Islamic countries. This is the battle of nation-states against the global capital. Global capital was opposed to the 'states' and was about to become more powerful than the 'states'. [...] [Nation-]states are trying to gain control over the global capital, which is a by-product of capitalism. The globalization mechanisms are being destroyed by Al-Qaeda's actions. The truth is that the rise of Islam in the world did not happen as a result of the dynamics within Islam itself. Had it not been for [the U.S.'s] Green Belt project(3) – a policy to contain the Soviet Union – we would not now be seeing so many people [Muslims] praying [five times a day]. But now that they [i.e. the Americans] realize how powerful the global capital has become within the Green Belt countries and political Islam, they want to get rid of both."

Duzel: "We [Turkey] have the additional problem of PKK terrorism. PKK is now adopting some bloody tactics from which they had refrained in the past. They are attacking civilian targets in [Turkey's] western regions. Why are they doing this?"

Kaynak: "It is no [longer] clear who PKK is. It is divided. Which part of it is carrying out the terrorism, or whether it really is PKK, are very questionable [issues]. PKK is in a fight with Iran and Syria. It is declared a 'terrorist' [organization] by both America and Europe. It does not get along with Barzani or Talabani. Would such an organization ever say, 'This many enemies are not enough for me. Let me also bring in the Turkish military forces so that I can be totally crushed?' It is some other powers that want to get rid of the PKK that are carrying out some acts of terrorism and attributing this to PKK. For example, if I were Barzani, I would have done something like this to get rid of the PKK problem. Because of these acts of terror, if we [Turkey] drive all those that are in Turkey into Iraq, they'd be left hungry and penniless, and since they would be isolated and have no political support anymore, they would be obliged to go under Barzani's command. The [best] way to eliminate an organization is not by using arms, but by buying them off. They want to destroy the PKK now, and the current plan is to get them under Barzani's control. This is what they are doing... Members of the PKK will become paid soldiers..."

Endnotes:

(1) Professor Mahir Kaynak taught economics for many years, first at Istanbul University and then at Gazi University, and also served for 10 years as an officer in the Turkish intelligence agency MIT (Milli Istihbarat Teskilati). Prof. Kaynak is also a columnist for the centrist, mainstream Turkish daily STAR Gazete.

(2) Radikal (Turkey), August 1, 2005.

(3) In Turkish public opinion and the Turkish media, the Green Belt project is known as a U.S. Cold War-era policy designed to contain the USSR with the surrounding Islamic states. This policy is believed to have been in effect from the 1950s through the 1980s, when the U.S. supported Islamic governments and nurtured anti-Communist Islamist sentiment in Muslim countries such as Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Later, some Arab countries, including Iraq and Saudi Arabia, became part of this "belt."

Query over origin of ‘Malaysia’

Many credit first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman with proposing the name for the new nation born on Sept 16, 1963.

The Alliance, on Umno’s insistence, had suggested the name in 1956 for the soon-to-be independent Federation of Malaya, with a larger political entity in mind.

But the name was to be adopted only six years later.

Many may not know that the word "Malaysia" was used as early as 1929 in an article about a zoological exploration to document flora and fauna at Mount Kinabalu.

The article, A Sacred Mountain: Exploration of Mount Kinabalu was taken from the Singapore Free Press and published on page 125 of the British North Borneo Herald on July 1, 1929.

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The last paragraph states: "The recent work done on Kinabalu is of course all part of a comprehensive scheme for investigating the Malaysian fauna."

Sabah Archives Department director Datu Tigabelas Datu Zainal Abidin said the name "Malaysia" most likely referred to "Malay Asia" or the Malay archipelago.

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"Malay Asia does not specifically refer to Malaya, Borneo, Indonesia or the Philippines. It refers to the region," he said.

"Malaysia" came into the public domain again in 1945 as the Japanese surrendered in Singapore. The headline of a front-page report in the Straits Times of Sept 13, 1945 reads: "Japanese in Malaysia Surrender At Singapore".

The first paragraph of the report went: "The surrender of half a million Japanese troops in Malaya and the Dutch East Indies was formally signed at Singapore yesterday, 1,374 days after the first Japanese bombs fell on this city and war broke out in the Far East."

Was the "Malaysia" referred to in the headline a combination of Malaya, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Singapore?

Tan Sri Dr Noordin Sopiee, in his book From Malayan Union to Singapore Separation 1945-65, said the first suggestion of bringing together all the territories in the Malaysia region, which included Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, Malaya and Singapore, could be traced back to 1887 when Lord Brassey said the whole area should be merged into one large colony.

Brassey was then the North Borneo Chartered Company director.

Quoting historian Professor K.G. Treggoning, Noordin said the matter was deliberated in the British Cabinet in 1888 and again in 1932.

"The political rationalisation which was undertaken immediately after the Second World War caused many to suspect a British intention to link up all the territories of the region into one governmental unit," he wrote.

Noordin said after the war, the British Governor-General Malcolm MacDonald was entrusted with the task of co-ordinating the major policies of the five territories. "The Singapore Progressive Party became, in fact, the first political party of the Malaysia region to advocate a region-wide unified system," he said.

He said Tun Ghazali Shafie and Tun Tan Cheng Lok had also advocated the "Malaysia" concept in the 1950s.

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To say "hello" in Bengali, say "Ei Je" (EYE-jay).

6. Arabic
Number of speakers: 246 million
Arabic, one of the world's oldest languages, is spoken in the Middle East, with speakers found in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. Furthermore, because Arabic is the language of the Koran, millions of Moslems in other countries speak Arabic as well. So many people have a working knowledge of Arabic, in fact, that in 1974 it was made the sixth official language of the United Nations.

To say "hello" in Arabic, say "Al salaam a'alaykum" (Ahl sah-LAHM ah ah-LAY-koom).

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Number of speakers: 277 million
Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Yakov Smirnoff are among the millions of Russian speakers out there. Sure, we used to think of them as our Commie enemies. Now we think of them as our Commie friends. One of the six languages in the UN, Russian is spoken not only in the Mother Country, but also in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the U.S. (to name just a few places).

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To say "hello" in Mandarin, say "Ni hao" (Nee HaOW). ("Hao" is pronounced as one syllable, but the tone requires that you let your voice drop midway, and then raise it again at the end.)

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Al-Qaeda Plans Major Attacks In Europe

Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - Reports are surfacing Saturday morning that intelligence in Iraq had uncovered plans that include major attacks across Europe.

"Osama Bin Laden has asked the head of Al Qaida in Iraq, Al Zarqawi, to organize an attack in Europe, more devastating than that of Sept. 11, 2001," Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Hamid Al Bayati tells Italian daily Il Messaggero.

Al-Qaeda ring leader, Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi, has reportedly moved operatives to Europe for a series of attacks against NATO states, the report says.

Sources say the strikes are meant to pressure members of the U.S.-led coalition to leave Iraq.

Al Bayati told the Italian newspaper that Al Zarqawi has established a network throughout Europe for imminent strikes. Bayati says Italy is a leading target of the Al Qaida network.

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Al-Qaeda ‘preparing to attack’ Asian city

Al-Qaeda is preparing an attack on a big financial centre in Asia, such as Tokyo, Sydney or Singapore, to undermine investor confidence in the region, France's top terrorist investigator warned yesterday.

Jean-Louis Bruguière told the Financial Times yesterday that several Asian countries were less prepared than the US or Europe for such an attack.

“We are somewhat neglecting the capacity or desire of the al-Qaeda organisation to destabilise the south-east Asia region,” said the respected judge, who has orchestrated the arrests of hundreds of terrorist suspects in the past 20 years.

“We have several elements of information that make us think that countries in this region, especially Japan, could have been targeted,” said Mr Bruguière.

He appears eager to raise public awareness of the growing threat to Asia, which is understood to have emerged from recent intelligence findings.

He argues that some Asian countries have less experience of Islamic terrorists than the US or Europe, making them more complacent about the risk of attack. An attack on an Asian financial centre, such as Tokyo or Sydney, would be symbolically important for al-Qaeda, he said, and designed to throw the region's recent economic boom into doubt.

“An attack on this country [Japan] would have a very serious effect. We forget that the al-Qaeda organisation is sharpening its strategy, more than just focusing on so-called soft targets it is looking to hit economic and financial centres.”

He says Singapore could also be vulnerable to attack, in spite of its efficient intelligenceservices. ~full article

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1. makan daging
2. memakai haruman  
3. kerap mandi
4. berpakaian dari kapas

Empat perkara melemahkan badan
1. banyak berkelamin (bersetubuh)
2. selalu cemas
3. banyak minum air ketika makan
4. banyak makan bahan yang masam

Empat perkara menajamkan mata
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2. bercelak sebelum tidur
3. memandang yang hijau
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3. melihat kemaluan
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tidak dapat ditangkap melalui lensa kamera. Sesuatu yang  agak luar biasa dari orang lain.

8. Nama sebenar rama-rama (butterfly)  ialah'flutterby'.

9. Mosquito repellents atau penghalau nyamuk tidak  membunuh.Sensor nyamuk hanya dikaburi dan ini menyebabkan nyamuk tidak dapat mengesan di mana mangsa berada.

10. Pakar dan doktor gigi  mengesyorkanberus gigi hendaklah diletakkan sekurang kurangnya 6 kaki jauh  dari tandas utk menghalang kuman berterbangan ketiki anda menggunakan flush  tandas.

11. Jika nombor 111,111,111 didarab 111,111,111 anda akan dpat  jawapan 12345678987654321.

12. Warna biru adalah warna kesukaan 80  peratus rakyat Amerika.

13. Tanda (#) di keyboard komputer anda  sebenarnya dinamakan 'octothorp'.

14. Adalah mustahil jika anda bersin  tapa memejamkan mata.

15. Seekor lipas boleh hidup selama 10 hari tanpa  kepala.

16. Jika dikangkangkan kaki dan baring secara telentang, kita  tidak akan tenggelam di dalam pasir jerlus.

17. Nama yang paling  banyak umumnya di dunia ini ialah Muhammad.

18. Di Eropah, kebanyakan  wanita Eropah tidak memakai seluar dalam sehingga ke tahun 1900 barulah  seluar dalam diperkenalkan.

19. Produk pertama menggunakan bar code  adalah Wrigley's gum.

20. Mexico  City tenggelam sedikit demi sedikit sekitar 10 inci  setiap tahun.

21. Mengikut statik dalam kehidupan, ayam adalah haiwan  yang paling banyak di dunia mengalahkan manusia, kerana cara pembiakan yang berleluasa dan senang dibiakkan untuk makanan.

22. Otak akan lebih  aktif ketika tidur dari ketika anda menonton tv.

23. Terdapat banyak  telefon di Washington D.C mengalahkan penduduk penduduknya.

24. Untuk  melepaskan dari gigitan buaya, anda perlu mencucuk matanya menggunakan jari  sekuat hati. Buaya akan melepas anda serta merta.

25. Jika sebutir kecil  kismis dijatuhkan di dalam segelas champagne segar, kismis tersebut akan  turun ke dasar gelas dan naik semula dan turun
kembali dan seterusnya seakan  dilambung-lambung.

26. Leonardo da Vinci jugamencipta gunting dan beliau menghabiskan 10 tahun untuk menyiapkan lukisan agungnya iaitu Monalisa(10 tahun untuk
bahagian bibirnya sahaja)

27. 90% dari pembaca yang membaca info  ini kebanyakannya tidak tahu tentang fakta yang telah diberikan. Keajaiban  fakta fakta sebegini dapat
menarik minat pembaca untuk mengetahui dari atas kemusykilan minda kita.

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Bloodshed - Samarkand ( lirik + mp3 )

Bloodshed - Samarkand

Dia antara debu, angin bersama
Pasir-pasir bertaburan di sana
Bersemadi langkah perjuangan
Bersaksikan kebenaran

Samarkand, kau tak terasing
Tindasan berlalu
Jiwamu satria

Walaupun getir di tempoh jua
Dilaluan sutera
Mengalir ketenangan

Titis darah, mensuci kekufuran
Mengerat rasa kasih padanya

Samarkand, kaulah pentas perjuangan
Indera alam, tertumpu padamu

Demikian kesetiaanmu
Perjuangan murni
Keagungan di jiwa
Samarkand, samarkand

Samarkand sebahagian dari kebangkitan

Samarkand, kau tak terasing
Tindasan berlaku
Jiwamu satria

Tak hiraukan kekejaman
Semakin tertekan
Iman makin terbukti
Samarkand, samarkand

Samarkand sebahagian dari kebangkitan
Samarkand sebahagian dari kebangkitan

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Romantic sms

There are 12 months a year...30 days a month...7 days a week...24 hours a day...60 minutes an hour...but only one like you in a lifetime.

There are two reasons why I wake up in the morning: my alarm clock and you.

Great minds contain ideas, solutions and reasons; scientific minds contain formulas, theories and figures; my mind contains only you!

Love can be expressed in many ways. One way I know is to send it across the distance to the person who is reading this.

If I could change the alphabet, I would put U and I together!

Minsan caring is better than loving.  Minsan tea is better than coffee. Minsan smile is better than laughter. Pero nobody is better than you.

There is night so we can appreciate day, sorrow so we can appreciate joy, evil so we can appreciate good, you so I can appreciate love.

You look great today. How did I know? Because you look great everyday.

What is love? Those who don't like it call it responsibility. Those who play with it call it a game. Those who don't have it call it a dream. Those who understand it call it destiny. And me, I call it you.

What is love? It is what makes your cell phone ring every time I send text messages.

If love can be avoided by simply closing our eyes, then I wouldn't blink  at all for I don't want to let a second pass having fallen out of love with you.

I used to think that dreams do not come true, but this quickly changed the moment I laid my eyes on you.

Press down if you miss me. Talaga? Sweet mo naman. You really miss me huh? Still pressing down. Impressed na ako, ha? Sobrang miss na yan. Well, I miss you too.

Some people were born with talents. They can do beautiful things with their skills, knowledge and technology. But no one is as talented as you. You just come near, and there is already beauty.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. You're such a lady to me.

To forget you is hard to do and to forget me is up  to you. Forget me not, forget me never. Forget this text, but not the sender.

When situation gets you down, remember there's Someone in Heaven who loves you and watches over you and there's someone on Earth who cares… I do.

Cell phones can be irritating sometimes. You always have to reload, recharge every now and then. Messages are delayed. But there's one thing I love about it. It connects me to you!

Words begin with ABC. Numbers begin with 123. Music begins with do, re, mi. And friendship begins with you and me!

Rain and sunshine do not always come together. Night and day never coincide. But you and I, whatever they say, is for me the perfect match.
When I dream, I dream of you...maybe one day, dreams will come true.  

There is an ocean between us. Forests and mountains keep us apart. I may not be superman, but give me a second and I will fly across countries to send you my love. Have you received it?

If, out of time, I could pick one moment and keep it shining, always new, of all the days that I have lived, I'd pick the moment I met you.

I'm on a mission to get over you, in other words mission impossible.

I wish I'd be a tear in your eye to roll down your cheek and end up with your lips but I never wish you'd be a tear in my eye for I would lose you every time I cry.

When it rains, you don't see the sun, but it's there. Hope we can be like that. We don't always see each other, but  we will always be there for one another.

I may run out of message to text you. I may run out of jokes too. I may also run out of battery or even a peso but my heart won't run out of space for you!

You'll know that you miss someone very much when every time you think of that person, your heart breaks into pieces and just a quick "Hello" from that person can bring the broken pieces back.

Love. All my life I have read about it, dreamt of it, waited for it, cried for it, needed it. Now with you, I have found it.

Sherlock Holmes was an idiot and Robert Watt was a fool. One was a detective, the other invented radar. But neither of them ever discovered you. I'm a genius!
When  the time comes I can't smile anymore, don't worry about me, I know what to do. I'll just stare at one corner and think of you. No one else could make me happy like the way you do.

There's a love that only you can give, a smile that only your lips can show, a twinkle that can only be seen in your eyes, and a life of mine that you alone can complete.

Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life. But I'd rather be your moon, so I can shine on you during your darkest hour when your sun isn't around.

Ah-- I forgot your name. Can I call you mine? And, in case you forget my name too, call me yours!

If I had the letters "HRT", I can add "EA" to get a "HEART" or a "U" and get "HURT". But I'd rather choose "U" and get "HURT" than  have a "HEART" without "U".
You may never see how much I care for you. You may never hear how much I treasure you. You may never feel how much I miss you. Coz only here in my heart can you see them true.

There are 4 steps to happiness: 1. you, 2. me, 3. our hearts, 4. together!

If kisses were water, I'd give you the ocean. If hugs were leaves, I'd give you a forest. If love were space, I'd give you a galaxy. If friendship were life, I'd give you mine for free.

It's hard to say hello because it might be goodbye. It's hard to say I'm okay because sometimes I'm not. But it's easy to say I miss you coz I know that I really do.

It's hard for two people to love each other when  they live in two different worlds. But when these two worlds collide and become one, that's what you call you and I.

If you're feeling lonely and you think there is nobody there to love, support, listen or show they care, just save this message and every time you realize it, it will remind you that a part of me is always there with you.

Roses are red, violets are blue. I am waiting to hear from a cute guy like you.

They say that as long as there is one person loving you, life isn't a waste. So if you lose hope and thought that life is not worth living, just remember I'm here.

Do you know that men and women are angels created with only one wing? And they need to embrace each other to be able to fly... Hope you can find your angel  whom you can fly with forever.

They told me I could do anything if I put my mind into it. Yet no matter how hard I try in all that I do, I just can't take my mind off you.

My biggest reward is to see you smile, know you are happy, and feel you are loved. I know life is sometimes cruel, but that's why I'm here, to show you that life can be good when somebody cares.

I always think of you, but I always fail to know the reason why. Is there something else I should know about you? But there is one thing that I know is true. That life will always be sad without you.

Hatred infects the mind; love dissolves it. You dissolve my mind.

Don't say you love me unless you really  mean it cause I might do something crazy like believe it.

I'm afraid to close my eyes coz I might think of you. I'm afraid to open them coz I might see you. I'm afraid to move my lips coz I might speak of you. I'm afraid to listen coz I might hear my heart fall for you.

I'm sorry to be smiling every time you're near. I'm sorry my eyes twinkle whenever you're here. I'm sorry that cupid has made his hit. I'm sorry I love you, I can't help it.

Caring for someone is easy but making someone care for you is hard. Now I keep wondering how did you make it so easy for me to care for you.

Text me when you are sad, text me when you need someone to listen to and you can't find anyone who will. I don't care if I'm your last option, I just  don't want you to cry alone.

I don't want to say I miss you, though deep inside I do, coz I'm afraid you might see thru and know how much fear I have of losing someone like you.

If love can be avoided simply by closing our eyes, I wouldn't blink at all for I don't want to let a second pass having fallen out of love with you.

I wish one day you will miss me terribly that no matter how hard you look for me, you won't find me. Why? Because, I want you to miss me the way I'm missing you right now.

If I could be any letter in the alphabet, I'd choose "V" so I can be next to "U"; if you could be any note, I wish you're "RE" so your always beside "ME"!

Whatever you do, I'll  walk with you. Hoping that your every dream would come true. Anytime, anywhere, I'll always be there. Wishing you love and happiness because I care.

The spaces between our fingers were created so that another person's fingers could fill them in. Hope you'll find your dream hand to hold you forever.

Kerap hantar SMS boleh cederakan tendon

LONDON: Remaja yang kerap menghantar SMS kepada rakan mereka berisiko tinggi menghidap kecederaan ketegangan berulang (RSI), lapor pakar kesihatan.

Kekerapan menghantar SMS menggunakan cuma ibu jari untuk menaip boleh menyebabkan kesakitan dan bengkak pada tendon dan boleh mengakibatkan kecederaan jangka panjang, kata Persatuan Fisioterapi (CPS).

Ketika telefon bimbit direka semakin kecil dan lebih ramai kanak-kanak terdedah kepada teknologi ini, mereka berisiko menghidap keadaan yang selama ini lebih kerap dikaitkan dengan golongan dewasa.

Keputusan General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) minggu ini menyaksikan bilangan SMS yang dihantar oleh kanak-kanak semakin meningkat kerana mereka memberitahu pencapaian mereka kepada rakan dan keluarga melalui SMS, menurut CPS.

Pegawai CPS, Bronwyn Clifford, berkata: “Pakar fisioterapi mengenal pasti tabiat menghantar SMS dengan kerap dalam jangka masa panjang, boleh menyebabkan RSI. – Agensi

Google Releases New Desktop Search Beta

The new version includes a sidebar designed to personalize the application, with miniature apps that return information from news, RSS and Atom feeds, photo sites, and other information sources, based on the user's previous Web activities.

Google Inc. said today it plans to release a beta version of Google Desktop 2, the next iteration of its popular desktop search software for Microsoft Windows.

The new software aims to make search a more personalized experience with the inclusion of a Sidebar panel. The Sidebar features several miniapplications that return or retain information based on previous online activities. For example, the News panel displays links to news articles that are similar to ones you've read. The Web Clips panel automatically starts tracking RSS and Atom feeds from the Web pages you visit.

Other Sidebar panels include a Photo slideshow program that presents local and Internet photo sources (such as Flickr.com), an E-mail account monitor that works with Google's Gmail service among others, and a real-time stock price tracker. Additional panel plug-ins should be available over time as developers avail themselves of the Google Desktop APIs.

"We really want to enable people to just sit back and let the Web come to them," explains product manager Nikhil Bhatla, who likens the Sidebar to an intelligent agent.

Google Desktop 2 boasts expanded search capabilities, such as the ability to search network drives and Gmail accounts. It also returns search results from local files as soon as you start typing.

While this feature, called Quick Find, functions similarly to Apple's Spotlight search technology, it's intended to supplant Microsoft software. "Use Quick Find to launch applications without having to deal with the Start menu," the software's reviewer's guide suggests, as if dealing with the Start menu represented a burden.

Along similar lines, the beta includes an Outlook Search Toolbar, for those who want to search their E-mail without changing applications.

For those with privacy concerns, Google Desktop 2 offers the option of encrypting its search index, which is generated to speed searches. Doing so, however, will reduce the software's performance. The search software relies on the Windows Encrypted File System.

Google claims its software was built with privacy in mind and notes that "none of your content is made accessible to Google or anyone else without your explicit permission." It is however worth noting that Google Desktop sends a unique application number to Google once upon installation and during subsequent checks for updates. If you're already afraid you're under surveillance, this may be an issue.

Google Desktop is available in English for Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP3 and up.

Gaia Epicus: ''Hands Of Fate'' Video Posted Online

Norwegian power metallers Gaia Epicus have uploaded their video for the track "Hands of Fate" at this location (Windows Media). The clip was shot "outdoors in the forest" earlier in the month and features a guest appearance on drums by Robert Myrhaug (Memorized Dreams).

"Hands of Fate" comes off the group’s second album, "Symphony of Glory", available now on Sound Riot Records. The follow-up to 2003’s "Satrap" was recorded and mixed over a five-week period at Top Room Studios (Tristania, Vintersorg, Borknagar) with producer Børge Finstad and features artwork by Michael A. Mueller (Megadeth). The CD was mastered at Bazement Studios.

Merdekakah kita?

MASZLEE MALIK
 

Tepat jam menunjukkan detik 12 malam tanggal 31 Ogos...seluruh Malaysia terutamanya di Dataran Merdeka acara stereotaip tahunan akan berlangsung. Selepas jeritan merdeka, merdeka, merdeka...jiwa-jiwa dan pemikiran anak-anak muda kita pun akan mula dijajah kembali. Dijajah nafsu, dijajah kegilaan andreanelin, dijajah keseronokan yang singkat yang mengundang bala yang berpanjangan, dijajah pemikiran pengabdian secara total kepada budaya najis dari barat dan juga dijajah oleh Iblis yang telah mengisytiharkan peperangan terhadap Bani Adam seawal Nabi Adam A.S. diciptakan.
 

Merdeka, merdeka, merdeka...seruan yang dulunya menjadi laungan keramat tanda bebasnya watan kita dari penjajahan kuasa luar kini telah menjadi laungan keramat sebagai lesen untuk penjajahan bentuk baru di dalam jiwa anak-anak muda kita. Sejarah tidak pernah menipu, dan sejarah jugalah yang telah menyaksikan saban tahun pemudi-pemudi beragama Islam kita dijajah dan disamun kemuliaan dan mahkotanya oleh penjajah-penjajah yang sepatutnya menjadi "Qawwamuun" (pelindung) ke atas mereka. Pemuda dan pemudi menjadi tidak keruan dijajah otak mereka dek air-air khayal yang kedapatannya dilelong dan dijual secara jumbo sale di malam tersebut di premis-premis 7 eleven, pasaraya-pasaraya dan juga kelab-kelab malam.

 
Merdeka, merdeka, merdeka...di satu ceruk pula kedapatan pengunjung-pengunjung setia rumah-rumah Allah mengsekularkan diri mereka menyambut hari Merdeka dengan bacaan Yasin, tahlil dan doa selamat. Sekular ?, ya...mereka di satu wadi dan manusia di wadi yang lain. Mereka mengharapkan keredhaan Allah tanpa menghiraukan mereka-mereka yang hanyut kelemasan dijajah dan digagahi oleh nafsu dan sayitan di malam tersebut. Sekali lagi mereka-mereka ini pun masih lagi dijajah oleh pemikiran "Nafsi-nafsi" atau "Ananiyyah".
 

Habis cara yang bagaimana kita nak sambut Hari Kemerdekaan kita ?, jika tiada hiburan tiada serilah hidup kita ?, jika tiada hiburan kita tidak maju!, jika tiada hiburan kita dilihat kolot!

 
Begitu parahnya pemikiran kita dijajah dan diperkosa. Kehidupan hanyalah untuk hiburan ! jika tiada hiburan tiadalah kehidupan!, jika tiada hiburan ketinggalan zaman! Segalanya untuk berhibur, menghibur dan terhibur kemudiannya terlanjur.
 

Dalam zaman yang serba moden ini sepatutnya umat Islam perlu lebih kreatif. Pemikiran mereka tidak selayaknya dijumudkan dengan menjilat dan menelan semua yang berasal dari barat. Sikap sebegini hanya akan merencatkan kekreatifan sesuatu bangsa dan hanya menjadikan mereka hamba pemikiran barat dan akan terus terjajah. Seeloknya umat Islam, di Malaysia khususnya dalam menyambut hari kemerdekaan, menyemaikan jatidiri bangsa merdeka dan menyuburkan semangat patriotik mempunyai gaya dan cara yang tersendiri yang tidak bertentangan dengan Syariat Islam.
 

Tiada count down bukan beertinya kita ketinggalan zaman, dan ber count down tidak menunjukkan kita maju. Ianya hanya mempamerkan keujaan kita dan sikap jakun untuk meniru bangsa lain yang kita anggap lebih keramat dan lebih berdarjat. Zaman-zaman 70'an, 80'an malah, tiada pun acara count down dan konsert-konsert sehingga larut malam yang akhirnya mengundang tahajjud bersama orang ketiga (syaitan) di celah-celah pokok di taman, di dalam kereta di tepi taman-taman bunga, di hotel-hotel muran dan malah di sesetengah tempat dilakukan di tepi-tepi padang. Tidak cukup lagikah dengan national parade yang menjadi acara fardhu kifayah di Dataran Merdeka pada tiap-tiap tahun ?, mengapa mesti sesuatu acara yang bersulamkan maksiat menjadi acara yang diberikan galakan untuk hidup mekar dan terus diwarisi sepanjang zaman ?
 

Jikalau kita lapar sangat pun nak meniru budaya barat yang menghidupkan waktu malam mereka pun, hidupkanlah ia dengan cara yang lebih bermaruah dan patriotik. Acara tatu angkatan tentera, pantomen pentas, alunan lagu-lagu patriotik, acara berdoa dan bersolat berjemaah beramai-ramai, pementasan filem-filem patriotik dan pelbagai acara lain yang bebas maksiat boleh dijalankan untuk menyambut malam kemerdekaan. Yang penting kita wajib ada cara sambutan kita yang tersendiri. Acara sambutan yang tidak bercanggah dengan syariat tetapi selari dengan aliran zaman. Acara yang tidak membuka jalan-jalan kepada maksiat untuk dilakukan secara terbuka. Jikalaulah perkara seumpama itu pun tidak dapat kita fikirkan jelaslah fikiran kita dan jiwa kita masih lagi dijajah. Apalaj ertinya merdeka negara tetapi fikiran umatnya masih terjajah.
 

Walau bagaimanapun yang lebih penting bukannya sambutan. Sambutan hanya hiasan, hanya simbol, hanya lambang, yang lebih utama sebenarnya ialah pengisian dan juga keadaan sebenar rakyat itu sendiri mesti benar-benar merdeka.Bagi umat Islam pula, kemerdekaan akidah mereka dari kesyirikan adalah perkara pokok yang mesti mereka usahakan. Begitu juga halnya kemerdekaan jiwa mereka dari sifat-sifat mazmumah yang akan mengundang bala di dalam kehidupan dunia dan akhirat tidak boleh diabaikan. Seterusnya kemerdekaan pemikiran individu umat dari segala pemikiran dan perhambaan terhadap pemikiran barat yang bertentangan dengan syarak juga penting agar mereka tidak selamanya menjadi pengikut agenda orang lain dan sentiasa berakhir menjadi penyaksi sejarah sahaja. Selain itu kemerdekaan umat Islam dari perhambaan kepada nafsu juga tidak boleh dipandang ringan, ini kerana perhambaan mereka kepada nafsu akan membawa mereka menjadi hamba kepada benda-benda lain. Contohnya, jika mereka menurut nafsu, mereka akan menjadi hamba Arak, hamba wanita, hamba duit, dan yang wanita pula akan sentiasa dieksploit untuk menjadi hamba kapitalis-kapitalis yang hanya memandang mereka tidak lebih dari peralatan untuk mereka menggandakan keuntungan. Sekali lagi untuk menjadi seorang yang meredeka, seseorang itu wajiblah terlebih dahulu menyedari dirinya hanyalah hamba kepada Allah sahaja dan hanya tunduk dan patuh kepada perintah Allah semata-mata dan tidak sekali-kali melanggar perintahnya. Sebarang pelanggaran terhadap perintah Allah dan perbuatan meninggalkan larangannya akan hanya menjadikannya hamba Allah yang derhaka dan tidak merdeka dari menuruti hawa nafsu sendiri...maka berterusanlah dia dijajah.
 

Persoalannya, bagaimana pula dengan diri kita ?, meredekakah kita ?

Citroën C-Sportlounge Concept

Inventions thru the ages

Notable Inventions and Discoveries

Date Invention Or Discovery Inventor Or Discoverer Nationality 1250 Magnifying glass Roger Bacon English 1450 Printing press Johann Gutenberg German 1504 Pocket watch Peter Henlein German 1590 Compound microscope Zacharias Janssen Dutch 1593 Water thermometer Galileo Italian 1608 Telescope Hans Lippershey Dutch 1625 Blood transfusion Jean-Baptiste Denys French 1629 Steam turbine Giovanni Branca Italian 1642 Adding machine Blaise Pascal French 1643 Barometer Evangelista Torricelli Italian 1650 Air pump Otto von Guericke German 1656 Pendulum clock Christiaan Huygens Dutch 1661 Methanol Robert Boyle Irish 1668 Reflecting telescope Isaac Newton English 1671 Calculating machine Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz German 1698 Steam pump Thomas Savery English 1701 Seed drill Jethro Tull English 1710 Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori Italian 1712 Steam engine Thomas Newcomen British 1714 Mercury thermometer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit German 1717 Diving bell Edmund Halley English 1725 Stereotyping William Ged Scottish 1745 Leyden jar (condenser) E.G. von Kleist German 1752 Lightning rod Benjamin Franklin American 1758 Achromatic lens John Dollond British 1759 Marine chronometer John Harrison British 1764 Spinning jenny James Hargreaves British 1769 Spinning frame R. Arkwright English 1769 Steam engine (with separate condenser) James Watt British 1769 Automobile Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot French 1775 Submarine David Bushnell American 1780 Steel pen Samuel Harrison English 1780 Bifocal lens Benjamin Franklin American 1783 Balloon Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier French 1784 Threshing machine Andrew Meikle British 1785 Power loom Edmund Cartwright British 1786 Steamboat John Fitch American 1788 Flyball governor James Watt British 1791 Gas turbine John Barber British 1792 Illuminating gas William Murdock Scottish 1793 Cotton gin Eli Whitney American 1795 Hydraulic press Joseph Bramah English 1796 Lithography Aloys Senefelder German 1796 Smallpox vaccination Edward Jenner British 1799 Fourdrinier machine (papermaking) Louis Robert French 1800 Jacquard loom Joseph Marie Jacquard French 1800 Electric battery Count Alessandro Volta Italian 1801 Pattern loom Joseph Marie Jacquard French 1804 Screw propeller John Stevens American 1804 Solid-fuel rocket William Congreve British 1804 Steam locomotive Richard Trevithick British 1805 Electroplating Luigi Gasparo Brugnatelli Italian 1810 Food preservation (by sterilization and exclusion of air) François Appert French 1810 Printing press Frederick Koenig German 1814 Railroad locomotive George Stephenson British 1815 Safety lamp Sir Humphry Davy British 1816 Bicycle (no pedals) Karl D. Sauerbronn German 1819 Stethoscope René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec French 1820 Hygrometer J.F. Daniell English 1820 Galvanometer Johann Salomo Cristoph Schweigger German 1821 Electric motor Michael Faraday British 1823 Silicon Jöns Jakob Berzelius Swedish 1823 Electromagnet William Sturgeon British 1824 Portland cement Joseph Aspdin British 1827 Friction match John Walker British 1829 Typewriter1 W.A. Burt American 1829 Braille printing Louis Braille French 1830 Platform scales Thaddeus Fairbanks American 1830 Sewing machine Barthélemy Thimonnier French 1831 Phosphorus match Charles Sauria French 1831 Reaper Cyrus Hall McCormick American 1831 Dynamo Michael Faraday British 1834 Electric streetcar Thomas Davenport American 1835 Pistol (revolver) Samuel Colt American 1837 Telegraph Samuel Finley Breese Morse Sir Charles Wheatstone American British 1838 Morse code Samuel Finley Breese Morse American 1839 Photography Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre and Joseph Nicéphore Niepce William Henry Fox Talbot French British 1839 Vulcanized rubber Charles Goodyear American 1839 Steam hammer James Nasmyth Scottish 1839 Bicycle (with pedals) Kirkpatrick MacMillan British 1845 Pneumatic tire Robert William Thompson American 1846 Rotary printing press Richard March Hoe American 1846 Nitroglycerin Ascanio Sobrero Italian 1846 Guncotton Christian Friedrich Schönbein German 1846 Ether Crawford Williamson Long American 1849 Reinforced concrete F.J. Monier French 1849 Safety pin Walter Hunt American 1849 Water turbine James Bicheno Francis American 1850 Mercerized cotton John Mercer British 1851 Breech-loading rifle Edward Maynard American 1851 Opthalmoscope Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz German 1852 Nonrigid airship Henri Giffard French 1852 Elevator (with brake) Elisha Graves Otis American 1852 Gyroscope Jean Bernard Léon Foucault French 1855 Hypodermic syringe Alexander Wood Scottish 1855 Safety matches J.E. Lundstrom Swedish 1856 Bessemer converter (steel) Sir Henry Bessemer British 1858 Harvester Charles and William Marsh American 1859 Spectroscope Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen German 1860 Gas engine Jean-Joseph-Étienne Lenoir French 1861 Web-fed newspaper printing press Richard March Hoe American 1861 Electric furnace Wilhelm Siemens British 1861 Machine gun Richard Jordan Gatling American 1861 Kinematoscope Coleman Sellers American 1865 Antiseptic surgery Joseph Lister English 1866 Paper (from wood pulp, sulfite process) Benjamin Chew Tilghman American 1866 Dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel Swedish 1868 Dry cell Georges Leclanché French 1868 Typewriter Carlos Glidden and Christopher Latham Sholes American 1868 Air brake George Westinghouse American 1870 Celluloid John Wesley Hyatt and Isaiah Hyatt American 1871 Continuous current dynamo Zénobe-Théophile Gramme Belgian 1874 Quadruplex telegraph Thomas Alva Edison American 1876 Telephone2 Alexander Graham Bell Antonio Meucci American Italian 1877 Internal-combustion engine (four-cycle) Nikolaus August Otto German 1877 Talking machine (phonograph) Thomas Alva Edison American 1877 Microphone Emile Berliner American 1877 Electric welding Elihu Thomson American 1877 Refrigerator car G.F. Swift American 1878 Cream separator Carl Gustav de Laval Swedish 1878 Cathode ray tube Sir William Crookes British 1879 Cash register James J. Ritty American 1879 Incandescent filament lamp Thomas Alva Edison Sir Joseph Wilson Swan American British 1879 Automobile engine (two-cycle) Karl Benz German 1879 Arc lamp Charles Francis Bush American 1880 Linotype Ottmar Mergenthaler American 1884 Steam turbine C.A. Parsons English 1884 Rayon (nitrocellulose) Comte Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet French 1884 Multiple-wheel steam turbine Sir Charles Algernon Parsons British 1884 Nipkow disk (mechanical television scanning device) Paul Gottlieb Nipkow German 1884 Fountain pen Lewis Edson Waterman American 1885 Graphophone (dictating machine) Chichester A. Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter American 1885 AC transformer William Stanley American 1887 Air-inflated rubber tire J.B. Dunlop Scottish 1887 Gramophone (disk records) Emile Berliner American 1887 Gas mantle Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach Austrian 1887 Mimeograph Albert Blake Dick American 1887 Monotype Tolbert Lanston American 1888 Adding machine (recording) William Seward Burroughs American 1888 Kodak camera George Eastman American 1889 Steam turbine C.G. de Laval Swedish 1890 Rayon (cuprammonium) Louis Henri Despeissis French 1891 Glider Otto Lilienthal German 1891 Motion picture camera (kinetograph) Thomas Alva Edison William K. L. Dickson American British 1891 Motion picture viewer (kinetoscope) Thomas Alva Edison William K. L. Dickson American British 1891 Synthetic rubber Sir William Augustus Tilden British 1892 AC motor Nikola Tesla American 1892 Three-color camera Frederick Eugene Ives American 1892 Rayon (viscose) Charles Frederick Cross British 1892 Vacuum bottle (Dewar flask) Sir James Dewar British 1893 Photoelectric cell Julius Elster Hans F. Geitel German 1893 Diesel engine Rudolf Diesel German 1893 Gasoline automobile Charles Edgar Duryea and J. Frank Duryea American 1894 Motion picture projection Louis Jean Lumière and Auguste Marie Lumière Charles Francis Jenkins French American 1895 X-ray Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen German 1895 Rayon (acetate) Charles Frederick Cross British 1895 Wireless telegraph Marchese Guglielmo Marconi Italian 1896 Experimental airplane Samuel Pierpont Langley American 1898 Sensitized photographic paper Leo Hendrik Baekeland American 1900 Rigid dirigible airship Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin German 1902 Radiotelephone Valdemar Poulsen Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Danish American 1903 Airplane Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright American 1903 Windshield wipers Mary Anderson American 1903 Electrocardiograph Willem Einthoven Dutch 1905 Diode rectifier tube (radio) Sir John Ambrose Fleming British 1906 Gyrocompass Hermann Anschütz-Kämpfe German 1907 Bakelite Leo Hendrik Baekeland American 1907 Triode amplifier tube (radio) Lee De Forest American 1908 Cellophane Jacques Edwin Brandenberger Swiss 1908 Two-color motion picture camera C. Albert Smith British 1909 Salvarsan Paul Ehrlich German 1910 Hydrogenation of coal Friedrich Bergius German 1910 Gyroscopic compass and stabilizer Elmer Ambrose Sperry American 1911 Air conditioning W.H. Carrier American 1911 Vitamins Casimir Funk Polish 1911 Cellophane Jacques Edwin Brandenberger Swiss 1911 Neon lamp Georges Claude French 1912 Mercury-vapor lamp Peter Cooper Hewitt American 1913 Ramjet engine René Lorin French 1913 Multigrid electron tube Irving Langmuir American 1913 Cracked gasoline William Meriam Burton American 1913 Heterodyne radio receiver Reginald Aubrey Fessenden American 1915 Automobile self-starter Charles Franklin Kettering American 1916 Browning gun (automatic rifle) John Moses Browning American 1916 Gas-filled incandescent lamp Irving Langmuir American 1916 X-ray tube William David Coolidge American 1919 Mass spectrograph Sir Francis William Aston Arthur Jeffrey Dempster British American 1922-26 Sound motion pictures T.W. Case American 1922 Insulin Sir Frederick Grant Banting Canadian 1923 Autogiro Juan de la Cierva Spanish 1923 Television iconoscope Vladimir Kosma Zworykin American 1924 Quick-frozen food Clarence Birdseye American 1925 Television image dissector tube Philo Taylor Farnsworth American 1926 Aerosol can Erik Rotheim Norwegian 1926 Liquid-fuel rocket Robert Hutchings Goddard American 1928 Penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming British 1930 Bathysphere (Charles) William Beebe American 1930 Freon (low-boiling fluorine compounds) Thomas Midgley and coworkers American 1930 Modern gas-turbine engine Sir Frank Whittle British 1930 Neoprene (synthetic rubber) Father Julius Arthur Nieuwland and Wallace Hume Carothers American 1931 Cyclotron Ernest Orlando Lawrence American 1931 Differential analyzer (analogue computer) Vannevar Bush American 1932 Phase contrast microscope Frits Zernike Dutch 1932 Van de Graaff generator Robert Jemison Van de Graaff American 1933 Frequency modulation (FM) Edwin Howard Armstrong American 1935 Buna (synthetic rubber) German scientists German 1935 Radiolocator (radar) Sir Robert Watson-Watt British 1935 Cortisone Edward Calvin Kendall Tadeus Reichstein American Swiss 1935 Electron microscope German scientists German 1935 Sulfanllamide Gerhard Domagk German 1935 Nylon Wallace Hume Carothers American 1936 Twin-rotor helicopter3 Heinrich Focke German 1937 Snowmobile Armand Bombardier Canadian 1938 Ballpoint pen Georg and Ladislao Biro Hungarian 1939 DDT Paul Müller Swiss 1939 Helicopter4 Igor Sikorsky American 1940 Betatron Donald William Kerst American 1941 Turbojet aircraft engine Sir Frank Whittle British 1942 Guided missile Wernher von Braun German 1942 Nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi American 1942 Xerography Chester Carlson American 1944 V-2 (rocket-propelled bomb) German scientists German 1945 Atomic bomb U.S. government scientists American 1945 Streptomycin Selman A. Waksman American 1946 Electronic digital computer John Presper Eckert, Jr., and John W. Mauchly American 1947 Holography Dennis Gabon English 1947 Chlormycetin Mildred Rebstock American 1947 Polaroid Land camera Edwin Herbert Land American 1947 Bathyscaphe Auguste Piccard Swiss 1947 Microwave oven Percy L. Spencer American 1948 Scintillation counter Hartmut Kallmann German 1948 Aureomycin Benjamin Minge Duggar and Chandra Bose Subba Row American 1948 Transistor John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Shockley American 1949 Ramjet airplane René Leduc French 1950 Color television Peter Carl Goldmark American 1952 Hydrogen bomb U.S. government scientists American 1952 Bubble chamber (nuclear particle detector) Donald Arthur Glaser American 1953 Maser Charles Townes American 1954 Solar battery Bell Telephone Laboratory scientists American 1954 Polio vaccine Jonas Salk American 1955 Synthetic diamonds General Electric scientists American 1955 Carbon dating W.F. Libby American 1955 Optical fibers Narinder S. Kapany Indian 1956 Hovercraft Christopher Cockerell English 1956 First prototype rotary engine Felix Wankel German 1956 Videotape Charles Ginsberg Ray Dolby American 1957 Sodium-cooled atomic reactor U.S. government scientists American 1957 Artificial earth satellite USSR government scientists Soviet 1958 Communications satellite U.S. government scientists American 1959 Integrated circuit Jack Kilby Robert Noyce American 1960 Laser Charles Hard Townes, Arthur L. Schawlow, and Gordon Gould American 1960 Chlorophyll synthesized Robert Burns Woodward American 1960 Birth-control pill Gregory Pincus, John Rock, and Min-chueh Chang American 1962 Light-emitting diode (LED) Nick Holonyak, Jr. American 1964 Liquid-crystal display George Heilmeier American 1965 Kevlar technology Stephanie Kwolek American 1966 Artificial heart (left ventricle) Michael Ellis DeBakey American 1966 Tunable dye laser Mary Spaeth American 1967 Human heart transplant Christiaan Neethling Barnard South Africa 1970 First complete synthesis of a gene Har Gobind Khorana American 1971 Microprocessor Ted Hoff American 1971 Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging Raymond Damadian American 1972 Electronic pocket calculator J.S. Kilby and J.D. Merryman American 1972 First magnetohydrodynamic power generator USSR government scientists Soviet 1973 Skylab orbiting space laboratory U.S. government scientists American 1974 Recombinant DNA (genetic engineering) U.S. scientists American 1975 CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner Godfrey N. Hounsfield British 1975 Fiberoptics Bell Laboratories American 1976 Supercomputer J.H. Van Tassel and Seymour Cray American 1978 Synthesis of human insulin genes Roberto Crea, Tadaaki Hirose, Adam Kraszewski, and Keiichi Itakura American 1978 Mammal to mammal gene transplants Paul Berg, Richard Mulligan, and Bruce Howard American 1979 Compact disc Joop Sinjou Toshi Tada Doi Dutch Japanese 1979 Genetic flaw repaired in mouse cells by recombinant DNA and micromanipulation techniques W. French Anderson and coworkers American 1981 Space transportation system (space shuttle) National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers American 1982 Artificial heart Robert K. Jarvik American 1983 Scanning tunneling microscope Gerd Binnig Heinrich Rohrer German Swiss 1986 High-temperature superconductors J. Georg Bednorz Karl A. Müller German Swiss 1992 Magnetic boat Yoshiro Saji Japanese Notes 1) An impractical prototype that was never widely used. 2) Bell received a patent for the telephone in 1876, but Meucci developed an earlier model around 1860. 3) Both rotors operated on a horizontal plane. 4) One rotor operated on a horizontal plane to provide lift, while another rotor operated on a vertical plane to counter the torque generated by the first rotor.

Facts on Farts

Where does fart gas come from?

The gas in our intestines comes from several sources: air we swallow, gas seeping into our intestines from our blood, gas produced by chemical reactions in our guts, and gas produced by bacteria living in our guts.

What is fart gas made of?

The composition of fart gas is highly variable.
Most of the air we swallow, especially the oxygen component, is absorbed by the body before the gas gets into the intestines. By the time the air reaches the large intestine, most of what is left is nitrogen. Chemical reactions between stomach acid and intestinal fluids may produce carbon dioxide, which is also a component of air and a product of bacterial action. Bacteria also produce hydrogen and methane.
But the relative proportions of these gases that emerge from our anal opening depend on several factors: what we ate, how much air we swallowed, what kinds of bacteria we have in our intestines, and how long we hold in the fart.
The longer a fart is held in, the larger the proportion of inert nitrogen it contains, because the other gases tend to be absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of the intestine.
A nervous person who swallows a lot of air and who moves stuff through his digestive system rapidly may have a lot of oxygen in his farts, because his body didn't have time to absorb the oxygen.
According to Dr. James L. A. Roth, the author of Gastrointestinal Gas (Ch. 17 in Gastroenterology, v. 4, 1976) most people (2/3 of adults) pass farts that contain no methane. If both parents are methane producers, their children have a 95% chance of being producers as well. The reason for this is apparently unknown. Some researchers suspect a genetic influence, whereas others think the ability is due to environmental factors. However, all methane in any farts comes from bacterial action and not from human cells.

What makes farts stink?

The odor of farts comes from small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans in the mixture. These compounds contain sulfur. Nitrogen-rich compounds such as skatole and indole also add to the stench of farts. The more sulfur-rich your diet, the more sulfides and mercaptans will be produced by the bacteria in your guts, and the more your farts will stink. Foods such as cauliflower, eggs and meat are notorious for producing smelly farts, whereas beans produce large amounts of not particularly stinky farts.

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100 ways to make anyone smile

01. Call an old friend, just to say hi.
 
02. Hold a door open for a stranger.
 
03. Invite someone to lunch.
 
04. Compliment someone on his or her appearance.
 
05. Ask a coworker for their opinion on a project.
 
06. Bring cookies to work.
 
07. Let someone cut in during rush hour traffic.
 
08. Leave a waitress or waiter a big tip.
 
09. Tell a cashier to have a nice day.
 
10. Call your cousins.
 
11. Let someone know you miss them.
 
12. Treat someone to a movie.
 
13. Let a person know you really appreciate them.
 
14. Visit a retirement center.
 
15. Take a child to the zoo.
 
16. Fill up your spouse's car with gas.
 
17. Surprise someone with a small gift.
 
18. Leave a thank-you note for the cleaning staff at work.
 
19. Write a letter to a distant relative.
 
20. Tell someone you thought about them the other day.
 
21. Put a dime in a stranger's parking meter before the time expires.
 
22. Bake a cake for a neighbor.
 
23. Send someone flowers to where they work.
 
24. Invite a friend to tea.
 
25. Recommend a good book to someone.
 
26. Donate clothing to a charity.
 
27. Offer an elderly person a ride to where they need to go.
 
28. Bag your own groceries at the checkout counter.
 
29. Donate blood.
 
30. Offer free baby-sitting to a friend who's really busy or just needs a break.
 
31. Help your neighbor rake leaves or shovel snow.
 
32. Offer your seat to someone when there aren't any left.
 
33. Help someone with a heavy load.
 
34. Ask to see a store's manager and comment on the great service.
 
35. Give your place in line at the grocery store to someone who has only a few items.
 
36. Hug someone in your family for no reason.
 
37. Wave to a child in the car next to you.
 
38. Send a thank-you note to your doctor.
 
39. Repeat something nice you heard about someone else.
 
40. Leave a joke on someone's answering machine.
 
41. Be a mentor or coach to someone.
 
42. Forgive a loan.
 
43. Fill up the copier machine with paper after you're done using it.
 
44. Tell someone you believe in them.
 
45. Share your umbrella on a rainy day.
 
46. Welcome new neighbors with flowers or a plant.
 
47. Offer to watch a friend's home while they're away.
 
48. Ask someone if they need you to pick up anything while you're out shopping.
 
49. Ask a child to play a board game, and let them win.
 
50. Ask an elderly person to tell you about the good old days.
 
51. During bad weather, plan an indoor picnic with the family.
 
52. Buy someone a goldfish and bowl.
 
53. Compliment someone on their cooking and politely ask for a second helping.
 
54. Dance with someone who hasn't been asked.
 
55. Tell someone you mentioned them in your prayers.
 
56. Give children's clothes to another family when your kids outgrow them.
 
57. Deliver extra vegetables from your garden to the whole neighborhood.
 
58. Call your spouse just to say, I love you.
 
59. Call someone's attention to a rainbow or beautiful sunset.
 
60. Invite someone to go bowling.
 
61. Figure out someone's half-birthday by adding 182 days, and surprise them with a cake.
 
62. Ask someone about their children.
 
63. Tell someone which quality you like most about them.
 
64. Brush the snow off of the car next to yours.
 
65. Return your shopping cart to the front of the store.
 
66. Encourage someone's dream, no matter how big or small it is.
 
67. Pay for a stranger's cup of coffee without them knowing it.
 
68. Leave a love letter where your partner will find it.
 
69. Ask an older person for their advice.
 
70. Offer to take care of someone's pet while they're away.
 
71. Tell a child you're proud of them.
 
72. Visit a sick person, or send them a care package.
 
73. Join a Big Brother or Sister program.
 
74. Leave a piece of candy on a coworker's desk.
 
75. Bring your child to work with you for the afternoon.
 
76. Give someone a recording of their favorite music.
 
77. Email a friend some information about a topic they are especially interested in.
 
78. Give someone a homemade gift.
 
79. Write a poem for someone.
 
80. Bake some cookies for your local fire or police department.
 
81. Organize a neighborhood cleanup and have a barbecue afterwards.
 
82. Help a child build a birdhouse or similar project.
 
83. Check in on an old person, just to see if they're okay.
 
84. Ask for the recipe after you eat over at someone's house.
 
85. Personally welcome a new employee at work and offer to take them out for lunch.
 
86. While in a car, ask everyone to buckle up because they are important to you.
 
87. Let someone else eat the last slice of cake or pizza.
 
88. Stop and buy a drink from a kid's lemonade stand.
 
89. Forgive someone when they apologize.
 
90. Wave to someone looking for a parking space when you're about to leave a shopping center.
 
91. Send a copy of an old photograph to a childhood friend.
 
92. Leave a pint of your spouse's favorite flavor of ice cream in the freezer with a bow on it.
 
93. Do a household chore that is usually done by someone else in the family.
 
94. Be especially happy for someone when they tell you their good news.
 
95. Compliment a coworker on their role in a successful project.
 
96. Give your spouse a spontaneous back rub at the end of the day.
 
97. Serve someone in your family breakfast in bed.
 
98. Ask someone if they've lost weight.
 
99. Make a donation to a charity in someone's honor.
 
100. Take a child to a ballgame.

HAVE A BEUTIFUL LIFE

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Best 'Out Of Office' replies you can set for Mail Client

1: I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood.

2: I'm not really out of the office. I'm just ignoring you.  

3: You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all.

4: Sorry to have missed you but I am at the doctors having my brain removed so that I may be promoted to management

5: I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation on 4/18. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.  

6: Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.

7: The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is  unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again.'(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-viduals did this over and over).

8: Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queueing  system.  You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

9: Please reply to this e-mail so I will know that you got this message. I am on holiday. Your e-mail has been deleted.  

10: Hi. I'm thinking about what you've just sent me. Please wait by your PC for my response.

11: Hi! I'm busy negotiating the salary for my new job. Don't bother to leave me any messages.

12: I've run away to join a different circus.  

AND, FINALLY, THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE :

13: I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as 'Loretta' instead of 'Steve'. 

Detik Rasulullah saw menjelang sakratul maut.

Ada sebuah kisah tentang totalitas cinta yang dicontohkan Allah lewat kehidupan Rasul-Nya.

Pagi itu, meskipun langit telah mulai menguning,burung-burung gurun enggan mengepakkan sayap. Pagi itu, Rasulullah dengan suara terbata memberikan petuah, "Wahai umatku, kita semua ada dalam kekuasaan Allah dan cinta kasih-Nya. Maka taati dan bertakwalah kepada-Nya. Kuwariskan dua hal pada kalian, sunnah dan Al Qur'an. Barang siapa mencintai sunnahku, bererti mencintai aku dan kelak orang-orang yang mencintaiku, akan bersama-sama masuk yurga bersama aku."

Khutbah singkat itu diakhiri dengan pandangan mata Rasulullah yang teduh menatap sahabatnya satu persatu. Abu Bakar menatap mata itu dengan berkaca-kaca, Ummar dadanya naik turun menahan napas dan tangis nya. Uthman menghela napas panjang dan Ali menundukkan kepalanya dalam-dalam.

Isyarat itu telah datang, saatnya sudah tiba. "Rasulullah akan meninggalkan kita semua," desah hati semua sahabat kala itu. Manusia tercinta itu, hampir usai menunaikan tugasnya di dunia. Tanda-tanda itu semakin kuat, tatkala Ali dan Fadhal dengan sigap menangkap Rasulullah yang limbung saat turun dari mimbar. Saat itu, seluruh sahabat yang hadir di sana pasti akan menahan detik-detik berlalu, kalau bisa.

Matahari kian tinggi, tapi pintu Rasulullah masih tertutup. Sedang di dalamnya, Rasulullah sedang terbaring lemah dengan keningnya yang berkeringat dan membasahi pelepah kurma yang menjadi alas tidurnya.

Tiba-tiba dari luar pintu terdengar seorang yang berseru mengucapkan salam. "Bolehkah saya masuk?" tanyanya. Tapi Fatimah tidak mengizinkannya masuk, "Maafkanlah, ayahku sedang demam," kata Fatimah yang membalikkan badan dan menutup pintu. Kemudian ia kembali menemani ayahnya yang ternyata sudah membuka mata dan bertanya pada Fatimah, "Siapakah itu wahai anakku?" "Tak tahulah aku ayah, sepertinya ia baru sekali ini aku melihatnya," tutur Fatimah lembut. Lalu, Rasulullah menatap putrinya itu dengan pandangan yang menggetarkan. Satu-satu bagian wajahnya seolah hendak di kenang. "Ketahuilah, dialah yang menghapuskan kenikmatan sementara, dialah yang memisahkan pertemuan di dunia. ialah malaikat maut," kata Rasulullah,

Fatimah pun menahan ledakkan tangisnya. Malaikat maut datang menghampiri, tapi Rasulullah menanyakan kenapa Jibril tak ikut menyertai. Kemudian dipanggilah Jibril yang sebelumnya sudah bersiap diatas langit dunia menyambut roh kekasih Allah dan penghulu dunia ini. "Jibril, jelaskan apa hakku nanti dihadapan Allah?" ,Tanya Rasululllah dengan suara yang amat lemah. "Pintu-pintu langit telah terbuka, para malaikat telah menanti rohmu. Semua syurga terbuka lebar menanti kedatanganmu,"kata jibril. Tapi itu ternyata tak membuat Rasulullah lega, matanya masih penuh kecemasan.

"Engkau tidak senang mendengar kabar ini?"Tanya Jibril lagi."Kabarkan kepadaku bagaimana nasib umatku kelak?". "Jangan khuawatir, wahai Rasul Allah, aku pernah mendengar Allah berfirman kepadaku: 'Kuharamkan syurga bagi siapa saja, kecuali umat Muhammad telah berada didalamnya," kataJibril.

Detik-detik semakin dekat, saatnya Izrail melakukan tugas. Perlahan roh Rasulullah ditarik nampak seluruh tubuh Rasulullah bersimbah peluh, urat-urat lehernya menegang. "Jibril, betapa sakit sakaratul maut ini." Lirih Rasulullah mengaduh. Fatimah terpejam, Ali yang di sampingnya menunduk semakin dalam dan Jibril membuang muka "Jijikkah kau melihatku, hinggakaupalingkan wajahmu Jibril?" Tanya Rasulullah pada Malaikat penghantar wahyu itu. "Siapakah yang tega, melihat kekasih Allah direnggut ajal," kata Jibril. Sebentar kemudian terdengar Rasulullah memekik, kerana sakit yang tak tertahankan lagi. "Ya Allah, dahsyat niat maut ini, timpakan saja semua siksa maut ini kepadaku, jangan pada umatku. " Badan Rasulullah mulai dingin, kaki dan dadanya sudah tak bergerak lagi. Bibirnya bergetar seakan hendak membisikkan sesuatu, Ali segera mendekatkan telinganya. "Uushiikum bis shalati, wa maa malakat aimanuku, peliharalah solat dan santuni orang-orang lemah di antaramu"

Di luar pintu tangis mulai terdengar bersahutan, sahabat saling berpelukan. Fatimah menutupkan tangan diwajahnya, dan Ali kembali mendekatkan telinganya ke bibir Rasulullah yang mulai kebiruan. "Ummatii, ummatii, ummatiii?" - "Umatku,umatku, umatku" Dan, pupuslah kembang hidup manusia mulia itu. Kini, mampukah kita mencinta sepertinya? Allahumma sholli 'ala Muhammad wa baarik wasalim 'alaihi.

Betapa cintanya Rasulullah kepada kita. Kirimkan kepada sahabat-sahabat muslim lainnya agar timbul kesadaran untuk mencintai Allah dan RasulNya, seperti Allah dan Rasulnya mencinta kita. Kerana sesungguhnya selain daripada itu hanyalah fana belaka.

Katyusha rockets missed a U.S. ship

AQABA, Jordan - Attackers firing Katyusha rockets narrowly missed a U.S. amphibious assault ship docked at this Red Sea resort Friday, but killed a Jordanian soldier in the most serious strike at the Navy since the USS Cole bombing nearly five years ago.

Two more rockets were shot toward nearby Israel without causing serious damage.

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Anwar Ibrahim wins libel case

By Jonathan Kent
BBC News, Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia's High Court has awarded former deputy leader Anwar Ibrahim $1.2m in damages over a pamphlet that hastened his downfall in 1998.

The pamphlet, Fifty Reasons Why Anwar Ibrahim Cannot Be Prime Minister, included allegations that Mr Anwar was corrupt and a homosexual.

When Mr Anwar launched this libel suit he was still deputy prime minister.

In the time it's taken to settle the case, he was sacked, and imprisoned for six years for corruption and sodomy.

The latter conviction was eventually overturned and he was released from jail a year ago.

After seven years, the High Court has finally ruled that the claims in the pamphlet were very vicious and very serious.

The damages, said the judge, Hishamuddin Yunus, were unusually high to reflect the gravity of the allegations and the lack of an apology. ~more

Things Not To Say On Your Wedding Night

Things Not To Say On Your Wedding Night

• But everybody looks funny naked!

• You woke me up for that?

• Did I mention the video camera?

• Hurry up! This room rents by the hour!

• Can you please pass me the remote control?

• Do you accept Visa?

• ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

• On second thought, let's turn off the lights.

• Do you get any premium movie channels?

• Try not to smear my make-up, will ya!

• But I just brushed my teeth...

• Smile, you're on Candid Camera!

• Did you know the ceiling needs painting?

• Did I remember to take my pill?

• But my cat always sleeps on that pillow..

• Did I tell you my Aunt Martha died in this bed?

• You're almost as good as my ex!

• Now I know why he/she dumped you...

• What are you planning to make for breakfast?

• I have a confession...

• You can cook, too right?

• Sorry about the name tags, I'm not very good with names.

• Don't mind me.. I always file my nails in bed.

Mesej Di Sebalik Gelang Getah

Ya... ada apa pada gelang getah (dipanggil bracelet atau wristband. Istilah lebih tepat "awareness bracelet")? Trend terbaru yang boleh dilihat diperagakan oleh muda-mudi sekarang. Ada dua perkara yang penting pada gelang getah ini iaitu warna dan mesej yang ditulis. Pelbagai warna dan mesej boleh didapati pada gelang-gelang tersebut. Gelang getah adalah lebih kepada menyatakan sesuatu daripada sebagai suatu aksesori. Gelang tersebut digunakan untuk menyampaikan sesuatu mesej dimana pemakainya menyokong seperti mesej kebajikan.

Gelang getah datang dalam pelbagai warna dan rupa dengan pelbagai mesej. Namun yang lebih popular dan merupakan kepada perintis kepada kepelbagaian jenis getah gelang sekarang adalah seperti yang berikut...



Warna Kuning (Livestrong)
Pelumba basikal Lance Armstrong telah memakai dua gelang kuning ini semasa memenangi Tour De France tahun 2004.Beliau telah diagnosiskan dan didapati menghidapi kanser testis yang telah merebak ke paru-paru dan otaknya semasa berusia 25 tahun. Selepas menjalani rawatan kemoterapi, beliau telah memenangi Tour De France 6 tahun berturut-turut sejak tahun 1999.

Hasil jualan gelang getah Livestrong disumbangkan ke Lance Armstrong Foundation yang membantu muda-mudi yang menghidap kanser dan keluarga mereka untuk menempuhi penyakit tersebut.


Warna Biru (Beat Bullying)
Rio Ferdinand memakai warna biru. Dilancarkan oleh BBC Radio One sejajar dengan kempen One Life mereka untuk menghindarkan masalah buli. Tertera dengan perkataan 'Beat Bullying' dan dipakai oleh ramai celebriti dan bintang sukan termasuk Frank Lampard dan Rio sendiri, dan kumpulan muzik Rooster.

Gelang ini diberi percuma dan sangat popular hinggakan Radio tidak dapat menghantar kepada setiap mereka yang menginginkannya.


Hitam dan Putih. (Stand Up Speak Up)
Gelang getah berkembar anti-racism (anti-perkauman). Kedua-duanya yang dipakai serentak, adalah sebahagian dari kempen anti-perkauman dalam bolasepak.

Keduanya dicetak dengan slogan 'Stand Up Speak Up' dan dipakai oleh pemain bolasepak pasukan Arsenal, Thierry Henry yang melancarkan kempen tersebut. Gelang tersebut boleh didapati di United Kingdom dengan harga 1.50 Pounds dan hasilnya disumbangkan ke projek membanteras perkauman dalam bolasepak di UK dan Eropah.


Warna Putih (Make Poverty History)
Ianya datang dalam pelbagai jenis getah dan rekaan fabrik dan ianya bertujuan untuk menamatkan kemiskinan di dunia ini. Gelang ini boleh didapati dari banyak badan kebajikan tetapi mereka mencadangkan supaya pemakai membuatnya sendiri, sebagai tanda kepada kerajaan yang kaya untuk melangsaikan hutang kepada negara yang berhutang kepada mereka, daripada mengumpul kekayaan.


Warna Merah Jambu. (Support, Knowledge, Strength)
Dibuat oleh badan kebajikan Breast Cancer Care. Mereka menyediakan perkhidmatan maklumat, penjagaan dan nasihat kepada mereka yang menghidap kanser payudara di UK. Mereka membantu lebih sejuta orang setahun.

Mempunyai perkataan 'support, knowledge, strength' tertera diatasnya, melambangkan tujuan badan tersebut. Harganya 1 Pound dan hasilnya disumbangkan untuk membantu pesakit barah payudara.


Warna Merah (Feel the pulse)
Ianya dibuat sempena kempen melawan penyakit jantung oleh badan kebajikan British Heart Foundation (BHF). Penyakit jantung merupakan pembunuh utama di UK. Hasil jualan digunakan untuk membantu pesakit jantung.


Warna Biru dan Hijau (say no to sectarianism)
Motif gelang ini ialah untuk menyatukan manusia yang berlainan agama. Ianya dijalankan dengan tema bolasepak. Warna tersebut adalah warna kepada pasukan bolasepak Celtic dan Rangers, dimana para penyokong mereka terbahagi kepada pengikut Katolik (Celtic) dan Protestant (Rangers).

Mesej yang tertera diatas gelang - say no to sectarianism. Sectarianism adalah perlagaan antara manusia yang berlainan agama. Gelang ini telah diberikan kepada 200 sekolah di Scotland Barat. Kedua-dua kelab menyumbangkan 140,000 Pounds untuk skim ini.


Warna Ungu
Gelang ungu ini ialah untuk menjelaskan dan mengumpul dana untuk mencari penyembuh kepada Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis adalah penyakit yang membawa maut dan telah dihidapi oleh 7500 orang di UK sahaja. Banyak yang mati kerana penyakit tersebut dan ada yang memerlukan pemindahan peparu. Harganya 1 Pound dan hasilnya disumbangkan kepada Cystic Fibrosis Trust yang menjalankan kajian untuk mencari penawar penyakit ini.


Warna Merah Jambu Gelap
Atau warna magenta ini adalah dari Diabetes UK yang membantu orang ramai yang menghidapi penyakit kencing manis. Badan ini menjalankan aktiviti khidmat nasihat dan penjagaan, talian telefon dan mengadakan aktiviti hujung minggu untuk para pesakit. Semua gelang ini telah habis dijual.

Lain-lain
Berikut merupakan warna gelang dan mesej-mesej lain yang boleh didapati...

Hitam - Livewrong (anti-charity), Star Wars Sith Lord, Geek (ThinkGeek)
Biru - Bullying (Beat Bullying), Conservatives (UK), Democrats, Drunk driving, Life is a Team Sport (Hendrick Marrow Program)
Biru Gelap - Anti-smoking, Child abuse, Colon cancer, Peace campaigns
Biru Muda - Autism, Prostate cancer
Biru/Putih - Tsunami relief
Emas - Kanser kanak-kanak
Hijau - Army, Kempen Ekologi, Fight The Ban (Pro-Hunting), penyakit bauh pinggang, penghalalan ganja, Sumbangan Organ, Kanser Ovari, Tsunami relief
Lavender - Epilepsy
Orange - Leukaemia, Self harm, (Zahid?)
Pink - Kanser Payudara, Kanser kanak-kanak dan remaja
Ungu - CARE/Borders (global poverty/literacy), Domestic violence, National Kidney Federation
Pelangi - Kempen Keamanan, Perkahwinan Homoseksual, Gay Pride
Merah - British Heart Foundation (Feel The Pulse), Child abuse, Christian, Labour/socialists, Pat Tillman Foundation, Republicans, American Red Cross & Canadian Blood Services (Blood donation)
Putih - Make Poverty History (anti kemiskinan), Star Wars Jedi Knight
Kuning - Livestrong, Liberal Democrats, Kanser Testicular, Cambridge United


Di Malaysia...
Banyak lagi warna dan jenis gelang getah yang membawa mesej masing-masing yang boleh didapati. Di Malaysia, rangkaian restoren makanan segera McDonald's juga mempunyai koleksi gelang getah yang terdiri daripada 24 jenis warna dan 14 mesej yang berinspirasi. Ianya dijual dengan harga RM2.90 dan setiap 10sen dari hasilnya disumbangkan kepada kempen 'Give a Gift of Smile' yang membantu kanak-kanak yang dilahirkan dengan mulut sumbing. Ianya boleh didapati dari 30 Jun sehingga 27 Julai 2005.

Gangs clash in Guatemalan jails

At least 30 prisoners have been killed and more than 50 have been injured during battles between rival gangs in several prisons in Guatemala.

Hundreds of armed police and soldiers were deployed and fired tear gas to regain control of the prisons.

At least 18 of the inmates died during a fight at a prison known as "The Hole" in a town south of Guatemala City.

The gangs emerged in the US and later spread to Central America when their members were deported back home.

'Ominous warning'

The latest incidents are thought to have erupted after members of one of Central America's most notorious gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha, clashed with members of their main rival, Mara 18.

The gangs appear to have co-ordinated the fighting using mobile telephones, said Guatemala's Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann.

Officials said an array of weaponry - including knives, automatic rifles and hand grenades - had been smuggled into the prisons.

Some of the inmates were killed by gunshot wounds and hand grenade blasts - others were found with their throats cut.

The bloodiest fighting appears to have taken place in the "The Hole" prison in Escuintla town.

Witnesses saw corpses covered in the trademark tattoos of their gangs. Some bodies were said to have been mutilated.

Eight men were also killed in the Pavon correctional facility near Guatemala City, said the head of the country's prison service.

The BBC's Paul Keller, says the rioting is an ominous warning to the authorities in Honduras and El Salvador as well as Guatemala.

All are struggling to contain the activities of the maras, which are blamed for a wave of killings and robberies across the region.

Tsunami clue to 'Atlantis' found

A submerged island that could be the source of the Atlantis myth was hit by a large earthquake and tsunami 12,000 years ago, a geologist has discovered.

Spartel Island now lies 60m under the sea in the Straits of Gibraltar, but some think it once lay above water.

The finding adds weight to a hypothesis that the island could have inspired the legend recounted by the philosopher Plato more than 2,000 years ago.

Evidence comes from a seafloor survey published in the journal Geology.

Marc-André Gutscher of the University of Western Brittany in Plouzané, France, found a coarse-grained sedimentary deposit that is 50-120cm thick and could have been left behind after a tsunami. ~more

Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine (lyrics + mp3)

Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that
special place
And if I stared too long
I'd probably break down and cry

Sweet child o' mine
Sweet love of mine

She's got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me
of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by

Sweet child o' mine
Sweet love of mine

Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Sweet child o' mine

~download

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Cerita dari Jepun

Pada suatu ketika di Jepun hiduplah seorang lelaki yang sederhana, namanya Oda. Ia memiliki seorang isteri yang sangat cantik dan sangat disayanginya.

Namun sang isteri mempunyai perangai yang buruk, iaitu teramat cerewet sekali.

Selain itu sang isteri tersebut juga suka mengumpat dan bercakap dengan kuat hingga boleh menyakitkan telinga. Jiran tetangga tidak mahu dekat dengannya. Sebenarnya, Oda sangat menyayangi isterinya itu, tapi para tetangganya yang merasa terganggu menghasut Oda supaya meninggalkan isterinya itu.

Akhirnya Oda pun termakan kata-kata tetangganya. Ia berfikir bagaimana cara untuk melenyapkan isterinya dari muka bumi.

Suatu hari Oda mengajak isterinya berjalan-jalan ke kuil tua di tengah hutan. Ketika melalui bahagian belakang kuil tersebut, Oda melihat sebuah perigi buta yang tak digunakan lagi. Maka ia berpura-pura mengajak isterinya melihat burung di pohon besar dekat perigi itu. Lantas dengan pantas Oda menolak isterinya itu  masuk ke perigi.

Sepuluh minit pertama Oda merasa sangat bahagia kerana sepanjang hidupnya baru kali ini ia merasakan suasana yang begitu tenang tanpa celoteh isterinya.

Sepuluh minit kedua, Oda mulai merasa sepi juga karena tidak biasa dengan kesunyian.

Akhirnya sepuluh minit ketiga dengan rasa ragu-ragu Oda kembali menuju perigi buta tersebut. Ia menurunkan tali timba dan berteriak menyuruh isterinya naik.

Begitu terkejutnya Oda ketika yang naik bukan isterinya melainkan makhluk menyeramkan dengan bulu lebat di seluruh tubuhnya, dialah makhluk penunggu perigi buta itu.

Oda lantas bertanya, "Kenapa kamu yang naik??"

Lantas makhluk itu pun dengan wajah pucat ketakutan menjawab, "Aku takut la, di bawah tu ada manusia... dah la cakap kuat cerewet pulak tu..."

'Zotob' Worm Makes Windows Rounds

A new worm has been detected spreading on unpatched Windows systems faster than previous worms, but reported infections have remained low for the moment. Dubbed 'Zotob' by antivirus vendor Trend Micro, the worm takes advantage of a critical security hole in Windows that was patched last week.

On Friday, Microsoft acknowledged that exploit code had surfaced for at least two of the three vulnerabilities recently announced. The company said it was 'disappointed that certain security researchers have breached the commonly accepted industry practice of withholding vulnerability data so close to update release and have published exploit code.'

Zotob works by copying itself into the Windows System folder as either BOTZOR.EXE or CSM.EXE, and modifies a user's 'hosts' file to prevent access to antivirus Web sites. The worm initiates an FTP server on port 3333 and scans IP addresses using port 445 for other vulnerable systems.

'Hundreds of infection reports were sighted in the United States and Germany,' Trend Micro officials said in a statement.

Aside from propagating itself, however, Zotob also has built in backdoor capabilities. The worm connects to an Internet Relay Chat channel and awaits remote instructions from a malicious user. Due to such actions, Trend Micro has rated Zotob's damage potential as 'high.'

Trend recommends that Windows users ensure they have installed the latest patches from Microsoft and run an up-to-date antivirus utility.

Melayu (sajak)

  MELAYU  
  
  Melayu itu orang yang bijaksana
  Nakalnya bersulam jenaka
  Budi bahasanya tidak terkira
  Kurang ajarnya tetap santun
  Jika menipu pun masih bersopan
  Bila mengampu bijak beralas tangan.


  Melayu itu berani jika bersalah
  Kecut takut kerana benar,
  Janji simpan di perut
  Selalu pecah di mulut,
  Biar mati adat
  Jangan mati anak.


  Melayu di tanah Semenanjung luas maknanya:
  Jawa itu Melayu, Bugis itu Melayu
  Banjar juga disebut Melayu,
  Minangkabau memang Melayu,
  Keturunan Acheh adalah Melayu,
  Jakun dan Sakai asli Melayu,
  Arab dan Pakistani, semua Melayu
  Mamak dan Malbari serap ke Melayu
  Malah mua'alaf bertakrif Melayu
  (Setelah disunat anunya itu)


  Dalam sejarahnya
  Melayu itu pengembara lautan
  Melorongkan jalur sejarah zaman
  Begitu luas daerah sempadan
  Sayangnya kini segala kehilangan


  Melayu itu kaya falsafahnya
  Kias kata bidal pusaka
  Akar budi bersulamkan daya
  Gedung akal laut bicara


  Malangnya Melayu itu kuat bersorak
  Terlalu ghairah pesta temasya
  Sedangkan kampung telah tergadai
  Sawah sejalur tinggal sejengkal
  tanah sebidang mudah terjual


  Meski telah memiliki telaga
  Tangan masih memegang tali
  Sedang orang mencapai timba.
  Berbuahlah pisang tiga kali
  Melayu itu masih bermimpi


  Walaupun sudah mengenal universiti
  Masih berdagang di rumah sendiri.
  Berkelahi cara Melayu
  Menikam dengan pantun
  Menyanggah dengan senyum
  Marahnya dengan diam
  Merendah bukan menyembah
  Meninggi bukan melonjak.


  Watak Melayu menolak permusuhan
  Setia dan sabar tiada sempadan
  Tapi jika marah tak nampak telinga
  Musuh dicari ke lubang cacing
  Tak dapat tanduk telinga dijinjing
  Maruah dan agama dihina jangan
  Hebat amuknya tak kenal lawan


  Berdamai cara Melayu indah sekali
  Silaturrahim hati yang murni
  Maaf diungkap senantiasa bersahut
  Tangan diulur sentiasa bersambut
  Luka pun tidak lagi berparut


  Baiknya hati Melayu itu tak terbandingkan
  Segala yang ada sanggup diberikan
  Sehingga tercipta sebuah kiasan:
  "Dagang lalu nasi ditanakkan
  Suami pulang lapar tak makan
  Kera di hutan disusu-susukan
  Anak di pangkuan mati kebuluran"


  Bagaimanakah Melayu abad dua puluh satu
  Masihkan tunduk tersipu-sipu?
  Jangan takut melanggar pantang
  Jika pantang menghalang kemajuan;
  Jangan segan menentang larangan
  Jika yakin kepada kebenaran;
  Jangan malu mengucapkan keyakinan
  Jika percaya kepada keadilan.


  Jadilah bangsa yang bijaksana
  Memegang tali memegang timba
  Memiliki ekonomi mencipta budaya
  Menjadi tuan di negara Merdeka "

NUKILAN - Usman Awang

London bombings: the truth emerges

The suicide cell that killed 52 people on 7 July is not linked to those alleged to be behind the second London attacks on 21 July, according to the initial findings of the biggest anti-terrorist investigation held in Britain.

An investigation into the four suicide bombers from the first attacks and the people alleged to be behind the July 21 plot has found no evidence of any al-Qa'ida 'mastermind' or senior organiser. The inquiry involved MI5, MI6, the listening centre at GCHQ, and the police.

The disclosure that the July 7 team were working in isolation - and were radicalised by Mohammad Sidique Khan, the oldest man - has caused concern among anti-terrorist officers.

Police and MI5 fear it increases the chance that more 'self-sufficient' units similar to the July 7 suicide cell are hiding in Britain. Anti-terrorist officers are worried by the evidence that previously unknown 'clean skin' terror cells are forming in Britain with little or no help from abroad.

The alleged plotters behind the July 21 bomb incidents in London are thought to have been 'copycats', targeting Tube trains and a bus. ~full article

Proton Savvy in accident

Wife - says and means

The  wife says: You want
The wife means: You want  

The wife says: We need
The wife means: I  want

The wife says: It's your decision
The wife means: The  correct decision should be obvious

The wife says: Do what you want
The wife means:  You'll pay for this later

The wife says: We need to talk
The wife means: I need  to complain

The wife says: Sure... go ahead
The wife means: I  don't want you to

The wife says: I'n not upset
The wife means: Of  course I'm upset you moron

The wife says: You're ... so manly
The wife means:  You need a shave and sweat a lot

The wife says: Be romantic, turn out the lights
The  wife means: I have flabby thighs.

The wife says: This kitchen is so inconvenient
The  wife means: I want a new house.

The wife says: I want new curtains.
The wife means:  Also carpeting, furniture, and wallpaper!

The wife says: I need wedding shoes.
The wife means:  The other forty pairs are the wrong shade of white.

The wife says: Hang the picture there
The wife means:  No, I mean hang it there!

The wife says: I heard a noise
The wife means: I  noticed you were almost asleep.

The wife says: Do you love me?
The wife means: I'm  going to ask for something expensive.

The wife says: How much do you love me?
The wife  means: I did something today you're not going to like.

The wife says: I'll be ready in a minute.
The wife  means: Kick off your shoes and take an hour nap.

The wife says: Am I fat?
The wife means: Tell me I'm  beautiful.

The wife says: You have to learn to communicate.
The  wife means: Just agree with me.

The wife says: Are you listening to me?
The wife  means: [Too late, your doomed.]

The wife says: Yes
The wife means:  No

The wife says: No
The wife means:  No

The wife says: Maybe
The wife means:  No

The wife says: I'm sorry
The wife means: You'll be  sorry

The wife says: Do you like this recipe?
The wife  means: You better get used to it

The wife says: All we're going to buy is a soap  dish
The wife means: I'm coming back with enough to fill this  place.

The wife says: Was that the baby?
The wife means: Get  out of bed and walk him

The wife says: I'm not yelling!
The wife means: Yes I  am! I think this is important!

In answer to the question "What's  wrong?"

The wife says: The same old thing.
The wife means:  Nothing.

The wife says: Nothing.
The wife means:  Everything.

The wife says: Nothing, really.
The wife means: It's  just that you're an idiot.

The wife says: I don't want to talk about it.
The  wife means: I'm still building up steam.

OZZY OSBOURNE Retires As OZZFEST Headliner: 'It's Time For Me To Move On'

"Ozzy Osbourne announced on Friday (August 12) that he is retiring as the headliner of his long-running namesake package tour, Ozzfest.

'After 10 years, the Ozzfest's name and reputation have been established,' he said in a statement. 'It's time for me to move on and do other things.' His publicist noted in a statement, 'Ozzfest will carry on in 2006, however Ozzy will limit his performances to only a few, select cities.'

Osbourne, who's been performing with BLACK SABBATH this summer as the tour's headliner, has been dogged by throat problems, which have forced the band to drop off of the bill on several recent dates, reports MTV.com.

The August 7 concert — which had been slated for Somerset, Wisconsin's Float Rite Park Amphitheatre — was postponed until September 10 in an effort to give Osbourne time to rest his strained vocal chords; it will be the last date of this summer's trek, according to MTV.com. SABBATH have canceled three Ozzfest appearances so far this year — shows on July 27 in Holmdel, New Jersey, July 31 in Noblesville, Indiana and August 2 in Columbus, Ohio — as a direct result of Ozzy's stressed voice. Ticketholders for all three dates were offered full refunds, while co-headliners IRON MAIDEN were called upon to extend their set.

Read more at MTV.com."

4 peringkat dosa

Dosa Peringkat Pertama
Seseorang membuat dosa serta lambat menyesali perbuatannya atau pun lambat bertaubat atas dosanya... Ini adalah peringkat awal bagi orang yang membuat dosa... Jika seseorang itu berterusan membuat dosa pada peringkat pertama ini, maka ia akan secara automatik akan naik kedosa peringkat kedua..

Dosa Peringkat Kedua
Seseorang itu akan membuat dosa dan tidak merasai apa-apa diatas perbuatannya... Peringkat ini amat bahaya kerana ianya adalah bibit-bibit permulaan yang boleh menggugurkan iman seseorang...

Dosa Peringkat Ketiga
Seseorang itu membuat dosa dan merasa bangga dengan perbuatan dosanya... Peringkat ini akan sampai kepada suatu situasi dimana orang yang membuat dosa mula merasa sombong, bongkak dan riak... Ucapannya juga akan membawa kepada unsur MURTAD... Contohnya ucapan, "Aku minum arak ni biasa ajee... setakat sebotol tak mabuk lagi." Selepas peringkat ini seseorang itu akan sampai ke peringkat keempat..

Dosa Peringkat Keempat
Seseorang itu akan membuat dosa, bangga dengan perbuatannya dan mula MEMANDANG HINA ATAS KEBAIKAN ATAU KEBAJIKAN... Pada peringkat ini orang tersebut mula mencabar Al-Quran, Hadis & Sunnah kerana sifat sombong, bongkak dan riak sudah sepenuhnya menguasai diri.. Pada peringkat ini akan terdengar suara suara, orang mula mempertikaikan hukum Al-Quran dengan mengatakan ianya tidak sesuai lagi untuk zaman sekarang kerana Al-Quran turun 1400+ tahun dahulu, dan ianya perlu dikaji atau ditafsir semula...

Oleh itu hendaklah kita sentiasa berkira-kira tentang perbuatan kita setiap hari dan cepat cepat bertaubat atas kesilapan atau perbuatan kita yang berdosa dan masuklah kita di kalangan orang orang yang bertaqwa disisi Allah...

Seseorang sahabat pernah bertanya kepada Rasullullah,
"Wahai Rasulullah akan adakah orang yang menyeru kearah kejahatan dan dosa setelah datangnya islam yang lengkap ini?"

Rasullullah menjawab," Ia, memang akan ada pendakwah neraka di akhir zaman setelah datang islam yang lengkap."

Sahabat bertanya, "Wahai Rasulullah apa yang perlu aku lakukan sekiranya aku bertemu zaman itu dan pendakwah neraka tersebut?"

Rasulullah menjawab, "Hendaklah kamu cari ulama-ulama benar (ulama pewaris nabi) dan berpeganglah kamu kepadanya dan jangan sekali kali kamu lepas darinya."

Wallahualam...
              

Inside 9/11 ( NGC )

Inside911

Customer vs Helpdesk

Customer: Hi, this is Celine. I can't get my diskette out.  

Helpdesk: Have you tried pushing the button?  

Customer: Yes, sure, nothing happens, it must be really stuck.  

Helpdesk: That doesn't sound good; I'll make a note  

Customer: No ... wait a minute... I hadn't inserted it yet...it's still on my desk... sorry.

--

Helpdesk: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen.  

Customer: Is that your left or my left?  

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Helpdesk: Good day. How may I help you?  

Male customer: Hello... I can't print.  

Helpdesk: Would you click on start for me and.....  

Customer: Listen pal; don't start getting technical on me! I'm not Bill Gates damn it !  

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Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print.  

Every time I try it says 'Can't find printer'.  

I've even lifted the printer and placed it in front of the  

monitor, but the computer still says it can't find it...  

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Customer: I have problems printing in red ...  

Helpdesk: Do you have a colour printer?  

Customer: Aaaah....................thank you.  

--

Helpdesk: What's on your monitor now ma'am?  

Customer: A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me in the supermarket.  

--

Helpdesk: And now hit F8.  

Customer: It's not working.  

Helpdesk: What did you do, exactly?  

Customer: I hit the F-key 8-times as you told me, but nothing's happening.  

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Customer: My keyboard is not working anymore.  

Helpdesk: Are you sure it's plugged into the computer?  

Customer: No. I can't get behind the computer.  

Helpdesk: Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back.  

Customer: OK  

Helpdesk: Did the keyboard come with you?  

Customer: Yes  

Helpdesk: That means the keyboard is not plugged in. Is there another keyboard?  

Customer: Yes, there's another one here. Ah ... that one does work!  

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Helpdesk: Your password is the small letter a as in apple, a Capital letter V as in Victor, the number 7.  

Customer: Is that 7 in capital letters?  

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A customer couldn't get on the Internet: -  

Helpdesk: Are you sure you used the right password?  

Customer: Yes I'm sure. I watched my colleague do it.  

Helpdesk: Can you tell me what the password was?  

Customer: Five stars.  

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Helpdesk: What anti-virus program do you use?  

Customer: Netscape.  

Helpdesk: That's not an anti-virus program.  

Customer: Oh, sorry ... Internet Explorer.  

--

Customer: I have a huge problem.  

A friend has placed screensaver on my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears !  

-- 

Helpdesk: Microsoft Tech Support, may I help you?  

Old woman: Good afternoon! I have waited over 4 hours for you.  

Can You please tell me how long it will take before you can help me?  

Helpdesk: Uhh..? Pardon, I don't understand your problem?  

Old woman: I was working in Word and clicked the help button more than 4 hours ago.  

Can you tell me when you will finally be helping me?  

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Helpdesk: How may I help you?  

Customer: I'm writing my first e-mail.  

Helpdesk: OK, and, what seems to be the problem?  

Customer: Well, I have the letter " a ", but how do I get the circle around it?

Sonata Artica - Shy (mp3 + lyrics)

Sonata Artica - Shy

I Can see how you are beautifull, can you feel my eyes on you,
I'm shy and turn my head away
Working late in diner Citylite, I see that you get home alright
Make sure that you can't see me, hoping you will see me


Sometimes I'm Wondering why you look me and you blink your eye
You can't be acting like my Dana
I see you in Citylite diner serving all those meals and then
I see reflection of me in your eye, oh please


Talk to me, show some pity
You touch me in many, many ways
But I'm shy can't you see


Obsessed by you, your looks, well, anyway "I would any day die for you",
I write on paper & erased away
Still I sit in diner Citylite, drinking coffee and reading lies
Turn my head and I can see you, could that really be you


Sometimes I'm wondering why you look me and you blink your eye
You can't be acting like my Dana?
I see your beautifull smile and I would like to run away from
Reflections of me in your eyes, oh please


Talk to me, show some pity
You touch me in many, many ways
But I'm shy can't you see


I see, can't have you, can't leave you there 'cos I must sometimes see you
But I don't understand how you can keep me in chains
And every waken hour, I feel your taking power From me and I can't leave
Repeating the scener over again


Sometimes I'm wondering why you look me and you blink your eye
You can't be acting like my Dana?
I see your beautifull smile and I would like to run away from
Reflections of me in your eyes, oh please


Talk to me, show some pity
You touch me in many, many ways
But I'm shy can't you see

~download

Jerat kelab pembelit

JOHOR BAHRU: ‘Duduk diam dapat duit’, begitulah pujukan licik sindiket skim cepat kaya `Kelab Usahawan Internet’ yang menawarkan pulangan AS$9,000 (RM33,300) dalam tempoh sebulan dengan hanya melabur RM380.

Sindiket berkenaan didakwa bergiat aktif di negeri ini dan Kuala Lumpur menawarkan pelbagai pakej pelaburan palsu.

Seorang penduduk tempatan yang enggan dikenali berkata, beliau hampir menjadi mangsa apabila tertarik dengan pakej pelaburan sindiket berkenaan yang turut menawarkan laman web percuma, portal perniagaan dan pengurusan kewangan secara online kepada ahlinya.

Beliau berkata, antara taktik kotor bagi menjerat pelanggan ialah menjanjikan keuntungan berlipat kali ganda dalam tempoh sebulan sekiranya melaburkan AS$100 (RM370).

Menurutnya, sindiket berkenaan juga cuba meyakinkan orang ramai yang melayari laman webnya kononnya membantu pelanggan meningkatkan pengetahuan komputer termasuk strategi mempromosikan barangan menerusi rangkaian teknologi maklumat (IT).

“Sebagai pengusaha tempatan yang ingin mengikuti perkembangan terkini perniagaan menerusi internet, pada mulanya saya tergerak hati untuk membuat pelaburan, namun atas nasihat rakan seperjuangan, saya menyedari taktik sindiket berkenaan.

“Saya meragui operasi sindiket yang mendakwa mempunyai rangkaian perniagaan di 35 negara berikutan cara pembayaran deposit yang nampak kurang selamat,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, selain gagal memberi sebarang maklumat mengenai alamat syarikat berkenaan beroperasi atau nombor pendaftaran syarikatnya, sistem pelaburan yang dikendalikan sindiket berkenaan tidak profesional.

Menurutnya, setiap penduduk yang berminat diminta membuat pembayaran deposit menerusi beberapa bank tempatan.

“Selepas memasukkan duit dalam akaun berkenaan, orang ramai diminta membuat pengesahan menerusi khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS) termasuk menyatakan nama penuh dan nombor ahli kepada seorang kakitangan syarikat berkenaan,” katanya.

Katanya, kewujudan sindiket skim cepat kaya berkenaan bukan sahaja mengelirukan masyarakat malah mengakibatkan sesetengah daripada mereka terpedaya dengan pelbagai janji palsu.

“Pihak berkuasa seharusnya menyekat operasi sindiket sebegini kerana ia bukan sahaja mengundang pelbagai jenayah siber malah memberi impak kepada pengusaha tempatan,” katanya.

Beseech Post New Video Online ( Innerlane )

Beseech have issued the following update:

Hello, some news from the swedish band Beseech here! The video for the song ‘Innerlane’, taken from the upcoming album ’’Sunless Days’’ is now availible for download at http://www.beseech.net (both in Windows Media and Quicktime format, about 18 Mb)

The video will begin to air in different TV stations during August. The fifth album, ’’Sunless Days’’, will be released on September 5th in Europe and September 27th in USA/Canada through Napalm Records.

On the official website at http://www.beseech.net you can also download new soundsamples, promotion pictures etc.

Best regards, Beseech.

Gmail now with Bahasa Indonesia

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Largest Insect

What You Need to Know on Smoking and Lung Cancer

If you quit smoking can you reduce or eliminate your risk of tobacco-related lung cancer, or is the damage permanent?

You can always reduce your risk if you quit smoking. If you're 50 years old and you've been a lifelong smoker and you quit smoking today, you reduce your risk by half. If you're 30 years old and a lifelong smoker, you can almost completely eliminate your risk of lung cancer by quitting.

There's some increased risk compared to the general population, if you have smoked. But, if you quit at the age of 30, it's almost a negligible increased risk.

If you've never been a smoker and you develop lung cancer, how did you get it? Is it genetics, environment, radon, luck of the draw?

There are two likely reasons. One, for whatever reason, you were born genetically predisposed to getting cancer. You have something in your cells that activated and started producing a tumor. That's probably one of the most likely reasons.

Then, there's the idea of environmental exposure, especially radon. Radon is the second leading risk factor for lung cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that comes from the Earth's soil. In fact, one in 15 homes have levels of radon that are considered too high. So home inspectors recommend that you get radon levels checked before buying new property, or to get radon sensors for the house.

But smoking is far and away the number one risk factor. About 80% of people who have lung cancer were smokers. You get a sense of the magnitude there.

Is there a difference between smoking-related lung cancer and non-smoking-related lung cancer?

It appears that the biggest difference is that people who are not smokers tend to do better overall. Their prognosis is better overall than people who have smoking-related lung cancer. But that probably has more to do with the fact that people who are not smoking are, overall, more fit. So they respond better to treatment. It may not have anything to do with the biology of the cancer; it just has to do with the physiology of the person.

Are certain types of lung cancer more treatable than others? What's the general survival rate?

If you catch a lung cancer early — a Stage 1 cancer — it's going to be more treatable than an advanced lung cancer. If you have a cancer that can be operated, that can be removed, you have a very good chance, a better chance than not, of being able to be cured. But the problem is that most people who go to doctor with some sort of symptom already have advanced lung cancer, so it's too late.

Survival rates for all lung cancer: in the first year, six out of 10 people will be dead. By the second year, eight out of 10 people will be dead. By five years, only 15% of people will survive.

When you talk about cancer in general, there are good screening programs, like mammograms for breast cancer or colonoscopies for colon cancer. With lung cancer, there is no generally accepted screening test today. We have 100 million former or current smokers in the United States right now and a lot of them, obviously, are considered at risk for lung cancer. But we haven't agreed on a way to screen all these people. We haven't come up with a reliable program. CT scans are too expensive. And should everyone be exposed to CT scans? That's still being figured out.

Are there differences between men and women in terms of susceptibility? Are there high-risk age groups?

A quickly growing population of people with lung cancer appears to be nonsmoking women. While men still have a greater number of overall lung cancer cases, nonsmoking women are much more likely than nonsmoking men to develop cancer. We don't know why that is, but we think it might have to do with changes in hormones. Women may be more likely to develop cancer because of hormonal changes. In terms of environmental exposure, if radon is in fact a culprit in the home and more women are at home than men, that could be part of the answer.

Most people are diagnosed at 50 or older. If you're diagnosed younger, it could mean that doctors caught the cancer earlier, which might mean that you have a very early stage cancer and were lucky to catch it. But it could also mean that if it's already advanced at such a young age, your prognosis may be even poorer than the prognosis for the general population.

~source

CHILDREN OF BODOM: Cover Of BRITNEY SPEARS' 'Oops I Did It Again' Available For Download

A radio-broadcast-quality MP3 of CHILDREN OF BODOM's cover of the BRITNEY SPEARS hit 'Oops I Did It Again', which appears on CHILDREN OF BODOM's 'In Your Face' single, is available for download at this location.

The 'In Your Face' single, which is scheduled for release in Finland on August 17 via Spinefarm, will contain the following track listing:

01. In Your Face
02. Oops I Did It Again
03. In Your Face (censored version)

A total of two cover songs were recorded during the recording sessions for the group's new album, 'Are You Dead Yet?'. The second cover song, POISON's 'Talk Dirty to Me', will be used as bonus track for the Japanese version of the album.

'Are You Dead Yet?' is scheduled for release on September 14 in Finland and September 19 in the rest of the world.

CHILDREN OF BODOM mastered 'Are You Dead Yet?' on June 6 at Finnvox studios in Helsinki following a six-week recording/mixing session with producer Mikko Karmila.

Mawi - Aduh Saliha (lirik + mp3)

Mawi - Aduh Saliha

Rindu berahiku pada kasih yang jauh
Jauh bukan jarak dan tempat
Jauh nama dan pangkat

Mana penggantimu hendakku dakapkan
Dendam asmaraku pada cinta yang luruh
Luruh bukan daun dan hujan
Luruh jiwa dan badan

Bertahun kusandar percaya
Tak mungkin padam cahaya
Cintamu bagai rembulan
Hilang di pandangan kala langit dilindung awan

Aduh mahkota terhempas
Barulah kusedar
Yang kusangkakan intan
Oh hanyalah kaca

Sesudah berdarah
Barulah kusedar
Jiwaku tercalar
Oh sakitnya BUKAN KEPALANG

Kau biarkan aku sendiri menderita seksa
racun hidupku Saliha
Kau biarkan aku sendiri melewati sepi
dalam hidupku Saliha
Kau biarkan aku sendiri meratapi nasib
dalam gelita Saliha
Oh Saleha

M Nasir/Loloq

~download

S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday. ~full article

Yahoo! Messenger 7 Final

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Beautiful prawn photo

Man forgets wife at Italy petrol station for 6 hrs

ROME (Reuters) - A Macedonian man forgot his wife at an Italian service station and only realised he had driven off without her six hours later, news agency Ansa said on Monday.
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The couple, who were travelling with their 4-year-old daughter, pulled over for petrol in the coastal city of Pesaro as they were heading back to their home to Germany.

After filling the tank, the husband drove away, without noticing that his 30-year-old wife, originally from Georgia, had got out of the car to go to the lavatory.

The woman, who had no money or documents with her, contacted the police who eventually traced her husband to Milan, some 340 km (210 miles) north of Pesaro, Ansa said.

The husband told police he hadn't missed his wife because she always sat in the back of the car with their daughter. ~link

Mawi - Seroja (mp3 + lirik)

Mawi - Seroja

mari menyusun seroja bunga seroja
hiasan sanggul remaja puteri remaja
rupa yang elok dimanja jangan dimanja
pujalah ia oh saja sekadar saja

mengapa kau bermenung oh adik berhati bingung
mengapa kau bermenung oh adik berhati bingung
janganlah engkau percaya dengan asmara
janganlah engkau percaya dengan asmara

sekarang bukan bermenung dalam termenung
sekarang bukan bermenung dalam termenung
mari bersama oh sayang memetik bulan
mari bersama oh sayang memetik bulan

mari menyusun seroja bunga seroja
hiasan sanggul remaja putri remaja
rupa yang elok dimanja jangan dimanja
pujalah ia oh saja sekadar saja

~download

Celebrity Lovechild Quiz

Celebrity Lovechild Quiz

Another London attack within three weeks?

Even more significantly, this most recent statement must be seen in the context of previous events as Zawahri's words often appear to be used to trigger al-Qaeda cells around the world to stage attacks.

Some of these include:

• On August 7, 1998 Islamic suicide bombers blew up the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, killing more than 220 people. This followed a statement by Zawahri the previous day.

• On October 9, 2002 another Zawahri tape threatened more attacks on the US and its allies. Three days later, the Bali nightclub bombs killed more than 200 people, mostly Westerners.

• On October 1, 2004 Zawahri called on Muslims worldwide to help in the Palestinian struggle. Six days later, al-Qaeda attacked three Egyptian tourist resorts in the Sinai, killing 34 people, about half of them Israelis.

• On November 29, 2004, in a video statement Zawahri said that the US invasion of Baghdad was only the beginning of a Western occupation. Terrorists attacked the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on the morning of December 6, killing eight and wounding 15 others.

• On June 17, Zawahri spoke again. On July 7 four bombs ripped through London's transport system, killing nearly 60, including the four suicide bombers.

• On August 4, this senior al-Qaeda leader issued perhaps the most specific threat of an attack on Western interests. If the pattern is repeated, a major terrorist outrage will be carried out within the next three weeks. Britain is again considered to be one of the most likely targets.
  

~full article

32 most important email etiquette tips:

1. Be concise and to the point
2. Answer all questions, and pre-empt further questions
3. Use proper spelling, grammar & punctuation
4. Make it personal
5. Use templates for frequently used responses
6. Answer swiftly
7. Do not attach unnecessary files
8. Use proper structure & layout
9. Do not overuse the high priority option
10. Do not write in CAPITALS
11. Don't leave out the message thread
12. Add disclaimers to your emails
13. Read the email before you send it
14. Do not overuse Reply to All
15. Mailings > use the bcc: field or do a mail merge
16. Take care with abbreviations and emoticons
17. Be careful with formatting
18. Take care with rich text and HTML messages
19. Do not forward chain letters
20. Do not request delivery and read receipts
21. Do not ask to recall a message.
22. Do not copy a message or attachment without permission
23. Do not use email to discuss confidential information
24. Use a meaningful subject
25. Use active instead of passive
26. Avoid using URGENT and IMPORTANT
27. Avoid long sentences
28. Don't send or forward emails containing libelous, defamatory, offensive, racist or obscene remarks
29. Don't forward virus hoaxes and chain letters
30. Keep your language gender neutral
31. Don't reply to spam
32. Use cc: field sparingly

~details:

Hiroshima after bombing photo collection

Inspired by the photographic work "Hiroshima" by Japanese artist Hiromi Tsuchida, The Hiroshima Archive was originally set up to join the on-line effort made by many people all over the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing. The archive is intended to serve as a research and educational guide to those who want to gain and expand their knowledge of the atomic bombing.

Hiroshima Archive

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Awesome photos of mars

Life's unanswered questions

• Why is it when some products you have to turn it upside down to read the directions, and the directions say do not turn upside down?    

• Why is a square meal served on round plates?    

• Why is the 0 on a phone after 1 and not before 1?    

• Which way does a compass point in space?    

• Why are people allowed to put naked statues outside but why can't we run outside naked?    

• If mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?    

• Why did Mary own a little lamb?     

• If a missing person sees their picture on a milk carton that offers a reward, would they get the money?      

• Why can't a baby cry while it's inside its mother?    

• If the president were gay, would his husband be the first man?    

• If you were a genie and a person asked you this wish, "I wish you would not grant me this wish" what would you do?    

• What happens if your snot freezes in your nose?    

• Why aren't safety pins as safe as they say they are?    

• Why is it that its good to score under par in golf but its bad to be "under par" in any thing else?      

• Why do people say, "You can't have your cake and eat it too"? Why would someone get cake if they can't eat it?    

• Can bald men get lice??    

• How come popcorn isn't a vegetable?    

• Do movie producers still say lights, camera, and action when it is a dark scene?    

• Why is Charlie short for Charles if they are both the same number of letters?    

• Why is snow white and ice clear? Aren't they just different forms of water?    

• Why do they put the names of football teams on baseball caps?    

• If I had my legs amputated, would I have to change my height and weight on my driver's license?      

• How come you pay an extra 25 cents to get something put on your hamburger but they don't take off the price if you get something taken off?    

• Why do we wash behind our ears? Who really looks there?    

• Why is it that if something says, "do not eat" on the packaging it becomes extra tempting to eat?      

• If you were under house arrest and you lived in a mobile home, wouldn't you be able to go anywhere you want?    

• If our body temperature is normally 98.6 degrees, how come when it's 98 degrees outside, no one is comfortable?    

• What would happen if you were to feed a pig some bacon?    

• If scientists were ever going to figure out how to travel through time, wouldn't we now be seeing people from the future?

Google History

Google History

Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

Back before Google? Aye, there's the Rub.

According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was among a group of students assigned to show him around. They argued about every topic they discussed. Their strong opinions and divergent viewpoints would eventually find common ground in a unique approach to solving one of computing's biggest challenges: retrieving relevant information from a massive set of data.

By January of 1996, Larry and Sergey had begun collaboration on a search engine called BackRub, named for its unique ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given website. Larry, who had always enjoyed tinkering with machinery and had gained some notoriety for building a working printer out of Lego™, took on the task of creating a new kind of server environment that used low-end PCs instead of big expensive machines. Afflicted by the perennial shortage of cash common to graduate students everywhere, the pair took to haunting the department's loading docks in hopes of tracking down newly arrived computers that they could borrow for their network.

A year later, their unique approach to link analysis was earning BackRub a growing reputation among those who had seen it. Buzz about the new search technology began to build as word spread around campus.

The search for a buyer

Larry and Sergey continued working to perfect their technology through the first half of 1998. Following a path that would become a key tenet of the Google way, they bought a terabyte of disks at bargain prices and built their own computer housings in Larry's dorm room, which became Google's first data center. Meanwhile Sergey set up a business office, and the two began calling on potential partners who might want to license a search technology better than any then available. Despite the dotcom fever of the day, they had little interest in building a company of their own around the technology they had developed.

Among those they called on was friend and Yahoo! founder David Filo. Filo agreed that their technology was solid, but encouraged Larry and Sergey to grow the service themselves by starting a search engine company. "When it's fully developed and scalable," he told them, "let's talk again." Others were less interested in Google, as it was now known. One portal CEO told them, "As long as we're 80 percent as good as our competitors, that's good enough. Our users don't really care about search."

Touched by an angel

Unable to interest the major portal players of the day, Larry and Sergey decided to make a go of it on their own. All they needed was a little cash to move out of the dorm — and to pay off the credit cards they had maxed out buying a terabyte of memory. So they wrote up a business plan, put their Ph.D. plans on hold, and went looking for an angel investor. Their first visit was with a friend of a faculty member.

Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, was used to taking the long view. One look at their demo and he knew Google had potential — a lot of potential. But though his interest had been piqued, he was pressed for time. As Sergey tells it, "We met him very early one morning on the porch of a Stanford faculty member's home in Palo Alto. We gave him a quick demo. He had to run off somewhere, so he said, 'Instead of us discussing all the details, why don't I just write you a check?' It was made out to Google Inc. and was for $100,000."

The investment created a small dilemma. Since there was no legal entity known as "Google Inc.," there was no way to deposit the check. It sat in Larry's desk drawer for a couple of weeks while he and Sergey scrambled to set up a corporation and locate other funders among family, friends, and acquaintances. Ultimately they brought in a total initial investment of almost $1 million.

Everyone's favorite garage band

On September 7, 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, California. The door came with a remote control, as it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation's staff of three. The office offered several big advantages, including a washer and dryer and a hot tub. It also provided a parking space for the first employee hired by the new company: Craig Silverstein, now Google's director of technology.

Already Google.com, still in beta, was answering 10,000 search queries each day. The press began to take notice of the upstart website with the relevant search results, and articles extolling Google appeared in USA TODAY and Le Monde. That December, PC Magazine named Google one of its Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines for 1998. Google was moving up in the world.

On the road again

Google quickly outgrew the confines of its Menlo Park home, and by February 1999 had moved to an office on University Avenue in Palo Alto. At eight employees, Google's staff had nearly tripled, and the service was answering more than 500,000 queries per day. Interest in the company had grown as well. Red Hat signed on as its first commercial search customer, drawn in part by Google's commitment to running its servers on the open source operating system Linux.

On June 7, the company announced that it had secured a round of funding that included $25 million from the two leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In a replay of the convergence of opposites that gave birth to Google, the two firms — normally fiercely competitive, but seeing eye-to-eye on the value of this new investment — both took seats on the board of directors. Mike Moritz of Sequoia and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins — who between them had helped grow Sun Microsytems, Intuit, Amazon, and Yahoo! — joined Ram Shriram, CEO of Junglee, at the ping pong table that served as formal boardroom furniture.

In short order, key hires began to fill the company's modest offices. Omid Kordestani left Netscape to accept a position as vice president of business development and sales, and Urs Hölzle was hired away from UC Santa Barbara as vice president of engineering. It quickly became obvious that more space was needed. At one point the office became so cramped that employees couldn't stand up from their desks without others tucking their chairs in first.

No beta search engine

The gridlock was alleviated with the move to the Googleplex, Google's current headquarters in Mountain View, California. And tucked away in one corner of the two-story structure, the Google kernel continued to grow — attracting staff and clients and drawing attention from users and the press. AOL/Netscape selected Google as its web search service and helped push traffic levels past 3 million searches per day. Clearly, Google had evolved. What had been a college research project was now a real company offering a service that was in great demand.

On September 21, 1999, the beta label came off the website.

Still Google continued to expand. The Italian portal Virgilio signed on as a client, as did Virgin Net, the UK's leading online entertainment guide. The spate of recognition that followed included a Technical Excellence Award for Innovation in Web Application Development from PC Magazine and inclusion in several "best of" lists, culminating with Google's appearance on Time magazine's Top Ten Best Cybertech list for 1999.

Built-in innovation

At the Googleplex, a unique company culture was evolving. To maximize the flexibility of the work space, large rubber exercise balls were repurposed as highly mobile office chairs in an open environment free of cubicle walls. While computers on the desktops were fully powered, the desks themselves were wooden doors held up by pairs of sawhorses. Lava lamps began sprouting like multi-hued mushrooms. Large dogs roamed the halls — among them Yoshka, a massive but gentle Leonberger. After a rigorous review process, Charlie Ayers was hired as company chef, bringing with him an eclectic repertoire of health-conscious recipes he developed while cooking for the Grateful Dead . Sections of the parking lot were roped off for twice-weekly roller hockey games. Larry and Sergey led weekly TGIF meetings in the open space among the desks, which easily accommodated the company's 60-odd employees.

The informal atmosphere bred both collegiality and an accelerated exchange of ideas. Google staffers made many incremental improvements to the search engine itself and added such enhancements as the Google Directory (based on Netscape's Open Directory Project) and the ability to search via wireless devices. Google also began thinking globally, with the introduction of ten language versions for users who preferred to search in their native tongues.

Google's features and performance attracted new users at an astounding rate. The broad appeal of Google search became apparent when the site was awarded both a Webby Award and a People's Voice Award for technical achievement in May 2000. Sergey's and Larry's five-word acceptance speech: "We love you, Google users!" The following month, Google officially became the world's largest search engine with its introduction of a billion-page index — the first time so much of the web's content had been made available in a searchable format.

Through careful marshalling of its resources, Google had avoided the need for additional rounds of funding beyond its original venture round. Already clients were signing up to use Google's search technology on their own sites. With the launch of a keyword-targeted advertising program, Google added another revenue stream that began moving the company into the black. By mid-2000, these efforts were beginning to show real results.

On June 26, Google and Yahoo! announced a partnership that solidified the company's reputation — not just as a provider of great technology, but as a substantial business answering 18 million user queries every day. In the months that followed, partnership deals were announced on all fronts, with China's leading portal NetEase and NEC's BIGLOBE portal in Japan both adding Google search to their sites.

To extend the power of its keyword-targeted advertising to smaller businesses, Google introduced AdWords, a self-service ad program that could be activated online with a credit card in a matter of minutes. And in late 2000, to enhance users' power to search from anywhere on the web, Google introduced the Google Toolbar. This innovative browser plug-in made it possible to use Google search without visiting the Google homepage, either using the toolbar's search box or right-clicking on text within a web page, as well as enabling the highlighting of keywords in search results. The Google Toolbar would prove enormously popular and has since been downloaded by millions of users.

As 2000 ended, Google was already handling more than 100 million search queries a day — and continued to look for new ways to connect people with the information they needed, whenever and wherever they needed it. They reached out first to a population with a never-ending need for knowledge — students, educators, and researchers — paying homage to Google's academic roots by offering free search services to schools, universities, and other educational institutions worldwide.

Realizing that people aren't always at their desks when questions pop into their heads, Google set out to put wireless search into as many hands as possible. The first half of 2001 saw a series of partnerships and innovations that would bring Google search to a worldwide audience of mobile users. Wireless Internet users in Asia, Japanese users of i-mode mobile phones, Sprint PCS, Cingular, and AT&T Wireless customers, and other wireless device users throughout the world gained untethered access to the 1.6 billion web documents in Google's growing index.

Google finds a few things it needs

Meanwhile, Google had acquired a cornerstone of Internet culture. In February, Google took on the assets of Deja.com and began the arduous task of integrating the huge volume of data in the Internet's largest Usenet archive into a searchable format. In short order, Google introduced improved posting, post removal, and threading of the 500 million-plus messages exchanged over the years on Usenet discussion boards.

As Google's global audience grew, the patterns buried in the swarm of search queries provided a snapshot of what was on humanity's mind. Sifting through a flood of keywords, Google captured the top trending searches and institutionalized them as the Google Zeitgeist, a real-time window into the collective consciousness. The Google Zeitgeist showcases the rising and falling stars in the search firmament as names and places flicker from obscurity to center stage and fade back again. Like an S&P Index for popular culture, the Google Zeitgeist charts our shifting obsessions and the impermanence of fame.

As Google's search capabilities multiplied, the company's financial footing became even more solid. By the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2001, Google announced that it had found something that had eluded many other online companies: profitability.

Information without barriers

Google's circle of friends continued to widen. An agreement with Lycos Korea brought Google search to a new group of Asian Internet users. In October, a partnership with Universo Online (UOL) made Google Latin America's premier search engine. New sales offices opened in Hamburg and Tokyo to satisfy growing international interest in Google's advertising programs. Google's borderless appeal was also evident in its evolving user interface: Users could now limit searches to sites written in Arabic, Turkish, or any of 26 other languages.

Meanwhile the Google search engine evolved again and learned to crawl several new kinds of information. File type search added a dozen formats to Google's roster of searchable documents. In December, Google Image Search, first launched during the summer with 250 million images, came out of beta with advanced search added and an expanded image index. Online shopping took a leap forward with the beta launch of Google Catalog Search, which made it possible for Google users to search and browse more than 1,100 mail order catalogs that previously had been available only in print.

December also brought another milestone: The Google search index reached 3 billion searchable web documents, another leap forward in Google's mission to make the world's information accessible. Google's year came to a close, appropriately, with the Year-End Google Zeitgeist, a retrospective on the search patterns, trends, and top search terms of 2001.

Good things come in yellow boxes

Google's success in charting the public Internet had helped make it the Internet search engine of choice. But Googlebot, the robot software that continually crawls the web to refresh and expand Google's index of online documents, had to turn back at the corporate firewall — which left employees, IT managers, and productivity-conscious executives wishing for a way to bring the power of Google search into their workplaces.

Their wish came true in February of 2002, with the introduction of the Google Search Appliance, a plug-and-play search solution in a bright yellow box. Soon it was crawling company intranets, e-commerce sites, and university networks, with organizations from Boeing to the University of Florida powering their searches with " Google in a box."

In love with innovation

The love affair between Google and the technology community — engineers, programmers, webmasters, and early adopters of all shapes and sizes — went back to the days when word-of-mouth from tech-savvy users spread the budding search engine's reputation far beyond the Stanford campus. That ongoing romance was evident at the 2001 Search Engine Watch Awards, announced in February of 2002, where the webmaster community awarded Google top honors for Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature.

Google showed the affection was mutual with a trio of initiatives to delight the most avid technophile. The Google Programming Contest coupled a daunting challenge with a tempting prize: $10,000, a visit to the Googleplex, and a chance for the winner to spend some quality time with the Google code base. (The eventual winner, Daniel Egnor of New York, created a program enabling users to search for webpages within a specified geographic area.)

Google's web application programming interfaces (APIs) enabled software programs to query Google directly, drawing on the data in billions of web documents. Their release sparked a flurry of innovation, from Google-based games to new search interfaces.

Google Compute, newly added to the Google Toolbar, took advantage of idle cycles on users' computers to help solve computation-intensive scientific problems. The first beneficiary: Folding@home, a non-profit Stanford University research project to analyze the structure of proteins with an eye to improving treatments for a number of illnesses.

Advertising that people want to see

In February of 2002, AdWords, Google's self-service advertising system, received a major overhaul, including a cost-per-click (CPC) pricing model that makes search advertising as cost-effective for small businesses as for large ones. Google's approach to advertising has always followed the same principle that works so well for search: Focus on the user and all else will follow. For ads, this means using keywords to target ad delivery and ranking ads for relevance to the user's query. As a result, ads only reach the people who actually want to see them - an approach that benefits users as well as advertisers.

In May, that approach got a vote of confidence when America Online — calling Google "the reigning champ of online search" — chose the company to provide both search and advertising to its 34 million members and tens of millions of other visitors to AOL properties. Further confirmation came when BtoB Magazine named Google the #1 business-to-business website and the #5 B2B ad property in any medium, online or off.

The launch of Google Labs enabled Google engineers to present their pet ideas proudly to an adventurous audience. Users could get acquainted with prototypes that were still a bit wet behind the ears, while developers received feedback that helped them groom their projects for success. Works-in-progress ranged from Google Voice Search, enabling users to search on Google with a simple telephone call, to Google Sets, which generates complete sets (a list of gemstones, say) from a few examples (topaz, ruby, opal), giving each member of the new set its own search link.

All the news that's fit to click

Google News launched in beta in September of 2002, offering access to 4,500 leading news sources from around the world. Headlines and photos are automatically selected and arranged by a computer program which updates the page continuously. The free service lets users scan, search, and browse, with links from each headline to the original story.

Froogle, a product search service launched in test mode in December of 2002, continued Google's emphasis on innovation and objective results. Searching through millions of relevant websites, Froogle helps users find multiple sources for specific products, delivering images and prices for the items sought.

And the worlds turn

Google's innovations continued to reshape not only the world of search, but also the advertising marketplace and the realm of publishing. In 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs and became the home for Blogger, a leading provider of services for those inclined to share their thoughts with the world through online journals (weblogs). Not long thereafter, the Google AdSense program was born, offering web sites of all sizes a way to easily generate revenue through placement of highly targeted ads adjacent to their content. Google AdSense technology analyzes the text on any given page and delivers ads that are appropriate and relevant, increasing the usefulness of the page and the likelihood that those viewing it will actually click on the advertising presented there.

Version 2.0 of the Google Toolbar was released in the Spring and the Google Deskbar joined it in the Fall. The Toolbar's enhancements included a pop-up blocker and form filler, while the Deskbar's location in the Windows Taskbar made it possible to search using Google without even launching a web browser. And there was so much more to find, thanks to the addition of a calculator feature, parcel tracking, flight information, VIN numbers and more, all accessible through the same Google search box.

This message just in

The year 2004 brought new services, including Local Search for those times when all a person needs is a neighborhood place close enough to deliver cannolis that are still cool or a tire shop that's within walking distance. Within weeks, Google followed up with a way for advertisers to target their ads to locations a set distance from their stores. It was an improvement for merchants that also made it easier for searchers to find goods and services for sale in their own neighborhoods.

On April 1st Google announced it was offering free mail accounts with 1,000 megabytes of memory and had plans to open an engineering office on the moon . It soon became apparent that Gmail was no joke. The first serious re-examination of web-based email in years, Gmail offers a powerful built in search function, messages grouped by subject line into conversations and enough free storage to hold emails for years to come. Gmail account owners don't need to file messages or worry about deleting items to stay within impractical storage constraints. Everything gets archived and is just a search away. Using AdSense technology, Gmail delivers relevant ads adjacent to mail messages, giving recipients a way to act on the information they receive.

And on and on

What's next from Google? Hard to say. We don't talk much about what lies ahead, because we believe one of our chief competitive advantages is surprise. Surprise and innovation. Our two chief competitive advantages are surprise, innovation and an almost fanatical devotion to our users. Well, you get the idea. You can take a peek at some of the ideas our engineers are currently kicking around by visiting them at play in Google Labs. Have fun, but be sure to wear your safety goggles.

Grunge music

Grunge music is an independent-rooted music genre that was inspired by hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock. The genre became commercially successful in the late 1980s and early 1990s, peaking in mainstream popularity between 1991 and 1994. Bands from cities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest such as Seattle, Washington, Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, were responsible for creating grunge music and later made it popular with mainstream audiences. The genre is closely associated with Generation X, due to its popularization being in tandem with the popularizing of the generation's name.  The popularity of grunge was one of the first phenomena that distinguished the popular music of the 1990s from that of the 1980s.

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Pak Ali, kapak dan isteri

Pada satu hari, Pak Ali pergi ke hutan untuk mencari kayu api. Pabila lalu kat kawasan tasik, Pak Ali tergelincir dan kapak buruknye terjatuh dalam tasik tu. Maka datanglah Pari Pari Tasik kepada Pak Ali.

Pari Pari: Kenapa dengan kau?

Pak Ali: Kapak aku terjatuh kedalam tasik.

Pari Pari pun menyelam dan kembali bersama kapak perak.

Pari Pari: Inikah kapak kamu?

Pak Ali: Tidak.

Pari Pari pun menyelam dan kembali bersama kapak emas.

Pari Pari: Inikah kapak kamu?

Pak Ali: Tidak, kapak aku buruk sahaja.

Pari pari pun menyelam dan kembali bersama kapak buruk.

Pari Pari: Inikah kapak kamu?

Pak Ali: Ya, itulah kapak buruk aku.

Pari Pari Tasik suka sikap Pak Ali yang jujur itu lalu memberikan ketiga-tiga kapak itu kepadanya.

Pada hari lain pulak. Pak Ali berjalan di sekitar tasik yang sama bersama isterinya. Kali ni isterinye pulak yang jatuh kedalam tasik. Pak Ali susah hati. Maka datanglah Pari Pari Tasik kepada Pak Ali.

Pari Pari: Kenapa kau  bersedih?

Pak Ali: Isteriku jatuh kedalam tasik.

Pari Pari pun menyelam dan kembali bersama Christina Aguilera.

Pari Pari: Inikah isteri kau?

Sambil menangis Pak Ali menjawab... "ya, itulah isteriku..."

Pari Pari pun marah, "Sungguh ku tak sangka, kau yang jujur satu masa dulu telah menjadi tamak".

Sambil menahan pilu Pak Ali menjawab, "Aku bukan tamak, kalau aku kata 'tidak' pada Christina Aguilera... kau akan bawakan pula Britney Spears...kalau aku katakan 'tidak' juga, barulah kau bawakan isteriku... bila aku kata 'ya', kau akan berikan mereka bertiga padaku.... Aku yang miskin ni tak mampu tanggung mereka semua".

Kemunculan Islam liberal perancangan Yahudi

Kemunculan Islam liberal perancangan Yahudi - Ustaz Ghani
Sunday, July 31 @ 17:43:59 MYT

Oleh SAIDATUL AMANI
KUALA LUMPUR, 31 Julai (Hrkh) - AJK PAS Pusat, Ustaz Abdul Ghani Samsudin mengingatkan penulis bebas, Astora Jabat supaya kembali kepada kebenaran memandangkan beliau merupakan seorang penulis yang baik serta mempunyai ilmu Islam yang tinggi.

Beliau berkata demikian ekoran hujah Astora mengenai Islam liberal dan juga tentang Islam Hadhari yang katanya dibawa oleh PAS melalui bekas pimpinan parti itu, Ustaz Nakhaie Ahmad yang kini sudah menjadi ahli Umno.  

Tiga tokoh daripada latarbelakang yang berlainan telah diundang dalam wacana `Islam liberal antara Pro dan Kontra', anjuran Dewan Muslimat PAS Wilayah Persekutuan. Ahli panel dalam wacana tersebut terdiri daripada Pengerusi Shura, Ustaz Abdul Ghani Samsudin; ahli akademik, Fathi Yusuf dan Astora Jabat, yang berlangsung di Hotel KL International, pagi tadi.

Menurut beliau, Astora telah mengeluarkan satu kenyataan yang jelas palsu dengan mengatakan Islam Hadhari datang daripada PAS.

Katanya, Astora wajar memikirkan teguran daripada ulama supaya dapat melakukan perubahan dengan menulis serta memberi penjelasan mengikut hukum Islam bukan menyesatkan umat Islam.

Berhubung fahaman Islam liberal katanya, bagi mereka politik tidak ada kaitan dengan agama dan tidak boleh dihubungkait dengan agama jika dikaitkan dengan agama ia merupakan satu kesalahan.

Menurutnya, kumpulan liberal sering masuk campur dan berani dalam perkara  yang mereka tidak mempunyai kepakaran dengan niat supaya umat Islam akhirnya dapat dikuasai oleh politik, ekonomi, budaya serta mematuhi garis panduan dari kuasa besar zionis AS.

Kata beliau, apabila terdapatnya kebangkitan Islam golongan Zionis cuba untuk menakut-nakutkan melalui media massa dengan usaha untuk mengekang semula dunia dengan satu polisi global.

"Semua itu dilakukan ke arah memastikan bahawa AS dan kuasa Kristian dan Yahudi akan menguasai tamadun dunia sampai bila-bila, tidak ada umat atau negara yang boleh mengugat mereka," katanya.

Ustaz Abdul Ghani berkata, kumpulan itu sedang memantau seluruh dunia untuk memastikan bahwa Islam tidak akan bangun semula sebagai satu kekuatan yang mempunyai jati diri sahsiah bagi mengatasi kuasa mereka.

Beliau berharap umat Islam dapat kembali mengukuhkan pemikiran, pendidikan serta institusi pengajian tinggi supaya tidak diresapi oleh kumpulan yang ingin memusnahkan Islam.

Sehubungan itu  beliau berharap supaya para penulis,cendikawan tidak menjadi penulis yang boleh merosakkan pemikiran umat Islam kerana penulis seperti itu merupakan orang yang telah menerima upah daripada zionis Amerika.

"Soal mencari rezeki itu soal yang lain kerana rezeki itu bukan terletak di tangan pemerintahan sebaliknya rezeki itu hanya Allah yang menentukkan," katanya.

Beliau mempersoalkan mengapa setengah penulis yang sudah mendapat ijazah dalam bidang agama mahu memutar belitkan ayat-ayat al-Quran selanjutnya merugikan umat Islam.

Menurutnya, wujudnya kumpulan Islam liberal amat berbahaya dan umat Islam harus membetulkan keadaan supaya pemikiran mereka tidak terus menyeleweng daripada hukum sebenar.

Dalam perbincangan itu, beliau berharap Astora dapat kembali ke pangkal jalan bagi menjaga kepentingan umat Islam di Malaysia begitu juga di Patani, Thailand.

Katanya, umat Islam hari ini telah dihina oleh Zionis Barat begitu juga keadaan yang berlaku di  Patani dimana umat Islam dibunuh sesuka hati dan itu sebenarnya perancangan daripada zionis Amerika dan sekutunya.

Beliau berkata, Allah akan mengutuk umatnya yang cuba memesongkan akidah orang lain dengan melakukan pembohongan demi pembohongan.

Sementara itu, ahli akademik, Fathi Yusuf berkata, konsep Islam liberal satu pemikiran yang cuba menyesatkan orang Islam dengan menggunakan nama Islam.

Menurut beliau, hari ini apabila berlaku kebangkitan, Islam mampu menghadapi gerakan sekularisme dengan hujah-hujah Islam dan masyarkat boleh menerima hujah Islam.

Tambah beliau, bagi menghadapi kebangkitan Islam,musuh Islam telah mencipta kaedah baru untuk menghadapi umat Islam dengan menggunakan Islam iaitu mewujudkan Islam liberal.

Beliau berkata, strategi menyerang Islam dengan menggunakan nama Islam itu bukan satu perkara baru tetapi disebabkan kejahilan umat Islam yang kurang kesedaran di samping perancangan jahat musuh Islam maka  strategi itu berjalan dengan lancar.

Menurut beliau, Islam liberal itu merupakan satu gerakan untuk menimbulkan keraguan di kalangan umat Islam dan ia merupakan sebahagian daripada perancangan Yahudi.

"Memang Yahudi ini mahu menguasai dunia dan caranya dengan menimbulkan pemikiran-pemikiran yang sesat, memecah belahkan masyarakat, inilah yang dilakukan oleh Islam liberal," katanya.

Katanya, di antara strategi yang digunakan oleh Islam liberal ialah dengan menimbulkan soal `furuhiyah'(perbezaan pendapat) di kalangan umat Islam dan ini tidak salah jika ia ditimbulkan di kalangan masyarakat yang berilmu.

"Apabila mayat mangsa tsunami di Acheh ingin dikebumikan secara beramai-ramai, akhbar di negara kita sibuk melaga-lagakan pendapat ulama-ulama dengan timbulkan provokosi di tengah masyarakat, kenapa ditimbulkan isu ini," katanya.

Tambah beliau, strategi itu digunakan untuk mengelirukan masyarakat yang tidak berilmu di samping mengurangkan  krediabiliti ulama walaupun ia kelihatannya berlaku secara tidak sengaja tetapi
sebenarnya telah dirancang. - mns

Fact collection (J)

Jamaica Blue Mountain is often regarded as the best coffee in the world.
    
Jacksonville, Florida has the largest total area of any city in the United States. It takes up 460 square    miles, almost twice the area of Los Angeles.   

James Buchanan was certainly a good host. When England's Prince of Wales came to visit in the fall of 1860, so    many guests came with him, it's said the president slept in the hallway.  
   
James Madison, 5 feet, 4 inches tall, was the shortest president of the US. Abraham Lincoln was the tallest at six feet, 4 inches. 
 
James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds.   

James Ramsey invented a steam-driven motorboat in 1784. He ran it on the Potomac River in an event witnessed by George Washington. 
 
Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix all died at the young age of 27.  
 
Japan is the world's leading importer of iron ore.   

Japan ranks Number 3 in the world for coffee consumption.   

Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing. 
 
Jayne Mansfield decorated her "Pink Palace" by writing to 1,500 furniture and building suppliers and asking for free samples. She told the donors they could then brag that their goods were in her outlandish mansion. The pitch worked, and Jayne received over $150,000 worth of free merchandise.     

Jellyfish are 95% water    

Jellyfish can sense a storm 10 to 15 hrs. before it actually occurs and leaves the shore and go into the deep sea.      

Jergens Lotion was created by Andrew Jergens, a former lumberjack, in 1880.    

Jerry Garcia only had four fingers on his picking hand, he lost one of his fingers when he was a boy.    

Jerry Seinfeld's first sitcom wasn't Seinfeld. He played the governor's speechwriter on three episodes of Benson (he was fired from the job).    

Jerry West was the model for the official NBA logo. His silhouette appears dribbling a basketball.    

Jessica Tandy is the oldest winner of an Academy Award. She won the 1989 Best Actress award for Driving Miss Daisy at the age of 80 years and 9 months. She beat George Burns for that distinction by just a few months.    

Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.      

JFK Jr. and Christine Amanapour of CNN were roommates at Brown University.    

JFK's golf clubs sold for $772,500 at a 1996 auction. The buyer was Arnold Schwarzenegger.    

Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise owner in Uniontown, PA, invented the Big Mac in 1968. He originally named it the Big Mac Super Sandwich. The following year McDonald's sold it nationwide.    

Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."    

Jimmu, the legendary first ruler of Japan, began his reign in the year 660. Akihito, the current emperor, is said to be the 125th direct descendant of Jimmu to rule Japan.    

Joan of Arc was actually burned alive as a witch in 1431, and only considered a saint in the 20th century. (Them folks must be pissed to hear that)    

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."    

John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.    

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.    

John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, "Paradise Lost."    

John Paul Jones' real name was John Paul. In a letter to Benjamin Franklin, he admitted he'd killed a sailor in the West Indies and changed his name to escape punishment. The "Jones" comes from Mrs. Willie Jones of North Carolina, whom he "admired."    

John Tyler was the first president to be married in office on June 26, 1844.    

John Wayne's real name was Marion Michael Morrison.    

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.    

Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.     

Johnson & Johnson created the Band-Aid in 1899 because Robert Wood Johnson attended a lecture concerning the prevention of infection in wounds during surgical operations. The company created the zinc oxide adhesive bandage for surgeons, and launched the consumer version, Band-Aids, in 1921.    

Joseph Priestley not only discovered oxygen, but he also discovered ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first person to isolate chlorine.    

Joseph Priestly is credited with discovering oxygen, ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first to isolate chlorine.    

Joseph Swan invented the light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison did. However, Swan didn't patent the idea and was widely accused of copying Edison who did patent the idea and was therefore recognized as its inventor. Swan continued to be denied recognition until some time later when it was shown that both light bulbs were produced using different processes. Edison and Swan later formed a joint company using the best of both technologies.    

Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.    

Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte both suffered from epilepsy.    

Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.      

Julius Caesar, Martin Luther and Jonathan Swift all suffered from Ménièr's disease. It is a disorder of the hearing and balance senses causing hissing, roaring or whistling sounds to be perceived.    

Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000.    

Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. Although it has a circumference of 280,000 miles compared with Earth's 25,000 Jupiter manages to make one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes.      

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.    

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.   

Opeth - Ghost of Perdition (lyrics & mp3)

Opeth - Ghost of Perdition

Ghost of martyr
Lingering dead
Ghost on harvest bed
Voice rips on the pillar
Come dormant hound
Crimson face upon the head
Ghost of perdition
Stalking in chains(chairs?)
A warning no one read
Tragic friendship
Caught inside the fog
Pouring venom to the sea bed

Devil crack the earthly shelf
I told you was the one
They open to the rumors
That you have to live before you die young

Holding it down
Gathering darkness
A mock for the cold
Fading resistance
Draining the weakness
Penetrating in a light

Rode into the dark unaware
Winding ever higher
Higher....higher.....

Darkness by her side
Spoke and passed goodbye
Dedicated hunger(hunter?)
Waits to pull us under
Rose up to its call
In his songs(sons?) she found
Mother life we see
The faithful servant's free

You’re driving insane on the sanity
Another voice outside the name
Like golden pages in a diary
They contemplate there is no same
We go in and talk all morning any day
Why you want the melody to live
This song is clear and once within a haze
What choice to take and what to give

Ghost of perdition
Save reminitions are clear
Keeper of all the lore
Keeper of all lies

UGHHH!

To see her beloved son
In despair of what's to come

If we got the source of the flow and everything we take
We commit to fall in the shadow of the righteous
The framents among your mind have been telling you to go (?)
Define the forgotten moors(moments?) where the victim hits the frame.

AHHH!!!

Higher….higher…

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Al-Qaeda 'blames Blair for bombs'

Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has warned London will face more attacks because of Tony Blair's foreign policy decisions.

His comments were made in a videotape which was broadcast on Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera.

The al-Qaeda deputy said: 'Blair has brought you destruction to the heart of London, and he will bring more destruction, God willing.'

Mr Blair denies his policies provoked the 7 July bombs, which killed 56.

Al-Zawahri also warned the US that Iraq would be worse than Vietnam. ~more

Can anyone tell me if studiotraffic.com is a scam?

Subject: Can anyone tell me if studiotraffic.com is a scam?
Asked by: chasask-ga

I have recently beenn looking for ways to make money from home. Most of the "survey" websites appear to be scams. However, the above website appears to be genuine, and I can't find any reference to it relating to a scam. They claim to pay 1% of your account balance per day for looking at websites. I am thinking of investing AU$100. Could a researcher look into this please!

Answered By: scriptor-ga

Dear chasask,

There are certain indications that are usually typical for scams. In the case of StudioTraffic.com, I have found a number of these indications.

I. The lack of proper contact information
Reputable companies do not conceal their real address, phone and fax numbers. Scam companies do this, and so does also StudioTraffic. Their address is not listed anywhere on their website. I have checked for the owner of their domain name, and the result is most suspicious. The domain has been registered for StudioTraffic by a company named "Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc". This is one of the anonymizer services spammers and scammers use to avoid being traced by their victims. A reputable company just does not have any reason to hide their face.

II. Questionable ways of advertising
I have searched the Usenet archives and found out that in numerous cases, StudioTraffic has been advertised by persons who are suspiciously enthusiastic about the service - and who have been spamming various Newsgroups with similar advertisements for other "make money fast", "make money by surfing the Web", "get paid for surveys" services. I have no doubt that they are professional spammers who regularly advertise obscure scam companies, using anonymous and easily replacable Yahoo and Hotmail e-mail accounts. A reputable company does not use such means of advertising their services.

III. Sign-up fee
As a general rule: If a company demands a sign-up fee and similar payments for granting you the privilege of working for them, then it's scam time. I have had a look at the FAQs - and there is not the slightest guarantee that you will ever earn notable amounts of money after having signed up with them. Basically, they use many words to say: 'You give us money, and after that there is a slight chance but no whatsoever guarantee that you will earn any money. You can give us more money, but that won't change anything except that your account status will have a more fancy name'. Or, as they say in their FAQ: "Are payouts guaranteed at Studiotraffic? - We cannot guarantee earnings..."

IV. Discrepancy between claims and reality
I have found virtually thousands of sites, forum postings and Usenet postings that enthusiastically praise StudioTraffic - allegedly by users, but the word choice looks amazingly similar in many cases, down to identical phrases. Many included magniloquent statements, along the lines of the "phenomenal growth" of the service. But there are not many postings of people who have actually earned noteworthy amounts, although one should assume that the huge number of enthusiastic users must be proud of their easy money and tell the world how much they earned. Much advertising disguised as customer opinions, but very few manifest cases of success - highly suspicious.

My conclusion: Be cautious. StudioTraffic demand money without ensuring earnings, use questionable ways of advertising, and hide their identitiy and location behind an anonymizing service. That is not the behaviour of a respectable company. Even if they are reputable, their behaviour disqualifies them. I advise against signing up with them.

Regards,
Scriptor


Sources:

BLooD: "Start making money now :-)" (2004-09-29). via
Google Groups.
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&selm=5XF6d.119743%24U04.45182%40fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk

Steven Choo: "Hi my friend, take a look at this" (2004-11-29).
via Google Groups.
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&selm=c4ee7402.0411290844.38f317d9%40posting.google.com

Allwhois Domain Database
http://www.allwhois.com/cgi-bin/allwhois.cgi


Search terms used:
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http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&q=author:weshop4you%40yahoo.com+
author:blood585@hotmail.com
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=author:blood585%40hotmail.com&hl=de&lr=&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&filter=0
studiotraffic
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"Whois Privacy Protection Service"
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=%22Whois+Privacy+Protection+Service%22&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=
"Whois Privacy Protection Service"
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=%22Whois%20Privacy%20Protection%20Service%22&hl=de&lr=&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&sa=N&tab=wg
studiotraffic earned
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&q=studiotraffic+earned&btnG=Suche&meta=
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Comments

From: harryj75-ga

Hi,

I am a member of Stdio Traffic. Scriptor accused me of being a profssional spammer and that Studio Traffic was a scam. Scriptor and anyone else who thinks we are a scam why dont you come on over to studio traffic and chat to us on the forums then you will find out that we are for real and that Scriptor is just spreading his own
opinion on Studio Traffic. We have over 60,000 members all of who are happy to invest with us.

From: bwh318-ga

Someone sent me a link to this page in the process of deciding whether or not to join StudioTraffic. After reading the Answer given here, I have to say that I believe Scriptor has done a disservice to the person who asked the question and to anyone else who might be reading this.

I. The lack of proper contact information
This program, as far as I know, has no central headquarters. It is administered by people all over the world. It is not a business operating out of one office. This is nothing new on the Internet, and not at all unusual. There are several very reputable companies operating like this. I would not blame the owner of this program one bit if he decided that he did not want to reveal his personal address and contact info. From the EPIC website http://www.epic.org/privacy/whois/, one can read the following:
"Domain name registrants in the .com/.org/.net top-level domains consist of businesses; individuals; media organizations; non-profit groups; public interest organizations; political organization; religious organizations; support groups; and so on (e.g. EPIC is a domain name registrant for "epic.org"). Domain name registrants share their services, ideas, views, activities, and more by way of websites, email, newsgroups, and other Internet media. While some domain name registrants use the Internet to conduct fraud, other domain name registrants have legitimate reasons to protect their identities (and so their privacy and personal information) or to register domain names anonymously. For example, different political, artistic and religious groups around the world rely on the Internet to provide information and express views while avoiding persecution - and concealing their identity is crucial in this respect." It is IMPORTANT

From: pelichin-ga

Scriptor is a stupid and very ignorant. Studiotraffic is NOT A SCAM. Studiopay has the office in New York. A real office. Most of company already of 95% about eran more are scam, despite has the label o seal "whois". Do you know that the last mounth paid to users a total amounth of "250000$" when ST start at zero founds since the site launched. How is it? It easy. The staff hard work everyday. Members are happy. What site has more than 70000 members and are happy. Sux the term "whois laws" Anyone know and very active forum about "earn money from your conection"?
I am consered a fan Studiotraffic member. I think that the scriptor text is very stupid and lammer.

THE MOST IMPORTANT IS STUDIOTRAFFIC WORKS AND PAY TO USERS. CURRENT THE BEST AUTOSURF SITE AND PEHARPS THE BEST COMPANY WIN MONEY IN INTERNET

From: swamphandy-ga

... just browsing through, reading Q & A for fun. I know a Shill when I see one, and this is one.

My 2¢

From: studioexperiment-ga

A friend and I are actually testing this right now. We're skeptical, but our primitive analysis showed studiotraffic to have a hand up on the other programs that scream "scam".

Our site outlines why we're testing it, and what progress we've made.

http://tayshovel.tripod.com/studio/

If it's a failure, we'll be the first to say so. We're hoping that in the very least our site is a resource to those who ask this very question: "Is it a scam".
...we're trying to solidify an answer.

From: anwami-ga

As a user of Studiotraffic for over a year, and someone naturally skeptical of any sort of money making scheme, I'll try to give a sane and balanced perspective.

I am technically violating the terms there which say not to discuss Studio Traffic outside their forums http://www.studiotraffic.org/forum/ So I can't get too specific.

Anyway, since the site will give you a $10 account level free (not an actual $10, but a starting balance to earn the 1% a day on) you can start without paying a dime. If you "compound" these earnings and surf every day, you could conceivably have a balance of $10000 in 2 1/2 years without ever risking a penny of your own money. That level would then earn you $100 a day, or about $3000 a month.

I requested a withdraw today (from a much more modest balance) and received payment of $100 in about 12 hours. So in that sense, yes the program works as advertised.

You need to read and understand the terms, you can never withdraw any deposit you make, only the earnings from said deposits. Moreover, those deposits disappear after 1 year. So you need to keep putting your earnings back into the system in order to maintain and grow your balance.

Ultimately it may reflect a Ponzi type scheme, that money coming out comes from the current money being paid in. The site has been around for over 1 1/2 years, which is a long time, relatively speaking. It could shut down without warning though, and leave you with nothing but a "Cannot Find Server" message.

In the meantime, it provides me a little extra mad money.. Some folks report they are withdrawing a couple thousand bucks every month, so it could make for a nice supplemental income in time, or right away with a large enough investment. Just be sure you understand the risks, and don't put in any more than you can afford to lose.. again, starting with the free $10 is a viable option.

But for now at least, the program does pay. Should it ever stop.. Expect to hear in large numbers very vocally from those same people spamming the hype for it now.. I'd disagree with Scriptor on the point that the site itself is the spammer.. with a referral program in place, many folks will do the spamming for them, and may get deleted if caught and enough complaints come in.. But the site itself needs to do little advertising.. such is the nature of the beast with MLM types of things.

Give it a try, have fun, and caveot emptor!

From: sozo-ga

To Will and the other skeptics:
After joining, I am sure you will be pleased with the outcome of your venture! Will, I look forward to reading your updates!

I joined StudioTraffic at the end of September '04 with $200. I have since taken my original investment out (I didn't want to lose my money) I was scared just like everyone else. Since then, I have had others sign up under me and I am currently earning about $200/month, but that number is increasing every month!

A friend of mine got me started, and he is currently drawing $6000/month. (That's right, six grand a month).

This isn't hearsay from a friend of a friend...I know him personally and see him almost every day. He has gotten back WELL over his initial investment and is doing quite well financially.

You don't HAVE to get others to sign up, but the extra money is nice.

To anyone that doubts the program, just throw twenty bucks in there and give it a try for a few months. If you lose it, you haven't lost more than a good dinner. But if you start drawing $100 a month, Don't complain that you didn't start off with a larger investment!

Notice I'm not giving my referral number for Studio, so I have NOTHING to gain here. Just sharing the knowledge of wealth with others.

From: weehoi-ga

Hi there everyone, what Scriptor had written are really professional and it's about the same thing on my mind.

To the other guys: Yes, I do know Studio Traffic pays. But ultimately, the point I want you people to know that their streams of revenue comes from Ponzi strategy which is 'using new members investments to pay old member 1% gains'. This is an illegal way of making money as a form of investment by investment companies.

People say they've been around for 2 years which is 'long' and guess what, the fact is ponzi scheme will be able to last for a very long time up to 10 years as long as the growth is sustained.

There's a HYIP which pays 3% and it lasted for 2 years which is primefund.com and finally ended sometime last month. All ponzis eventually went out of business.

There's 2 things to take note here:

1. Identification - A legitimate / illegitimate company will / must at least register with the federal government and PAY TAXES. Ask yourself guys, 'Is it legal to make money and not paying any government taxes at all?' Don't argue craps with me like whatever Roth IRA, Starker Exchange Exemptions. All people will pay taxes.

2. Revenues - Please get real peeps, your 1% comes from the new member ok. Don't try to make another reason or believe that their revenue comes from big companies advertising as written on their FAQs because i've seen they tried very hard to sell advertisement space but couldn't get. I repeat, they use new members investment to pay your 1% everyday. DON'T THINK OR SAY there are other sources of revenue because if there are, it couldn't be more possible that if it's not from new member investment.

3. You will make money from ponzi and pyramid schemes eventhough they are illegitimate as long as you survive more than 100 days.

My advice is don't put the money you cannot afford to lose and not to invest too much on ponzis. Hope you guys find my comment truthful and honest.

Cheers.

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Fact collection (F)

False eyelashes were invented by film director D.W.  Griffith while he was making the 1916 epic, "Intolerance." He wanted actress  Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks.
 
Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'eyes on  me' and it took her about 4 hours.
 
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not  to have a full moon.  
 
Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the  United States.  
 
Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII  (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII  (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister,  1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John  Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex.  
 
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever  have been made into a balloon for a parade.  
 
Female chickens, or hens, need about 24 to 26 hours to  produce one egg. Thirty minutes later they start the process all over again. In  addition to the half-hour rests, some hens rest every three to five days and  others rest every 10 days.
 
Female lions do 90% of the hunting.  
 
Female rabbits on the other hand, reabsorb their embryo  for the proteins
 
Females have a wider peripheral vision than males.  
 
Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.  
 
Ferris wheels are names after George W. Ferris  who built the first one in Chicago in 1893.   
 
Fin whales are the second largest animal ever to live  on earth. They have been measured to over 80 feet long in Antarctic  waters.
 
Finagle's Law was the one that went, "Anything that can  go wrong, will go wrong." Not Murphy's Law.
 
Finely grinding coffee beans and boiling them in water  is still known as "Turkish Coffee." It is still made this way today in Turkey  and Greece or anywhere else Turkish Coffee is served.  
 
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than  toenails
 
Fingerprints serve a function they provide traction for  the fingers to grasp things.
 
Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland  to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko  instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells  Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a  plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.  
 
First Instant Replay was used during Army Navy Football  Game at Municipal Stadium Philadelphia on December 7, 1963, invented by Tony  Verna (CBS Director.)  
 
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.  
 
Fish scales are an ingredient in lipstick.  
 
Five Jell-O®™ flavors have flopped: celery, coffee,  cola, apple and chocolate.  
 
Five NFL teams have bird nicknames: Arizona Cardinals,  Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens and Seattle Seahawks.  
 
Flamingos are able to fly at a speed of approximately  55 kilometers an hour. In one night they can travel about 600 km.
 
Flavored coffees are created after the roasting process  by applying flavored oils specially created to use on coffee beans.
 
Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and  hedgehogs; they provide necessary stimulation of the skin. Deloused armadillos  and hedgehogs will die.
 
Fleas have killed more people (due to Bubonic plague  and such) than all wars throughout history combined.
 
Fleas jump the equivilant of one mile..in insect  feet.
 
Flies jump backwards when they take off.  
 
Flies taste with their feet.
 
Flirtation between the members of the opposite sex on  the streets of Little Rock may result in a 30-day jail term.
 
Florence Nightingale Graham adopted the name Elizabeth  Arden once her company became successful at the beginning of the 1900s.  
 
Florida law forbids rats to leave the ships docked in  Tampa Bay.
 
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the  time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.  
 
Fog and a cloud are the same thing, only at different  altitudes. Fog is simply a cloud lying on the earth, while clouds are fog  floating in the sky.
 
Food is so scarce in the Arctic, that wolves don't  waste any part of their meals. A wolf will eat every part of an arctic hare,  including the skin, fur, and bones.
 
Food passes through the small intestine in just two  hours, zipping along at 0.002 mph. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14  hours, traveling at a more leisurely rate of 0.00007 mph
 
For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.  
 
For a short distance, the bluefin tuna can swim 50  miles per hour.
 
For a typical lovemaking session, the man will thrust  an average of 60 to 120 times.
 
For drinking, washing, etc., an average American uses  168 gallons of water per day. The average American residence uses 107,000  gallons per year.
 
For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.  
 
For every degree of longitude there is a time gap of  four minutes.
 
For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if  the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the  horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all  four of the horse's legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.  
 
For five years, Webster's dictionary contained a  definition of the word dord, a word that has never actually existed.  
 
For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed  people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That  means DEATH to Lefties  
 
For the 66% of American's who admit to reading in the  bathroom, the preferred reading material is "Reader's Digest."
 
For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll  called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was  turned.
 
Forks weren't widely used in the United States until  the 1800s.
 
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three  chocolate-covered garlic balls in the morning. Her doctor told her it would help  improve her memory.
 
Former President Cleveland defeated incumbent Benjamin  Harrison in 1892, becoming the first (and, to date, only) chief executive to win  non-consecutive terms to the White House.
 
Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George  Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.  
 
Forty percent of McDonald's profits comes from the sale  of Happy Meals.
 
Forty-six percent of the world's water is in the  Pacific Ocean; that's around 6 sextillion gallons of water. The Atlantic has   23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.
 
Forty-six US federal agencies have officers with the  authority to carry firearms and arrest people.
 
Found in Egypt, this illustration is over 3,000 years  old.
 
Four different people played the part of Darth Vader  (body, face, voice, and breathing).  
 
Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan  Robertson published a novel called "Futility". The story was about an ocean  liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his  novel was The Titan.
 
Fourteenth century physicians didn't know what caused  the plague, but they knew it was contagious. As a result they wore an early kind  of bioprotective suit which included a large beaked head piece. The beak of the  head piece, which made them look like large birds, was filled with vinegar,  sweet oils and other strong smelling compounds to counteract the stench of the  dead and dying plague victims.
 
Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to  freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow.  
 
Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled  Banner" on the back on an envelope. The music is from an old English drinking  song called "To Anacreon in Heaven."
 
Frank Baum named "Oz" after a file cabinet in his  office. One cabinet was labeled "A to N," and the second was labeled "O to Z."  
 
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N,  and O-Z, hence "Oz."  
 
Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot  off a policeman's tie.
 
Franklin Pierce is the only President to have said "I  promise" instead of "I swear at his Inauguration. He did it for religious  reasons.
 
Franz Ferdinand was killed.. remember that the guys  death partly caused the WWI. Anyway, his death was almost unavoidable. After an  attempted assasination using a bomb failed, (because the bomb hit the rear mud  flap of the car Ferdinand was in and bounced away) authorities decided to change  the route of Ferdinands tour... but failed to inform the driver of the car. And  so, unfortunately, at one stage, the driver took a wrong turn and drove into an  alley. While reversing out, Princip (killer) came and shot Ferdinand and his  wife at a distance of 4-5 feet killing them. Ferdinand brought his wife to  Serejavo to celebrate their anniversary.  
 
Frederic Remington's sculpture The Bronco Buster has  mistake in it: the cowboy is wearing his spurs upside down.  
 
Frederic-August Bartholdi sculpted The Statue of  Liberty.  
 
Frederick the great had his coffee made with champagne  and a bit of mustard.  
 
French composer Erik Satie holds the record for  shortest and longest composition in the world. His piano piece Vexations lasts  for just under a minute. However, Satie states in the score that it should be  played 840 times in succession a nonstop playing time of 14 hours.
 
French was the official language of England for over  600 years.
 
Fried chicken is the most popular meal ordered in  sit-down restaurants in the US. The next in popularity are: roast beef,  spaghetti, turkey, baked ham, and fried shrimp.
 
Fried cockroach with garlic is used as medicine for the  common cold
 
From 13th June'1948 to 1st June'1958 a citizen of Los  Angeles hiccoughed 160,000,000 times. People sent him 60,000 suggestions for  cures.
 
From 1836 to 1896, the Red Flag Act in England required  that any self-propelled vehicle be preceded by a man carrying a red flag by day  and a red lantern by night. In effect, this limited the speed to four miles per  hour and retarded the development of all self-propelled vehicles, including the  automobile.  
 
From 70 to 80 percent of all ripe olives are grown in  California's approximately 35,000 acres. In the 1700s, Franciscan monks brought  olives to Mexico and then into California by way of the missions. The first  cuttings were planted in 1769 at the San Diego Mission. Commercial cultivation  of California olives began in the late 1800s. Today, anywhere from 80,000 to  160,000 tons of olives are produced in California each year.  
 
From the 1500's to the 1700's, tobacco was prescribed  by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, toothaches,  arthritis and bad breath.  
 
From the Middle Ages up until the end of the 19th  century, barbers performed a number of medical duties including bloodletting,  wound treatment, dentistry, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber's  striped red pole originated in the Middle Ages, when it was a staff the patient  would grip while the barber bled the patient.
 
Fuzzy Zoeller defeated Tom Watson and Ed Sneed in the  first sudden-death playoff at The Masters in 1979.

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This is probably the coolest thing I have seen all week

Kes tak bertegur sapa

Terjadi satu hari sepasang suami isteri ni berselisih faham... dan tak bertegur sapa.. Si suami ni nak bangun pagi pada esoknya.. tak tau macam mana nak bagitau isteri supaya kejutkan dia pagi esoknya..Si suami ni dapat idea..lalu dia tulis satu nota

"KEJUTKAN ABANG!! PUKUL 6.30 PAGI ESOK"

Esoknya si suami ni terlewat bangun... dia nak marah pun ada ...nak ketawa pun ada kat isterinya. Nak tahu kenapa?... si suami ni terjumpala nota

"BANG!! BANG!! BANGUN BANG! DAH PUKUL 6.30 PAGI"

BATTLELORE's 'Third Age Of The Sun' Enters Finnish Chart At No. 38 - Aug. 1, 2005

Finnish "fantasy metal" band BATTLELORE have entered the Finnish album chart at position No. 38 with their latest CD, "Third Age of the Sun". View the whole chart at this location.

Audio samples of four tracks from "Third Age of the Sun" have been posted online at the group's official web site. Check out the songs "Storm of the Blades", "Ghân of the Woods", "Trollshaws", and "Elessar's Call" at Battlelore.net.

The follow-up to 2003's "Sword's Song", "Third Age of the Sun" was recorded at SoundSuite Studio in Marseille, France with producer Terje Refsnes (TRISTANIA, MORGUL, TURISAS). Mastering duties were handled at Finnvox studios in Helsinki.

BATTLELORE will celebrate the release of their new album with a special concert performance in Lappeenranta, Finland on Friday, August 5.