August 2011
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Salahkah jadi Juara Dunia Magic The Gathering
Post dalam Bahasa Malaysia (sempena Hari Raya Aidilfitri & Hari Merdeka ke 54).
Kronologi kisah.
Blogger Gizmodo, Alyssa Bereznak meluahkan pengalaman temujanjinya bersama Jon Finkel, Juara Dunia permainan berasaskan kad, Magic The Gathering melalui servis OkCupid. Dalam artikelnya “My OkCupid Affair With A World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player”, dia menyatakan perasaan...
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The union is like having herpes. It doesn’t kill you, but it’s...
– John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods.
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Refuse to write your life and you have no life.
– Patricia Hampl (via theindiephilosopher)
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Shrine Of Apple →
minimalmac:
Every. Product. That’s our goal – to showcase every product ever made by Apple.
Really wonderful site for Apple product history nerds like myself.
(via 52 Tiger)
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World’s 7 billionth person about to be born →
In the days ahead, a baby will be born who will take the global population above 7 billion for the first time, and in all probability that birth will take place in China or India, the two countries with more than a billion inhabitants.
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What Your Bookshelf Says About You →
philolzophy:
I. Your bookshelf has mostly fiction books. A) Classic literature. You’re smart, reflective, and well-rounded. You don’t read gossip magazines and you appreciate the finer things in life. You don’t need someone to tell you what the finer things in life are. You’re also relatively joyless,…
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Better, faster, stronger - Timothy Ferris (The... →
Body hacking. Gonna get his book soon
Ferriss’s self-experimentation has not been without its risks: in 2009, he landed in the emergency room with a joint infection after getting a series of human-growth-factor injections at a sports-medicine facility in Arizona. And once, in Cape Town, after megadosing on resveratrol, which may extend life in laboratory mice, he discovered that the tablets also...
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Penentuan Awal Bulan Syawal adalah sains...
Rujuk kepada ISU PENENTUAN AWAL BULAN SYAWAL 1432H - JAKIM
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We can create a poverty-free world if we design our system to take out its gross...
– Mumammad Yunus
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I beg to differ
Najib: Govt has created new wealth and new jobs - The Star
I beg to differ, business owners, entrepreneurs and crazy people created wealth and jobs, not the Government.
If the Government doesn’t interfere, we will have more jobs and wealth. Free market.
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Happy Eid
Tomorrow, Malaysia will celebrate 1st of Syawal.
Happy Eid Mubarak to all brothers and sisters around the globe.
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Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a...
– Louis Armstrong
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the...
– Charles Bukowski (via roscoe-)
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Allen Paltrow: My Experience with Jobs and Apple →
Nice story. :)
allenpaltrow:
Update: I have appended this follow-up.
Growing up I was a huge apple fan-boy (fine, still am.) The first NY apple store in Soho opening was probably the coolest thing that happened to me between the ages 6 and 12. For a while I would spend almost every weekend there. Every year for halloween…
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$42 Million to fuel Islamophobia In America →
Full report here (pdf)
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Building a motorcycle from scratch →
One word, RESPECT
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A very quick advice from Nerd Fitness →
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In the long run, the only way racism can be overcome is through the philosophy...
– Ron Paul (via fuckyeahemergence)
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School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence....
– H.L. Mencken. (via libertarians)
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Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? →
Some points:
Many schools are small enough so that teachers know every student. If one method fails, teachers consult with colleagues to try something else
Finland’s schools are publicly funded. The people in the government agencies running them, from national officials to local authorities, are educators, not business people, military leaders or career politicians.
Teachers in Finland spend...
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How to be a human by James Altucher →
Reason I enjoy reading his blog.
But if I try to remind people of this simple pattern that happens over and over again, a lot of people get angry. I’m not upset at them. I don’t blame anyone for being angry at me. But I can tell you exactly why they were angry.
Here’s why:
Their fathers or mothers didn’t love them.
Other kids beat on them
Girls (or guys) didn’t like them or called them...
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