Scrabulous vs. Hasbro

1. If you are a word game geek and you never heard of scrabulous, give yourself a knock on the head and go to this site www.scrabulous.com .



screenshot of scrabulous app.

2. I was told about this game about a year ago and I have seen this site grow and improve ever since. Just recently they used their very own favicon...awwww..

3. What I like about scrabulous:-

• You don't have to waste time setting up the game board and deal with the tiles (how many times did we lose a single tile after the game and spend so much time hunting for it only to find the god forsaken piece wedged in the crevasses of your shirt/blouse?

• with the application, I can try some words that I am not even sure it exists , but if it does, I will et points for it. "SELENITE" was my two triple word bingo that gave me over 150 points!

• it's fast and timed game. Just the way i like it.

4. listen to this Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous

5. Enough said, read the rest from the link above,... care for a game of scrabble at scrabulous.com anyone? It's totally FREE...

* Image from bbc.com

Oh yeah.. these are the guys who created scrabulous. That's the problem with computer programming experts from India, they lack originality and never bother about copyrights. But, hey! they know it when they see a door of opportunity.

Buzz off Hasbro, you have been wasting your time developing more and more new but uninteresting games instead of bringing forward your pre-existing, ever green, widely accepted creations to the virtual world where the nerds and geeks are densely populated. To these two guys here.. good luck with the lawsuit.

Some of the many ways we can help to find Sharlinie.

1. Sharlinie: Reward now stands at RM100,000

"Tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan has topped up the reward for information on the whereabouts of missing girl Sharlinie Mohd Nasir, bringing it to the RM100,000 mark"- The Star Sunday January 13, 2008

2. Handing out flyers alone is sufficient? Don't be stupid, just stop a moment and analyze the outcome of each action. Doing just what everyone else is doing doesn't make our action more productive, it just makes us become as senseless as a pile of dried leaves, going in whichever direction the wind blows.


3. By now, everyone knows and seen the poster. What we need now is a bold move.; proactive method to seek and arrest the criminal. (my personal favorite is torture and set him loose in front of an angry mob)


4. Enough chit-chat, this is what I think we should do (if you are really serious about finding Sharlinie, and not just the kind of person who feels sad just for 5 mins after reading about this poor girl and her family, and then forgets about the whole story):_

• KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS! AND BECOME A BUSYBODY PLEASE!
  
• the perpetrator have to live somewhere (this is logically undeniable).
• even if he moves around, he will need shelter and the basic necessities a house can provide.
  
• If every citizen in malaysia just bother to walk outside his/her house and walk a mere 10 meters left and right of their house and know what their neighbours are actually doing, this can tremendously decrease the time needed to put the guy behind bars.
  
• REMEMBER SHARLINIE'S FACE AND THE CRIMINAL'S FACE
  
• Those NGOs need to use their head and give pocket-sized small but clear picture of both the criminal and Sharlinie.
• This is so that people can carry them around and double check in the event of doubt should they come across someone who looks like these people.
• The prepratrator will not look exactly like in the picture, he can think, therefore he will make his face very dissimilar to the ones policemen hands out. (think about sunglasses, beard or even clean shaved and bold.)

• POLICEMEN, PLEASE DISGUISE YOURSELF FOR GOD SAKE!
• It is actually lowering our chance of finding this prepratrator if policemen can't disguise themselves whenever they are in public places like the gas station.
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• MAKE USE OF THE GAS STATION OPERATORS

• The criminl will need to fill his vehicle with petrol/gas (he won't come out of the vehicle to pay for the purchased gas..DUH.. he will ask his accomplice to do that for him, so look for people inside the CAR especially if it has heavily tinted windows.)
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*above are some image alterations that I have made, crudely using paint, but I hope this helps.
I calim no copyright for the above reprodoced altered images, please feel free to post them in your blogs or print them for mass distribution.


FACTS:-

If you found Sharlinie, she will not come to you and she will run back to the criminal/his accomplice. (Statistically speaking, very young children or even children before reaching adolescence will have a bond with thier kidnapper and learns to trust and follow ther instructions. This is true as long as they provide food shelter and protection for her -->This is a fact people)


So, drag her away or raise public attention if possible, and do this quickly. Don't let her/her current guardian to run away!

These steps are easy to follow and I will send a copy of this articl to the newspaper so that everyone can learn this useful steps in finding our Sharlinie. That criminal must be punished! Please forward this website's URL to anyone so that they can read it as well, as I have limited channels to bring forward my message.


I am writing this blog after getting tired reading about all the pathetic articles emphatizing and feeling sorry for the family and Sharlinie, everyone can write to an extent what they feel, please dear writers, make yourselves osefull and provide solution/means to reach them for everyone's benefit. Help Sharlinie, free her from the beast holding captive of her!

KFC's Deceitful Advertisement

1. Everyone in Malaysia knows about KFC's Triple XL burger that is supposedly very big and fulfilling. (as advertised in the fake KFC ad)

2. Please refer to the snapshot of the Zinger burger and the new Triple XL burger (Pictures are taken from the same height and a piece of ten cent coin is included in the picture to provide a sense of size scaling to the viewer)
3. As you can see, the XL burger is indeed longer but the meat in it is not as advertised; the advertisement shows two individually fried, whole, meats.

4. Lets compare the size of the meat in these two burgers, shall we?

They are about the same size!

5. So, what's so 'triple' or 'XL' about this new burger? The burger is obviously made from the same meat used to make Zinger Maxx. The only difference is that it is cut in half (pretty badly) to fit the long, narrow, new bun. Ha ha ha ha ha... we all got cheated, isn't that funny.

6. Price analysis:-
Triple XL burger

• RM6.60 + RM[5%(6.60)] = RM6.93

Zinger Maxx burger

• RM5.50 + RM[5%(5.50)] = RM5.78

We are paying an extra RM1.15.

7. I have to agree the price is indeed for triple XL burger because:-

3 x (Big sized Ramli Burger = RM2.50) = RM7.50

8. But we can't blame KFC for the inacurate representation of the burger in the ad because they have already mentioned it that

"Prices subject to 5% Government tax where applicable. Serving featured is for illustration purposes only.
Prices applicable in Klang Valley outlets only. Should any discrepancy occur in published price,the pricing at restaurant point of purchase is deemed final."


9. You have trouble reading the verbatim above right? Well KFC's own website isn't doing a heck of a job either, check it out at KFC's webpage on Triple XL burger (don't forget to watch the Ad video posted on the page)

10.

Trade Descriptions Act 1972 (Amended in 1982)

This act protects the consumers from the manufacturers and traders that uses fake brands and provides the wrong information on a particular product.

SKBSM Living Skills – Secondary 2

(translated from the original text written in the Malay Language, prepared by the Ministry of Education)

Removing Haha.js : A Real Solution for it

or

Error: Can't open the specified path C:\'Haha.js'

1. For those of you out there who have searched the web for an effective removal tool that can get rid of' 'Haha.js' annoying worm, your search is over!.

2. Just use 'Combofix' and out goes the worm from your system.

3. just make sure you give the program enough time to execute it's codes stage by stage. Clicking it's window while it is running may cause it to stall.

4. This application works for me. It will create a log after it completes the process and restarts your computer.

5. I just loath at the websites that gives superficial tech advice in removing this worm, such as "get spybot search and destroy, Ad-Aware or AVG", none of these works actually.

6. Some of these websites even asked the users to change the hidden files option and make it search-able using the windows search (Start -> Search).

7. These advices are totally made by amateurs who do not know the underlying problem. Their website with key words like 'Haha.js' made it to the top hits but useless for anyone.

8. Google should revise it's search algorithm to make it more efficient and user's intended task oriented, not popularity by # of clicks .

Benazir Bhuto's demise: The Conspiracy theory

1. There are many video recordings showing the final moments of Benazir's ordeal packed life. In some of these videos, we can see blood spatters (although not entirely clear) which contradicts the official report which affirms that Benazir, in fact fractured her head on her way down to cover herself from the shooting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJufQxCgCoY&NR=1



2. From a physics point of view,

d = the distance of her head from the roof panel of her car. (~0.7m)
g = gravity (~9.8m/s^2)
g* = gravity + her own initiated acceleration
u = initial velocity initiated by Benazir downwards (~0m/s)
v = final velocity that we are interested in

m = mass of her head (~5kg) http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/DmitriyGekhman.shtml

(this is just a crude calculation which should be in the range of the actual values)

v^2 = u^2 + 2g*d
v^2 = 0 + 2(9.8 + 0.2)(0.7)
v = sqrt(14)
v = 3.74m/s
v = (0.00374*3600)km/hr
v = 13.5 km/hr
= 8.4 mph

I made some assumptions here.

3. So, assume a blunt object is approaching your head at 13.5km/hr or 8.4 mph, can this cause severe head trauma that could lead to death? Please do let me know if you find any articles supporting this.

4. It is also reported that the crime scene is immediately cleaned up to the extent that even the witnesses couldn't tell if anything had happened there.

5. On the other hand, it is also reported that between 1999-2000, Benazir's assets (from bank accounts around the world, real estates, firms and et) sums up to USD 1.5 billion. http://www.pakistanthinktank.org/default.php/p/articles/pk/585.
The question remains... how did she managed to amass that much of money?

6. From a political stand of view, it is not logical for the reigning government to kill an opposition party leader 1 week before the election as this action would certainly backfire and cause an imminent downfall. An experienced Politician like Musharraf knows better the pitfall of such act.

SO WHAT CAN WE DO?

• Choose our leaders prudently as they not only represent us, but they are also inadvertently put in charge of a huge deal of the countries wealth and comoditi. The people gets the government they deserve... in a democratic system of course.

Math Puzzle #1 for January

Assume the circle is a cross section of an oil container in the shape of a cylinder. If A is the total area of the circle, r = 1 meter, find t, the maximum height from the water level to the top of the container.

Answers can be emailed to lovexmath@gmail.com. The first commendable, correct answer will be published. Do not post your answers as comments. Use 'comments' if you have questions or need further clarifications.

Best of Luck!

Chua Soi Lek Sex Video Scandal, and the truth.

1. Chua Soi Lek was video taped having sex with a 'personal friend' in a hotel in Batu Pahat.

2. There are over 200 Ministers and MPs in Malaysia. If you understand statistics, you know that , necessarily, there are a handful of other ministers who have sex affairs. This is a mathematical fact.

3. So to cut the story short, our society works in a very queer way:- if you get caught in the act, you are punishable. If you don't get caught, you are free.

4. The dilemma for the Malaysians:
If we vote for his resignation
i. we are becoming the pawns of the penetrator whose intention is to make him fall.

ii. we are removing someone who can never be a good example to younger generation, and tarnish the image of our country which is already ailing and crying for help.


If we vote against his resignation
i. we are showing the world that we are as liberal minded as the westerners (just like US with Bill Clinton's case). We can emphatize his privacy breach and accept the fact that personal lifestyle varies from person to person.

ii. Others will think it is not so bad to have extra-marrital affairs since we have a minister who have done it and got away with it.

5. I omitted the pros and cons of voting for and against him from a political point of view for obvious reasons, you already know what they are.

6. The danger of passing this issue as a part and parcel of life is that by doing so, we are deteriorating our standard.
Proof: By becoming more lenient to issues like this, we are shifting the 'Gausian Bell curve' more towards the nagative side, meaning that more people will become involved in this criminal act and our society will become weaker due to this. This is again a mathematical fact.

7. There is another mathematical relationship which I hypothesized:
" As the number of executed police enforcements on brothels and prostitution prone areas decreases, the number of prostitutes and prostitution increases" ...DUH
" This spells out more problems in marriage leading to divorce, child negligence and drop in economic productivity." Don't get me started with HIV and other STD

8. I assert that as much as this minister have caused us to bear some share of his shame, our lack of sight for curbing future incidence like this from happening again is pathetic and dumb.

9. When I meant 'curbing incidents like this' I do not mean checking every corner of the hotel room for hidden cameras and taking extra precaution while engaging in an affair... I meant, of course, to decrease the number of brothels and make prostitution prone areas less appealing for the flesh trade.

10. Notice the word 'decrease' that I used above. forgive me for being less than utopic, I prefer applicability.



SO WHAT CAN WE DO?

• Start reporting to the authorities any prostitution sites that you know of, Today! (even if they are phlegmatic in executing an arrest, at least we have done our part, our duty as a citizen. and at the same time saving our community and our family from the risk of engaging in the flesh trade). TEL: 999
  

• Do not let our future generation think it is ok to have extramarital affairs or premarital affairs.
  

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