Kinetic art

http://www.ted.com/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html

Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own.

Theo Jansen's Strandbeest
http://www.strandbeest.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_art

Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. Kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles.

Law of large numbers

• more sample, lagi accurate
• overall result akan menghampiri mean --> so, variant individual result akan menjadi kurang penting..  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

In probability theory, the law of large numbers (LLN) is a theorem that describes the result of performing the same experiment a large number of times. According to the law, the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value, and will tend to become closer as more trials are performed.

http://www.allbusiness.com/glossaries/law-large-numbers/4947717-1.html

statistical concept holding that the greater the number of units in a projection, the less important each unit becomes. Group insurance, which gets cheaper as the group gets larger, is an example of the principle in application; actuarial abnormalities have less influence on total claims.

mathematical premise stating that the greater the number of exposures: (1) the more accurate the prediction; (2) the less the deviation of the actual losses from the expected losses (X - x approaches zero); and (3) the greater the credibility of the prediction (credibility approaches one). This law forms the basis for the statistical expectation of loss upon which premium rates for insurance policies are calculated 

Related law: "The Law of the Few"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point

"The Law of the Few", or, as Gladwell states, "The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts."[3] According to Gladwell, economists call this the "80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the 'work' will be done by 20 percent of the participants."[4] (see Pareto Principle) These people are described in the following ways

• dalam case ni, individual result kadang-kala menjadi pemangkin yang amat penting
• see also: chain reaction buzzword

melihat kewujudan Allah di sebalik kewujudan alam tabii

Kempen tanam pokok bantu mantapkan keimanan
Oleh Dr Zaini Ujang, Berita Harian 
http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/Kempentanampokokbantumantapkankeimanan/Article

Profesor Muhibbudin ketika membahaskan kitab Hikam, manusia terbahagi dua golongan, iaitu mereka yang tidak melihat kewujudan Allah di sebalik kewujudan alam tabii dan mereka yang dapat melihat kewujudan Allah seperti tersirat pada alam tabii. Bagi golongan kedua ini, wujud pula empat pembahagian lain iaitu: (a) manusia yang melihat Allah SWT pada alam tabii. Ketika melihat alam sekitar misalnya, maka terlihatlah betapa segala yang dilihatnya itu adalah ciptaan Allah dengan kudrat-Nya; (b) manusia yang melihat alam tabii, sekali gus melihat Allah di samping alam tabii itu. Maknanya, apabila manusia itu melihat alam tabii, maka dia melihat Allah Yang Maha Mengatur apa yang dikehendakinya terhadap alam ini; (c) manusia yang melihat alam tabii untuk memperteguhkan lagi keyakinan dan pengetahuannya terhadap sifat Allah Yang Maha Mencipta, Yang Maha Besar; (d) manusia yang dilalaikan dengan alam tabii, kemudian tersedar mengenai sifat Allah Yang Maha Mencipta.

jangan stres, banyak2 bersabar :)

Wanita lebih banyak alami stres mental?
Oleh Dr. Sabitha Marican, Rencana, ARKIB : 23/01/2011 - Utusan
http://utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2011&dt=0123&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Rencana&pg=re_12.htm

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Mengimbas semula data kementerian kesihatan pada tahun 1996, didapati wanita secara umumnya menghadapi stres mental 1.5 kali lebih tinggi berbanding dengan lelaki..
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Dapatan kajian dari 1000 orang wanita kerjaya, didapati 55% peratus dari mereka mengalami lebih dari satu bentuk masalah kesihatan.
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Penyakit yang dihidapi adalah seperti kencing manis, sakit lutut, migrain, sengal sengal badan, insomnia, pening, sakit pinggang, kemurungan, sering selesema dan demam, rasa kebas pada bahagian badan tertentu dan darah tinggi. Selain dari itu seramai 40% mengatakan berat badan mereka telah meningkat disebabkan kecenderungan untuk makan bila stres dan penglihatan mereka semakin kabur (32%) disebabkan oleh penggunaan komputer.
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Dengan adanya ramai graduan wanita, kini di tempat kerja kebanyakan jawatan pengurus atau pentadbir mula dipenuhi dengan wanita. Sebuah kajian yang dijalankan pegawai kerajaan menunjukkan bahawa jika ada pilihan, 90% dari responden, tidak kira lelaki atau perempuan lebih suka berkerja dengan bos lelaki. Antara sebabnya ialah bos lelaki dipandang sebagai lebih memahami masalah pekerja, tidak atau "angin pasang surut" boleh berkomunikasi secara berhemah. Tidak kurang juga yang memberikan pelbagai gelaran pada bos wanita mereka seperti singa betina, Hitler dan seumpamanya. Apakah ini petanda wanita lebih stres di tempat kerja? Atau permintaan ditempat kerja yang menjadikan mereka stres?

Ketenangan jiwa dengan Zikir

Zikir terapi ajaib ubat kegersangan hati, roh insan
Oleh Mohd Rizal Azman Rifin, 2010/11/22, Berita Harian  
http://www.bharian.com.my/articles/Zikirterapiajaibubatkegersanganhati_rohinsan/Article/

Mukmin yang sentiasa mengamalkan zikir akan dapat merasai kesannya seperti ketenangan jiwa. Firman Allah yang bermaksud: (Iaitu) orang yang beriman dan tenang tenteram hati mereka dengan zikrullah. Ketahuilah dengan zikrullah itu tenang dan tenteramlah hati manusia. (Surah Ar-Rad, ayat 28)

Mother of All Demos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) at the Convention Center in San Francisco, in which a number of experimental technologies that have since become commonplace were presented. The demo featured the first computer mouse the public had ever seen, as well as introducing interactive text, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email, hypertext and a collaborative real-time editor.

Engelbart, with the help of his geographically distributed team, demonstrated the workings of the NLS (which stood for oNLine System) to the 1,000 computer professionals in attendance. The project was the result of work done at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center.

Dec. 9, 1968: The Mother of All Demos, By Dylan Tweney - This Day In Tech, Wired.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/12/1209computer-mouse-mother-of-all-demos/

1968: Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart kicks off the personal computer revolution with a product demonstration that is so amazing it inspires a generation of technologists. It will become known as “the mother of all demos.”
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But Engelbart went beyond merely demonstrating a new input device — way beyond. His demo that day in San Francisco’s Brooks Hall also premiered “what you see is what you get” editing, text and graphics displayed on a single screen, shared-screen videoconferencing, outlining, windows, version control, context-sensitive help and hyperlinks. Bam!
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While most computer scientists concentrated on making computers smart (artificial intelligence), Engelbart was interested in how computers could make humans smarter, or what he called augmented intelligence.
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The initial inspiration for Engelbart’s life work came in the mid-1940s, when he was an electronics technician for the U.S. Navy. Looking at a radar screen, and perhaps inspired by Vannevar Bush’s groundbreaking essay “As We May Think,” Engelbart imagined a radarlike display that would let people manipulate symbols and concepts instead of merely monitoring bogies and blips.

"Revolusi Mental"

Melayu Mudah Lupa
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/SpecialCoverage/UMNO2001/index.asp?pg=melayu_mudah_lupa.htm

Orang Melayu digesa baca semula buku Revolusi Mental
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/SpecialCoverage/UMNO2002/index.asp?y=2002&dt=0621&pub=UMNO2002&sec=Corat-coret&pg=cc_09.htm

observe "electron" motion on video

• Researchers catch motion of a single electron on video, June 6, 2007
  http://www.physorg.com/news100354343.html
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFezmUzzs_E&NR=1
  To observe the motion of an electron – an elementary particle with a mass that is one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a gram – has been considered to be impossible. So when two Brown University physicists showed movies of electrons moving through liquid helium at the 2006 International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids in Kyoto, they raised some eyebrows.

• Electron filmed for first time ever, Feb 22m 2008
  http://www.physorg.com/news122897584.html
  http://www.atto.fysik.lth.se/

• http://www.hitachi.com/rd/research/em/doubleslit-f2.html
  

How do you remove Trojan Horse

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_remove_Trojan_Horse_Clicker_AAWS
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_remove_Trojan_Horse_Clicker_AJ

1- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
2- Dr.Web CureIt! - http://www.freedrweb.com/
3- Panda USB Vaccine - http://research.pandasecurity.com/archive/Panda-USB-and-AutoRun-Vaccine.aspx  

NetBeans IDE Tutorial

Getting Started With the NetBeans IDE Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/tools/netbeans_part1/

important things priority (big stuff vs small stuff)

http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/coveys_habit_3_.html

1. Urgent and important
2. Not urgent but important
3. Not important but urgent
4. Not important and not urgent

p/s: focus kepada no 1 (big stuff), dan kurangkan no 4 (small stuff)... macam baca blog niler... heher

MIT-related nobel prize winner

http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/awards/nobel.html

p/s: banyakknya...

mantra, slogan, tagline

IBM: "Think"
Apple: "Think Different"
HP: "HP. Invent.
Google: "Don't be evil"

http://www.crews.org/curriculum/ex/compsci/8thgrade/company_slogans.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motto
A motto is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagline
A tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising. The idea behind the concept is to create a memorable phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of a brand or product (like a film), or to reinforce the audience's memory of a product.

"Game Mechanic" for Website

• http://mashable.com/2010/04/07/funware-game-mechanics/
• http://blog.meatinthesky.com/good-game-mechanics-in-your-web-app-are-good
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_mechanics?wasRedirected=true

how to make website enjoyable:

1. Points -> bagi reward kpd user 
2. Leaderboards -> eg top 10 on anything 
3. Badges -> eg giver recognition to customer, power user, gold, silver, etc 
4. Challenges -> eg buy  x get something 
5. Levels -> reward based on stage 
6. User-to-user referrals -> utilize social network (facebook,twitter,mailing list) to broadcast 
7. Get good retention to increase pageview 

Astro B.Player - watch world cup online

http://www.astro.com.my/stadiumastro/
http://www.astro.com.my/bplayer/

astro hd recording feature:
http://www.astro.com.my/byond/articles/art_699.html

Shy Extroverts

http://matrixpsychology.blogspot.com/2009/08/marriage-and-career-what-do-you-want-to.html

Shy Extroverts
love chatting but are wary when they do not know the people around them or do not know what is going on. They are often in the background because they tend not to put themselves forward. Examples in public life are hard to find and include Gerry Robinson, Louis Walsh, Felicity Kendall (Barbara Good from the Good Life) and Rory Bremnner

B
observant, curious
mischievous, wary
supportive, empathic
cooperative, warm
lateral thinker, intuitive
people-focused, shy

Data mining to find criminal suspect

They're Watching You
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_04/b3917056_mz005.htm

http://www.focus.com/fyi/operations/10-largest-databases-in-the-world/

ChoicePoint is in the business of acquiring information about the American population -- addresses and phone numbers, driving records, criminal histories, etc., ChoicePoint has it all. For the most part, the data found in ChoicePoint's database is sold to the highest bidders, including the American government.

But how much does ChoicePoint really know? In 2002 ChoicePoint was able to help authorities solve a serial rapist case in Philadelphia and Fort Collins after producing a list of 6 potential suspects by data mining their DNA and personal records databases. In 2001 ChoicePoint was able to identify the remains of World Trade Center victims by matching DNA found in bone fragments to the information provided by victim's family members in conjunction to data found in their databases.

Community-driven question-and-answer website

Aardvark: http://www.vark.com/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)

Aardvark is a social search service that connects users live with friends or friends-of-friends who are able to answer their questions. Users submit questions via the Aardvark website, email or instant messenger and Aardvark identifies and facilitates a live chat or email conversation with one or more topic experts in the asker's extended social network. Users can also review question and answer history and other settings on the Aardvark website. On February 11, 2010 Aardvark was acquired by Google for $50 million.

alternative: Answerbag, Google Answers, Wiki Answers

Money and happiness

Money CAN buy you happiness ... but only if you earn more than your friends, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259789/Why-money-CAN-buy-happiness--earn-friends.html

Earning more money only makes people happier if they feel richer than their friends, neighbours and colleagues, a study has found
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Dr Boyce went on: 'The standard of living has gone up for each individual over the past 40 years but it has gone up for everyone.

'So our cars are faster now but our neighbours have faster cars too, so they haven't got that advantage over people close to you.

Smart glass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass

Smart glass or switchable glass, also called smart windows or switchable windows in its application to windows or skylights, refers to electrically switchable glass or glazing which changes light transmission properties when voltage is applied.

• http://www.inhabitat.com/2006/02/19/super-smart-privacy-glass/
• http://www.glassonweb.com/articles/article/422/