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And, NO, it’s neither cool nor cute.

Please. Learn to type properly. For the sake of humanity. Or use that as your password for a change, instead of bunnylove123.

Oh my God! This thing has been around for years in Indonesia (and most Asian countries I assume), and they just caught up with it now?! These electric mosquito rackets are really a lifesaver, by the way, speaking from the perspective of someone who has experienced living in a tropical country where the number of mosquitos seems uncountable and keeps growing every day, no matter what time of the year it is. The species that lives and breeds in Indonesia is equipped with bionic eyes and supermosquito speed, unlike their cousins in Canada which are bigger but much dumber and slower. The mosquitos in Indonesia are especially cunning and well trained to maneuver human attacks, normally in the form of hand grab swoosh, hand clappings which makes a loud noise but no kill, or using any kind of large but usually thin and round or square object like a book, sapu lidi, or body pillow. All these usual kinds of attack are no good, unless you’re Flash. I can hear the mosquitos laughing while avoiding these attacks with great ease.

I love these electric rackets! Not a lot of effort is needed to use this racket. Just swing the racket while pressing the button. I always zap them 99% of the time. It gave me a certain satisfaction each time because these mosquitos are unbelieveably annoying. These rackets are relatively inexpensive and easy to get in Indonesia. I haven’t tried them with flies yet. I might get one of these electric rackets here in Sydney if I can find them in Chinatown because apparently it’s illegal to just bring them in to Australia without special permission from the government. The flies here in the summer are crazy, you wouldn’t believe it.

Update: OK, here’s something new that BoingBoing informed us, research showed that when the bugs exploded after being zapped, the bacterias and what not inside their guts are spread into the air and causing potentially more harm than the bugs themselves. It’s probably not such a good idea to use these rackets or other bug-electrocution devices that cause the bugs to explode after all.

Hey, it’s another one of those do-this-because-everyone-else-is-doing-it thingies. Found this quiz from Eko’s blog. Like Eko said, this is probably not accurate.

Oh, and an interesting note at the end of my result about Helen Keller, I knew about her from a made-for-tv movie I saw a few years back in Canada, and I really admire her. A truly inspiring story.

R, your IQ score is 138

Insightful Linguist

R, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind.

Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words and insight into processes and the way people think. These talents enable you to explain things clearly to people. Helen Keller is a great example of an Insightful Linguist. Blind, deaf and mute, she was still able to put things together in her mind and to understand complex ideas. She could do that because she was able to conceptualise ideas internally. Though she could not literally see, she had the visual and spatial skills necessary to understand patterns on an abstract level. She learned to read, write and ultimately became a writer on issues of social justice.

It’s a monopoly board spin-off with a blogging theme to it. Blogpoly, anyone?

(Link via BoingBoing)

1. SMART hard disk monitoring, emerged smartmontools, and set smartd to run in the background. (Via Slashdot)

2. The Vigenère Cipher, I knew this from my cryptography class so it’s just refreshing my memory. (Via blogwalking to Mr. GBT)

3. Next time, put more breadcrumbs for the stuffing. (Via cooking roast turkey)

4. X.org X11 transparency and shadowing is still not stable, e.g. glxgears caused X to crash even with AllowGLXWithComposite enabled. (Via Gentoo Wiki)

5. AUD 1 = IDR 7,500++, and rising. (Via Yahoo! Finance)

6. There’s a Japanese pr0n model/actor named Anna Ohura, not to be confused with Anne Ahira. (Via a dream I had the other night. As if I’d tell you.)

7. A soda can and chocolate can be used to make fire. (Via Boing Boing)

8. The notorious TBE managed to screw up my Firefox, again, after an upgrade. I had to make a backup of my Firefox profile, delete the extensions directory and reinstall all of my Firefox extensions. It was strange that after I reinstall TBE it was working fine again. So I stuck with it, for now… but one of these days…

9. I finally know what Podcasting is about. I’ve heard about it for so long but I couldn’t be bothered to look it up in Wikipedia or Google until this morning. (Via blogwalking to Priyadi)

10. There’s a Wiki clone written in Ruby called Instiki that seems to be recommended by some people. Not in portage yet, so I haven’t bothered trying. (Via Nat)