Poskod Malaysia

Happy Christmas Eve, folks.

• The Tenang, Johor by-election is set for 30 January 2011. (The Star)
• HINDRAF asks Indian Malaysians to abstain from voting in the next general election. (Free Malaysia Today)
• Good to remember: the Agong lost his authority to veto Parliamentary bills during the Mahathir era — through a Constitutional amendment done behind the rulers’ backs! Wither checks and balances? (Malaysiakini)
• Poll data: Najib’s approval rating drops from 72% to 69%. (The Malaysian Insider)
• More poll data: public opinion on PKR is unchanged, even after its problematic party elections. (The Malaysian Insider)
• Even more poll data: Malaysians still have no idea what the Economic Transformation Programme is about. Well, that’s what you get when you want to build huge towers and not better schools. (The Malaysian Insider)
• Meanwhile: Nurul Izzah walking the corridors of Parliament. (New York Times)
• North Korea threatens nuclear “Holy War” on South Korea. (The Guardian)
• The US will not reclassify the polar bear from “threatened” to “endangered” — even though the species will go extinct if climate change isn’t halted. (The Washington Post)
• Scientists discover blood vessel in brain that looks like Rudolph the Reindeer; continue to fail curing cancer. (Geekologie)
• Christmas cheer: in Berlin, two men in Santa suits rob a supermarket. (Reuters)
• Meanwhile: woman assaults cop with dildo. (Trib Local)
• A new genetic study has uncovered a previously unknown “kind of human”: the Denisovans — who roamed east Eurasia, and whose descendant are part of the human species today. (National Geographic)
• How Moscow’s airport stays open in the freezing winter. Planes get de-iced; runways get shoveled every hour. It’s never been closed because of snow. (BBC News)
• Matul Remrit: an illustrated playthrough of OCD strategy game Dwarf Fortress. (Bravemule)

(Image from Bravemule)