Poskod Malaysia

Shut-in rainy-day web-surfing, commence!

• The inquest finds Teoh Beng Hock’s death as neither suicide or homicide. So what is it, then, eh? (Malaysiakini)
• Luckily, the government seems to have clued on to the fact that people aren’t happy with the TBH inquest; Najib is set to announce a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the case. Only time will tell whether justice will actually be done, or that this is merely another PR exercise. (The Malaysian Insider)
• Rais Yatim, who is facing charges of rape, claims the allegations are a diversion from “bigger crimes like sodomy”. Oh, yeah, Rais? Sodomy is worse than rape? (Free Malaysia Today)
• An illuminating examination of why Indians want to burn the controversial SPM literature text Interlok. (Malaysiakini)
• Banksy’s clever post-modernist film about authenticity, Exit Through The Gift Shop, is the centre of a fitting controversy: the artist apparently used footage from another film without credit or permission. We know you world-femes artist, but that’s not cool, dude. (New York Times)
• A Harvard Business School study confirms it: rich people are selfish bastards. Frequent use of luxury goods and services encourages a narrower, more selfish view of the world. (Harvard Business School)
• Scary American surveillance: the US Air Force’s Gorgon Stare can transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town. (The Washington Post)
• More massive animal deaths: 2 million dead fish have been found in Chesapeake Bay. (Baltimore Sun)
• This sort of thing is fast becoming a global phenomenon. Birds and fish are dying in Brazil, New Zealand, and Sweden as well! Climate change? Apocalypse ka? (Next)
• What happens to your online identity when you’re dead? (New York Times)
• Real-life superhero-ing: Phoenix Jones is a Seattle-based man in a well-made hero costume, who’s actually prevented some real-life crimes! (Seattle Citizen)

(Image from Geekosystem)