Poskod Malaysia

Hey folks:

• Here’s an article with people whining about how the new MRT project isn’t going to be seamlessly integrated with the rest of KL’s public transport services. Wish it had a town-planner to comment about how the project could be improved; that would actually be helpful. (The Malaysian Insider)
• International campur-tangan: the Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak, indie purveyors of truth about Abdul Taib Mahmud’s dirty fiefdom, is actually run by Clare Rewcastle Brown, Gordon Brown’s sis-in-law! (Malaysiakini)
• Ex-estate residents in Batu are being evicted from their land by Mayland Developers Sdn Bhd, a housing developer. DBKL, in cahoots with said developer, have threatened these residents with the Emergency Ordinances. Draconian! (Free Malaysia Today) 
• Universiti Malaya campus elections: UM vice-chancellor tried to get 11 victorious pro-Mahasiswa candidates disqualified from the race. Angry protests ensue. Although teh VC’s decision was later reversed, the uni has yet to explain why there were grounds for disqualification. (Malaysiakini)
• Oil prices pushed past USD100 yesterday, due to concerns about upheaval in Libya. That’s not too high a price to pay for revolution in the Middle East, is it? Is it? (MarketWatch)
• For those of us who don’t speak Arabic: just how do you spell “Qaddafi/Gaddafi/Gadhafi/etc”? (Time)
• If you want to support WikiLeaks, buy a T-shirt! The online whistleblowing apparatus is now peddling merchandise to help fund operations. (Mashable)
• List of the day: the world 10 least livable cities. Surprisingly, KL doesn’t make it. (The Huffington Post)
• NASA, via its Messenger spacecraft, has just took a family photo of our solar system: all 8 planets (plus the Moon) in one single pic! (NASA)
• A letter from an 18-year-old Tim Burton, accompanying his children’s book (The Giant Zlig) to Disney, in hopes they would publish it. Also: Disney’s very polite reply. (Letters of Note)
• Uh, what? Artists are trying to turn mind-bending writer William S Burroughs’ faeces into a new life-form. They’re taking his shit, extracting DNA from said shit, and combining that DNA with a mix of “fresh sperm, blood and shit”. (io9)

(Image from The Huffington Post)