... and things + Kitty diary

On the fourth day of office, Obama gave to me....

2009-01-24T17:49:00.004+08:00

1640 EST Obama lifts abortion funding ban

Max Deveson

Max Deveson: In a much-trailed, but significant move, President Obama has signed an executive order overturning the so-called "Mexico City Rule" - the ban on federal funding for NGOs that perform abortions or offer abortion counselling.

The order - which comes the day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision which legalised abortion in America - is likely to be seized on by anti-abortion activists as evidence that President Obama intends to push a radical pro-choice agenda.

In fact, Mr Obama's move takes America back to the status quo that existed eight years ago. The ban was originally put in place by Ronald Reagan, but was lifted by Bill Clinton. George W Bush reinstated it in 2001.

Both Mr Obama and the Secretary of State who will implement the policy - Hillary Clinton - pledged during the election campaign that they would repeal the ban.

Would this be an eight year victory streak for the so-called Pro-Choicers?

via: Obama diary: Days 1-10

Akoha: a game or a social experiment?

2009-01-08T03:29:00.004+08:00

The social game Akoha is finally open for beta. I promptly ordered a VIP starter kit. In huge contrast to my Titan pre-order, I got my decks in around 2 weeks' time.

So how do you play this game? You can start by purchasing a deck (the ones pictured on the right) from the Akoha Store and creating an account at their web site. Then you would want to be nice to your friends. (You are always nice to your friends, aren't you?) Buy them a cup of coffee. Make them smile. Give them a small surprise gift. Once you accomplished that, you need to give them the card that described your missions. They will be able to create Akoha accounts like you did (no purchase necessary) and confirm that your mission was a success. Now, the mission is theirs...

As your cards passed from networks to networks, you will be able to view their trails on Akoha's mission logs and see how you have made this world a (slightly) better place. Once you used up your mission cards, you will also be able to print and play new missions from their website. If you are creative, you can also create new missions.

Will this project be killed by the Credit Crunch? I sincerely hope this social experiment will be a success.

"A game that benefits real world people"

2008-09-12T01:33:00.004+08:00

CEO Austin Hill presents Akoha, a game based on the (quite interesting) movie Pay it forward

It seems like one of the most interesting startups featured in TC50.

照肺埋便

2008-09-01T01:07:00.002+08:00

攝於上月某醫院門口

Princess Tee

2008-07-28T00:13:00.002+08:00

買到飯氣公主Tee啦！

少林武功医宗秘笈

2008-06-26T02:24:00.001+08:00

特價9999人民幣
这套“武功秘笈”概括了少林寺历代武僧练功的精华，打破以往成书格局，突出了中华民族传统的特色，全书选用10多种材料，采用90多种工艺精制而成。

via: Reuters & 腾讯科技频道

風力叉電機

2008-04-30T14:17:00.005+08:00

HYmini是一個可用風力，太陽能或USB取電的叉電機…

via: The Gadgeer

飯氣#001 青春炒冷飯

2008-04-23T23:07:00.002+08:00

買到啦買到啦…好笑好睇！

link: 飯氣劇場

Memoir '44 : 依啲咪叫搶錢囉

2008-04-22T21:16:00.003+08:00

一張地圖賣你三百幾蚊!

不過……個袋又幾靚既……

Dreams live forever

2008-03-13T00:45:00.002+08:00

Christl new MV!

我會唔會俾人炒架…

2008-02-26T01:37:00.003+08:00

有人響公司share Dilbert 俾人炒咗！

Man Fired for Posting 'Dilbert' Becomes Subject of Comic Strip

我個位都有兩條dilbert 噃…

Your digital footprint

2008-01-22T16:02:00.000+08:00

Anyone cared to google his/her own name? I found:

3 small patches that I submitted for 3 pieces of software
2 mailing list archives that I myself posted a few years ago
1 person convicted of dangerous driving (not me, of course)
My BGG profile

都是八卦惹的禍

2007-12-21T01:52:00.000+08:00

樓下火警，多事的我當然下樓拜觀…
誰知將自己反鎖門外！
右圖為反鎖自己前十分鐘影的相

P.S. N82的影相功能原來不錯，夜景一樣清楚

Radiohead' album pricing

2007-11-17T13:46:00.000+08:00

Ed Felton explains why Radiohead's new album may be a financial success despite the fact that 62% did not pay anything for the download

Boardgame news: the renewed TITAN map

2007-10-12T01:05:00.000+08:00

Mike Doyle has posted, in his blog, the (unfinished) revised map of Valley Game's TITAN reprint.

無限泡泡紙………玩具………？

2007-09-21T01:57:00.000+08:00

難道只要有像想力，甚麼都可以變成玩具？

日本BANDAI公司明天將推出超低能勁攪笑玩具：電動『無限泡泡紙』

全五色各¥819

∞(むげん)プチプチ

via: 飯氣comment

隨意門(2) Half-Life and The Orange Box

2007-09-20T01:01:00.000+08:00

曾推出知名FPS如Counter-Strike, Half-Life的Valve公司在十月會推出一個名為The Orange Box的5-in-1 combo。其中一個超爆笑的遊戲名為Portal。

Portal是一個以第一身觀點玩的puzzle game。在遊戲中你拿著一支『隨意門槍』打天下，這槍可射出一紅一藍兩個隨意門，由紅門走進去就會由藍門出來，倒轉亦然。到底有甚麼好玩？看這個官方trailer就可以明白。

不想等的話，其實Portal的前身是一個學生project的成品，名叫Narbacular Drop。在Nuclear Monkey Software就能免費下載。

隨意門(1) 創新科技

2007-09-20T00:50:00.000+08:00

ITC的創新博覽會07剛完結。在博覽會會場出口有這樣一個投票活動…

題目：我最渴望的科技突破 (My Most Wanted Technology Breakthrough)

家務機械人 (Domestic Robot)
時光穿梭機 (Time Machine)
隨身飛行器 (Portable Flying Gear)
潔淨新能源 (New Clean Energy)
民航太空船 (Civil Spaceship)
隨身健康掃瞄系統 (Portable Health Scanning Equipment)
空間轉移隨意門 (Instant Transit Gateway)
夢境攝錄及控制器 (Dream Recording and Controlling Machine)
容量無限大百寶袋 (Unlimited Capacity Bag)
記憶錄像機 (Memory Recorder)

這個投票夠創新嗎？

Facebook Source Code Leaked

2007-08-14T00:37:00.000+08:00

via: TechCrunch

『打風都幾好，可以早啲走。』

2007-08-10T19:29:00.000+08:00

但佢講的時候，係六點半。八號風是兩點半掛

BBC: Stressful job link to depression

2007-08-02T23:47:00.000+08:00

有研究指工作壓力與抑鬱症有關

高壓力工作是指：

工作不受員工控制
長時間工作
沒法推的deadline
工作量大

我中晒呀！你又中左幾多樣？

via: BBC News

Cheat Neutral 買賣不忠

2007-08-02T00:27:00.000+08:00

包二奶的人有福了。只要付出2.5英磅，Cheat Neutral就會出糧給其他人讓他們替你付這你應付的責任。

Cheat Neutral 是一個明串Carbon neutral concept 的web site。(正確來說是串carbon offsetting)

看以下的十二分鐘短片就可明白

via: Greenpeace weblog

WiinRemote

2007-07-21T02:37:00.000+08:00

原來有人寫了一個叫WiinRemote 的程式，可以經Bluetooth 將Wii Remote 連到Windows PC 上……

買Wii 的理由又多一個了。

除WiinRemote 外還有一個叫DarwiinRemote 的是給MacOS X 10.4的用家。
via: Hackszine

怪奇語錄之胸部大小

2007-07-11T01:33:00.001+08:00

唔睇波的我都知有這個『呢球波一係入一係唔入』、『呢場波贏輸唔緊要，最緊要唔好輸』的講波界奇才黃興貴。

但原來還有另一個講波奇才：曾華倩。

食午飯睇都市閒情，曾華倩不知在做甚麼，只知忽然講了一句：「其實胸部大小唔係問題，最緊要夠標準。」

又只能 orz

Euro at historic high

2007-07-11T01:16:00.000+08:00

From AFP:

Euro storms above 1.37 dollars for first time

LONDON (AFP) - The euro hit a record high of 1.3740 dollars on Tuesday as investors bought the single currency on prospects of higher eurozone interest rates and concerns about the health of the US economy.

The British pound also hit a 26-year high of 2.0275 dollars ahead of a crucial speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, while on Monday the euro had reached a record peak of 168.51 yen.