Category Archives: Social Issues

True Singularity.

Kok Sen Wai, the author at k0kbl0k restated his incredu­lity, when we met up, about my recent decision to boy­cott films from com­pan­ies that are using their fin­an­cial might to des­troy busi­nesses and indi­vidu­als uneth­ic­ally. In terms every­one can under­stand, this means I have not seen nor am I plan­ning to watch The Avengers des­pite …

Monday, 14th May, 2012 – 2119 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky, Social Issues | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Harvard Strikes a Blow Against Greedy Publishers

If you have had to do any form of research work in a uni­ver­sity, you would have encountered that one or two vital papers that is unavail­able for use because your uni­ver­sity lib­rary does not sub­scribed to the journ­als they belong to. The reason is as every­one in the research com­munity knows, journal pub­lish­ers are …

Wednesday, 25th April, 2012 – 2147 | By Rewarp | Posted in Science, Social Issues | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

BERSIH 3.0 in Penang.

This is the week to finally par­ti­cip­ate in a act of civil dis­obedi­ence (because the cur­rent gov­ern­ment dis­al­lows free­dom of assembly unless they are racist or homo­phobic or show sup­port for the cur­rent Bar­isan Nas­ional gov­ern­ment through viol­ence) and solid­ar­ity with the move­ment for a freer and fairer elect­oral sys­tem. As I am cur­rently liv­ing …

Tuesday, 24th April, 2012 – 2312 | By Rewarp | Posted in Social Issues | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Effective Apology

The twist at the end of this apo­logy for draw­ing a comic offend­ing women, will, if there were any justice in the world, be the most effect­ive apo­logy for gender-based insults ever writ­ten. Now that’s an apology.

Monday, 23rd April, 2012 – 2215 | By Rewarp | Posted in Social Issues | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

One Race, So Say We All.

Edward James Olmos at the United Nations giv­ing a brief but rous­ing speech on the human race. The end­ing of Battle­star Galactica was less than sat­is­fact­ory, but intro­du­cing EJO to the world as Wil­liam Adama was noth­ing short of bril­liant. So say we all.

Wednesday, 18th April, 2012 – 0054 | By Rewarp | Posted in Social Issues | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Missing Dog and Lost Dog

Con­tinu­ing the exten­sion of my volun­teer­ing work with SPCA Pen­ang, I bring you a miss­ing dog, and a lost dog. First, the miss­ing dog. Note that I am get­ting these mater­i­als from SPCA Pen­ang so all mater­ial are provided as received, no mat­ter how skewed the edit­ing, they are pub­lished as received. And finally, a lost dog. …

Tuesday, 17th April, 2012 – 1926 | By Rewarp | Posted in Animal Welfare | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Runaway Dog

If you are stay­ing in or around the Pulau Tikus area, see if you can spot this dog.

Monday, 16th April, 2012 – 1749 | By Rewarp | Posted in Animal Welfare | Tagged , , | Comments (0)