Facebooking is the happening thingy these days. Almost every politician is jumping on the bandwagon.

It was, thus, not surprising when somebody like Azalina Othman used her relatively new Facebook account to seek comments and feedback through her status message yesterday.

She wanted to know what her FB friends thought about the NEP. Here’s it: Obviously she didn’t find my comment amusing as it was deleted. But not before I screen-captured it.

She re-worded her status msg and still screwed up. NEP boleh!

By Thomas Sowell, National Review.

The Internet provides vast amounts of information, but it can also spread vast amounts of misinformation, or even deliberately misleading disinformation.

For more than two weeks, scarcely a day has gone by without e-mails pouring in to me, asking about columns that someone has written and brazenly spread around the Internet with my name on them.

Most of these e-mails have come from regular readers who are savvy enough to recognize columns that have a different style and substance from my own columns. ”Continued”

How to Understand Chat Acronyms

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Can’t understand the “IM Language” or “chat slang” the kids are typing? Does it seem like they’re speaking a foreign language when they chat? Should you be worried if you see your child getting a message like “Im 47/m/ny, LMIRL 121″? (Yes, you should.) We’ve all used acronyms or shorthand at one point or another, but chat programs and text messaging have taken it to a whole new level. Here’s how to navigate through this brave new world.

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