Well…, kenapa disebut Antena PVC karena bahannya terbuat dari bahan pipa PVC yang dilapisi aluminium foil. Desain Antena PVC adalah sebagai pengembangan antena Kaleng yang mudah berkarat jika dipasang di outdoor. Sama dg antena kaleng kelebihannya gak karatan, tahan cuaca dan mudah pengerjaannya. Digunakan untuk jarak dekat 200 -300 m, misalnya client RT/RW-Net dalam kompleks perumahan.

Bahan

• PVC 4 inch panjang +/- 20 cm
• Tutup pipa 4 inch : 2 buah
• Aluminium foil
• Plat L dari bahan isolator
• Wifi USB
• Cable ties
• Baut dan klem 1 inch
• Rubber Tape

Diagram Antenna PVC

Langkah Pembuatan

Pasang Wireless USB yg sudah dibalut rubber tape ke plat L, lalu ikat dengan cable ties

Siapkan pipa PVC yang telah dilubangi untuk pemasangan wireless USB

1. Beri lapisan aluminium pada bagian-bagian yang memerlukan yaitu seluruh dinding luar PVC dan dinding dalam tutup pipa belakang yang akan dipasang dekat wireless USB
2. Pasang klem dengan dua buah baut ke tutup pipa yg dilapisi aluminium foil
3. Pasang wireless USB + Plat ke lubang yang tersedia kencangkan dengan dua buah mur baut kecil agar plat L terpasang cukup kuat ke PVC
4. Pasang kedua buah tutup pipa dengan posisi seperti gambar di bawah
5. Pasang antena pada tiang antena seperti gambar
6. Hubungkan antena ke komputer dengan kabel USB extender

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Access Controlled poster

This morning Michael Geist tweeted about BBC’s article “UN slated for stifling net debate”, detailing the incident causing the hue and cry which has sprung up about the censorship of the poster at the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt.

The poster was promotional material for the OpenNet Inititiative’s academic book “Access Comtrolled” on display at the reception held by two of the book’s authors, Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinksi at the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt. Apparently “complaints” were made about “The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China’s famous ‘Great Firewall of China’ is one of the first national Internet filtering systems.”

The book is a global project from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a collaboration of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the SecDev Group.

–Global Voices Advocacy: IGF2009: #UNfail? by Renata Avila

“1. We were told that the banner had to be removed because of the reference to China. This was repeated on several occasions, in front of about two dozen witnesses and officials, including the UN Special Rapporteur For Human Rights, who asked that I send in a formal letter of complaint.

2. Earlier, the same officials asked us to stop circulating a small invite to the event because it contained a mention of Tibet. They even underlined it in showing it to me. Because the event was just about to start, we said that we would not be distributing any more of these invitations so it was a moot point.

3. We asked repeatedly to see any rules or regulations governing this act. They did not give us any, only referring to the “objections of a member state.”

4. There were in fact many posters and banners in many of the rooms that I attended, including others in our own. The video itself shows us, at one point, taking one of the other posters we have and offering to cover up the original one. They objected to that and told us this banner must be removed.

On another matter of clarification:

The UN officials did not throw the banner on the ground. They asked us to remove it and one of our staff placed it on the ground for us to consider what to do. That’s where we had the discussion. When we refused to remove it, their security guards bundled it up and took it away.

Hope this helps to clarify.
Ron”

–Ron Deibert’s account of the incident, posted in boingboing comments

My favorite was this comment from Cory Doctorow’s boingboing page:

Antinous / Moderator | #9 | 15:10 on Sun, Nov.15

Why pick Egypt as the venue for a convention on internet governance? Was Mordor booked?

In a statement Reporters Without Borders said: “”It is astonishing that a government that is openly hostile to internet users is assigned the organization of an international meeting on the internet’s future.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8354824.stm

No Usage Based Billing

[Mordor's reach was spreading toward the Shire, which was in fact why Frodo and Sam had to head off to fight it. Freedom is always worth fighting for.]

Although it would be breathtakingly easy to point to Egypt as a country where suppression of free speech is endemic, I have to wonder is Canada really any better? The eagerness Canada’s British Columbia government is showing in suppression of free speech in and around the upcoming Vancouver Olympics makes me think it really wouldn’t matter where the Internet Governance Forum was held.

The technological changes to the world brought about by the internet threatens those who forsee an erosion of their power to dominate others. The real problem for them is that the internet makes both supression of free speech and repression of civil liberties more difficult. It’s easier to do bad stuff out of the light of public scrutiny as shown by the flurry of video, articles and blogs about this incident.

This is precisely why net neutrality is so important.

It’s also why Usage Based Billing must not be implemented, since one of the worst things UBB will do to Canada is make the internet less affordable for most Canadian citizens, but even worse, unaffordable for many. Talk about disenfranchisement.

Large version of the Access Controlled poster

Gigantescas figuras, similares a los ogros, de pelo revuelto y largo, afiladas garras y comúnmente poseen dos cuernos en la cabeza. Llevan consigo gigantescos garrotes de hierro llamados “kanabō”. Guardianes de las puertas del infierno Budista. Los Oni Son símbolo de fuerza y poder y estos son asociados con las enfermedades, calamidades y desgracias.

A estas criaturas se les hace mención en el arte, la literatura y el teatro. La mayoría de las veces son retratados como seres malvados, aunque con algunas excepciones. Se les conoce por poseer piel de colores rojos, azules, rosados, negras, marrones y verdes. Muchos de sus rasgos son humanoides, pero también se les puede encontrar con gran cantidad de ojos y dedos de más.

–Yōkai–

Los Oni pertenecen a esta familia de apariciones, espíritus y/o demonios. Los Yōkai son todos aquellos seres, que pueden o no tener aspecto humano, que demuestran ser más fuerte que los hombres. Nombrados en el arte, literatura y teatro. Se les caracteriza por ser arrogantes ante los mortales y por poseer diferentes valores a estos.

–Oni-yarahi–

Ceremonia anual, que se practica el último día del año, en donde se exorciza a la gente que ha sido poseída por los Oni. Las enfermedades, la mala suerte y los desastres son expulsados del cuerpo de las personas.

_____________________________

Concepto de Kazuma Kaneko de Oni en: Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Written by: Greg Rucka
Illustrated by: Matthew Southworth
Colored by: Lee Loughridge
Design by: Keith Wood
Edited by: James Lucas Jones
Published by: Oni Press

This comic begins on some high action, much like many made-for-tv movies I recall from my youth…and from the initial climax we’re taken back to a day or so earlier where the story really begins, and follow events through to the opening pages, and then on to the rest of the issue’s story.

We’re introduced to Dex, a private investigator with a gambling issue. Having racked up plenty of debt, she’s offered a job that–rather than her being paid she’s to take in exchange for her gambling debt being forgiven. She’s sent to find the granddaughter of a powerful woman; and quickly discovers that there are other interested parties.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this, but figured it’s the first issue of a new series, so why not? I’d give it a look-see. I’m no fan of the $3.99 price point, but I found myself toward the later part of the issue turning each page expecting to see the first page of a lotta pages of ads. Yet, to my surprise, the story just kept right on going up to the 2nd to last page in the issue. So while this carries that $4 price, it’s a lengthy read, which is quite satisfying.

THe art has a very stylistic feel to it. The color and linework is a bit gritty, and there’s a lot of color shift for tone throughout the issue. Flipping through it, there are multiple page segments that have an overall blue tone or a green, or black and white, and what-have-you. I didn’t really notice it as I read, but this shifting played a nice role in setting scenes apart and setting the mood in each.

The character and her immediate supporting cast come across as fairly stereotypical and formulaic; the situation she finds herself in is also rather cliche.

But somehow, I don’t really have a problem with that. I was pulled into the story, and as with most things: a foundation must be put in place to build upon. This issue has the introduction to the characters and settings, and sure they’re generic right now–but I’m confident from past enjoyment of Rucka’s work that there’ll be more information in the next few issues to make these characters unique and move them beyond mere stereotype.

While I often use the comparison, this was like both a made for tv movie in structure…but works quite well as a pilot episode, introducing things, posing questions to the audience, and leaving me interested in what comes next.

If you like this sort of PI drama, or Rucka’s work, or the art, or any combination of those I highly recommend this. As-is on its own it’s a decent piece of work, worth the $4 cover price to check it out and decide your own feelings on the issue.

Story: 7.5/10
Art: 7.5/10
Whole: 8/10

Pani Kazanecka umarła. W nocy. W końcu października. Ostatni raz widziałam ją w kwietniu 2008 roku. Śmiała się, że sama z wanny jeszcze wychodzi. Taka sprawna. Poznawała mnie. Ten ostatni raz nie był o wojnie. Był o miłości. O Czesławie.

Naiwnie sądziłam, że będzie żyła. Że zatrzymam ją. Na nagraniach mp3, których powstało kilka, na taśmach wideo, na zdjęciach, na nagraniach ludzi, których do niej przyprowadzałam.

Jak mam o niej teraz mówić? W czasie przeszłym. Skoro czas przeszły w jej małym pokoiku nigdy nie istniał. Choć formy czasownika były poprawne. Janek Grzebień pozostawał zawsze młodym chłopakiem, Czeław jej mąż zawsze ostatecznie kładł się do łóżka odstępując tym samym od podjęcia decyzji, czy uratować tych trzech chłopaków o niebezpiecznym pochodzeniu, a ona zawsze tak samo wykrzykiwała ze zdziwieniem „O, żydowskie chłopaki do nas przyszli”, a oni stali w drzwiach i czekali. I zawsze tak samo ostrzegała, żeby nie kradli, bo ich ktoś zabije. Zawsze tak samo kroiła ciasto i wpychała je w kieszenie żydowskich chłopców. Z taką samą troską romawiała z Jankiem o jego matce, która zginęła w Treblince, a on wciąż jej słuchał. I ja słuchałam. Wraz z nim.

Vor Jahren brachte Antarctic Press ein Comic-Serie raus der ein kämpfender, katholischer Nonnen-Orden zu Grunde lag. Ich weiß nicht ob ich da richtig liege, aber ich glaube Warrior Nun: Areala ist ein Relunch einer älteren Serie und sollte so etwas wie das Flaggschiff des Verlages werden aber ich bezweifle, dass sich das damals wirklich so gut verkauft hat wie sich Ben Dunn & Co es sich gewünscht hätten. Trotzdem war’s ein kleiner Erfolg und dafür, dass es AP schon so lange gibt, wundert es mich wirklich dass ich so wenig davon mitbekomme.

Dieser erste Trade umfasst 2 Geschichten und bietet durch die Origin von Sister Shannon zu Areala einen guten Einstieg in die Geschichte der Warrior Nun Reihe.

Sister Shannon Masters gehört dem katholischen Orden der Warrior Nuns an, der im Grunde genommen der militante Arm der katholischen Kirche ist. Die Besonderheit ist, dass bei den Warrior Nuns nur Frauen zum Kampf zugelassen sind (obwohl bei der Betreuung auch Männer – z.b. Father Gomez - mitmischen) während bei seinem Pendant – den Magic Priests nur Männer zugelassen sind. Wie in der katholischen Kirche üblich, herrscht aber auch hier Ungleichheit. So erhalten die Magic Priests die bessere Ausbildung (und können sogar fliegen) während die Warrior Nuns stets mit Budget-Kürzungen zu kämpfen haben.

Aus diesem Grund muss Sister Shannon auch gleich nach ihrer Ausbildung direkt ins kalte Wasser springen und gleich 2 Sektoren in New York City übernehmen, wo es bereits an allen Ecken und Enden brennt.

Ein Unbekannter tötet wahllos Priester vor ihren Kirchen und als ob das nicht schon genug wäre, erhält der Orden eine Botschaft das demnächst ein Kampf um die Herrschaft der Hölle ausbrechen soll bei dem sich die Katholiken tunlichst nicht einmischen sollten, da man sonst für nichts garantieren könne.

Hinter all dem steckt unsterbliche Magier Julian Salvius der, um endlich zu sterben, Luzifer beschwören will was naturgemäß den aktuellen Höllenherrscher – Lord Orcus – so gar nicht in den Kram passt. Weniger, dass er um seinen Thron fürchten würde, aber in der Hölle wird allgemein befürchtet, dass Lucifer die Dämonen sofort wieder zu einer Schlacht gegen den Himmel führen will, die die Hölle schon bei seinem letzten Versuch für Eonen geschwächt hat. Aus diesem Grund schickt er seine loyale Kriegerin Lilltih auf die Erde um Salvius Pläne zu durchkreuzen.

Eine weitere Kriegerin im Kampf um die Hölle ist die Ex-Nun Shotgun Mary die sich aus Groll gegen die geschlechtliche Unfairness vom Orden losgesagt hat und nun eigene Wege geht. Sie hat von Julian Salvius Paktiererei erfahren und stürmt eines seiner Labore, wo sie einen Jungen namens Jason entdeckt dem etwas eingepflanzt wurde das Gabriel – das Satelliten-Netz der Kirche lahm legen soll…

Generell mag ich den Grundgedanken von Areala, wobei ich aber zugeben muss dass ich für Himmel/Hölle Schlachten und religiöse Anspielungen im Allgemeinen sehr empfänglich bin. Warrior Nun setzt sich zwar nicht kritisch mit dem Christentum oder dem Katechismus auseinander (meiner Meinung eine Verschwendung von Potential) aber hat mit seiner „innerparteilichen Gliederung“ und internen Querelen die Himmel wie auch Hölle betreffen, durchaus ein paar gute Ansätze.

Warrior Nun verbindet auch viele Genres miteinander. So bekommt Areala im Laufe der Handlungen einen Cyber-Arm verpasst und die Priester sind mit riesigen Energiewaffen ausgestattet. Allerdings bedient man sich auch viel im Fantasy Genre, nicht zuletzt da viele Charakter magische Fähigkeiten besitzen und sie immerhin Dämonen und Teufel jagen. NaJa, und das die schlichte, coole Action bei Namen wie SHOTGUN Mary nicht zu kurz kommen wird, sollte ebenfalls klar werden. In den Genre Einflüssen hat Ben Dunn also nicht gespart. Erinnerte mich etwas an den Witchblade Band den ich unlängst ebenfalls besprochen habe.

Wo man hingegen gespart hat, ist leider an der Story (wie so oft wenn das Konzept recht gut ist). Eine viel zu gradlinige Erzählung ohne überraschende Wendungen sorgen für wenig Spannung beim Lesen des Trades. Auch scheint Areala ohnehin unsterblich zu sein, da sie jedes Mal wenn sie das Zeitliche segnet, vom Rat der vorhergehenden Warrior Nuns zurück auf die Erde geschickt wird.

Hier bin ich mir aber nicht sicher ob dieser Trade auch wirklich der Beginn der Warrior Nuns Reihe ist. Da Sister Shannon den Namen „Areala“ ja von einer der toten Nonnen übernimmt, kann es sein dass es auch schon vor ihr andere Nonnen gab die die Areala Essenz in sich trugen. Ich glaube die Serie wurde auch immer in Mini-Serien veröffentlicht und es könnte ja sein, dass jede der Mini-Serien eine andere Nonne als Heldin hatte. Allerdings, es ist ja auch ein Relunch. Vielleicht glaubt Ben Dunn auch dass man sich an die 8 Jahre zuvor erschienen Hefte noch erinnert…

Dass das Antarctica Press Universum größer ist als ich dachte, zeigt sich bei der zweiten Geschichte in die vom Konzept her der ersten sehr ähnlich ist:

Der Nazi-Wissenschafter “Herr Ottoman” (wird aber auch mal Doctor oder Colonel genannt) will sich eine genmanipulierte Nazi Armee schaffen deren Speerspitze die Teutonic Knights sein sollen. Er selbst will der neue Nazi-Führer werden, deren Ideologie er als Religion auslegt und in Hitler den Erlöser sieht der für unsere Sünden gestorben ist.
Da er mehrere “Zutaten” benötigt um seinen ersten Teutonic Knight zu schaffen, tut er sich mit Lord Akon (ein(e) MagierIn der/die halb Frau / halb Mann zu sein scheint) und seiner/ihrer rechten Hand Jade Yashiki zusammen.

Die Beiden sehen ihn allerdings nur als Mittel zum Zweck und wollen sich von ihm lösen sobald sie den japanischen Dämon “Oni” beschworen haben, mit dem sie ebenfalls die Welt übernehmen wollen…

Als wären das nicht wieder genug Charaktere die man zu verfolgen hat, stopfen die Autoren hier noch dutzende weitere Figuren hinein die zwar alle wirklich sehr interessant wirken, aber völlig fehl am Platz zu sein scheinen und die Story nur überladen. So taucht eine Diggers auf, eine Katzen-Kriegerin die für den Teutonic Knight benötigt wird. Eine Spezial Einheit von Superhelden die in einem Flashback in Irak ein Artefakt gesucht haben das ihnen dann aber von einem TV-Serien zitierenden Techno-Ninja weggeschnappt wurde, was wiederum von einer Frau namens Serina beobachtet wurde, die nach diesem Flashback auch plötzlich in einem Kampf zwischen ein paar bösen Jungs und der Warrior Nun auftaucht, die gerade an der Seite ihres (japanischen) Großvaters kämpft. Der wohnt wiederrum mit einem Mädchen (Santo heißt sie, glaub ich…) zusammen dass man wahrscheinlich auch irgendwoher kennen sollte.

Das alles lässt mich darauf schließen dass Ben Dunn entweder vorrausetzt, dass man viele der Figuren von anderen Serien kennt, oder die Serie doch schon länger rennt und dies nicht der erste Trade ist.

Einerseits macht diese Ansammlung von skurrilen Figuren das Lesen zunehmend verwirrend, andererseits sind viele der Figuren wieder so abgedreht oder einfach nur cool, dass man schon gerne mehr von ihnen sehen würde.

Wer wissen will wie die Nazi Story ausgeht wird ohnehin nicht Drumherum kommen sich einen weiteren Band zu kaufen, denn bescheuerter Weise endet die Story mitten drunter.

Das Artwork ist sehr, sehr mangalastig, was nicht wundert wenn man weiß das AP ihre Veröffentlichung als “American Mangas” bezeichnen. Alle Hauptfiguren sind weiblich und derren pralle Oberweite wird immer nur von wenig Stoff bedeckt. Überraschenderweise stört mich dieser bunte Manga-Stil aber weniger als erwartet, obwohl ich irgendwie das Gefühl hatte, dass sich die Zeichner nicht auf einen Stil einigen könnten. Es gibt viele schaurige Horrorszenen, dann wieder normale Action aber manchmal wirkt das ganze auch sehr cartoony und witzig. Hat mich jetzt nicht unbedingt gestört, aber ich kann mir schon vorstellen dass manche Leser die genauer auf solche Dinge schauen, dies als Bruch empfinden könnten. Vielleicht ist das aber auch typisch für Mangas und die Stamm-Leser werden das lieben. Keine Ahnung.

Ich bin uneins was ich von dieser Serie halten soll. Ich mag die Figuren und das Konzept, doch die Stories sind wirklich völlig unspannend erzählt.

Ich würde Mal sagen dass ich Areala nur mit sehr viel Vorsicht empfehlen kann. Wenn es jemanden gibt der in dieser Review erwähnte Dinge wirklich total abgefahren findet, kann sich den Trade ja besorgen.

Allen anderen, besonders jene die sich hier einen kritischen Umgang, oder grade das Gegenteil – eine Parodie des Themas Kirche erwarten würden, muss ich wohl eher davon abraten.

2/5

WARRIOR NUN: Areala, Vol.1

Antarctic Press, November 2005

Warrior Nun: Areala #1-6

It looks to be a manageable lot on this week’s ComicList, at least for me. That’s just as well, as I used a Borders buy-four-get-the-fifth-free deal as an excuse to overspend on manga last weekend.

Fire Investigator Nanasd (CMX), story by Izo Hashimoto and art by Tomoshige Ichikawa, is the kind of book that makes me happy for a handful of reasons. It’s not brilliant, but it’s entertaining, and it combines mystery and adventure in pleasing ways. It’s got an appealing, highly competent female lead and puts her through the arson version of The Silence of the Lambs as she fights fires and looks into their origins with the aid of a serial arsonist. And, unrelated to the book’s quality but still welcome, the first search result for the series actually takes you to the publisher of the book, which almost never happens. I know. Weird things make me happy.

One of my Borders purchases this weekend was the first volume of You Higuri’s Ludwig II (Juné), which is… well… weird. As Kate Dacey noted in her review, it contains the holy trinity of Higuri historical fantasy: “beautiful people in beautiful clothes, political intrigue, and darkly handsome protagonists who are touched by madness.” The titular protagonist is one of those rulers every citizen of a monarchy should dread: a delusional opera queen. As is usually the case with Higuri yaoi (or near-yaoi), the gorgeous art and weird nuances are carrying me past the sordid but strangely listless seme-uke shenanigans between Ludwig and his devoted manservant. We’ll see if those features continue to offer sufficient compensation to make me want to track down volume two.

Do you miss the days when Greg Rucka did creator-owned work? Well, there’s good news for you, as he returns to Oni (home to his Queen and Country and Whiteout) with a new detective series, Stumptown, illustrated by Matthew Southworth. Once again, he seems to be following the gritty misadventures of a strong female protagonist, a private investigator named Dex in the midst of a high-stakes missing-person case. The art looks terrific, and Rucka certainly has a strong track record with undiluted noir.

Viz unleashes a thundering herd of titles, many of which I like very much, but I’ll fixate on one because it’s great and I feel like I’ve been neglecting it: Hikaru no Go, written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, which reaches its 17th volume. This looks to be a particularly eventful installment. Protagonist Hikaru has lost his ghostly go mentor Sai, and he faces off with his rival, gifted prodigy Akira. It’s a great series, smartly written by Hotta and beautifully drawn by Obata.

Kembali penghuni rumah di jalan Kayu, ditinggalkan(sementara) satu-persatu penghuninya.

pertama, oleh Kak Cika.
ada acara di CITOS, jd terpaksa nginep di apartemen.
satu personil, absen.

kedua, adikku… Ucok
memilih pesawat sbg sarananya kembali ke Malang.
dy masi ingin lama-lama bersama kami, makanya dia pilih pesawat.
coba klo KA, dy ga bs pulang hari minggu, krn senin dy ujian

naaaah,, selama di bandara mengantar Ucok, ada aja kejadian kocak.
tiba-tiba aja, sendal mam lepas.
dudududuuuuuu,.,,.,.
alhasil, mam panik, n nyuru gw beli lem, di bandara… kmana???
yg ada kios makanan mam…

tpi berhubung gw anak pantang menyerah 2009 (ini award gw yg keberapa ya?? ehm, nanti kita bahas)
jd, gw tetep nyari sapa aja yg ikhlas mw mmberi lem bwt mam. (ada??)

hihihi… akhirnya… “mba, beli lem.”

pap juga ikut”an kebagian tugas.
pap kebagian jadi tukang sol spatu. untung ga di razia satpol pp
hehehe…

kjadian brikutnya…
adikku boker sangat lama!
mam panik krn ud waktunya ucok boarding.

ooo… antrian panjang skali.
antrian??
antrian apa??

ok, cuma dan hanya di Indonesia, Jakarta, Cengkareng, Terminal 1B, penumpang yg mw boarding harus antri layaknya terminal PULO GADUNG.
lo tw lah gmana suasana terminal Pulo Gadung… (foto diatas sbnarnya ga sesuai sama keadaan aslinya, yg gerah! panas! Penuh akan Manuk!!! ups, manusia.. ckckckck…)

astajim,, bikin mam gw makin panik.
untunglah gw pny pap yg ga cm jendral, tpi preman punya.
adikku bs diloloskan dri antrian manusia” itu..
saluuuuuut, pap!!!
For Your Info: No SOGOK!!!
hahahahahahahaaaa

kjadian brikutnya,
mam ga maw pulang sblum mmastikan psawat adikku ga di delay.
ya ud,, ngemper de kita.
ddukin troli nganggur sambil foto”
Hahahahaha…. muka tembok bgt da keluarga gw!!!
pdhl bnyak yg mandangin kita dgn muka… kagum.. mrk pasti mikir, kompak bgt keluarga gw, asik bwt gila”an..

mam pap pake mesra”an pula
ckckckckck….
iri nih anaknya!
hahahaha…
tpi baguslah,, akurlah kalian selamanya,, luff u ;*

adikku… slamat jalan,,, blajar yg bner ya,, klo laper, ga punya duit, tinggal tidur aja, paling bsok ntut, hahahaha,,,
luff my BIG bro!!!!

dan akhirnya personil trakhir yg meninggalkan rmh adalah gw.
kmbali ke kosan, nyetrika, nyuci, nyapu, ngepel…(eeeeh,, gw mhasiswi ato pembantu??)
hahahahahaha

oni_palingcuantik

The Comics Reporter notes that it’s Matthew Loux’s birthday, and while I’m rather fried this evening, I’d be remiss if I didn’t take the opportunity to remind you that Loux’s Salt Water Taffy series of books (published by Oni Press) is an awful lot of fun. Here are my reviews of the first and second volumes. Need additional persuason? Here’s what Greg McElhatton had to say about volume one and volume two. And here’s Kate Dacey’s review of The Legend of Old Salty at Good Comics for Kids.

Be irrepressible, an Amnesty International campaign.

(Versión en Castellano)

Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.

The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression …

The web is a great tool for sharing ideas and freedom of expression. However, efforts to try and control the Internet are growing. Internet repression is reported in countries like China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria. People are persecuted and imprisoned simply for criticising their government, calling for democracy and greater press freedom, or exposing human rights abuses, online.

But Internet repression is not just about governments. IT companies have helped build the systems that enable surveillance and censorship to take place. Yahoo! have supplied email users’ private data to the Chinese authorities, helping to facilitate cases of wrongful imprisonment. Microsoft and Google have both complied with government demands to actively censor Chinese users of their services.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right. It is one of the most precious of all rights. We should fight to protect it.

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Database of censored material

Amnesty International is working with the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) to help raise awareness of internet censorship around the world.

The ONI is a collaboration among the Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge University, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School UK, and the Oxford Internet Institute, plus partner non- governmental organizations worldwide.

The aim of the ONI is to document empirically patterns of Internet content filtering and surveillance worldwide behind national firewalls over an extended period of time. The ONI employs a unique methodology that combines in-field investigations by partners and associates within the countries under investigation and a suite of technical interrogation tools that probe the Internet directly for forensic evidence of content filtering and surveillance technologies.

Its 11 country reports have documented the scope, scale and sophistication of numerous filtering regimes worldwide, and have helped verify the use of US commercial filtering technologies, such as Smartfilter and Websense that are used in some ways to underpin these regimes. The ONI’s flash map of global filtering shows the results of these investigations.

The work of ONI is supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. ONI’s mapping work is supported by the International Development Research Centre (Canada).

The examples of censored material used for Irrepressible.info have been drawn from websites that have been blocked in one of the following countries – China, Iran, Myanmar, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Syria and Vietnam, and are based on latest testing results available from each country.

The universe is bait.

And in 1969 something got hungry. Professor Hossad Mussef, Professor and Chair of the nascent hyperphysics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lauded as the smartest man in the world, was the only man who suspected something.

The press gave Mussef the title as the world’s smartest man at the end of the second world war when the Japanese superhero Oni transported the atomic bomb meant for Hiroshima to the dark side of the moon and Mussef, only 10-years-old, improvised another atomic bomb.

And while he was championed as a war hero, the young boy revealed his moral standard to the world, isolating himself from altruistic scientists and superheroes. He was the Manhattan Project on a whim. His engineering and ethical caprice evident and 140,000 Japanese ghosts on his soul, Mussef didn’t blink. He grinned and called himself Professor Phenomenon.

Hopscotching from Columbia to MIT to Yale to Duke, Professor Phenomenon collected degree after degree while helping to structure Prometheus (the Paranormal Research Organization’s replacement agency) in 1950. After his sprints in academia, Professor Phenomenon ensconced himself in superscience, discovering subspace, dating movie stars, giving soundbites* to the press, and battling the theoretical villainy of other giga-intellects like Googolplex, the Polymath, and Frank Lloyd Wrong.

And, of course, the Atomic Brain, whom he helped create.

But in 1969 the Professor needed help. He collected a squad the post-humans who would be of use to him (without informing the Front, the U.S. Government, the United Nations, or the Kaleidoscope– an intergalactic collection of sentient species that Earth nominally belonged to).

TROIKA: A soviet adventurer who discovered the trinity coil.

THE SATURN CENTURION: A shape-changing alien that Professor Phenomenon liberated from the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The Saturn Centurion later became the Professor’s first wife.

GOLEM: A Jewish rabbi whose spirit left his body while the SS carved a star of David into his chest. His soul, instead of falling to sheol, invested in an unfeeling stone body, enabling the gentle teacher to enact great cruelty.

TIME-LAPSE: One of the first post-humans born to the subterranean race of humans beneath Arizona in The Underland. Ostensibly blind because she constantly sees the future.

SUNSPOT: A young woman possessed by a sentient solar storm (this energy force would later go on to empower Pharaoh and Helios).

This team proceeded to travel to Olympus Mons (the largest mountain formation on Mars) to activate certain Cosmic machinery left there by an ancient alien race known as the Progenitors.

The machinery forced whatever predator angling to consume the universe to assume a matter form which the team fought for 20 months. The Konsumer (as Troika dubbed the cosmic predator) killed the entire team other than the Saturn Centurion. (Though Golem was able to reconstitute himself out of Martian minerals).

During the final conflict, the team of Phenomenauts were still unable to overcome the Konsumer until an even greater force manifested and ate the Konsumer. Professor Phenomenon to reconsidered the scenario, forming the theory that the universe was being used as a bait to attract food by some even grander entity.

The remnants of the original Phenomenauts returned to earth, sticking by one another when the U.S. Government accused the team of defecting to the USSR. And again when agents of the Forever Reich attempted to dispatch Golem, and again when the Kaliedoscope arrested the Saturn Centurion for “crimes against reality.” The Phenomenauts very publically grew into a family.

Professor Phenomenon eventually took a role as science adviser for Prometheus and President Carter, but retired when Regan took office, setting up a small technology firm (Phenomenal Ventures) that was occasionally hired by Prometheus to design headquarters for operatives or observation posts until a hostile takeover by SummaCorp. During these years Professor Phenomenon had children, became a widower**, remarried, and had a final child, Kadir Mussef (aka The Mastermind).

He also fought off Quetzalcoatl 8 when the Bleed was discovered during the Parallel Wars. Following the Parallel Wars, Professor Phenomenon and his children to explored the Bleed (except when he took a two year sabbatical, after which he created an AIDS vaccine in 1997).

In her book Too Much of a Muchness, Dr. Tara Chace theorized that the only reason Professor Phenomenon kept the group together was to give himself a moral background the scientific community supposed he lacked. She believe the Professor suffers from some post-human form of dissocial personality disorder. That humans are like grass to him. Ubiquitous but unimportant.

In late 2008 the Phenomenauts’ Manhattan headquarters remote contacted Prometheus, informing the organization that the Phenomenauts had not established contact with Earth in five days. They remain missing…

MODERN PHENOMENAUT LINEUP (Missing)

DROWN: Fume’s fiancee. The daughter of Oceanus, ousted king of Aquaria.

FUME: Prof. Phenomenon’s first son born to his extra-terrestrial wife, the Saturn Centurion, was composed of gas. The Professor constructed a suit so that he could interact with the physical world.

GOLEM: The same cantankerous, raging Jew now built out of rust-colored Mars rocks.

PROFESSOR PHENOMENON: 85 years old, though he doesn’t look a day over fifty. Smartest man in the world. Egyptian ethnic who emmigrated to the U.S. in 1936. Claims  his super-intelligence came from tutoring by his babysitter, Nikolai Tesla.

RADIANT: Prof. Phenomenon’s first daughter born to his extra-terrestrial wife. Made up of living plasma, though after enough training she could form a “skin” of anti-force that allowed her to interact with the physical world.

UNDERWHELM: Self-hating Underlander who can strip abilities from post-humans. Increasingly it seems these depowerings are permanent. (Perhaps one of Prof. Phenomenon’s many illegitimate children.)

DR. WHEN: Though not a full member of the team, the time traveler likes crashing with the Phenomenauts in this time period.

PHENOMENAUTS’ FOES

The Atomic Brain: The nuclear genius who believes destruction to be the one true benchmark to measure greatness. Because otherwise, this world-class threat’s brain would be second to Professor Phenomenon.

Bio-Hazard: A grad-student who worked with Prof. Phenomenon in the 90’s. His vaccine to cure AIDS did not work. He only survived by converting his body into something horrible to survive the infection.

Dr. Distortion (III): Not a biological descendant but a big fan, the third Dr. Distortion uses the magnetic tech of the original Dr. Distortion to breach the Bleed, the extropic space between universes.

Googolplex (II): The “daughter” of the original Googolplex is a sentient computer virus that wrecks national economies for fun. It is believed the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis to be at least some part her doing.

Professor Peril: Former Prof. Phenom student in the late 50s. Turned raging robotics master.

Reactor: Former grad student of Prof. Phenomenon. Hoped to design an Atomic Brain-killer suit, but became infused with deadly theta radiation.

Silverback: Son of the super-intelligent gorilla Doc Kong and former student of Professor Phenomenon, Silverback originally menaced the phenomenauts as part of the post-human law firm, Jacobi & Associates.

The Second Renaissance: A group of Mussef’s former students who banded together to end “myth’s rule over humanity” by targetting magic-users and institutions of faith.

Warzone, the Angry Arena: A living intra-dimensional space designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong.

It’s been a week since I lasted posted an entry, and it’s not due to laziness.  I’ve actually been somewhat busy for the past few days.  Aside from the insurmountable amounts of homework that I’ve been receiving, I’ve also been busy writing.  I applied at Suite101, and I was hired, so I can now say that I am officially a freelance writer.  Kind of cool, no?  Anyway, I’ve been busy writing for that site, and my commitment to GamerSyndrome continues.  I’m adding more and more credentials to my resume, and that’s something I am totally stoked about, because by volunteering here and there, freelancing at a few places, and so on, I’ll have more references and experience under my belt.  I know I’m just getting started on something that will undoubtedly take a long time to reach the apex of, but I have no problem with paying my dues.  If I want to get somewhere, I’ll have to work hard, and I’m completely comfortable with that.

Aside from my writing, school has been taking a ton of my time.  With the mediocre teacher I have, it’s bound to stay that way for the rest of the semester.  The guy’s lectures are so convoluted that when I get home and try to do my homework, I am completely lost.  It’s ridiculous.  I took my second quiz for that class, and I did even worse than the first time.  I wasn’t the only one either.  Quite a few people scored below me.  I’ve get a test next week, and I have no doubt in my mind it will be difficult.  Damn this class, and damn that teacher!

This past Saturday I worked the Ladyhawke concert.  I was put by the low box.  It was really easy, and I had a clear view of the stage, so I enjoyed the show.  Well, I enjoyed Ladyhawke; all the other bands sucked.  I really wanted to get a Ladyhawke shirt, but I felt rushed to leave, and I’m being extra careful with my money.  I can always get a shirt online anyway.

I haven’t played video games all that much lately.  Maybe later this week I can finish Oni.  We’ll see.

How is it that I didn’t know that Ted Naifeh was working on graphic novels adaptations of with young-adult fantasy novels by novelist Holly Black? Admittedly, I’m not familiar with Black’s work, but I’m crazy about a lot of Naifeh’s comics (particularly Courtney Crumrin and Polly and the Pirates from Oni). And Graphix doesn’t even seem to have done the “bury the adaptor’s illustrator’s credit” thing that plagues so many projects of this type.

Anyway, there are two volumes out so far: The Good Neighbors: Kin (in hardcover and paperback) and The Good Neighbors: Kith (just in hardcover so far). (By the way, does the Scholastic store site look as horrible in other browsers as it does in Firefox?) I’m not wild about stories that involve someone being kidnapped to faerie, with the exception of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Still, it’s Naifeh doing work in narrative territory where he generally excels, and I have a coupon from Barnes & Noble. It is settled.

Thanks to Michael May for tipping me off to the books in his post at Robot 6.