Formula One Red Bull demo along Jalan Bukit Bintang tomorrow

If you happen to be in the city tomorrow afternoon, you may want to head on over to Jalan Bukit Bintang for a never-before Formula One street demonstration by David Coulthard of Red Bull, i.e., if you are an F1 enthusiast, enjoys loud noise and don't mind being in a crowd of 50,000 (the expected number of people).

The performance area will be along the stretch of Jalan Bukit Bintang, starting from The Westin hotel and Pavilion to the Jalan Sultan Ismail junction after Lot 10.

In conjunction with this event, Jalan Bukit Bintang from Jalan Raja Chulan junction to Jalan Sultan Ismail turnoff will be closed to traffic from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. You can either go to the city early to secure parking or park way off and walk to the site. Just don't get caught in the jam of cars detouring.

Btw, the Malaysian Grand Prix will be from April 8 to 10 in Sepang. For visitors, if you haven't got hotel reservations yet, you would have a hard time securing one and that too at three times the usual rate.



Source: The Star

Win a Holiday in Italy in the Sunkist Contest

Contest time! If you are good with the camera and are creative, here is a chance to win an 8D/7N trip to Italy, exploring over 11 cities, plus a three-hour Ferrari ride in Tuscany thanks to the Sunkist “Are You Awesome?” Contest.

Organised by F&N Dairies (M) Sdn Bhd, the contest from Jan 1 to April 30, challenges consumers to be creative with a pack of Sunkist juice.

All you need to do is to grab a Sunkist pack with the word “Awesome”, take a photo with it, be creative of course, and upload it to www.dailyawesomedose.com or MMS to 016-339 9950. Then, get all your family and friends to vote for your photo.

Every week for 16 weeks, the photo with the highest votes will win RM500 while all 16 weekly winners will battle it out for the grand prize at the end of the contest period.

Every week, two voters who submit the highest votes will find themselves RM100 richer.

Hurry! Contest ends April 30!

Check out more details from The Star.

Tattoos and moral rights: a couple of points to ponder

Apologies are owed to my correspondent who wrote me the following missive, which I meant to post last week but completely overlooked. He writes:

"My colleague and I were discussing, at length, the art of tattooing (it was, after all, Friday afternoon!).

My question is this, if a tattoo artist creates a unique design for a client, then this is tattooed on to the aforementioned client, does the tattoo artist still own any intellectual property rights (namely copyright) over this piece of art? If the tattooed subject were to go on to a profession (I can only think of modelling at this precise moment) where the tattoo was constantly broadcast to the general public, and the designer viewed this to be derogatory to their work, would they be able to litigate!"

It seems to me that the potentially derogatory public display and transmission of the tattoo is only one of a number of moral rights issues that can be discussed -- another one is whether, if the tattooed subject wishes to have the tattoo amended or removed, the tattoo artist has any ground upon which to object.

Readers' thoughts on the topic are naturally welcomed.

Amazing Visualization of the Most Recent 866 Earthquakes in Japan since March 11th.

Check this out – it is AMAZING!  It depicts the series of earthquakes that have occurred off the coast of Japan since March 11, 2011.  Make sure you set the “sticky dots” to display, and show “Magnitudes: All” for the full effect.  The animation shows the time series of 866 quakes (so far!), at depths from less than 2.5 km to over 50 km.  You can set the animation to go for the whole period since March 11^th, for the past 7 days, or just for today.  Today alone there were 14 quakes, as of 11:00 am EDT. 

http://www.japanquakemap.com/today

Some other websites related to the Earthquakes in Japan (these sent by Kristen Grady): Radiation Map criticism): http://www.maproomblog.com/2011/03/an_irresponsible_radiation_map.php

Radiation Map (original): http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/science/plume-graphic.html?ref=science

You may have seen this one already, because I think it’s made the rounds, but it is pretty amazing! (drag the new image over the old one)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

And this from Jenn Brisbane:

“I ran across this link this morning.  Amazing how useful community mapping can be in times of crisis.  Here is a google map that was created for people to list shelters in and around the Tokyo area.  Some of the shelters have a lot of detail such as # of beds, toilets, whether there is a nursery, and whether food is being provided.  I'm not sure if the people staying at these shelters are Tokyo residents or if they have transferred people from the tsunami-stricken areas to Tokyo.  Hopefully there are similar maps for shelters closer to the Sendai area.”

http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=ja&brcurrent=3,0x605d1b87f02e57e7:0x2e01618b22571b89,0&msa=0&msid=215507572864740295322.00049e31ae027259c4dda&z=12

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