SAMA KOKO'S LIST OF SELECTED SITES (LOSS)

by Sama Koko, Wed 19 July 2000

^samakoko.com^ (R) Newsflash 2000 (C)

>> To be submitted and incorporated in Bidayuh.com (R)

 

Quotable Quotes

Ask, and it will be given to you;

seek, and you will find;

knock, and it will be opened to you.

Luke 10:30-37

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day,

teach him to use the Net

and he wouldn't bother you for weeks.

from http://www.quoteland.com

Reality is an illusion

created by alcoholic deficiency

Anonymous, from http://www.quoteland.com

Internet – everything also got !!*

Sama Koko

(*Ma Erik proposed to add ", what" at the end.)

 

Here are the Internet sites – websites - that I have surfed which I feel could be of use to our fellow Bidayuhs and your non-Bidayuh spouses. I have searched my conscience and dug my Netscape Communicator Bookmarks and Microsfot Internet Explorer (MSIE) Favorites to come up with this personal List of Selected Sites (LOSS). Okay, some of you may say that the guys at Yahoo!, Netscape, MSIE and so on have done better and present more comprehensive listings than this. And surely search machines such as Yahoo! (Google.com), AltaVista, Infoseek, HotBot and AskJeeves can search for any keyword at a click of a mouse plus a few keyboard keys.

My response is that the Internet pie is getting bigger by the day - there is always something for anybody. Proof: why do we have Catcha.com, Cari.com, MalaysiaFocus.com and Skali.com in Malaysia? Furthermore, we need a list of selected sites (LOSS) of the Bidayuh, by a Bidayuh and for the Bidayuh. But Paul Remek, Ricky, db, BB (via Bidayuh.com) and others have done that, you say as a matter-of-factly. Well, an extra list by a Bidayuh would not do any harm, I say.

And these days, every Tong, Dollah and Munyang and their uncles seem to be having their list of surf sites. With that, I rest my case.

I have categorised the list. Some of the sites have been mentioned in my previous articles.

DICTIONARY/ENCYCLOPAEDIA/REFERENCE

http://www.oed.com – Oxford English Dictionary – by subscription but contains other useful information. 

Used to have free word of the day – complete with origin – lexicography?? Surfed when "lah" was added by the Singapore branch and received wide publicity in Malaysia.

http://britannica.com – Encyclopaedia Britannica – free search for the whole edition, hoping to make money from screen ads. Just launched last year. Site used to crash (??) when first online but okay now. Good links and very detailed information – you do not expect anything less from the Britannica. So during, the Morse code war between Selako-Pueh (not Salako) and Bidayuh Quop at Britong2000 (TM) (still around, no contributors), I read about Samuel Morse and his code – history and applications in war and peace. Sigh!

http://www.bartleby.com - Bartleby.com. Online literature, non-fiction and references. Great for free Gray's Anatomy, Oxford Shakespeare, Fowler's King's English and The Holy Bible. Impress your friends with quotations or idiosyncrasies of the English language? Free and very extensive.

http://www.quoteland.com - Quoteland.com. All the quotes of the land.

http://www.whatis.com - IT dictionary/encyclopedia. Topics conveniently chosen by keywords.

http://www.eboz.com - eBoz. e-boss!!. Guide and tips to e-business. Business advice and HTML tips. Creating successful websites.

http://www.encyclopedia.com – Encyclopedia.com. Not free – have to subscribe.

http://www.umass.edu.edu/aesop - Aesop's Fables online. Traditional and modern. Nostalgia on The Hare and The Tortoise; and The Goose and The Golden Eggs, Kutieng??

http://www.askjeeves.com - askJeeves.com. Sorry Yahoo!, Excite and other search engines. No need to mention.

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE

http://babelfish.altavista.com - Free language translator for the major European languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese ...

http://www.babylon.com - Babylon.com. The single click language translator - for 12 languages. Also contains other conversions, e.g. currency converter. Tried translating English to Chinese (Mandarin?) but only #$^%$& comes out.

http://www.1jn.com/1/chinese.html - John Nicholson's online free tutorial to basic Mandarin (Mandarin 101?).

http://www.studyspanish.com - Study Spanish tutorials. Online and free.

FAMILY/CHILDREN/WOMEN

http://family.go.com - Family.com. Disney's new Entertainment Channel. For kids and parents alike.There's even an Ovulation Calculator, Kutieng!!

http://www.kidsdomain.com - KidsDomain. Great for kids, from Dino clip arts to Pokemon contests.

http://funbrain.com – FunBrain.com. Some free games for the kids. Free English tuition.

http://www.oneworld.com/penguin - Tiki - the Penguin. For kids.

http://tlc.discovery.com - CTW - Children's Television Workshop. The learning channel??

http://kids.discovery.com - Kid'sDiscovery.com.

http://www.myetutor.com - Malaysian e-tutor?

http://www.childrenmusic.com - Children's music.

http://www.daddyagogo.com - Daddy A Go Go. Rock and roll music for children.

http://www.familyeducation.com – for shoppers. Enhance your child's skills.

http://www.women.com - Women.com

http://www.bluemountain.com – one of the pioneers of e-cards. Have free games and other activities for the kids and missus (male chauvinism??)

http://www.americangreetings.com - Americangreetings.com. Make your feelings CLICK !

http://www.mplayer.com - Mplayer. One of the online source of games.

http://zone.msn.com - Gaming zone for Microsoft MSN.

http://games.yahoo.com - Yahoo Games.

HEALTH

http://www.kidshealth.com - Kids Health . Children's health and parenting information

http://oneskin.com - Oneskin.com. Go there!

http://www.diabetes.com - Very useful site for diabetes - Mother of all diseases, a very common inherited disease in Malaysia. Highly recommended to diabetics or your diabetic relatives or friends.

MALAYSIANA

http://www.malaysia.net – NGOs and Political parties left and right but not centre – DAP, Aliran, et al.

http://www.catcha.com.my – Catcha.com

http://www.skali.com – Skali portal – 4D result and Chinese horoscope also got!! No thanks, Ma Erik.

http://www.malaysiafocus.com – Malaysia Focus – clone of Catcha.com?

http://www.cari.com.my - Cari.com. Malaysia's 1st search engine?? In English, Malay and Chinese.

http://www.jaring.my – MIMOS' Jaring – Every e-Malaysian should know.

http://thestar.com.my/ - The Star, the newspaper not "our" party. (p.s. For Bah Kut Teh lovers please proceed to kuali/1dish.html#bah)

http://www.utusan.com.my - Utusan Malaysia online.

http://www.taninet.com.my – Agriculture information centre – in English and Malay. Practical advice for our farmers.

http://www.apafri.upm.edu.my - Apafri.net (?). Apa-apa pun free, said its Bidayuh webmaster(?)

http://www.yellowpages.com.my – Telekom Malaysia's online Yellow Pages. Now have to register.

http://www.kjc.gov.my – Malaysian weather homepage. What's the temperature today in Kuching? Or Kepayan?

http://www.borneoecotours.com – Borneo Ecotours. For those obsessed with eco-tourism.

http://www.borneo-resort.com - Nexus Resort Karambunai, Sabah.

SARAWAK

http://www.sdi.com.my - Sarawak Development Institute.

http://www.jaring.my/tribune - The Sarawak Tribune; Utusan Sarawak also got here.

http://www.sarawak.com.my - Sarawak Alive! - where e-Sarawakians gather and shelter.

http://www.borneopost.com – The Borneo Post.

http://www.sarawak.gov.my – The Official Sarawak Government Homepage.

http://www.malaysia.net/sarawak – Sarawak Talk (ST). Minyu Sarawak talk for the Malay, Chinese, Iban, Bidayuh, Kayan, Kenyah, Lun Bawang, Lun Dayeh, Penan, etc.

http://www.isarawak.com.my/kuching - Kuching Online.

http://www.sarawaktourism.com - Homepage of Sarawak Tourism Board.

http://www.infobintulu.com – InfoBintulu. Check your bulls and bears and stock prices of belacan, umai and tebaloi.

http://www.cmm.com.my – The Sarawak Centre for Modern Management. A Britonger - Observer - is one of the executives. Thanks, Ma Erik.

http://www.sbc.org.my - Sarawak Biodiversity Council. Thanks again, Ma Erik.

http://www.rengah.c2o.org – Rengah Sarawak. Rengah is Penan speak for 'news', not upstairs as in Ma Eriks' 'ja ata maad ka rengah'. Anything Penan should be under the indigenous people or NGO category, but here is okay also.

http://www.1stsilicon.com - 1st Silicon homepage. A few pages.

MELAYUNIA

http://www.putera.com – Putera.com. Ada kemusykilan komputer? Tanya sini. Ada Linux dan Unix.

http://www.melayu.com/pit/ - Perjumpaan IT Melayu.

http://www.angelfire.com/in/aHurry – Laman sawang persendirian, dipanggil "In A Hurry".

http://ujid.tripod.com – Dunia Melayu.

http://www.jim.org.org.my - JIM (Jemaah Islamiah Malaysia). One of the many active Muslim organisations in Malaysia.

BIDANNIA (for future Bidopians)

http://ace.cdc.abu.com/~paular – Paul Remek's homepage – and probably the first Bidayuh webmaster in the world. Syabas cikgu Paul!! His ../email.html contains the Who's Who of the Bidayuh netizen. Are you in? Be there or be square!

http://www.sarawak.com.my/britong – Ricky's Britong site – this one. Ricky is probably one of the first Bidayuh webmasters in the world. Please enlighten me on this.

ttp://wwwboard.net/bbs1/britong_2000 - Britong 2000, an emergency site created by some Good Samaritans when the original Britong was down with Coxsackie. Deserted now, so sad.

http://www.geocities.com/dayung_biatah – Dayung Biatah's Bidayuh Culture On-Line (BidCol) First Bidayuh mistress of the web in the world (?). I love your cartoons db (Debbie?), and the witty accompanying articles. But never answer intimate enquiries... and now closed??

http://www.bidayuh.com – Bidayuh Bratak's Bidayuh.com site, reincarnation as www.nativegoodies.com was shortlived, no 'karma' maybe. Ready made e-business model for e-Bidayuhs in preparation for the k-economy. Categories defined but contents are still lacking. C'mon Britongers, contribute to this site meant for you - 'Manah ka nuan!!'.

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Dojo/3457 – Kron Aken's Kampung Stenggang homepage. One of the inhabitants of cyberspace in Geocities territory. Please check the picture of dayung borises with an odd man out.

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Palace/1170 – Another unknown Bidayuh squatting in Geocities cyberspace. What about ~/ResearchTriangle/Lab/.. and ~/pai_lin98/...??

http://www.malitnet.net.my - IT company in Kuching (?), headed by a Britonger Bidayuh, BB.

http://wwwboard.net/bbs1/patungfc - Kampung Patung's e-exposure by Zeplin Uteh. Thanks Zep. Probably the only Bidayuh FC on the Net. How's the hits counter Zep? Any increase? Hope to see scanned pictures of losing dayung teams in the near future.

IBANNIA

http://www.malaysia.net/randaruai – Randauruai (RR). Bejako enggau berandau yon bala Iban. Gayu guru gerai nyamai et al.

http://www.dayaks.com - Dayaks.com. Managed by our fellow Dayaks, the Iban. Webmaster operates from Brunei, don't know why - most probably working there.

http://eco1.upm.edu.my/~jayum - Homepage of Dr. Jayl Jayum, an Iban lecturer at UPM Serdang. Quite vocal on issues of Iban leadership and debolotment. Also got graphs and statistics on the performance of Sarawak natives (bumiputeras) particularly bala Ibans, but oh dear... nuan perlu present the latest data, Apai Jayum ... get it from the statistics department (e.g. Malaysian Department of Statistics at http://www.statistics.gov.my or from Sarawak state departments.)

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE/DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

http://www.rimba.com/spc/spcnetwork.html – Sarawak Peoples Campaign – Network

http://www.woodpecker.ch – Bruno Manser, the woodpecker

http://www.bmf.ch – Bruno Manser Fonds (Bruno Manser Foundation). C'mon guys, apply for grant here.

http://www.irn.org – International Rivers Network. Online journal with downloadable articles on rivers.

http://irn.org/programs/bakun/index.html – IRN'S Bakun campaign. Contains consultancy reports.

TECHNOLOGY/SCIENCE

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ - The Register. The news and reviews of what's hot and not in technology. Be there or be square! This led me to Domainbusters.com and the checking of domain registrations – for example Bidayuh.com (http://www.bidayuh.com) was registered in mid March 2000. Congratulations once again, BB!! Good on ya!

http://www.idg.net - IDG.net. See The Standard - Intelligence for the Net community.

http://shareware.cnet.com - CNET.com online. Very informative source for things 'netty'.

http://www.tomshardware.com - Tom's Hardware.com. Another useful IT site.

http://www.zdnet.com – ZDNet. Another informative and definitive source of IT online. Contains articles from the various Ziff-Davis publications.

http://smartplanet.zdnet.com – SmartPlanet. Online turorials/courses/classes from ZDNet. Have to subscribe (pay) to join the courses.

http://www.ercb.com – Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books. Go here to read reviews of books on computing. Even if not buying computer or book, just go for the sake of reading – see how good articles are written. Mostly witty and hilarious in order to attract attention to a dull subject !!

http://www.computeruser.com - Useful for computing. Lots of information.

http://www.computerhistory.org - Cybermuseum. History of computing with pictures. Great for seeing old computers and for downloading of hard to get images. Helps in writing essays on historical aspects of computing.

http://www.2600.com - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

http://www.cookiecentral.com - Cookie Central. Cookies Zep? BB?

http://www3.software.ibm.com - software downloads from Big Blue, IBM.

http://web.icq.com - ICQ.com. Israeli teenagers turn an obscure I Seek You wireless message into a popular tool and became millionaires!! Also http://www.mirabilis.com.

http://www.transmeta.com - Transmeta Corp. Learn about Crusoe - a new world of moblie computing.

http://www.mathsoft.com - MathSoft Inc. Want to learn mathematics?

http://landsat7.usgs.gov – Landsat 7. Interested in remotes sensing or satellite technology?

http://science.msfc.nasa.gov – Science @ NASA. Good for schoolchildren or college students.

http://xxx.lanl.gov - The only scientific archive with 3X rating, direct from Los Alamos. Files are in PostScript and PDF formats though (download Acrobat Reader to read PDF files from http://www.adobe.com) .

http://www.cern.ch - European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, French-Swiss border. You go here DB?

http://www.nejm.org – The world-famous New England Journal of Medicine, based in Massachusetts, the US of A. Sample journal articles are free. Very academic and rigorous.

http://popularmechanis.com - Popular Mechanics magazine. Selected articles free. Should be useful for Pajero owners preparing for that BH trip and other DIY enthusiasts.

http://www.sciam.com/ - Scientific American magazine online. Popular articles by the leading "shifus" of science. Gives contents and some articles in full. Should be sufficient for us to say "alpha", "beta" or shout "Eureka!!" and run au naturel out of the bathroom.

BUSINESS/ECONOMICS/FINANCE

http://www.bloomberg.com – Bloomberg.com. Very famous name, informative and canggih site.

http://www.yardeni.com – Dr. Ed Yardeni Economics Network. Less pretty than Bloomberg's but equally informative with expert analyses, hints and 'tips'. Herr Professor is chief economist of Deutsche Bundesbank.

http://www.abcstockmarket.com – ABCs of Stock Market Guide. Have to subscribe for courses though.

http://www.equis.com - Equis International - technical analysis, charting, Metastock software and financial tools.

http://www.investorama.com - Free data on 6,500 stocks.

http://www.geocities.com/investcoin/home.html - Investcoin's personal homepage on stock trading. From a practising stock trader in Bangsar (?), KL. Good links and referencs to other business websites. Promoted his site on Britong and also Sarawak Talk. Probably not a Bidayuh.

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8109/klse.html – KLSE online homepage. What, KLSE cannot afford server kah? Kah !! Kah !! Kah !! Please, update me on this.

http://kloffe.w3.to - System for trading on Kloffe

NEWS

http://www.the-times.co.uk/ - The Times of London newspaper – good links to other sites and archives.

http://www.cnn.com - CNN - used to be called Chicken Noodle News when first on air before the Net.

http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/magazine – Online TimeAsia newsmagazine

http://www.time.com/time – Time newsmagazine. Check out archive for Person of the Century – Albert Einstein.

http://www.pbs.org – PBS television station, used to be very famous. Not Parti Bersatu Sabah !!

http://newsweek.com – Newsweek.com. Online version of Newsweek International newsmagazine.

http://www.economist.com - The Economist online. A respected British international economics weekly magazine. Selected articles are given full online.

http://www.bbc.co.uk - The British Broadcasting Corporation.

BOOKS

http://www.amazon.com – Amazon.com e-bookstore – first with dotcom name? Read about Jeff Bezos.

http://www.simonsays.com – Simon & Schuster. Contains good book reviews before they hit the stores.

http://wspc.com.sg - World famous Singapore publisher. Very good source of information.

http://www.bh.com/digitalpress – Digital Press, Butterworth-Heineman.

http://highwire.stanford.edu - Highwire Press of Stanford University. Get free online full-text articles here.

http://www.heronpublishing.com - Heron Publishing homepage.

CARTOONS

http://www.high-tech.com/panther – Pink Panther (courtesy of db's BidCol)

http://www.cagle.com – latest American satire

http://www.ohmygoodness.com – Oh goodness me, a site recommended by BQ (or BB?). Canggih cartoons – moving applets, Italian style – sp recommends Pam Andersin??

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/index.html - The Official Peanuts Website - Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Friends - Charles Schulz.

ENTERTAINMENT – MP3

http://zarry.com – The only MP3 site that works. Sorry – I am only parroting the words of Zarry, the founder – true at times, 50:50 success rate. However, I am a convert and want to spread the good news to you all - be you a veteran believer/surfer or a novice/pagan.

http://mail1.bet1.puv.fi/~aw/mp3-classical/index.html - MP3 classical music. Get some Beethoven, Bach or Tchaikovsky for a change. Remember, 'mail1' is 'mail one', not double 'els' or 'ones'.

http://www.themusiclover.com - Music Lover on the Net.

http://www.dotmusic.com - Dot Music.

http://www.music4free.com - Music4Free.com.

MISCELLANEOUS

http://www.mind.net/einstein/quotes.com - Uncle Albert quotes page

http://www.dorledor.org – Dor Le Dor: Jewry's Destiny. Great to find who's Jewish and who's not.

http://www.sound.net/~hartmann – Mike Hartmann's Homebuilt Aircraft Page

http://www.eia.doe.gov – US Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy.

http://www.ebay.com – eBay – Your Personal Trading Community. Buying and selling on the net. Overwhelmingly American, though.

http://www.countryheights.com – Homepage of Country Heights corporation, a Malaysian property developer. Check the virtual views and beauty of Borneo Highlands Resorts of the Penrissen Highlands at /borneo/borneo1.html. If you are from Annah Rais, Kiding, Tibia, Mbaan, Sait, Bengoh, Grait, Penggau Marur or Rabak Dug you better do this now !!

http://www.againsthegrain.com - Against The Grain.

http://www.sina.com - Sina.com. Things chinese, with characters.

http://www.fas.org – Fellow of American Scientists (FAS) - an organisation of conscientious American scientists. Contains statements, revelations and reports in e-print. Interested in the Israeli Mossad? Go to /irp/eprint/calahan.htm for the Masters thesis of an USMC officer.

http://www.bullatomsci.org - The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

http://www.h2g2.com – H2G2 means The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A 'kewl' British guide to cyberspace, with all the irrelevant information. Started as a book (?) and heavily quoted by others before. Now I know why. Come on, go there.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us – The San Diego County Office of Education (?). Good site for those involved in edukesyen – students, teachers, lectures and administrators. Have sections on syllabus, assessment and all that.

http://www.mapquest.com - Granddaddy of online map series. Sorry, North America and Europe only!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com - The famous National Geographic magazine.

http://www.rka.ru - The Russian Space Agency.

http://www.webshots.com - Webshots. Where the world share photos. Changing your screen saver?

http://www.zorrapredictions.com - Chinese horoscope and feng shui online. Lousy love life? Lost in the stock market? Lost a supercanggih Viewcam (R)? Being laughed at by the Green Parrot? Consult this when all else fail.

http://www.luckyzodiacshop.com - LuckyZodiacShop.com. Your one-stop shop for all your zodiac needs. Need I say more?