Nov 4th, 2007 | News | No Comments
BBC reports that President General Pervez Musharraf has declared a state of emergency in Pakistan Saturday evening and issued a provisional constitutional order. Under the order, the constitution remains suspended, the federal cabinet ceases to exist and judges will have to take oath afresh.
It is being said that military and paramilitary troops were deployed at all government buildings including those of Pakistan Television, Radio Pakistan and the Supreme Court. It is also learnt that the judges colony, where almost all Supreme Court judges reside, was surrounded by paramilitary troops.
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Sep 8th, 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
This 17 years old girl make $70,000 per month from her myspace layout site and she got offer $1.5 million for her site, but she did not take the offer.
At 17, Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off, she has dropped out of high school, bought a house, helped launch artists such as Lily Allen, and rejected offers to buy her young company. Although Ashley was flattered to be offered $1.5 million and a car of her choice–as long as the price tag wasn’t more than $100,000 - she responded, in effect, Whatever. “I don’t even have my license yet,” she says.
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Aug 11th, 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
It looks like somebody got really annoyed by the Nigerian Email scam, that the person wrote a parody spam.
Here is the spam mail reproduced verbatim.
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Jul 28th, 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Pepsi Co. was indeed selling Tap Water bottled and labeled at a price way too costly for tap water. Sales of bottled water has been a growing source of revenue for companies such as PepsiCo Inc., and Coca-Cola as they lessen their dependence on sales of traditional carbonated sodas, as consumer concern over health issues has weakened demand.
Pepsi Co’s brand owner have confirmed that, “The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water.”
Jul 9th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments
The power of the community, the idea of crowsourcing have seem to reached its peak - even the 7 wonders of the world was decided by the crowd. Millions of people around the world voted for the New 7 Wonders of the world through the internet voting poll and SMS. The result was announced on 07-07-07. The finalist 21 out of the 77 submissions were listed and voted by the people around the world.
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Jul 8th, 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I was coming back from my dance rehearsals when a good friend called to tell me about when our M.A.(psychology) exams were slated. To my horror, these dates clashed with my M.F.A.(masters in Bharatanatyam). The probability that the dates would clash was too little and insignificant. For a while I didn’t know how to react to this news. My friend did know that I would be shocked.
There was so much I had to do. For the masters in dance, I had to make 4 journals, 3 projects and 2 assignments. Whoever thought dance would involve so much paper work! These volumes of work were taking up all my study time. I was getting nervous by the day.
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May 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments
At the Miss Universe, 2007 held at Mexico City, Riyo Mori of Japan was crowned the Miss Universe. This is the second time that Japan has won the World Beauty Title. The last time Japan won the pageant was almost half a century ago in 1959 when Akiko Kojima became the first Miss Universe from Asia. Riyo is followed by Miss Brazil, Natalia Guimaraes, and Miss Venezuela, Ly Jonaitis, in the second and third place respectively.
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