NTD-6May2010
Turning a toilet role in to a work of art? Look like the case as reported at Pikaland. The artist is Anastassia Elias , her works can be seen at her site
See Appolo 11 launch video (HD) first 30 seconds slowed down to 500 frames per second. Fantastic!!!
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8
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NTD: Regarding a new today
I suck at blogging, no doubts so i am planning to do a post a day collecting tidbits from every thing in one post with direct reference to information source. Hopefully I should be able to continue this activity as my last post was 300 days ago .. man that is really a bad track record for someone who spends avg 9 hrs a day glued to the the web. anyhow its worth a try!
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Street Art – Brazil in perspective
As a result of some fresh thinking by Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente come the 6emeia. The project has a lot to do with urban life themes and street art is in direct perspective.
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Calls from iPod now available via Vopium and 50% savings on New Year
iPod users have been getting their fair share of apps and lately and lately iPod calling has been in some demand. Vopium, a Danish communication company has come up with their own version of iPod client that allows international calls at low rate with a pretty decent calling experience. You can read more about the announcement here.
iPod calling and texting is available in a WiFi zone, while a microphone adapter is required, Google it and buy the one that suits the budget.
To download the app point to http://get.vopium.com/ from your iPod or get it from itunes.
More info at the iPod app.
Vopium is also promoting a Christmas and New Year offer – 50% off on per min and text. For details check out the Vopium Blog
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Outsourcing terror, shame and mis fortune
The other day i came across an excellent article that helps understand how others look at the issues embroiling Pakistan. Petra Bartosiewicz has covered many known sources in an effort to unearth details about Aafia Siddiqui Case.
You can read the complete article here, however the following excerpt that hints at nature of Pak-US relationship was quite aptly prosed.
One of the chief conveniences of outsourcing is that certain costs are externalized. Pollution, for instance, is expensive. Manufacturers that pollute in the United States are required to bear its cost by paying a fine. If they outsource to a country where the cost of the pollution is borne directly by the people, they make more money. Such a transfer is obviously desirable from the point of view of the manufacturer, but it often generates political unrest in the host country, for reasons that are equally obvious. This phenomenon applies as well when the external cost of manufacturing intelligence is paid in freedom. The governments that did the outsourced work of U.S. intelligence agencies in previous dirty wars—in Argentina and Chile, Guatemala and Uruguay—eventually were toppled by popular protest, in large part because the people became aware that their leaders had profited from their suffering. Pakistanis today appear no less aware that this type of transaction is occurring in their country. Indeed, a recent poll found that the only nation they find more threatening than India, whose nuclear missiles point directly at them, is the United States. And they have begun to hold their leaders accountable for the association.
The rising number of disappearances became a decisive political issue in 2007, after Pakistan’s Supreme Court, under its chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, opened hearings on behalf of the missing, demanding that they appear before the court. This initiative turned up the locations of 186 disappeared persons, many of whom were found in known Pakistani detention centers, including Imran Munir, a Malaysian of Pakistani origin who had been missing since 2006. During Munir’s hearing, it came to light that Pakistani security agents had continued trying to hide him even after the court demanded his presence. Chaudhry’s efforts to locate the disappeared were met with considerable resistance from the government. In March 2007, the chief justice himself was summoned to appear before Musharraf, where, with ISI and military chiefs present, he was ordered to resign. Chaudhry refused, and so Musharraf charged him with misconduct and suspended him from office.
What ever Dr Aafia and other detainees did or failed to do should have been tried by Pakistani law no matter what. We as a nation should not become absolutely bai ghairat. The death and destruction that we fear so much has already arrived. Our effort to delay it will only make is much more lethal / catastrophic.
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News from Pakistan, that make a lot of sense
As a habit I dont read newspapers anymore, however at times some news item catch my eye.
First up today is the comment by Lt Gen Benjamin at the end of joint India-US military exercise. While talking to the journalists he expressed that US is ready combat terror alongside India, anywhere, anytime, may it be Afghanistan or other war zones. He further added that the decision rest with respective govts.
4 People arrested while taking pictures of important govt buildings in Islamabad. These Americans equipped with M16s and fake car registrations were roaming the capital passing themselves off a Afghans. They were arrested and later released with intervention of American Embassy.
I need not comment, the obvious needs not be stated.
These news appeared in today’s Jang.
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Glympse™ : Share Your Where, for a specified period of time
Glympse is essentially just another location based service with a nice twist. It makes sharing location dead simple and offers decent “control” on sharing too. I am using the iPhone app for the past week and I find it a useful addition. You can download the app from iTunes here.
This app also available on Android Market as well as Windows® Marketplace. I have added some screen shots , the UI is simple and makes location sharing real easy.
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Roger Vs Del Potro
I so much wanted this to be a testing final for Roger, wanted him to win yet del potro proved his nerves to take the title.
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Driving through Islamabad
Twitter goes down again, caught on iPhone :)
Last night i did manage to screen capture tweet deck when twitter went down. It was quite frustrating as usual, however we are getting used to it day by day.
