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Recent Links » November 2006

Poor Pakistanis donate kidneys for $2500 → Its sad to see such an industry proliferating in Pakistan. The government needs to put a stop on this, by allowing only realted kins to donate kidneys and not any random kidney available in the open market #
Easy Desk Aluminum → A customized stand to place your laptop even while lying down on your bed - Damn, I need to get that !!!! #
Panesar abused by Sydney crowd → Panesar is being hangled - “a stupid Indian who can’t speak English” - hope he does not grab a bat and rush into the crowds like Inzamam #
Ice Cricket in Estonia → Ice Cricket, as you can probably tell is cricket played on Ice. From January to March each year cricket teams from all over the world descend on Estoniaâ€™s beautiful capital city, Tallinn to play Ice Cricket. The wicket is carved out of the ice, the boundary marked out to keep bewildered locals off the field and you use an indoor ball, just donâ€™t forget your spikes. #
Applying For Admission to the U.S.? → A good review for people who might be contemplating into going to the United States for their further education. #
Dhoni Goes For a Haircut, Crowd Mobs → Some of celebrity cricketers, can’t even go out for a haircut without causing a law and order problem. Dhoni is the latest case in hand where he actually caused a riot when he went to a local mall for his haircut. Being a Pakistani, I still appreciate his brilliance behind the bat and also at the stumps. #
Democrats Enjoy Happy Hour - Slate → Democrats never had a chance to blow this election because Republicans blew it first. Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel won’t thank Bush by name, but they could. The president and his party have dedicated his entire second term to electing a Democratic Congress, from Iraq to Katrina, Schiavo to Miers, Ney to DeLay. It now looks like Bush, not Iraq, is the one who’s just a commaa presidency that was on the brink of failure before 9/11 and in the voters’ eyes has now officially found its way back there. #
When it comes to AdSense, Pakistan Bloggers Are Handicapped → Shirazi discusses a very valid problem in Pakistan, that practically all Pakistani Bloggers fell that there is an apparent absence of a local lucrative ad market with which their highly active blogs can become gold mines #
Web 3.0 and the Widgetized Web → Widetizing coming to a blog near you, its not far when bloggers will provide the reader with a far more customizable website, possible only via customizable widget. Could this be Web 2.5 or a full jump to a 3.0 #
Sacked Hair considers his future → “Darrell Hair is waiting to decide whether to take legal action after his sacking from the ICC elite umpiring panel” - I urge the PCB to file a law suit for defamation against him while he ponders his course of attack #
Human Blood Alternative - Oxycyte → A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood. Researchers are betting that its the best way to treat traumatic brain injury #
Time for Rumsfeld to GO → An editorial scheduled to appear on Monday in Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times, calls for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld #
MSN Quran Bot - Adnan Siddiqi → Just add quranmajeed@gmail.com into your MSN friends and type HELP, you will receive an instant Quran quote, open source concept by Adnan Siddiqi #
Top Gun in Cyberspace - With a full US Air Force Command → The U.S. Air Force plans to set up what could become a major command which would be a part of the 8th Air force, aimed at safeguarding military and civilian cyberspace. Hence a phaser totting cyber police is no longer a fantasy specially when the US Airforce is planning to set up a full cyber command in all digital medium #
Intellipedia the spy version of Wikipedia → Even the US Intelligence community has its own Wikipedia, I wonder how soon will hackers take this down. #

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