An early voyeur was Lord Montgomery of Alamein who toured China in 1960. He recalled being taken into the canteen of a people’s commune where the staple diet was balls of rice with a little vegetable filling. Men received two, women one and a half, and children one ball each. “Don’t you want anything more?” Montgomery asked one of the workers.
“Of course,” he replied. “But we eat like this so that our future generations can eat better.”
Full article on: Dawn
The world’s tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards.
Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishun was called in after the dolphins swallowed plastic used around their pool at an aquarium in Fushun, north-east China.
Attempts to use instruments failed as the dolphins contracted their stomachs.
Guinness World Records list Mr Bao, 54, as the world’s tallest living man at 2.36m (7ft 8.95in).
Source: BBC
Well actually, not the former prime minister of Pakistan! 
An immigrant taxi driver built a seven bedroom mansion in Pakistan after making millions of pounds in benefit fraud, credit card scams and fake passports.
Nawaz Sharif – unemployed for the past 11 years – amassed a £2 million fortune through property, selling luxury cars and various criminal activities.
Source: thisislondon.co.uk
After the completion of this tomb in Tehran, they came to know that there was no practical way of removing the crane from the middle.
I was wondering who exactly is the guy behind remarkable characters of Ali G and Borat. ‘Sacha Baron Cohen’ a guy with exceptional capabilities.
`I have always dreamed,’ he mouthed, fiercely, `of a band of men absolute in their resolve to discard all scruples in the choice of means, strong enough to give themselves frankly the name of destroyers, and free from the taint of that resigned pessimism which rots the world. No pity for anything on earth, including themselves, and death enlisted for good and all in the service of humanity – that’s what I would have liked to see.’
– Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
Another article has gone public. I tried to show the newer possibilities available to flash developers. Many things were left untouched due to mixed set of readers and particularly space limitations.
I’ve always been saying that Macromedia Flash is my first love. Simply because, this has been the tool I started with and have been using it for so many things to do, from logo creation to sophisticated presentations. Every new version brings something I already wished for. And the latest filters in Flash 8 are one of such things. Have a look at this character I drew. You can see “Blur” effect coming into play.
