Woodpecker

The ivory-billed woodpecker, long feared extinct, has been rediscovered in a remote part of Arkansas some 60 years after the last confirmed U.S. sighting, bird experts said Thursday.



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Airbus: A380 Family

Designed in close collaboration with major airlines, airport and airworthiness authorities, the A380 brings new standards of comfort and better economics in an aircraft that is more environmentally responsible. Whilst doing all of this, it allows growth and reduced congestion from today's airports with minimum change. Most importantly, the A380 introduces competition to the large aircraft sector, completing the Airbus product portfolio.

The A380, which will seat 555 passengers in a typical three-class interior layout, will enter airline service in 2006.

Source: www.airbus.com

There is something fundamentally wrong with us... humans. Something that definitely works against paradise. Something that makes people stupid and destructive and greedy and shortsighted. We do three things that are never done in the rest of the community of life, and these are all fundamental to our civilizational system.

1. We exterminate our competitors
2. We systematically destroy our competitors food to make room for our own.
3. We deny our competitors access to food.

The beautiful game - No more :(

Manchester United 0 - 1 Everton ... dang!! ... plus 2 sending off's .. i have never seen anything like this happening in years. It seems like they are not the team I grew up watching anymore.

Fergie has done wonders in 90's with this United team but I dont think he can do it anymore. All good things must come to an end. What next? A defeat in FA Cup final by pathatic Arsenal.. i hate Arsenal. And I am NO fan of Mourinho's Chelsea (though they have shown money can buy everything... even the EPL title and who knows champions league as well)

Atleast Bolton are doing well so there is somethig to cheer about for me :o)

p.s: What is the best way to stay awake at work on hot summer afternoons ...specially after having a heavy lunch? :D ... it's been a very boring n slow month for me...not much to do in office n my brain seems to be functioning way below it's normal capacity... hence I find myself struggling NOT to sleep at work these days..very tough thing to do if you know what i mean...
is it jus me? :o)

Creativity? :D

"There is no dervish in the world; and if there be a dervish, that dervish is really non-existent. In essence he exists, but his attributes are non-existent within God's." Rumi - Mathnawi [III, 3669-3670]

One step up and two steps back

Woke up this morning my house was cold
Checked out the furnace she wasn't burnin'
Went out and hopped in my old Ford
Hit the engine but she ain't turnin'
We've given each other some hard lessons lately
But we ain't learnin'
We're the same sad story that's a fact
One step up and two steps back

Bird on a wire outside my motel room
But he ain't singin'
Girl in white outside a church in June
But the church bells they ain't ringing
I'm sittin' here in this bar tonight
But all I'm thinkin' is
I'm the same old story same old act
One step up and two steps back

It's the same thing night on night
Who's wrong baby who's right
Another fight and I slam the door on
Another battle in our dirty little war
When I look at myself I don't see
The man I wanted to be
Somewhere along the line I slipped off track
I'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back

There's a girl across the bar
I get the message she's sendin'
Mmm she ain't lookin' to married
And me well honey I'm pretending
Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms
The music was never-ending
We danced as the evening sky faded to black
One step up and two steps back

Bruce Springsteen

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Samuel Adams

Questions....

You must have been watching programs on ARY/GEO and all other channels where people like Dr Mubarik Ali, Dr Israr, Dr Mehdi Hasan etc(the so called parhe likhe log i.e scholars) trying to paint this country in their own colors and school of thoughts. Some of them insist that Pakistan was supposed to be an Isalmic state and others say something opposite and blah blah. Some of them even deny the whole idea of pakistan and insist it would ve been better off staying as a part of India.

Mullah's want to impose their views, Mush has his view of "Roshan Khiyal, Moderate & Enlightened" Pakistan. Not to mention the governement is spending huge money on Ads to project Pakistan as moderate and enlightened country. Why not this money spent on education, health, clean drinking water? How can you change the image of Pakistan thru ads? Is there a point in cleaning the mirror, when what we really need to do is to clean our own face? How about kicking those ppl's a$$ who sent thousands of ordinary ppl to so called Jihad in Afghanistan and got them killed? How come we lost half of the country and no one was responsible for it (and we are probably about to make the same mistake in Balochistan) Why Zardari is a Hero now? We hear each day that BB is coming back since PPP is now an "acceptable n roshan khiyal" party. Or military has really created a mess... again...as they ve done in past and they want politicians to clean it up for them so that their holy cow status is safe? We seem to have lost our national dignity and free will somewhere in 50+ years of existance.

And where are ordinary people of Pakistan in all this fuzz? The truth of the matter is after more than half a century, the people of Pakistan do not know who they are, where they belong, what they believe in and where they want to go. Or are they even bothered about all this at all? Nothing can be more tragic than people becoming indifferent. Why are we so indifferent as a nation and why we are aware of the root of most problems we have and yet we dont do anything to change it?

hmmm... it seems our generation is stuck in questions n questions n more questions and no answers...

If you have a Time Machine where in time would you like to be (past or future)?

This is where i wanna be (Spain between 12th n 13th century)...

Mankind surely does not represent an evolution toward a better or stronger or higher level, as progress is now understood. This "progress" is merely a modern idea, which is to say, a false idea. The European of today, in his essential worth, falls far below the European of the Renaissance; the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.
True enough, it succeeds in isolated and individual cases in various parts of the earth and under the most widely different cultures, and in these cases a higher type certainly manifests itself; something which, compared to mankind in the mass, appears as a sort of superman. Such happy strokes of high success have always been possible, and will remain possible, perhaps, for all time to come. Even whole races, tribes and nations may occasionally represent such lucky accidents.


Upon this theological instinct I make war: I find the tracks of it everywhere. Whoever has theological blood in his veins is shifty and dishonourable in all things. The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing one's eyes upon one's self once for all, to avoid suffering the sight of incurable falsehood. People erect a concept of morality, of virtue, of holiness upon this false view of all things; they ground good conscience upon faulty vision; they argue that no other sort of vision has value any more, once they have made theirs sacrosanct with the names of "God," "salvation" and "eternity." I unearth this theological instinct in all directions: it is the most widespread and the most subterranean form of falsehood to be found on earth. Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. His profound instinct of self-preservation stands against truth ever coming into honour in any way, or even getting stated. Wherever the influence of theologians is felt there is a transvaluation of values, and the concepts "true" and "false" are forced to change places: what ever is most damaging to life is there called "true," and whatever exalts it, intensifies it, approves it, justifies it and makes it triumphant is there called "false."... When theologians, working through the "consciences" of princes (or of peoples--), stretch out their hands for power, there is never any doubt as to the fundamental issue: the will to make an end, the nihilistic will exerts that power...


Nietzsche (first paragraph is from "Human - All Too Human" and second one is from "The AntiChrist")

Linux looks to Paris Hilton for exposure... hahaha ;)

Soft tissue found in T-rex fossil
For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.


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after so many threats and warnings i finally cleaned up my room today... again... found this begum akhtar cd in my old 8x cd writer ..those were the Napster days n the result was 35 mp3's ...

here is something to listen to ...

Begum Akhtar - ZAMEEN PE REH KE DIMAGH AASMAN PE REHTA HAI

Begum Akhtar - Sar Mein Sauda Bhi Nahin

hmmm.... do you remember this?

I never missed a single episode of this serial ... ofcourse it was many many years back.. ;)

anyways if you can't figure it out then click here