Posts from — April 2003

Blackwill acted as India’s spokesman: Pakistan

Pakistan on Monday described outgoing United States envoy to India, Robert Blackwill, as a ’spokesman of the Indian external affairs ministry’.
Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan said Kashmiris would be delighted to see the back of Blackwill, who recently announced that he would go back to teaching at the Harvard University.

Ok, if Blackwill is Indian MEA spokesman, then who is Aziz Ahmad Khan?… spokesman for the Kashmiri people??

Moreover this “spokesman” haughtily announces that Pakistan would not accept Farooq Abdullah in an Indian delegation that wishes to travel to Pakistan.

“… It was during the tenure of Farooq Abdullah that maximum atrocities were committed against the Kashmiri people,” he said.

“He has blood of Kashmiri people on his hands and he should first apologise to Kashmiri people and apologise to the [All Parties] Hurriyat Conference.

“If they forgive him, perhaps a delegation led by APHC leaders, in which others can be included, would be welcomed to Pakistan.”

God!! if Farooq Abdullah has Kashmiri blood on his hands, then you Mr. Aziz Ahmad Khan, and your country, has Indian blood on your hands, legs, body and face. You’re splattered with it!!

You know what this is called?? … It’s a classic case of pot calling the kettle black!!

PETA wants Pennsylvania borough to be renamed Veggieburg

An animal rights group says it will donate $15,000 worth of vegetarian patties to area schools if officials change the borough’s name to Veggieburg.

Are these PETA people serious?? Or has advocating too much of veggies turned these people into vegetables, incapable of thought!

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says the name Hamburg conjures up images of slaughtered cows and unhealthy meals.

Really??! So, what would they like the towns to be named instead?… Cabbageville??… or perhaps Broccoliburg??!

Idiots!!
[link via Metafilter]

Give your hard drive a dose of proteins! Proteins produce nano-magnetic computer memory

Computer hard drive capacity could be increased a hundredfold by using a common protein to fabricate nano-scale magnetic particles, claims UK company Nanomagnetics
It uses the protein apoferritin, the main molecule in which iron is stored in the body, to create a material consisting of magnetic particles each just a few nanometres in diameter.
Each particle can store a bit of information and together they can be packed onto a disk drive at much greater density than is possible using existing hard disk manufacturing methods.

Interesting!… very interesting! We’ll soon see the day when we go to out local chemist’s shop with two prescriptions… one for your flu and one for your computer’s memory! ;-)

Music finally comes on the Net… legally! EMI posts 140,000 songs for sale online

EMI Group has signed deals to put the bulk of its music catalog on the Web in Europe, in its boldest bid yet to exploit the medium that has threatened to bring the record industry to its knees.

EMI said on Wednesday it was supplying 140,000 songs for download through 20 European digital music distributors including Microsoft’s MSN, music channel MTV and retailer HMV. [link via OnlineBlog]

Hmmm… having brought Napster down to its knees, it was inevitable that the big daddies of the music industry would themselves jump into the fray.

The big players are going to do the same thing as Napster did… although the downloads would cost around £1 per song (which is a stiff price to say the least!). Then an album (which has about 14-15 songs) would cost an exorbitant £15!!

Gee!! these people think they can get away with murder!

The Two Towers DVD Release Dates

Mark these dates on your Calendar: 8/28/03 & 11/18/03

These are the (US) DVD release dates for The Two Towers. Like Fellowship, the first date is the release of the DVD, and the November date is the release of the special edition (with rumored extra 48 minutes of footage).

Another good link is provided by theonering.net and has some more info about the actual footage. [link via Slashdot]

This news is like sweet music for all LoTR fans! And the icing on the cake is the fact that the final part of the LoTR trilogy, The Return of the King is slated for worldwide release less than a month after the Special Edition DVD of The Two Towers comes out, i.e. on 17th December 2003. So, mark down that date on your calendars too! :-)