Reader Kenny Cheah sent this in:
"Saw this ad in Taiwan , Not sure if anyone already posted this to you. Obviously, I was
the only one laughing all the way from the aiport to the MRT until I reached my hotel."
"Let Shanghai bank manage your finance. Bring PUKI home."
It is just so wrong on so many levels naming your company's toy mascot after a favourite
word Ah Beng's use to scold people. I wanna try to make a joke out of it, but I think I'll just
take the classy road and stay quiet.
I only have one question though.
If the name of that little pig is called PUKI, does that mean his mother is calledPUKIMA???
Professor Frank Fenner has warned that the human race can not survive
As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction.
And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.
He has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and 'unbridled consumption.’
Fenner told The Australian newspaper that 'homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years.'
'A lot of other animals will, too,' he added.
'It's an irreversible situation. I think it's too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off.'
Since humans entered an unofficial scientific period known as the Anthropocene - the time since industrialisation - we have had an effect on the planet that rivals any ice age or comet impact, he said.
Fenner, 95, has won awards for his work in helping eradicate the variola virus that causes smallpox and has written or co-written 22 books.
He announced the eradication of the disease to the World Health Assembly in 1980 and it is still regarded as one of the World Health Organisation's greatest achievements.
He was also heavily involved in helping to control Australia's myxomatosis problem in rabbits.
Last year official UN figures estimated that the world’s population is currently 6.8 billion. It is predicted to exceed seven billion by the end of 2011.
Fenner blames the onset of climate change for the human race’s imminent demise.
He said: 'We'll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island.
'Climate change is just at the very beginning. But we're seeing remarkable changes in the weather already.'
'The Aborigines showed that without science and the production of carbon dioxide and global warming, they could survive for 40,000 or 50,000 years.
‘But the world can't. The human species is likely to go the same way as many of the species that we've seen disappear.'
A map of the world from an atlas which concentrates on population rather than land mass released last year. The Earth's population is due to hit 7bn by next year
Retired professor Stephen Boyden, a colleague of Professor Fenner, said that while there was deep pessimism among some ecologists, others had a more optimistic view.
'Frank may well be right, but some of us still harbour the hope that there will come about an awareness of the situation and, as a result the revolutionary changes necessary to achieve ecological sustainability.'
Simon Ross, the vice-chairman of the Optimum Population Trust, said: 'Mankind is facing real challenges including climate change, loss of bio-diversity and unprecedented growth in population.'
Professor Fenner's chilling prediction echoes recent comments by Prince Charles who last week warned of ‘monumental problems’ if the world’s population continues to grow at such a rapid pace.
And it comes after Professor Nicholas Boyle of Cambridge University said that a 'Doomsday' moment will take place in 2014 - and will determine whether the 21st century is full of violence and poverty or will be peaceful and prosperous.
in the last 500 years there has been a cataclysmic 'Great Event' of international significance at the start of each century, he claimed.
In 2006 another esteemed academic, Professor James Lovelock, warned that the world's population may sink as low as 500 million over the next century due to global warming.
He claimed that any attempts to tackle climate change will not be able to solve the problem, merely buy us time.
This one’s kinda hard to swallow so take a deep breath, open your minds, and pretend it’s 2100. I CONTACT is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it’s laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to your computer. Theoretically that should give you full control over a mouse cursor. I’d imagine holding a blink correlates to mouse clicks.
The idea was originally created for people with disabilities but anyone could use it. Those of us too lazy to use a mouse now have a free hand to do whatever it is people do when they sit at the computer for endless hours. I love the idea but there is a caveat. How is the lens powered? Perhaps in the future, electrical power can be harnessed from the human body, just not in a Matrix creepy-like way.
Designers: Eun-Gyeong Gwon & Eun-Jae Lee
http://www.yankodesign.com/
Dont know whether to believe this or not but it pays to be always alert to this sort of situations ???
A reminder to all !!!!!!!!!!!
This is pretty scary, as is (its modus operandi is similar) with the case of
Ms Canny Ong
A friend stopped at a pay-at-the-pump gas station to get gas. When she had
filled her gas tank after paying at the pump and about to leave, the
attendant inside came over the speaker.
He told her that something happened with her card and that she needed to
come inside to pay.
The lady was confused because the transaction was completed and approved.
She told him that and was getting ready to leave but the attendant once
again urged her to come in to pay or else.....
She proceeded to go inside and started arguing with the attendant about his
threat.
He told her to calm down and to listen carefully:
He told her that while she was pumping gas, he saw a guy had slipped into
the back seat of her car and hid on the other side.
He had called the police.
She immediately became scared and looked out there in time to see her car
door open and the guy slip out.
The story went that it has to do with a test for the new gang initiation
thing which requires one to bring back a woman's body part..
One way they are doing this is crawling into girls/women's cars while the
target is pumping gas or at the grocery store at night time. Then, they will
cut off the victim's legs/ankles to disable them in order to kidnap them,
and later kill and dismember them.
The other method is slipping into unattended cars and kidnapping the women
for the same purpose
Please pass this on to other women, young and old alike.
Ladies, be extra careful when going into your parked car at night.
Do not park at lonely or secluded places at any time of the day for the sake
of free parking!
If at all possible, don't drive alone at night!
This is real! Kidnapping! Murder! Dismemberment! These are all happening
here in Malaysia !!!
The message:
1.. ALWAYS lock your car doors, even if you're gone for just a second.
2. Check underneath your car when approaching it for re-entry, and check in
the back before getting in.
3. Always be aware of your surroundings and other individuals in your
general vicinity, particularly at night!
Inform this to many girls so your friend will not be the next one!
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