CPLC Document: Security Measures For Family & Child Safety

by Faisal Khan May 24, 2011 On A Serious Note
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CPLC (Citizen Police Liaison Committee) has published a document called “Security Measures for Family & Child Safety“. I believe this is a must read document for everyone who lives in Karachi (or Pakistan for that matter). The document can be downloaded from here (PDF 1.85MB). The original document can be found on CPLC’s Official Website [...]

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Alternative Energy Solution for Pakistan – Solar Power

by Faisal Khan May 20, 2011 Pakistan
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Energy, or more specifically alternative energy has always been a solution aimed at this world that is currently depended on fossil-fuel (oil) based energy. In Pakistan, this is no different. However, massive adaptation of alternative energy sources is missing. I keep wondering why? Most of the people in the finance world I talk to – [...]

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TEDxKarachi 2011 “Making the Impossible Possible”

by Faisal Khan May 19, 2011 Entertaining
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The organizers of TEDxKarachi are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of TEDxKarachi to be held on 27th May 2011. The theme of the event is Making the Impossible Possible and in the same context we have plans to assemble some interesting personalities who will come forth onto the TEDxKarachi stage and hopefully inspire us [...]

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Amazing Optical Illusion

by Faisal Khan May 17, 2011 Mind Over Matter

This has got to be one cool optical illusion. Don’t worry there is no screaming voice or a ghost that would suddenly appear. Just keep staring at the screen until the instructions on the screen ask you not to start any more. Full size the video and stare directly at the center. Then when you [...]

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20-Hours worth of Snow in 40 Seconds.

by Faisal Khan December 29, 2010 Cool / Weird / Interesting / Bizzare Websites

Here is a time-lapsed video showing 20-hours worth of snow in about 40 seconds. (Thank to Sabeen for tweeting this). December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.

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XtraNormal – Self Made DIY Animated Movies.

by Faisal Khan November 14, 2010 Cool / Weird / Interesting / Bizzare Websites

XtraNormal is a really cool website. This is a website where animated movies with speech are present, but the best part is – users like you made them. Turns out, Xtranormal has this Text-to-Movie (TTM) movie making system that is super easy and simple to use, you can chose one or two actors and make [...]

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NASA: Face In Space – Make History. Have your Picture in Space.

by Faisal Khan November 14, 2010 Cool / Weird / Interesting / Bizzare Websites

NASA is giving you a chance to make history. NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. The two remaining shuttle missions are: STS-133 (Estimated Launch Date: 30th November, 2010) STS-134 (Estimated Launch Date: 27th February, 2011) Why? Beats me! But I think [...]

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Prezi: The Zooming Presentation Editor

by Faisal Khan October 18, 2010 Cool / Weird / Interesting / Bizzare Websites

I can across this website, for presentations – its called Prezi – it provides a really cool way to do presentation online with all sorts of zooming and rotations, etc. Check it out – Prezi.com – and do check out the demo called “Math is not linear – so why do we teach it that [...]

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Movie Review: Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007)

by Faisal Khan October 17, 2010 Movies

Many people don’t know of this great American author called Philip K. Dick. He was a short story writer and wrote quite a few pieces, that eventually were the source of great movies like Total Recall, Blade Runner, Minority Report, etc.  All these movies are more than just your advance sci-fi or fast forwarded a [...]

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Movie Review: Salt (2010)

by Faisal Khan October 16, 2010 Movies

Salt the movie was on my list, especially since I just love the whole spy thingy. I had seen the trailers, and read reviews and just could not wait for this movie to come out. Needless to say, I was not disappointed. The movie is damn entertaining and if you’re feeling bored, this is a [...]

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Facebook Status: Game On – Play!

by Faisal Khan October 16, 2010 Cool / Weird / Interesting / Bizzare Websites

Here is a screenshot of a series of comments on left on someone’s Facebook, it is styled after one of those old text games where you give commands and something happens. Read it – it is very creative.

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Movie Review: Shutter Island (2010)

by Faisal Khan October 16, 2010 Movies

When Martin Scorsese (Wiki – IMDB) makes a movie – you just gotta see it. I had heard about Shutter Island and saw the trailer, could not wait for it to come out on HD so I could watch it. Wow! What a great movie. Albeit I don’t want to give the plot away (you [...]

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