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Update: After the blog post announcing this ‘warning’ was inundated with angry and frustrated Pakistani coders, RAC has decided to suspend the site-wide message until they’ve gotten more reliable information on the problem and ground realities.
All,
This is from Ian Ippolito, the owner of Rent a coder.  My sincere apologies if your business was negatively affected [...]

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LittleBigPlanet (the game) is expected to ‘revive’ sales for the Sony PS3, but it looks like it’ll be 6 days late in doing so. Why? Part of the soundtrack music contained verses from the Quran. Listen to it yourself - see if you can make it out (transcription below).

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Just saw this BBC News story.
Man killed wife in Facebook row
A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook.
Full story, BBC News
The guy was obviously out of his mind, but I guess her changed relationship status on Facebook to [...]

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Almost half the world — about 3 billion people — lives on less than $2.50 a day (source). To get things into perspective, that’s approximately Rs. 200 (Pakistani), roughly the same cost as chicken.

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So we finally decided the Shawwal moon had been sighted after all, and tomorrow–okay, technically today, because I’m posting this after midnight–is Eid-ul-Fitr!
I don’t have a shiny graphic to post up here in celebration, but Eid Mubarak nonetheless everyone, and have a great day!

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