Did you know?

1. How cartoons fanned flames of Muslim rage

2. In the past century the population of orang-utans living in the Borneon Sabbah forests has plummeted from 315,000 to just 13,000, thanks to colonial deforestation. If we carry on converting forests into palm-oil plantations we risk losing the rest.

3. Smoking is a lifestyle with its own etiquette.

4. But not for long.
In Britain, MPs will vote next week on a public health bill which outlaws smoking in workplaces and enclosed spaces on health grounds. However, it currently exempts private homes.

• There are approximately 1.1 billion smokers worldwide, 800 million of them in developing countries.

5. Salad sandwiches save water
It takes just 550 litres of water to produce a loaf of bread ~ as opposed to 25,000 litres of water to produce eight ounces of beef.

6. Indosat sends thank you notes when you give them some money.

Dear Customer,
We would like to inform you that we already receive your payment at the amount of Rp. 500.000,00, and we would like to thank you for your cooperation.
Best regards,
Customer Service Manager

Very thoughtful. It would be nice, though, if they could co-operate with their customers and also provide reasonable access to hyperspace

This is today's regular message: The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

So if you're reading this, consider yourself lucky.
 

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