April 26, 2008
Something you can know for sure about me is that I never miss a book fair; as a book worm, that's the stuff I live off of. Tunis' annual international book fair opened yesterday, mainly today for the public, and so the plan was clear, we'd go book shopping today. As has been the case over the past years, there's a big percentage of religious books, the same ones, just published and packaged differently, all over the fair; some uninteresting politics books here; some children books there; some whatever elsewhere; ...etc. And the big challenge is to dig through all...
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April 24, 2008
Awesome wedding rings for the geeks among us... The female ring has a choice of four opaque colors: turquoise, white, orange or black. The male ring stands tall and dramatically transparent. Source: Etsy Via: Houeida...
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April 18, 2008
Posted on April 18, 2008 10:36 PM under:
Link Dump
StartUpArabia, a blog dedicated to Arab Startups A blog dedicated to new Arab technology startups and services, profiling and reviewing them, providing interesting market news and information, and sharing tips and advice for entrepreneurs. (tags: startup arab blog entrepreneurship entrepreneur arabia web2.0 solutions reviews middleeast mena) List of problems solved by MacGyver A list of problems that have been solved by the fictional character MacGyver from the television series of the same name. (tags: MacGyver tv television humor science wikipedia) The Indian Toilet How-To How to use an Indian toilet when you're traveling and you really have to. (tags:...
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April 16, 2008
Recently, I've been very busy working on a project that I'm very passionate about and that I personally view as an important community project really. Today, I think it's gotten to a stage where I can launch it for everyone to check out and have access to. The project is StartUpArabia, a weblog dedicated to new Arab technology startups and services, profiling and reviewing them, providing interesting market news and information, and sharing tips and advice for the entrepreneurs behind them. In addition to covering these new startups, existing services and companies that are making interesting new changes and...
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April 15, 2008
An interesting conversation has been going on these past days on different blogs about fractured blog comments, how bloggers are losing control and how content is becoming more and more of a commodity these days. Here are some selected quotes about this, the first by blogger Steven Hodson in which he worries about the devaluation of his brand: "We are being told that once we have written our posts we no longer have any say over what happens to them. In effect we are having to give up the vary basis of what gives our brand its very worth...So as...
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April 11, 2008
Posted on April 11, 2008 04:35 PM under:
Tunisia
Four of my friends and colleagues, all very talented and passionate photographers, will be showing some of their work, along with some other photographers, as a group they called f/10, in a photography expo that will be opening on April 15th at 18:30 at the El Teatro space in the El Mechtel Hotel in downtown Tunis, Belvédère. The expo will go on until April 28th. The expo is really worth checking out, so make sure you add it to your schedules and pass by to enjoy some really interesting photography work....
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April 10, 2008
Yahoo rolled out video sharing on Flickr this week. They're trying to position Flickr Video not as another video-sharing site and YouTube rival, but as a useful addition to Flickr's core business: a web platform for adding and sharing photos. Flickr will make video available in eight languages: English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese. Users can upload up to 90 seconds of footage, with a maximum size of 150 MB, from any recording device. They can organize and share videos the same way they handle photos, using tags, geotags, sets, and privacy settings. Videos can be uploaded...
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April 06, 2008
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Tony Robbins...
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April 05, 2008
The owners of the Paris Orly airport, one of the two big Paris airports, have announced plans to meet a third of its heating needs from geothermal energy. Two 1,700-meter deep shafts are to be drilled deep under the perimeter of the city’s Orly airport, where water heated by the earth’s core will be drawn upwards by natural pressure. When it reaches the surface, the water, at a temperature of 74 degrees Celsius, will be injected into the airports heating system. It will then be pumped back into the ground at a temperature of 45 C. The Orly-Ouest terminal, part...
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April 04, 2008
... The life of one yeshiva boy is worth more than the lives of 1,000 Arabs Rabbi Eliyahu This is from the same guy who said the Tsunami was God's punishment for disengagement from Gaza; that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment to the US for supporting it; and who now advocates carpet bombing Gaza. Do I really need to comment on this? Normally, I shouldn't even have to bother; I mean, obviously this guy is known for his outrageous and mad statements, and nobody should care about a thing he says. But, as a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of...
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April 03, 2008
Suzuki announced its Crosscage motorcycle concept at Tokyo Motor Show last November, and have recently announced that they're putting it into production. But, other than it's really cool design, what's most important about this bike is that it is going to be hydrogen powered, read extra clean for the environment. The bike developed in conjuction with British Intelligent Energy is powered by a lightweight air-cooled fuel-cell system and a high-performance secondary lithium-ion battery. What can I say but awesome design and bravo for the use of clean energy to run this beauty. I hope every other manufacturer follows suit. [Via:...
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Queen Rania of Jordan, has launched a YouTube channel in an attempt to reach out to the west and break down Western stereotypes about the Arab world. Queen Rania, an outspoken advocate of women's rights and education reform in the Arab world, aims to start a conversation with people in the West through this YouTube channel to try and break down negative stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims that have become especially widespread over the past years. The conversation will go until August 12, which is International Youth Day. The introductory video, that has been watched over 80,000 times since being...
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April 01, 2008
AltSearchEngines posted yesterday asking people to try, for one day, one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines; it can be one search engine, they can be several, the idea is just to give them a try, a chance, and see what life would be like without Google Search. I think it should be a very interesting experiment to stay off from Google Search for a day, and try out other alternative search engines instead. It should show us what other options we have out there, how advanced and reliable they are, and how dependent we are on Google. Personally,...
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