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a business kiss

2006-04-05T23:19:00.000+03:00

Reuters: Blog subscribers seek out small universe of sites

2005-10-09T19:20:00.000+03:00

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Web publishing phenomenon known as the blogsphere has millions of sites but only a small number gain significant audiences, according to data released on Friday."Blogging is the fastest growing form of content on the Web," said Jim Lanzone, senior vice president of search at AskJeeves, a unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp and a major Web search site. "But the number of

Singapore and Katrina

2005-09-15T21:37:00.000+03:00

September 14, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Singapore There is something troublingly self-indulgent and slothful about America today - something that Katrina highlighted and that people who live in countries where the laws of gravity still apply really noticed. It has rattled them - like watching a parent melt down. That is certainly the sense I got after observing the Katrina debacle from

New Orleans and Baghdad

2005-09-15T21:34:00.000+03:00

September 9, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Memo to: Iraq's Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni leaders. From: An American friend. Dear Sirs: As someone who really wishes you well, I am writing to give you my best sense of how the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is going to affect the U.S. mission in Iraq. Let me begin with an analogy offered by Michael Mandelbaum, author of the forthcoming book "The

Apple's iPod Patent Rejected

2005-08-11T15:38:00.000+03:00

Wed Aug 10, 4:07 PM ET Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL - news) has failed to patent the interface to its wildly popular iPod digital music player. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected Apple's application, citing a similar patent already registered by a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) researcher. In 2002, John Platt, a scientist at Microsoft Research, filed a patent request

Too Much Pork and Too Little Sugar (Friedman)

2005-08-08T17:35:00.000+03:00

August 5, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Wow, I am so relieved that Congress has finally agreed on an energy bill. Now that's out of the way, maybe Congress will focus on solving our energy problem. Sorry to be so cynical, but an energy bill that doesn't enjoin our auto companies to sharply improve their mileage standards is just not serious. This bill is what the energy expert Gal Luft calls "the sum

Calling All Luddites (Friedman)

2005-08-04T16:17:00.000+03:00

August 3, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I've been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as Ghana's. If re-elected, I promise that in eight years America will have cellphone service as good as Japan's, provided Japan agrees not to forge ahead on wireless technology. My campaign bumper

All Fall Down (Friedman)

2005-07-30T06:06:00.000+03:00

July 29, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In visiting Gaza and Israel a few weeks ago, I realized how much the huge drama in Iraq has obscured some of the slower, deeper but equally significant changes happening around the Middle East. To put it bluntly, the political parties in the Arab world and Israel that have shaped the politics of this region since 1967 have all either crumbled or been gutted of

Learning From Lance (Friedman)

2005-07-30T06:04:00.000+03:00

July 27, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANThere is no doubt that Lance Armstrong's seventh straight victory in the Tour de France, which has prompted sportswriters to rename the whole race the Tour de Lance, makes him one of the greatest U.S. athletes of all time. What I find most impressive about Armstrong, besides his sheer willpower to triumph over cancer, is the strategic focus he brings to his work,

Saudis are the BEST!!

2005-07-25T01:32:00.000+03:00

[Link]via: Saudi Jeans

Giving the Hatemongers No Place to Hide (Friedman)

2005-07-22T19:52:00.000+03:00

July 22, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I wasn't surprised to read that British police officers in white protective suits and blue gloves were combing through the Iqra Learning Center bookstore in Leeds for clues to the 7/7 London bombings. Some of the 7/7 bombers hung out at the bookstore. And I won't be surprised if today's bombers also sampled the literature there. Iqra not only sold hatemongering

A Poverty of Dignity and a Wealth of Rage (Friedman)

2005-07-16T19:51:00.000+03:00

July 15, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN A few years ago I was visiting Bahrain and sitting with friends in a fish restaurant when news appeared on an overhead TV about Muslim terrorists, men and women, who had taken hostages in Russia. What struck me, though, was the instinctive reaction of the Bahraini businessman sitting next to me, who muttered under his breath, "Why are we in every story?" The "we

The Revolt of Israel's Center (Friedman)

2005-07-13T19:46:00.000+03:00

July 13, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Gush Katif, the Israeli settlement bloc in the heart of the Gaza Strip, is an unusual place - a bizarre combination of "Fiddler on the Roof" and Club Med, barbed wire and dune buggies, surfers and settlers, all surrounded by over one million Palestinians. In the last year, though, the resurgent Israeli center, the most important political force in the

A Muslim Solution (Friedman)

2005-07-09T19:45:00.000+03:00

If It's a Muslim Problem, It Needs a Muslim SolutionJuly 8, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Yesterday's bombings in downtown London are profoundly disturbing. In part, that is because a bombing in our mother country and closest ally, England, is almost like a bombing in our own country. In part, it's because one assault may have involved a suicide bomber, bringing this terrible jihadist weapon into the

Blog & Contribute (NYT)

2005-07-04T19:43:00.000+03:00

This is an interesting piece I found on NY Times. Some writers have blogs for massive brainstorming, or to get help from the masses while writing their books. July 4, 2005 Dear Blog: Today I Worked on My Book By TANIA RALLI When he has writer's block, John Battelle, author of the forthcoming book "The Search: The Inside Story of How Google and Its Rivals Changed Everything," keeps on

Blog & Buy (NYT)

2005-07-04T16:19:00.000+03:00

July 4, 2005 E-COMMERCE REPORTBlogging While Browsing, but Not Buying By BOB TEDESCHI NEXT on board the blogging bandwagon: e-tailer. Online merchants are starting to test Web logs, which are akin to online diaries, in hopes of giving their stores more personality and giving customers a reason to return even when they're not in the mood to buy. But for companies like Bluefly.com, eHobbies,

The End of the Rainbow (Friedman)

2005-07-03T19:22:00.000+03:00

June 29, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Dublin Here's something you probably didn't know: Ireland today is the richest country in the European Union after Luxembourg. Yes, the country that for hundreds of years was best known for emigration, tragic poets, famines, civil wars and leprechauns today has a per capita G.D.P. higher than that of Germany, France and Britain. How Ireland went

Follow the Leapin' Leprechaun (Friedman)

2005-07-03T16:22:00.000+03:00

July 1, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Dublin There is a huge debate roiling in Europe today over which economic model to follow: the Franco-German shorter-workweek-six-weeks'-vacation-never-fire-anyone-but-high-unemployment social model or the less protected but more innovative, high-employment Anglo-Saxon model preferred by Britain, Ireland and Eastern Europe. It is obvious to me

لقاء نسائي مثير

2005-06-30T18:18:00.000+03:00

اقامة لقاء نسائي اول مثير بكرة السلة بين (الفتاة) الكويتي ومجندات الجيش الامريكي

Al-Mulla & the Kuwaiti Tent (Washington Post)

2005-06-29T16:23:00.000+03:00

Kuwait's Political Tent Makes Room for WomenBy Nora BoustanyWednesday, June 29, 2005; A18 When Lulwa Al Mulla first tried to participate in Kuwaiti politics 24 years ago, she and four friends would park outside tents where male-only campaigns and debates were held, fiddling with their car radio knob to listen in. Relegated to the sidelines, they were curious, frustrated and desperate to

We Are All French Now? (Friedman)

2005-06-28T18:22:00.000+03:00

June 24, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Ah, those French. How silly can they be? The European Union wants to consolidate its integration and France, trying to protect its own 35-hour workweek and other welfare benefits, rejects the E.U. constitution. What a bunch of antiglobalist Gaullist Luddites! Yo, Jacques, what world do you think you're livin' in, pal? Get with the program! It's

As Toyota Goes ... (Friedman)

2005-06-20T16:24:00.000+03:00

June 17, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN So I have a question: If I am rooting for General Motors to go bankrupt and be bought out by Toyota, does that make me a bad person? It is not that I want any autoworker to lose his or her job, but I certainly would not put on a black tie if the entire management team at G.M. got sacked and was replaced by executives from Toyota. Indeed, I think

Behind Every Grad... (Friedman)

2005-06-17T16:26:00.000+03:00

June 10, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN You don't expect to learn much at a graduation ceremony - especially if you're the commencement speaker. But I learned about a truly important program at the Williams College graduation last Sunday. Every year, in addition to granting honorary degrees, Williams also honors four high school teachers. But not just any high school teachers. Williams

Let's Talk About Iraq (Friedman)

2005-06-17T16:25:00.000+03:00

June 15, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Ever since Iraq's remarkable election, the country has been descending deeper and deeper into violence. But no one in Washington wants to talk about it. Conservatives don't want to talk about it because, with a few exceptions, they think their job is just to applaud whatever the Bush team does. Liberals don't want to talk about Iraq because, with

Bangalore: Hot and Hotter (Friedman)

2005-06-13T16:28:00.000+03:00

June 8, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANBangalore, IndiaEvery time I visit India, Indians always ask me to compare India with China. Lately, I have responded like this: If India and China were both highways, the Chinese highway would be a six-lane, perfectly paved road, but with a huge speed bump off in the distance labeled "Political reform: how in the world do we get from Communism to a more open

America's DNA (Friedman)

2005-06-06T16:30:00.000+03:00

June 1, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN New Delhi A few years ago my youngest daughter participated in the National History Day program for eighth graders. The question that year was "turning points" in history, and schoolchildren across the land were invited to submit a research project that illuminated any turning point in history. My daughter's project was "How Sputnik Led to the

A Race to the Top (Friedman)

2005-06-06T16:29:00.000+03:00

June 3, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Bangalore, India It was extremely revealing traveling from Europe to India as French voters (and now Dutch ones) were rejecting the E.U. constitution - in one giant snub to President Jacques Chirac, European integration, immigration, Turkish membership in the E.U. and all the forces of globalization eating away at Europe's welfare states. It is

Just Shut It Down (Friedman)

2005-06-01T16:30:00.000+03:00

May 27, 2005London By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANShut it down. Just shut it down. I am talking about the war-on-terrorism P.O.W. camp at Guantánamo Bay. Just shut it down and then plow it under. It has become worse than an embarrassment. I am convinced that more Americans are dying and will die if we keep the Gitmo prison open than if we shut it down. So, please, Mr. President, just shut it down.

PTT, Walkie Talkie GSM Phones

2005-05-28T17:55:00.000+03:00

Nextel to offer Motorola i730 Walkie-Talkie PhoneSamsung Demonstrates Push-To-All TechnologySiemens unveils the S65 1.3 Megapixel Camera Phone at CeBITKyocera KX440 with Telus Instant Talk Service Reviewed Sony Ericsson Z500 (Americas only)Sony Ericsson unveils the Z500 EDGE enabled camera phone with PTT-capability NOKIA 5140Nokia Introduces World's First 'Walkie Talkie' GSM PhoneNOKIA 6260

The Best P.R.: Straight Talk (Friedman)

2005-05-26T16:32:00.000+03:00

May 20, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The fact that the White House spokesman Scott McClellan spent part of his briefing on Tuesday excoriating Newsweek - and telling its editors that they had a responsibility to "help repair the damage" to America's standing in the Arab-Muslim world - while not offering a single word of condemnation for those who went out and killed 16 people in

C.E.O.'s, M.I.A. (Friedman)

2005-05-26T16:31:00.000+03:00

May 25, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN After six weeks of being a foreign correspondent traveling around America, the biggest question I have come home with is not "What's the matter with Kansas?" but rather, "What's the matter with big business?" America faces a huge set of challenges if it is going to retain its competitive edge. As a nation, we have a mounting education deficit,

Outrage and Silence (Friedman)

2005-05-19T16:34:00.000+03:00

May 18, 2005 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN It is hard not to notice two contrasting stories that have run side by side during the past week. One is the story about the violent protests in the Muslim world triggered by a report in Newsweek (which the magazine has now retracted) that U.S. interrogators at Guantánamo Bay desecrated a Koran by throwing it into a toilet. In

Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? (Friedman)

2005-05-19T16:05:00.000+03:00

May 13, 2005By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN For so many years, America's economy was so dominant on the world stage, so out front in so many key areas, that we fell into the habit of thinking we were competing largely against ourselves. If we fell behind in one area or another - whether it was math and science skills, broadband capacity or wireless infrastructure - we took the

'Neclear' Brussel Sprouts (Friedman)

2005-05-12T16:03:00.000+03:00

May 11, 2005 Brussels SproutsBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In his book "The Ideas That Conquered the World," Michael Mandelbaum tells a story about a young girl who is eating dinner at a friend's house and her friend's mother asks her if she likes brussels sprouts. "Yes, of course," the girl says. "I like brussels sprouts." After dinner, though, the mother notices that the girl hasn't eaten a

With Dubya using it, iPod is losing its COOLNESS!! (NYT)

2005-05-08T16:01:00.000+03:00

May 8, 2005As the iPod Stays Hot, It Risks Losing Its Cool By KEN BELSON SO President George W. Bush listens to an iPod, it was learned recently. How uncool is that? You'd think any marketer would love a little product placement with the consumer in chief. But the iPod - and Apple products generally - have reached near-cult status partly because they cultivate an image as the electronic

Tune (Friedman)

2005-05-07T16:00:00.000+03:00

May 6, 2005 Tuning in to Jon Stewart, and Britney Schmidt By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country. Here are the two most important things I learned from a recent book tour: First, many educated people seem to be getting their news from

Don't reap it (Friedman)

2005-05-07T15:53:00.000+03:00

May 4, 2005Reaping What It Sowed By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In the last few weeks not only has Iraq been destabilized by days with multiple suicide bombers, but Egypt and Saudi Arabia have also witnessed similar attacks by jihadist fanatics. How do you get so many people to commit suicide on demand, day after day? What's going on? In part the Arab-Muslim

Honey, I think the world is FLAT!! - Friedman

2005-05-01T23:47:00.000+03:00

1st chapter of Friedman's book "The World is Flat" May 1, 2005 FIRST CHAPTER 'The World Is Flat' By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN No one ever gave me directions like this on a golf course before: "Aim at either Microsoft or IBM." I was standing on the first tee at the KGA Golf Club in downtown Bangalore, in southern India, when my playing partner pointed at two shiny

الفضائح بين زمنين

2005-04-29T20:40:00.000+03:00

من موقع ابو محجوب

Bahrain will lack e-Freedom and Anonymity (AP)

2005-04-29T19:21:00.000+03:00

By ADNAN MALIK, Associated Press WriterThu Apr 28, 9:29 AM ET All Web sites operating in Bahrain must register with the country's Information Ministry under a new government mandate that has provoked protests from an international watchdog for press freedom. The move comes two months after the government detained three Bahrainis who were linked to an Internet forum

Bill Gates: US High Schools are OBSOLETE! (Friedman)

2005-04-29T17:26:00.000+03:00

April 29, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST 'What, Me Worry?' By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN One of America's most important entrepreneurs recently gave a remarkable speech at a summit meeting of our nation's governors. Bill Gates minced no words. "American high schools are obsolete," he told the governors. "By obsolete, I don't just mean that our high schools are broken, flawed and

Do you like it Hawkish, semi-Hawkish or Dovish?

2005-04-28T17:54:00.000+03:00

April 27, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Best Man for the U.N. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN My biggest problem with nominating John Bolton as U.N. ambassador boils down to one simple fact: he's not the best person for the job - not even close. If President George W. Bush wants a die-hard Republican at the U.N., one who has a conservative pedigree he can trust, who is close

The Interpreter (NYT)

2005-04-24T17:55:00.000+03:00

April 22, 2005 MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE INTERPRETER' Her Mission: Save the World Without Offending Anyone By A. O. SCOTT Silvia Broome is not just an employee of the United Nations, where she works as an interpreter. She is also a passionate believer in its goals and ideals, and holds fast to the conviction that it offers the best hope for addressing the violence and

Rooting for Mr.Blair (Friedman)

2005-04-22T17:56:00.000+03:00

April 22, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST Sizzle, Yes, but Beef, Too By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN New York Times columnists are not allowed to endorse U.S. presidential candidates. Only the editorial page does that. But in checking the columnist rule book, I couldn't find any ban on endorsing a candidate for prime minister of Britain. So I'm officially rooting for Tony Blair.

Rooting for the Good Guys (Friedman)

2005-04-22T17:47:00.000+03:00

April 20, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST Rooting for the Good Guys By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN On the surface, the dramas playing out among Israeli Jews - over whether to withdraw from the Gaza Strip - and among Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian Arabs - over how to share power - may seem totally disconnected. But in fact they are all variations on a theme: can democracy really take

هل من المعقول - عبداللطيف الدعيج

2005-04-18T18:17:00.000+03:00

من هو الشيطان الأخرس؟ عبد اللطيف الدعيج

غباء برلماني

2005-04-17T18:00:00.000+03:00

Kuwait MPs panel backs jail terms over mobile phone picturesSat Apr 16, 4:50 PM ET KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - A Kuwaiti parliamentary panel approved government proposed legislation laying down jail terms for people using bluetooth technology in mobile phones to take or circulate pictures without the subject's consent or for sexual blackmail. MP Waleed al-Tabtabai,

Bush Disarms, Unilaterally (Friedman)

2005-04-16T18:02:00.000+03:00

April 15, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST Bush Disarms, Unilaterally By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN One of the things that I can't figure out about the Bush team is why an administration that is so focused on projecting U.S. military strength abroad has taken such little interest in America's economic competitiveness at home - the underlying engine of our strength. At a time when the

Firefox 1.0.3 is released

2005-04-16T18:01:00.000+03:00

click on the image to get firefox

The Tiger is coming (NYT)

2005-04-13T18:03:00.001+03:00

April 13, 2005 Apple to Start Selling New Macintosh Operating System By JOHN MARKOFF PALO ALTO, Calif., April 12 - Apple Computer said on Tuesday that it would begin selling the fifth version of its Macintosh OS X operating system later this month. The program, which is named Macintosh OS X 10.4 Tiger and will sell for $129, has a variety of new features and some

الهدوء الذي يسبق العاصفة - فريدمان

2005-04-13T18:03:00.000+03:00

April 13, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Calm Before the Storm? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN ٍSo here's a question that I've been wrestling with lately: With all these reports about the bungling of U.S. intelligence, and the C.I.A.'s relying on bogus informants with names like "Curveball" or "Knucklehead" or whatever, why have there been no terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/

Arab Voice (Friedman)

2005-04-09T18:04:00.000+03:00

April 7, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST Arabs Lift Their Voices By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Until the recent elections in Iraq and among the Palestinians, the modern Arab world was largely immune to the winds of democracy that have blown everywhere else in the world. Why? That's a pretty important question. For years, though, it was avoided in both the East and the West. In the

Israeli & Syrian Presidents shook hands (ArabYnet)

2005-04-08T18:05:00.000+03:00

كتساف صافح الأسد وتحدث مع خاتمي

Is it flat? I'll see

2005-04-06T18:09:00.000+03:00

I'm still waiting for the arrival of Thomas Friedman's last book "The World is Flat".

Yummy USB!

2005-04-05T18:10:00.000+03:00

It contains: Rice, Salmon, Sea weed & Data.uploaded by Joi

Peace upon who loved Peace

2005-04-04T18:11:00.000+03:00

Pray for who prayed for Peace

2005-04-02T18:13:00.000+03:00

سـلام على من يحب الســلام

Condi's Challenge (Friedman)

2005-04-01T18:16:00.000+03:00

March 31, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST Rice's Poker Hand By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I've been to this play before. It always starts out like the coming-out season for debutantes in Palm Beach, and it always ends around a smoky poker table at Binions casino in Las Vegas. That is, every new secretary of state gets his or her moment on the world stage, where everyone "oohs" and "

القرآن بالعبري (ArabYnet)

2005-04-01T18:15:00.000+03:00

www.arabynet.com القرآن الكريم يترجم للعبرية للمرة الرابعة بعد صدور القرآن مترجمًا للعبرية ثلاث مرات، كان أولها في العام 1857 وآخرها في 1971، وجميعها تشوبها النواقص بشهادة الباحثين، تطرح في الأسواق قريبًا ترجمة جديدة بقلم البروفيسور أوري روبين... ميراف يوديلوفيتشيطرح في الأسواق اعتبارًا من الأسبوع القادم ترجمة جديدة للقرآن الكريم باللغة العبرية. وقام

Political texting in the Gulf (Washington Post)

2005-03-31T16:35:00.000+03:00

A very interesting article I red in www.washingtonpost.comIt has reference to Kuwait, Bahrain & Saudi Arabia In the Gulf, Dissidence Goes DigitalText Messaging Is New Tool Of Political Underground By Steve CollWashington Post Foreign ServiceTuesday, March 29, 2005; Page A01 KUWAIT CITY -- Rola Dashti's cell phone buzzed on the heady evening of March 7, hours after

Bin Laden Toast !!

2005-03-28T16:51:00.000+03:00

I think it's highly mentally poisonous

صالون اسلامي

2005-03-28T16:49:00.000+03:00

الفحيحيل

Geo-Greening by Example (Friedman)

2005-03-28T16:48:00.000+03:00

March 27, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST Geo-Greening by Example By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN How will future historians explain it? How will they possibly explain why President George W. Bush decided to ignore the energy crisis staring us in the face and chose instead to spend all his electoral capital on a futile effort to undo the New Deal, by partially privatizing Social Security?

Why Ajax Fans are so Jewish ?! (NYT)

2005-03-28T16:47:00.000+03:00

March 28, 2005 AMSTERDAM JOURNAL A Dutch Soccer Riddle: Jewish Regalia without Jews By CRAIG S. SMITH AMSTERDAM - Just minutes before a high-stakes soccer game not long ago between this city's home team, Ajax, and their rivals from the southern city of Eindhoven, a chant built to a roar in the hall packed with supporters where they were serving plastic pint cups of Dutch

Laptops to live longer (BBC)

2005-03-28T16:45:00.000+03:00

Long life promised for laptop PCs Scientists are working on ways to ensure laptops can stay powered for an entire working day. Building batteries from new chemical mixes could boost power significantly, say industry experts. The changes include everything from the

سوبر مسلم ... انطلق

2005-03-28T16:43:00.000+03:00

القبس، الصفحة الاولى28 March 2005

Do u still use IE???

2005-03-26T16:55:00.000+03:00

IE 'Unsafe' 98 Percent Of 2004, Says ScanIT As Mozilla and Microsoft executives argue about which browser -- Firefox or Internet Explorer -- is more secure, fans of the former have numbers on their side, a Belgian security consultancy said this week. According to Brussels-based ScanIT, users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) were "unsafe" 98 percent of the time during 2004, while

يا للهول

2005-03-25T16:57:00.000+03:00

By: Abu Mahjoob

Petrol station in Zulfi, Saudi Arabia

2005-03-24T17:07:00.000+03:00

It reads: Apologies & Forgiveness, No Benzene [due to] Full Maintenance

Stupid Sign

2005-03-24T17:05:00.000+03:00

Burgan Bank opened a new branch, but the question is: can we go there?!Photo taken by: I Love Q8

iPod therefore i Am

2005-03-24T17:03:00.000+03:00

Newsweek, July 2004

Fairouz

2005-03-24T17:00:00.000+03:00

God Bless Thee

Opposition in Lebanon & Jordan

2005-03-24T16:58:00.000+03:00

1 A Jordanian student in the AUB attending the Lebanese oppostion Protests"God bless who made the oppostion, I want to be one in Jordan" 2 Back to Jordan, shocked by the way his country's opposition look"Forget about it! I didn't even say it"By: Abu Mahjoob

مقال لم ينشر لعبداللطيف الدعيج

2005-03-23T17:10:00.000+03:00

المصدر: ساحة الصفاة === Quote === وصلت لساحة الصفاة الرسالة التالية من الكاتب الصحفي الكبير عبداللطيف الدعيج ردا على موضوع "أين تقف حرية التعبير؟" ننشرها أدناه كما وردت مع المقال الأصلي اللذي لم ينشر عن قضية حرية التعبير و مي الفرج على الخصوص. ونحن في ساحة الصفاة نتشرف بموافقة شيخ الكتاب بنشر مقاله في الساحة ونتمنى أن تكون بداية للمزيد من المقالات من بوراكان -طمع شوي من جانبنا- الذي نتشرف

كلمات خالدة

2005-03-23T17:09:00.000+03:00

اعطني الناي و غنيوانسى داءا و دواءانما الناس سطوركتبت لكن ... بماء جبران خليل جبران ١٨٨٣-١٩٣١

"Soft Diplomacy"

2005-03-22T17:20:00.000+03:00

"Diplomacy with soft hands"by: Tahani Al-TerkateKuwaiti Press Attache, Washington D.C.(Source: Hi Magazine)الدبلوماسية بأيدٍ ناعمة مارس 2005 بينما كنتُ أحزِم حقائبي استعدادا للانتقال إلى العاصمة الأميركية واشنطن في شهر تموز/يوليو من العام 2001 لمباشرة عملي كملحقة إعلامية في سفارة دولة الكويت، لم أكن لأشعر بالخوف أو الهيبة من التعايش والائتلاف مع هذا المجتمع المفتوح. ولعل السبب يعود إلى

Saddam calling Muqtada

2005-03-22T17:19:00.000+03:00

Saddam: Surrender! it's just a teeth check... believe me-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Just a thought ...

2005-03-22T17:17:00.000+03:00

iPodDaddy

2005-03-22T17:15:00.000+03:00

Father of the IPod Topic: iPod (Source: Wired) Sunday's New York Times feature on Apple, Steve Jobs and the iPod touches on one of the weirdest open secrets in Silicon Valley: The unacknowledged father of the iPod is engineer Tony Fadell.According to the Times, "(The iPod) was put together starting in 2001 by hardware designers led by Tony Fadell, a young

iTalmud

2005-03-22T17:14:00.000+03:00

March 17, 2005 2,000 Talmud Tapes, or One Loaded IPod By ALEX MINDLIN (Source: NY Times)TWO weeks ago, about 26,000 Orthodox Jews crowded into Madison Square Garden to mark the completion of the Daf Yomi, a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of Talmud learning. Participants in the Daf Yomi - who number, worldwide, in the hundreds of thousands - study a page a day of the massive compendium of

... and so it is

2005-03-22T17:13:00.000+03:00

Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter(Source: SongMeanings)Album: O (2003)... and so it is just like you said it would be life goes easy on me most of the time ...and so it is the shorter story no love no glory no hero in her skies I can't take my eyes off of you I can't take my eyes off of you I can't take my eyes off of you I can't take my eyes off of you I can't take my eyes off of

My First Blog

2005-03-21T17:22:00.000+03:00

A Nobel for Sistani By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: March 20, 2005 (Source: NY Times)As we approach the season of the Nobel Peace Prize, I would like to nominate the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, for this year's medal. I'm serious. If there is a decent outcome in Iraq, President Bush will deserve, and receive, real credit for creating the conditions