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Among the nominees: Mobile.Seed - It is [...]
The Picture of Everything contains, well, a picture of everything. Howard Hallis has taken the time (2 years) to draw this detailed piece of art and it shows. If you have a lot of money he might even sell it to you.
Mr. Shoe Shop’s exhibition (Sample) displays 100 hand-painted figures (Nike Air Force 1). Most of the designs are inspired by Nike’s cross-over sneaker designs. Others are from Michael Lau’s own.
The setting of the exhibition hall is a simulation of a sneaker store, with 100 figures displayed on top of shoe boxes. There is a contest [...]
Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships.
Totally attention-starved, they compete with each other for human affection — or, getting touch, as they like to say.
When you give Needies touch (by hugging and squeezing them), they will return your kindness with songs and shameless flattery.
But remember that Needies always know when other [...]
Current bid US $41,411.00 on ebay (reserve not met) are the worlds oldest pair of levi’s.
In the spring of 1998 four buddies from North San Diego county were exploring an abondoned silver mine in the Mojave desert. They were hundreds of feet below the ground and ironically they struck GOLD! What they later [...]
Introducing the most technologically advanced piece of clothing since the Hypercolor t-shirt: the LED scrolling belt buckle. What it does? I have no idea…
“You’ve shown nothing but racism because I am an Arab and a Muslim,” the ABC quoted him as writing. “I am absolutely sure I will be exonerated and will face you and confront you before the law when you will be asked about your failure to assist me.” - Tallaal Adrey Australian citizen who says [...]
Lawyer of three British ‘torture victims’ moves to seize Saudi assets in Britain over legal case. Lawyer will “start the process” this week of seizing some Britain-based Saudi state assets, which include Saudi Arabian Airlines.
A court on Tuesday postponed the trial of nine Libyan policemen and a physician charged with torturing Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to extract confessions. The defendants are charged with torturing the nurses and doctor to make them confess they deliberately infected hundreds of Libyan children with HIV in a hospital in the eastern [...]
Please read in second paragraph “had uncovered Koran abuse” instead of “had uncovered Korean abuse.” A corrected story follows.
Update: I regret that I had to remove the photos from Flickr for copyright issues. You can still view the photos and more here: http://www.palestinecostumearchive.org/
A sample of Costumes from my homeland - Palestine. A photo collection I gathered from the net can be viewed here.
Click on photo for a large view.
Palestinian child’s quilt
Bethlehem wedding [...]
Are you a coffee lover like me? Well, even if you are not, I’m sure you will give it a second thought after looking at this gallery:
More here.
Also you can have a Coffee Chat here.
That’s not all what you can get out of coffee. Here is 100% Coffee Art:
And just before you [...]
Nordic women are the closest to reaching socioeconomic parity with men while their Egyptian sisters are the furthest, according to a 58-nation survey published by Swiss-based World
Economic Forum think-tank in its 58-nation survey.
I’m a Star Wars fan:
Facts… If Star Wars was a country, its $20-billion would place it 70th in the World Bank’s rankings of countries according to gross domestic product (GDP), narrowly behind Syria, Serbia and Oman, but ahead of Bulgaria, Libya and Lebanon. George Lucas’s brainchild has made twice as much money as each of [...]
No, this is not a Palestinian refugee camp. This encampment was home to 11 of the 13 suicide bombers who detonated explosives-laden backpacks at five targets in Casablanca May 16, 2003, killing 46 people and injuring more than 100. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)
17-year-old boy and 19-year-old girl, both UAE nationals, were each sentenced to spend one month in jail. The teenagers were exchanging “indecent” pictures through their cellphones and sending pornographic pictures through email. The Dubai Court of First Instance heard that one of the girl’s friends was jealous of the relationship she had with her male [...]
Three rare paintings by chimpanzee artist Congo, completed in the late 1950s, will be sold at London’s Bonhams auction house next month. The lot is estimated to sell for $1,130-$1,500. Congo, who was born in 1954, produced some 400 drawings and paintings between the ages of 2 and 4. It was not immediately known if [...]
NASA is developing a subvocal speech system that could enable you to make a phone call while keeping your lips sealed. How do you talk to someone without opening your mouth? Psychics call it telepathy. NASA refers to it as subvocal speech. Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in California have developed a system [...]
How will history judge President Talabani?
This was the first thing I thought of after the so called democratic elections in Iraq brought us Talabani and gave him the honor of being named “His Highness, President Of Iraq“. It was both a symbolic and a historical event. It was symbolic because the idea of transforming Iraq [...]
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