On this day, last year, I said: Kerry is a mass-murderer. Bush is psycho. What�s a voter to do?

Early last century, the biggest threat to the Hejaz Railway was Britain’s T.E. Lawrence and his camel-mounted Arab rebels, who sabotaged the desert track to attack trains packed with Turkish soldiers.

Today, a lack of passengers and improved highways may kill off the Hejaz Train once and for all, a quiet demise for a train that [...]

On this day, last year, I said: Clone Steak Safe, Unless It Isn�t.

Over a week ago, tens of thousands of people attended what they thought to be the biggest Palestinian wedding ever, in addition to the huge media coverage. A mass wedding ceremony sponsored by the Islamic Jihad organization in the Gaza Strip, 222 Gazan couples got married in Gaza city on Friday, 22 July 2005. But [...]

Watching the daily news, I get bored. I can blindly guess what is going to be said. Here is some of the keywords: occupation, war, killed, terrorism, arrest, bomb, democracy, victims, Islam, oil, Arab, Americans, Bin Laden, Zarkawi, etc…

My conclusion is:

Mark Twain once concluded, “the very ink with which all history is written is merely [...]

In my to-do-list, I always wanted to meet some/all of Jordan Bloggers, and that wish came true last night. On top of that, it was more pleasant to have Ethan Zuckerman from Global Voice attending and sponsoring this meeting.

Having said that, you can imagine how interesting it was. Starting from the place we meet at, [...]

Scientists are questioning the safety of a Star Wars-style riot control ray gun due to be deployed in Iraq next year. The Active Denial System weapon, classified as “less lethal” by the Pentagon, fires a 95GHz microwave beam at rioters to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five seconds.

The non-lethal technology uses millimeter-wave [...]

Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a “female” android called Repliee Q1.

She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner.

She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. [...]

UK paramedics have launched a campaign with Vodafone to encourage mobile phone owners to program emergency contact details into their phones:

By entering the acronym ICE – for In Case of Emergency – into the mobile’s phone book, users can log the name and number of someone who should be contacted in an emergency.

So that paramedics [...]

Worth 1000 show us what happens when the Photoshop geniuses freak, and celebrities are forced to walk among us. Some of these are truly disturbing, others… well, Worth 1000!