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Archive for July, 2005

On this day!

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

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

Hejaz Railway Quiet Demise

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

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!

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

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

Check the bride at the door

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

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 [...]

News Illusion

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

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 [...]

Global Voice meets Jordan Bloggers

Friday, July 29th, 2005

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, [...]

Active Denial System: A ‘Human Fried’ Machine in Iraq

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

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 [...]

The Female Robot!

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

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. [...]

In Case of Emergency (ICE) numbers in your cell phone

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

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 [...]

Hollywood Zombie!

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

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!