Archive for the ‘Science and Technology’ Category

Watch Propaganda

This item was filled under [ (Mis) Use of Technology, Asides, Israel, Media, Zionism ]

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Israel launches Arabic YouTube channel to bypass Arab media
The Foreign Ministry has launched a YouTube channel in Arabic which is meant to bypass Arab media and give Israel’s version [...]

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Saudi supercomputer

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At last, something worth the money spent:
Saudi supercomputer lures researchers
By Asma Alsharif
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world’s largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state.
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is due [...]

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Handy Designer’s Tools “On The Fly”
Noupe is a design weblog created to inspire creativity by sharing innovative resources and websites to bloggers, freelancers and web designers.
Site-Perf.com - Know all about your site performance
Website performance analyzing tool. This online tool emulates natural browser behaviour downloading your [...]

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Links: Daily Roundup

lifestreams - your life live
lifestrea.ms - life is just another feed
Handy Designer’s Tools “On The Fly”
Noupe is a design weblog created to inspire creativity by sharing innovative resources and websites to bloggers, freelancers and web designers.
Site-Perf.com - Know all about your site performance
Website performance analyzing tool. This online tool emulates natural browser behaviour downloading your [...]

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Updated: Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on UN-Google Earth Map

It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world [...]

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Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

The latest crime “in the name of social customs and religious rules.”
A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.
The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the [...]

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Apple iRack

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You gotta watch this:

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Microsoft reading your mind!

“Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says.
The company is not happy with evaluating human response while they interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers, so, they wants to read the data straight from your brain as you [...]

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Microsoft reading your mind!

“Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says.
The company is not happy with evaluating human response while they interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers, so, they wants to read the data straight from your brain as you [...]

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Dubai Floating Bridge

This item was filled under [ Good News, Science and Technology, UAE ]

One of the biggest criticisms of Dubai has always been the traffic congestion, ask me about it as I lived there for six years.
In an effort to reduce the traffic, Dubai, opened a floating bridge which connect the two sides of the creek - Deira and Bur Dubai.

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The Floating Bridge [...]

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iPhone or Sex?

In the last two months I received countless spam emails, ads and invitations to join iPhone groups such as those at Facebook, all of which entice me to buy the new Apple mobile called, iPhone.
Until couple of weeks ago I didn’t even think of it, when a friend of mine showed me his new iPhone [...]

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iPhone or Sex?

In the last two months I received countless spam emails, ads and invitations to join iPhone groups such as those at Facebook, all of which entice me to buy the new Apple mobile called, iPhone.
Until couple of weeks ago I didn’t even think of it, when a friend of mine showed me his new iPhone [...]

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Clockwise or counterclockwise?

This item was filled under [ Science and Technology, Too Much Free Time ]

OK, it’s Eid holiday, so this is not politics-related, but it is a cool way to find out if you are a right-brain or left-brain dominant. Look at the dancer and decide which way she’s spinning.
Focus!
If you think she’s going clockwise, you’re apparently right-brain dominant (imaginative, philosophical, touchy-feely, impetuous); if you see her going counter-clockwise, [...]

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Israel Goes on the Virtual Offensive

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By Gregory Levey
The Israeli government is deploying new tactics to deepen ties with American youth and evangelicals.
For the moment at least, the state of Israel has 553 friends. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 20-something Israeli official who is showing me Israel’s new MySpace page, however, says she isn’t sure if the link to the [...]

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Who’s your online enemy?

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Web-savvy criminals have turned Israel into the world’s highest ranking source of malicious Internet activity per user, security experts have told The Jerusalem Post.
From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according to [...]

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Microsoft Web 2.0 and Refugees

I feel sick to my stomach when I see a multi-billion giant like Microsoft using “children refugees” as a cover up to market their latest web 2.0 businesses called live.com!
While doing my search for my previous story, I came across a press release by UNHCR which said: “Microsoft launches “Click for Cause” initiative to support [...]

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Fireplace: Date Palm Style

I know it is cold out there. In fact, this is one of the coldest years over here in Bahrain.
Anyway, here is a new idea to get you warm. This invention won the prize for “Best Dumbass Idea of the Year.” It is called “Date Palm Fireplace”:

Click image to enlarge!
As you [...]

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Engineering for dummies

This item was filled under [ Science and Technology, Too Much Free Time ]

I am in a terrible “time-waste” mood these days, so have fun!
This is how illiterate miscalculate it:

and this is how the literate’s calculate it (more accurate to the target):

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Will the human race ever populate another planet?

This article is in response to the question posted by a new site just launched today - Love to Lead - where:
Each week for the next 16 weeks L2L will pose a question designed to stimulate debate between bloggers. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite article and the blogger whose post receives [...]

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US Electromagnetic Weapons: To Invade a Person’s Body Without Their Consent

This item was filled under [ (Mis) Use of Technology, Bleeding Edge, Defence, Human Rights, USA ]

It was July 2005 when first published some information about the deployment of a new weapon in Iraq called “Active Denial System weapon.” The weapon was deployed in Iraq for testing free-fresh-flesh-samples (to make “Fried Chicken”). This weapon fires a 95GHz microwave beam at “rioters” to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five [...]

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