This “cool tool” is all about the amount of Vanity Fair, GQ, and People Magazine covers I can score. No? 
Ok, A-List Bloglebrity on the Internet, is all about the amount of link love you (I) can score. It is powered by Technorati records of the blog and some technical stuff, which I don’t understand.
Anyway, [...]
Nominations have opened for the 2007 Bloggie Awards (no, it’s not just another blog award*). Last year I was honored to be named a finalist in the “Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog” category, along with Baghdad Burning, Sleepless in Sudan, Mahmood’s Den and Subzero Blue. All terrific sites that I read regularly. The winner [...]
I liked this one:
Hello Sabbah,
I’m happy to inform you that your site sabbah.biz has won an award as best site to “Rule The World” (www.asktheworld.org/ruletheworld). Your site has been suggested by hundreds of our site’s visitors and chosen by the Rule The World staff. Your site has been awarded because of his big popularity and [...]
This is a nifty flash presentation of Reuters’ 40 pictures of the year 2005.
My selection from these reflects the misery life that surrounds us in this part of the world. So here they are:
Each of these reminds us (although we never forget) of the endless story of, tragedy, corruption, greed, unjust, was, terrorism, occupation, …etc.
What [...]
Winner, Visions of Science Photographic Awards. (BBC; official site)
Science is cool (not really, but that’s what we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better). The coolest science pictures you’re going to see all day. Check out the Top 10 Winners of the Visions of Science Photographic Awards. I’m partial to 6 and 7, [...]
Unfortunately there seems to be some routing problems these days that affect reaching arablogger.com. Below results was obtained from alertra.com, which shows that arablogger.com was reachable from London, Frankfurt, Chicago and Orlando, but not from Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Atlanta and Oklahoma (at the time of the check, 9:00 GMT). These are just sample routes, [...]
EXCLUSIVE-US tax breaks help Jewish settlers in West Bank
Source: Reuters By Adam Entous The United States says Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank threaten any peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- yet it also encourages Americans to help support settlers by offering tax breaks on donations. As Condoleezza Rice flew in on Monday for another round of peace talks, ... Despite truce, still no sign of school supplies in Gaza
Under its truce with Hamas, Israel has permitted shipments of frozen meat, soft drinks, cookies, jam, shampoo, clothing and other items. However, the amounts are insufficient for the entire population. In September 2007 - three months after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, and after the main cargo crossing, Karni, had ... A Monopoly of Incompetence, Corruption, Failure and Thuggery
Years of silence by Palestinian "Sheiks" and intellectuals led us to where we are now. Arafat ruled the PLO and Fatah with iron fist, using bribery, intimidation even physical liquidation to silence every one. There was never a call for accountability of decisions, failures even financial corruptions. Time for a ... We are running out of time for a two-state solution
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University - and cosignatory of "The People's Choice," a peace plan that he formulated with former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon - told ... Woman beat, threatened by 'modesty squad'
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships ...
