🔗 J’accuse - Ahram Online
But most of all, I accuse the millions of supposedly moderate Muslims among us; those who’ve been growing more and more prejudiced, inclusive and narrow minded with every passing year.
But most of all, I accuse the millions of supposedly moderate Muslims among us; those who’ve been growing more and more prejudiced, inclusive and narrow minded with every passing year.
Identikit face creation is fun.
In one area, however, philosophers have taken a great interest in fashionable nonsense and in many cases have also fallen for it. I refer to what the philosopher, poet and neurologist Raymond Tallis calls “neurotrash”. By this he means the rewriting of the human person as the human brain, and using the resulting pseudoscience as a purported answer to some philosophical problem – as in Libet on free will, Zeki on aesthetic taste, Ramachandran on self-knowledge and “mirror neurons”, Joshua Greene on moral reasoning, and a thousand similar attempts to reduce the I to the fMRI.
While lauded by international financial institutions, Ben Ali’s economic liberalization program has failed to address the unemployment rate in the country, which official estimates put at 14 percent.
Students are the perfect medical guinea pigs – I should know | Tim Skellett http://bit.ly/hQg69O
Quick guide to imposition using PSutils.
BBC News - Israel ex-President Moshe Katsav found guilty of rape http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12091982
GREAT NEWS: The building housing the Abbaseyya Psychiatric Hospital will be listed as an Islamic heritage site.
لو عمرك رحت المتحف الزراعي بالدقي لازم تروح المتحف الزراعي العالمي بوسط البلد http://is.gd/jAWdZ
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K
تقرير العاشرة مساءا بخصوص نقل مستشفى العباسية http://goo.gl/mQjQJ (hat tip @sarahcarr)
A protester was shot dead and several people injured in Tunisia after security forces opened fire
وقفة احتجاجية لأطباء مستشفى العباسية والعاملين بها الأحد ضد قرار نقلها وهدمها
Map of Lebanon by Religious Sect http://is.gd/jmTfE #lebanon #religion #map
A patent application from the 1900 for modifying the common typewriter to type Arabic. Dots were separate keys http://is.gd/jmJTR
A visual guide to the open internet: http://www.theopeninter.net
Can say people remained attentive to this case for 3 months. From http://is.gd/jg0bZ
رسالة دكتوراه في النفاق المباشر عبر وسائل الاعلام في مصر وتأثيره على المواطنين وأعضائهم التناسلية http://is.gd/jaSne (via @sarahcarr)
I like the new Google Groups http://tinyurl.com/29j37kf but I think the new Posterous groups is genius http://tinyurl.com/2vmr9wx #internet
I like the new Google Groups http://tinyurl.com/29j37kf but I think the new Posterous groups is genius http://tinyurl.com/2vmr9wx #internet
Sudan's Bashir will "reinforce" Sharia after separation http://bit.ly/efh1yt
Self Hosted WordPress.org vs. Free WordPress.com [Infographic]
UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default http://is.gd/j17ey #censorship #uk #internet
Don't "act like a man" http://is.gd/j12Ay #gender
An article about the pokemon induced seizures in 700 Japanese kids in 1997.