Joi Ito's response.

Did you ever sit at the airport or at a cafe and there was a unencrypted wireless access point nearby, but whenever you wanted to visit a site their website would pop up asking for a fee to use the internet through their AccessPoint (aka. Captive Portal)?

The possible reinstatement of two policemen found guilty of torture would be an implicit encouragement from the Egyptian authorities for all police officers to use torture, Amnesty International said today as it urged Egypt’s Interior Minister not to allow this.

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you can outsource your labor, but you can’t outsource your moral responsibility.

An RSS feed of blog posts containing links to Egyptian newspapers

whoa .. this is a must read.

Video of Bahai homes set on fire.

أول ما اتوليت منصبي الحالي استدعتني أمن الدولة والرقابة الإدارية وجهة سيادية أخري، وبصراحة صعقت عندما وجدت كم المعلومات الهائل عني لديهم، هما بالأساس موجودين لحماية الأشخاص داخل المصلحة.

Egypt

Magdy is hilarious.

"I admit that I am responsible for the crimes, torture and execution at S-21," said Kaing Khev Iev, 66, better known as Duch, using the code name for Tuol Sleng prison, where more than 12,000 men, women and children were tortured before being executed in the nearby "killing fields" outside the capital.

Enable multitouch on any Linux laptop using synaptics touchpad. Even on old laptops.

This is somewhat similar to Emad el-Kebbir video. Discuss.

Of course, the very idea that you can defame a religion at all flies in the face of both fundamental rights of expression and belief. A religion, like all ideas and beliefs, must be open to debate, discussion, and even criticism. For this reason, religions themselves do not have rights. Rights belong exclusively to people.

265,000 results for this annoying phrase. Stop it!

Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the photos. I was stunned by what I found.

“Since 2006, AUC has had a contract with the US Naval Medical Research Unit in Egypt (NAMRU – 3) to recruit and provide scientific staff in support of infectious disease research throughout the region, specifically relating to Avian Flu. The total value of this contract since 2006 is $1,964,035, i.e. $600,000 per year for the basic award, plus an additional $164,035 for travel expenses in the 2008 renewal,” the statement explained.

Daily News Egypt RSS feed with proper links .. now there isn't a single Egyptian newspaper with a proper site. Thanks to Yahoo Pipes.

“An officer responsible for April 6 [strike] internet activity asked me very strange questions such as, 'Why do you blog? Why do you use the internet? Who in the Shebab 6 April movement is in a relationship? Who wants to get married?'”

Can't we do the same against el-Adly? Can't HR lawyers outside Egypt raise a case against the US extraordinary renditions program and include Habib el-Adly and other Arab mercenary torturers?

Excellent post.

كريم ــ 3 سنوات ــ فاكر إن ماكدونالدز ده بتاعى وكل شوية عاوز هابى ميل علشان اللعبة. ده حمل تقيل، إلا الأولاد مش ممكن أقولهم لأ على حاجة، وكمان صعب الواحد ياكل حاجة من غيرهم... ولذلك وفى الأعياد الرسمية، بعد انتهاء «شفت العمل»، يأخذ محمد أولاده إلى أحد مطاعم الشركة، «على الأقل يحسوا إنى بأعملهم حاجة، أصلهم مش فاهمين إن المحل ده مش بتاعى».

The reason we’ve never heard about any of this, apparently, is that the US is not advertising the operations, the al-Bashir regime in Khartoum has declared a media blackout, and Egypt is respecting the blackout but keeping a close eye since this involves major arms traffic (it’s an old route, once used by the French poet Rimbaud) going through its territory. Today al-Shorouk said that an Egyptian intelligence agent visited the area to verify the issue.

“Defamation of religions may offend people and hurt their feelings but it does not directly result in a violation of the right to freedom of religion.”