Leaving Goodreads
I've been thinking about leaving ever since it was acquired by Amazon, but now that there are decentralised, open and anti-corporate alternatives, I think it's time to move on.
I've been thinking about leaving ever since it was acquired by Amazon, but now that there are decentralised, open and anti-corporate alternatives, I think it's time to move on.
بعد ١٥ سنة من استخدام تويتر كمنصة أساسية للتعبير عن رأيي على الأنترنت قفلت حسابي بسبب شراء البليونير إلون ماسك للموقع.
في ٢٠٠٧ سمعت عن تويتر وأشتركت فيه فوراً والحقيقة وقعت في غرام الموقع وفكرته وقدرة أن الواحد يتواصل مع أشخاص يعرفهم أو ما يعرفهمش ويعرف هما بيعملوا أيه بشكل …
openDemocracy, a wesbite that publishes posts by prominent academics and journalists and encourages debate about world politics and culture, has published as part of its Arab Awakening section a guide to the best blogs in the Arab world for 2011. These include very important and popular blogs such as Nawaat …
One additional reason to love Disqus:
Twitter is a fast growing service that millions of people (including all of us here at Disqus) use to easily update and get updates from friends. We recently released the ability to tweet out comments for commenters with a Disqus Profile. This allowed people …
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You may want to try it.
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Derealization is the feeling that things in one's surroundings are strange, unreal, or somehow altered.
Suddenly, today everything around me froze in time.
A few fantastic left sitting in a small circle, CSF conscripts sitting in circles eating, a friend tired and thinking, children running after each other near a …
هل يعرف أحد لماذا قال لي المسؤول عن تحضير جثمان جدي أنة أخف من الريشة؟
لأن خطر في بالي وقتها هذه الصورة:
اليوم كنت مسافر مع 7 أشخاص الى الأسماعيلية. لأكل السمك! هذه أول مرة في حياتي أسافر للأكل فقط. الحقيقة أني كنت متحمس لرؤية المدينة مرة أخرى، أخر مرة زرت الأسماعيلية كان من 18 سنة أو أكثر و لا أتذكر الكثير.
فيما عدا طريق القناة المؤدي لبورسعيد. أتذكر حبي لمشاهدة السفن …
I can understand the reasoning behind censoring nudity on TV. I can swallow my discomfort. I am watching the film for free. But I shriek at totally spoiling a film by removing innocent kissing scenes while leaving bloody violence. Somehow, mbc's dull censorship policy skewed …