Slowly waking up a very cold night hyper active elements already chanting

Alaa is sending SMS messages to this blog from the judges sit-in more details and here.

UPDATE I finished my phone credit and I am adding the SMSs manually.

UPDATE Photos from the sit in here, here, here and here

UPDATE SMSs in one page

At the same time people are drowning, ships sinking from the bad weather and I heared that several ports were closed. I am going to Ras-Sidr.

UPDATE: I am back home, recovering from bruises and sore muscles.

UPDATE: You can see the photos here

We are one of the lucky countries to be in the path of the Moon's umbral shadow in the upcoming solar eclipse. We can see a total eclipse from El-Sallum. Many people are already planning their trips and are going to set up camps and other observational areas for scientists and non-scientists. I personally want to go and watch the bright disc.

You can find more information regarding the 29th of March eclipse on the …

JC says that that he received two emails informing him that three main opposition websites are now blocked by the government. Users of the main ISPs (Linkdotnet, Tedata and Raya) in Egypt cannot have any access to these sites anymore.

These websites are: * Save Egypt Front * Masreyat * Egyptian Talks

The Ikhwan website is still accessible, which was blocked in 2005. I think blocking an Ikhwan site now is harder than it used to be. The …

الدافع الرئيس للتسجيل و الحصول على بطاقة إنتخاب هو الشعور بأمكانية إحداث تغيير. من المحزن أن تصدر تلك البطاقة ولو جزئيا بنفس الطرق التي تأمل أن تراها تختفي.

اليوم ذهبت الى قسم الشرطة لأستخراج بعض الأوراق. صحيفة الحالة الجنائية و صور من شهادة الميلاد و السؤال عن بطاقة الإنتخاب.

بعد سؤال عدد من الأفراد، أنضممت لطابور رجال من مختلف الأعمار و الأشكال. جميعهم يرتدون ملابس بنية اللون و مخالفة لما تقترحه أشعة الشمس. جميعهم متشبث …

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which anyone can edit, reaches a new milestone. In a record 5 years, thousands of volunteers created the world's largest encyclopedia. It is probably one of the largest internet collaboration projects ever attempted.

From the press release:

The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 1,000,000th article in the English language edition of Wikipedia. The article is about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland, and it was started …

طالب اتحاد المهن الطبية أعضاءه من الأطباء البشريين والأسنان والصيادلة والبيطريين بضرورة الالتزام بمقاطعة المنتجات الدانمركية والنرويجية من الأدوية والأغذية والألبان وغيرها.

ويأتي قرار الاتحاد احتجاجًا على تطاول الصحف فى هاتين الدولتين على مقام النبى الكريم -- صلى الله عليه وسلم -- وتضامنًا مع كافة الهيئات فى جميع الدول الإسلامية .

وذكر د. محمود عبد المقصود امين عام الاتحاد ان الأنسولين يأتي على رأس الأدوية المطلوب مقاطعتها خاصة مع توافر الأنسولين المصري من إنتاج هيئة المصل …

Interesting links I found by chance, that are not widely known. They are all tagged `egypt' in my bookmarks:

Italian researchers published a research last November that suggests the condition of "falling in love" appears to be associated with elevated levels of a nerve growth factor in the bloodstream.

Enzo Emanuele of the University of Pavia and colleagues suspected that a diversity of biological mechanisms might be involved in precipitating the mental state called "falling in love," a state characterized by obsessive thinking about one's beloved, craving for union with him or her, euphoria …