Alaa reports that armed state security forces detained the Egyptian journalist Ahmad Abdollah "Abo Islam". They broke in to his house on Monday. Five bloggers visited him and knew from his son that state security forces threatened his family at gun point and confiscated computer hard drives, CDs and books. He was a member of the Labour "El A'aml" party, former editor in ASha'ab newspaper and published two other newspapers. Currently he writes on a …
The Egyptian version of the Zastava 128 GLS is back and available for sale. The Car of the year 1969 is back in production in 2005. Well, actually it is almost 2006 by now.
Speaking of 2006 and the 21st century and so on. Read about hybrid vehicles.
But you know, the 128 deserves our respect. She was so useful to so many people. And probably still useful to many today. For almost 30 years …
If you don't want to end up like Abdolkarim and think that being anonymous is no easy feat. Check out TorPark:
Download TorPark for your language, and put it on a USB Flash key chain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer directly to a Tor exit computer, giving the appearance …
This is a story that touches anyone. Her smile now is far more powerful than the bomb.
Aljazeera responds to the leaked memo about US wanting to bomb their HQ using web 2.0 tools. They are blogging in first person narrative of personal stories just like bloggers do and allowing comments. They are using flickr. They are tagging the photos. They chose a creative commons license for their photos. And you can send them emails to their gmail account.
I wonder when will they store their video on archive.org, let …
I ran out of passport sized photos. I went to a professional photographer Kodak Spot to get my self a decent photo so I could use to apply for military education. Look if you don't know what is military education, don't ask. It is the most ridiculous thing ever.
And the photo sucks.
They stopped using celluloid film and SLRs. Instead, obviously to cut costs, they are using a cheap old Olympus digital camera. The …
Mobinil is encouraging mobile phone users to recycle their old batteries. The company will give a 5 EGP Alo prepaid card or a gift in exchange for your old mobile battery.
From a press release:
MobiNil has committed itself to creating a collection system for used batteries, which are then shipped to specialized plants in the UK and Europe for safe recycling.
This is a very good step. If you do care about recycling then …
Global Voices Online (GVO) won the best English language journalistic award in the 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards!
Global Voices is a remarkable blog that brings the voices of international bloggers to the attention of the rest of the world. It is an organization launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. Founded by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon.
!Goals of GVO:
- To call attention to the most …
I have nothing new to say. Probably people reading this already know that the moral stigma of HIV is getting more people infected. The ignoramuses fearing that people would be promiscuous because of sex ed, are helping no one. Arguments against teaching teenagers about sex, drugs and condoms are no longer justified. I think more delays in introducing such classes will be a landmark failure in proper reasoning by the Egyptian society.
From the latest …
Everyone should browse the Egyptian Patent Office website. It is a goldmine.
In a few minutes I found out some extremely retarded entries. In an exceptionally bad site.
Honey treats everything:
HONEY KILLS THE BACTERIA THAT CAUSE CHOLERA TYPHOID BACILLARY DYSENTRY AND DIPHTHERIA AND THE FUNGUS WHICH CAUSE TINEA PEDIS AND CAN BE USED IN TREATMENT OF THESE DISEASES.
A multipurpose time machine:
MULTI-PURPOSE TIME CONTROLE MACHINE.
A patent for what seems to …