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Do We Hail Blogging Only When It Suits Us?

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

In his recent post about the Dunkin Donuts ad, Naseem states:
“seriously, when malkin and her army of gonads start having enough power to sway corporations, that’s when you know we’re in big trouble.”
Now, this phrase raises a number of interesting questions. isn’t this the whole point of alternative media, especially blogging? is the power of […]

Queen Rania’s Youtube Channel And The Media.

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Her Majesty Queen Rania’s video on stereotypes currently stands at 1.13 Million page views, That’s 110 thousands views a day since the date its been added on March 30th, with 34 Honors, 20 Video responses and 3716 comments, Now thats impressive!
Setting that aside, it is clear that what Queen Rania is doing is remarkable, not […]

Movie Torrent Jargon: What do those abbreviations mean.

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Many people download movies from the internet, mostly as torrents, and typically these torrents are named according to a system, usually the torrent will look something like this: Meet.The.Spartans.TELESYNC.XviD-ORC.TPB. Many do not understand what these strange abbreviations mean. This is a brief explanation.
Let us look at the file name, Usually it consists of 5 parts, […]

Who the HELL is cutting Undersea Cables in the Middle East?

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Take a look if you will at the picture below:

FIVE Undersea Cables have been cut. Apparently, Ships Can Drag Anchors from Egypt to Malaysia!?
These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.
The […]

Rules of Thumb - The best way to do anything in life.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Ever wonder how many a people a cup of rice could feed? Your mother has told you one number, you’ve tried it on your own and come up with something else, but really there’s probably some kind of rule of thumb that you can use over and over again when making rice, right?
Or maybe there’s […]

Ships did not cause Internet cable damage.

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Damage to undersea Internet cables in the Mediterranean that hit business across the Middle East and South Asia was not caused by ships, Egypt’s communications ministry said on Sunday, ruling out earlier reports.
The transport ministry added that footage recorded by onshore video cameras of the location of the cables showed no maritime traffic in the […]

Fiber Optic Break Slows Down Internet In The Middle East.

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

If you are wondering why the internet has been uber slow in Jordan the past couple of days, It is because the submarine fiber optic link between Alexandria, Egypt and Marseilles, France has encountered some technical problems, The transcontinental link known as SEAMEWE4 connects South East Asia, Middle East and West Europe.
It is unclear when […]

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