Month: April 2006
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Dahab bombings: reactions from the Arab blogosphere
What a depressing act! I have nothing more to add tonight! I am just following the reactions on toot.
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Probably my next Mac. But that will have to wait..
AArrgh.. It’s out! The 17”, Intel-based MacBook Pro (never liked this ‘pro’ branding). It has a built in camera and Apple claims it is 5x faster and 36% brighter than its predecessors. Cool. Obviously, my next computer will be a MacBook 17”. But you know what? I do not feel a big need to change…
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The market is up and rain is falling.. what more could one ask for?
So yesterday the Amman Stock Exchange shot up 4% or something and almost hit the 7500 mark (ok it’s down 1.5% today, but you get the point). And this morning it started raining heavily. What else would one wish for in late April? Answer: 1. Divine intervention to stop those who smoke in elevators. 2.…
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The homeless blogger
Found this on the BBC today.. BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Park and write: A homeless woman in London has been living in a car since last summer. But by writing a blog she has put herself in touch with an international audience. The story doesn’t mention the URL, so here it is.…
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Cozmo vs Safeway: the Jordan retail revolution
Yesterday I was hunting around town for a full-automatic espresso machine (and that’s a whole story by itself). So after checking out the Lavazza shop (who sell Saeco machines) I decided to try my luck and see if Safeway (7th Circle branch) or Cozmo sell such machines (they don’t by the way). Why even consider…
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Yanone releases his first commercial font
The multi-talented Yanone (code name: Jan Gerner), German designer/type designer/design student/DJ and ex-SYNTAX intern has just released his first commercial font production named Pochoir via myFonts.com. Pochoir is a sweet stencil antiqua typeface with round and thick serifs. It was inspired by Paris street art on a university trip, namely stencils of course. The art…
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Big Amman Google Earth overlay by JOFICO!
I just discovered a really interesting Placemark collection for Google Earth that documents dozens of Amman’s landmarks, hotels, schools, restaurants, intersections, etc. The file is available on the Google Earth Community and, was released by a member called Jofico whose profile is linked to the website of the insurance company of the same name (The…
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This.. is creativity: the sonic wire sculptor
My friend Sabbagh just emailed me a link to the amazing sonic wire sculptor project. Talk about music, drawing, architectural space and technology coming together. Have a look and make sure you watch the video. This is what I call creativity. Read these related posts on 360east: FOR SALE: PSP with six original games, at…
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Mall=Museum=Mall
From the introduction to Rem Koolhaas’/Harvard Design School’s Project on the City (Volume 2, Guide to Shopping): “Shopping is arguably the last remaining form of public activity. Through a battery of increasingly predatory forms, shopping has infiltrated–even replaced–almost every aspect of urban life. Town centers, suburbs, streets, and now airports, train stations, museums, hospitals, schools,…
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Ahmad Font makes a cool ad appearance in the Gulf
During my recent trips to Kuwait and Dubai I noticed that a prominent outdoor campaign for a financial/stock trading web site (alawsat.com) adopted my font ‘Ahmad’ for it’s headlines. The implementation in Dubai was particularly interesting: A super-sized mouse was physically stuck to the mupi unit (complete with mouse cord wrapped around the mupi). If…
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Does your mother-in-law read your blog?
I am proud to say: mine does. I am fortunate enough to have both my mother and my mother-in-law online. My mother catches me on MSN but my mother-in-law is an avid reader of 360east (hello there!!). A recent email I received from her was particularly encouraging. She feels that I write the blog just…
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Apple Boot Camp has competition!
This is quite amazing. Boot Camp, Apple solution to enable booting into Windows XP on Intel-based Macs already has competition. On judging by what the New York Times’ Davig Pogue had to say about it, the competition is no joke: Run Windows and Mac OS both at once | CNET News.com: No wonder, then, that…