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Month: August 2006

  • Steorn story makes Fox News

    As the debate on the Steorn free energy rages on (mainly on the company’s own discussion forum), the story has not, so far made it very big on global news channels. But Tuesday, Fox News had a live interview with Sean MacCarthy, CEO of Steorn. So the story is not dead yet. The apparent sincerity…

  • Yale Shmale!

    This is what I call brilliant advertising. [via: BBC]

  • Will a Spiral Frog be the iTunes killer?

    SpiralFrog.. Now that’s a strange brand name. Not that I haven’t come up with my fair share of weird names for my clients . And how’s “A Digital Entertainment Destination” for a tagline? But that’s not the point. SpiralFrog, it was announced Tuesday, is where Universal Music is releasing its entire catalog for free download.…

  • A more controlled Wikipedia?

    Wikipedia is one of those great things that could not have happened without the internet. But it seems that Wikipedia is about to enter a new phase of more ‘editorial control’. An article on BBC says that there is a proposal to change so of the workings of the Wikipedia. Under the new approach, page…

  • Safar: Travel for proactive Arab youth

    Over the past few years my company has been hosting young German designers in Amman for a few months of training and cultural exploration. As I’ve written before, the experience has been overwhelmingly positive for both our young guests and us. Getting a young European person into Jordan is easy. But what if a young…

  • Is Akismet working properly?

    In the past 48 hours I noticed that Akismet is letting through loads of blog spam. I am told this is happening after their latest update. The spam messages getting through are totally stupid and should ring the alarm bells of any anti spam system. If you’re using WordPress 2 and have Akisment activated, it…

  • Jordan Short Film Festival program announced

    I just received an email from the organizers of Jordan Short Film Festival announcing their final program. Here is some info about this year’s festival: For 2006, the JSFF will take place jointly with the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. For the 2006 session of the Jordan Short Film Festival, we are holding an international…

  • We apologize for this technical error..

    I woke up this morning to find 360east.com down. The reason was pathetic. Somehow I managed to miss making the renewal payment for the domain name. So immediately, payment was made via my good old websurfer MasterCard and it took around 8 hours for the domain to resolve again (ie for my website to be…

  • Steorn: magnets, magic and obsession

    This evening, I was playing with my son. We had four of these elongated egg-shaped magnets in our hands and we were talking about magnetism. To an 8 year old kid, and to an adult too, magnets are something magical. While all magnetic materials just fall to the ground, two magnets interact with each other…

  • Apple’s burning batteries recalled

    Some negative Apple news for a change. MacNN | Apple recalls 1.8m notebook batteries: Apple today in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of its rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with cells manufactured by Sony for certain iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 notebooks. The recalled batteries can overheat, according to Apple,…

  • Steorn CEO: Manufacturing cost of free energy device for cell phones expected to be comparable to current technology

    A live chat with Sean McCarthy is still going on. One question, I submitted to the chat, about expected cost, was answered so far. I asked about the cost of a cell phone powering device based on the technology. McCarthy said that he expects the cost to be close to current technologies. It is worth…

  • Steorn to hold live chat today, Thursday (15:00 British Time)

    Steorn, the Irish company that claims it invented a ‘free energy’ technology, will be holding was supposed to hold live chat in a short while (Noon British Standard Time). The company has just announced a delay till 15:00 BST (That’s 5pm local Amman time) Hi Folks, Due to the unavailability of our management team, we…