Month: September 2006
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Amman’s traffic jams: can we get unstuck?
I just read this interesting article, by the Oxford Business Group, which has a good overview about Amman’s public transport situation: With the number of new vehicles on the road increasing by an average of 10% annually for the last decade, this problem only looks to worsen in the future. In an effort to save…
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Amman drowns in billboard ugliness. But who cares..
Well.. actually the mayor of Amman does care. That’s why the Greater Amman Municipality has announced plans to finally ban rooftops and regulate this whole billboard chaos in Amman, which is giving our city that cheap-rampant-commercialism-third-world look. Now, the billboard companies are pushing back, raising all kinds of objections against the planned regulations. Twenty of…
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Jordanian newspapers full of ads: what does it mean?
This morning I took the newspapers out of the subscription boxes. It’s Sunday. The beginning of the week always has heavier newspapers. But today, the newspapers in my hand were noticeably hefty. Consider today’s Al-Rai: 94 pages thick. Six pages alone were one huge ad for Capital Bank (which is the re-branded Export and Finance…
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OK GO: four men and six treadmills!
Talk about creative choreography! This is a video making the rounds on YouTube by the band OK GO. These guys from Chicago have apparently built their fame partly on their low budget videos. According to Wikipedia, their second album, Oh No, which was released in 2005, gained popularity as their video for the single A…