Month: October 2006

  • Cisco has new logo

    When corporate Amercia buys itself a new logo or rebrands, you can bet that Tony Spaeth will review the work on his site identityworks. So here’s a hat tip to him.. This month it’s Cisco. Identityworks: Reviews – 2006 – Cisco: Cisco brand officer Gary McCavitt had long struggled with the bridge-in-a-box logo, a mark…

  • This is not a Smart!

    It looks like a Smart. But it’s not. This, apparently is a made-in-China Smart copy!! The big surprises: It’s electric and probably 1/2 or 1/3 the price of the real thing. The Smart was supposed to be an electric or hybrid car too. But when Swatch left the project and Daimler took over completely the…

  • Say FAREWELL to ugly yellow and black sidewalks!

    .. and GOOD RIDDANCE TOO! Since early age I used to hate the yellow and black curbstones of Jordanian sidewalks. Some years ago I joked about starting the “National Front for Getting Rid of Yellow and Black Painted Sidewalks” The picture above, which I took today while crossing a street in Khalda says it all.…

  • The newest from the Skype inventors: What is the Venice Project?

    The founders of Skype (and Kazaa) are at it again. This time it seems they want to revolutionize TV. Code name of their new ventue: The Venice Project. Again, it seems to be a P2P based technology, apparently to enable some sort of digital video distribution. None much more is known. For now, this is…

  • After trashing Amman’s image, billboard companies are crying: “save our jobs”!

    The new major of Amman, Omar Maani, seems to be serious in fixing some of the problems Amman faces. Some columnists in the media are trying to portray the major as someone who is only doing ‘cosmetic’ things. This is simply untrue. The Greater Amman municipality is working on a comprehensive master plan (that will…

  • Wearing the Niqab for 24 hours

    The British foreign minister Jack Straw has set off a controversy around the ‘Niqab’, the supposedly ‘muslim’ practice of women completely covering themselves, including their face, with black garment. A British muslim writer, Zaiba Malik, decided to wear the niqab for one day to experience it herself and to gauge the reaction of others to…

  • Hacen: Amazing arabic type from unexpected places..

    Something is finally happening in the field of Arabic type design, which has been a sleepy scene for much too long (despite the heroic efforts of Huda AbiFares, to mention one person who has tried to do something about this). But recently, new stuff has been coming to my attention. The was the Kitabat conference…

  • Suddenly, Amman got washed!

    Amman Rain, 15 October 2006 on Vimeo First big rain in Amman this season. Last year the first big rain was on Oct 19. Another year has passed, amazingly. Read these related posts on 360east: Here comes the rain again.. Suddenly, public transport is ‘cool’ for Arabs. Thank you Dubai. Zain Jordan’s network almost unusable…

  • iToot vs. iBaloo6 tag

    Ok, so I’ve been tagged by Jano with the.. the iToot vs iBaloo6 tag. Let’s see.. 1) are you a berry or a squirrel? On one hand I am a Berry.. But that’s sort of irrelevant when you’re the Architect of the Matrix. It’s all an illusion maaan! 2) if you were a squirrel, you…

  • BREAKING NEWS: Toot ‘acquires’ iBaloo6!

    The ‘rumors’ were true.. toot: The Arab blog network : We at the Toot Corporation, the leading Arab blog network, are delighted, no.. we are overjoyed.. actually.. we are ecstatic to announce that, after tough ‘negotiations’ with The Squirrels, the deal is done: Toot has fully acquired iBaloo6. In a move that will shock many…

  • RUMOR: Toot in secret negotiations to acquire iBaloo6

    The newly announced iBaloo6 is rumored to be holding secret negotiations with the Toot Corporation. The rumors come after the Toot Corporation has threatened the squirrels with legal action for patent infringement. Sources close to the negotiations expect a deal between Toot and iBaloo6 in the next 24-48 hours The sources added: “expect some surprises…

  • Toot has competition: introducing iBaloo6

    Someone has gotten creative! Toot now officially has some competition: iBaloo6 We at the Toot Corporation are taking this matter very seriously. Considering we have two lawyers on our founders team (George and Karim), we’re considering to take legal action against the squirrels who are trying to imitate us, despite their cute and innocent looks!…