Month: August 2007
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Apple and VW planning an iCar?
Huh? AppleInsider | Report claims Apple talking with Volkswagen over ‘iCar’: Readers may want to take this one with a bag of rock salt, but German magazine Capital is reporting that Apple and automaker Volkswagen have engaged in early discussions over a concept car dubbed “iCar.” The report—available via Google translation—claims that Volkswagen chief executive…
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Steve jobs: on life, death, love and loss
This time he was not rallying the Apple faithful and selling the world the latest revolutionary gadget. In this speech to Standford students in 2005, Steve Jobs told three stories from his life. From how he was adopted, to his dropping out of college, to starting Apple and then getting fired from it to his…
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Jehane Noujaim: bring people together through the power of the image
I was delighted to find this video of Jehane Noujaim’s talk at the TED conference last year. Jehane is a filmmaker of both Arab and American origins (in the talk she puts this more eloquently than this: “I am the Middle East crisis in one person”). She is well known for her documentaries like Control…
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Why is the net so slow today?
For the past few hours (it now 1:45 am) net access has been extremely bad. Some sites wouldn’t even come up. This is horrible. Anyone else experiencing this?
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I am a big ad agency and I can give you the finger..
I am more glad than ever to have decided, 13 years ago, NOT to be part of Jordan’s advertising industry. At the time I got sick of designing an ad for “Hubbly Bubbly and Barbecue at the Marriott” and thought to myself: “how long will I be doing this stuff”. I quit the high profile…
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Jordanian Facebook group to discuss Amman’s urban development
Facebook has obviously become a part of Jordanian’s daily lives. I haven’t blogged about the Jordanian Facebook phenomena yet but I can tell you that the age range of people I know on Facebook range between 12 and 60. Anyway, I recently got a comment on 360east from reader Ahmad Al-Sholi, who wants people to…
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YouTube is down
It seems YouTube is down. This is happening Monday 3:57 Amman time (12:57 GMT)..
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Sk8r boyz in Amman
Weird choice of music, but some cool video shooting of Amman’s skaters.. I had a little skateboard when I was a kid.. Maybe I was born 25 years too early On Ikbis.. Read these related posts on 360east: Amman the FFilm: a font, a city, and a piece of my life.. Shooting Amman’s crazy sky…
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Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative?
Don’t judge by appearances! “Back in Chicago I have my own Dishadash and Siwak, Dad!” LOL! [See it on Ikbis] Read these related posts on 360east: Hey! Journalists! Leave those kids alone! Tuesdays in Al-Ghad: Highly readable opinions of Khashogji and Sagheyeh Weimar: the original home of the Bauhaus More crazy stuff with an ‘Islamic’…
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Jordanian’s mobile obsession from the bathroom to the grave!
Another brilliant Hajjaj production. I didn’t get to see this one before. See it on ikbis
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Cheap laptops for Jordanian students and other positive IT developments
Better late than never.. A plan to provide Jordanian university students with affordable laptops is finally being implemented. Jordan Times: AMMAN – A pilot project to provide university students with laptops at “competitive†prices is scheduled to start during the upcoming academic year, which begins in late September. Under the Ministry of Information and Communications…
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Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Nationalism in one shot
I am back from my vacation to Tukey. I visited Bodrum (Beautiful) and Marmaris (crass, mass tourism, targeted at Brits). As a tourist, you never really get to know about the real life of a country, but I have been following the political developments in Turkey for a while. While in Turkey, I also made…