Month: January 2008
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The internet is a joke!
.. if the bandwidth of entire regions, from Egypt to India is affected by some underwater cables! The quality of internet service has been horrible for the past two days. In Kuwait Wednesday morning, I felt how slow everything was. Today, Thursday, in Jordan things have also been pretty bad. BBC NEWS | Technology |…
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Will I be able to make it back to Amman today?
The photo above was posted on ikbis a few minutes after it started snowing in Amman Tuesday night. Will I be able to fly to Amman Wednesday afternoon? Or am I stuck in Kuwait? Read these related posts on 360east: Say FAREWELL to ugly yellow and black sidewalks! From Amman to Karak on the Kings…
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Gulf adventures: ever heard of “Dr. Omar” gadgets?
I am currently on a “Khaleeji” tour. I flew from Riyadh to Kuwait today. It was my first time ever in Riyadh and boy do I have stuff to blog about. Riyadh is easily the the strangest, and most interesting place I ever visited. (I know I will never get the time to properly blog…
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More great reviews for Captain Abu Raed
Image by Sabri Hakim. ‘Captain Abu Raed’ is about to be screened at Sundance. Yesterday, I received a comment on my earlier post about ‘Captain’ from Don, a reader in the US who has seen the movie at a film school in Utah. He had this to say: I had no idea what the movie…
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And the Jordan Mindless Ad Award this week goes to..
The winner is: HiGeen. This ad is one of most bizarre I’ve ever seen.. HiGeen is a pretty big brand. You can find it every supermarket and pharmacy. This is not a product from a little mom and pop operation under the staircase. But is this ad for real? Why is Clark Kent reading Hürriyet,…
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Exclusive video: snow falls on Dabouq 🙂
Kids excited. Adults relieved. Finally some snow. The construction site next door has been deserted by the contractor today. Only two workers where attending to some tasks. Watwet is on fire with people sharing snow news and photos. Cool!
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Apple creates the world’s thinnest laptop (but still can’t get its CEO’s keynote to stream to Jordan!)
OK. So my sources were wrong. Apple launched a thin laptop and not bottled air. So congratulation to them. As a way of congratulating Apple on the launch of its super-thin MacBook Air and other cool gadgets like the Time Capsule, the 1 Terabyte wireless backup solution, I want to offer them a nice gift…
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Apple brands air, sells it for $3.99 a bottle
Some say that this banner that appeared on the Apple home page today is a teaser for a new light-weight laptop called the MacBook Air. Some say this laptop will have super wireless capabilities (including Wimax). Some say it will not have any wires and will be powered by induction through a special dock. Some…
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Toot gets Pulped
Getting ‘Pulped’, in publishing jargon, refers to the process of recycling unsold books or magazines, back to raw material. But as TootCorp is a digital (and not paper-based) company, we were spared this fate OK, enough of that.. Check out the latest issue of Pulp magazine, which, among other cool internet related stuff, contains a…
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It’s REEEAAAL: the Optimus Maximus keyboard displayed at CES 2008
Finally. After years of waiting, the skeptics have been proven wrong. The design geniuses at Russian design company Art Lebdev have come through with a working model of their Optimus Maximus keyboard, which, for those of you who have been living in cave for the past couple of years is a keyboard which has little…
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Finding modernist architecture, in Mugabalein!
Click to enlarge. Yes the mural is crazy. And yes the last floor looks added on. But I was just fascinated to find this example of international style modernism on a main street in Amman’s Mugabalein district! Apparently, this building belongs to the Ministry of Health (the sign says, “psychiatric health clinics”). It has a…
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Photo: the new Amman, a city in upheaval
Click to enlarge. Read these related posts on 360east: A quick walk through downtown Amman Have you seen Digital City’s amazing glass facade? Amman’s snow hides the mess 🙂 Jabal Amman: the birth of a Ammani street market (and intelligent t-shirts!) Christmas in Bethlehem 2005: under the shadow of Israel’s wall