Month: October 2008
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Check out the launch of the new Apple MacBooks at 8:00 pm Amman time
Hello all you Apple fanboys and fangirls. Tonight at 8:00 pm Amman time Apple will reveal the new MacBooks and MacBook pros and maybe another few surprises. The image above is a leaked image of the new MacBook pro. It has been making the rounds on the web last night. Many leaks of the new…
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Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel Prize (and proves he can be funny too!)
Paul Krugman, the Princeton professor and famous New York Times columnist has just won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on trade theories. He is a fierce critic of the Bush administration on economic policies and the Iraq war. What’s interesting about Krugman is that despite his respected academic work, he manages to…
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Who Cut the Bower?
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Amman, the ugly. Amman, the beautiful..
Amman’s quick-practicality and “just do it somehow” attitude has the potential for producing both ugly, self disrespecting scenes and beautiful acts of spontaneous urban art. Walking in the middle of Shmeisani, a district dominated by Jordan’s banks and other businesses, I find this scene. Notice the empty flowerpot, the sign-less sign mast and the tile…
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The 5800 XpressMusic: how Nokia will kill the iPhone despite frustrating the hell out of us
Readers of this blog might have noticed that i have become a bit of a mobile phone freak over the past few weeks (or is it months?). Well.. yes. It might have started with my purchase of the Nokia N95 over a year ago and my fascination with the iPhone which goes back to the…