Archive for February, 2011
Speaking of YouTube’s Snake Game
While checking some of my must-follow Kuwaiti blogs, I found this very interesting post on Kuwaitiful. It turns out you can play a snake game (similar the black & white one on Nokia phones, to try it out just head over to youtube, pick a video and pause it, then click (left + up) keys …
I’ve been stolen – part 3: يا إلهي شو أنو “جو بدو” آوسوم
Remember this and this? Well, there’s one person of those that I admire did the best solution to this dilemma, I didn’t want the money nor anything. I wanted people to know that I did this Arabic logo based on another friend’s facebook page was called: OMG! I’m so awesome, and that stealer (called himself …
Why I started to hate most of #Arabs on #Twitter
Because, every single Arab thinks he is either a financial analyst, speaks and tweets like a valuable source of retweeted info supplied by news agencies or talks about countries he never ever visited in his life, it’d be good if he could name a capital of one. Usage of the this Arabised version of the …
Digital Protesters: Leave #Jordan alone
I’m shocked by the amount of those tweeting and writing things such as “we hope you have your freedom Jordan like Egypt and Tunisia”. What even made me mad is that most of those doing this are either not Jordanian, never visited Jordan, can’t locate Jordan on the world map or can’t speak for their …
From Mashrou’ Leila to Egyptian protesters: Ghadan Yawmon Afdal
The famous alternative Lebanese band, Mashrou’ Leila – مشروع ليلى just released a new track/video supporting the protesters. according to their facebook post, this is what happened when Leila (the band I guess here) roared Clint to herself, this is what will happen after the roaring has happened to the stagnancy, the precasts and roaring …
Why people never want to leave IKEA?
Because IKEA stores are designed like a maze in order to prevent customers from leaving. The theory behind the design is: the longer a customer is inside the store and the more furniture they see, the more items they are inclined to buy. This layout is so confusing that oftentimes shoppers make purchases simply because …
Would You Unfriend Your Ex on Facebook Pre-Valentine’s Day?
Lifestyle site YourTango.com is appointing February 13th to be the “Break Up With Your Ex Day.” YourTango used its Facebook Page and SurveyMonkey to survey 1,047 Americans about their thoughts on digital romance, and found that 48% of people said that they look at their ex’s social networking profiles too often. From February 1st through …
Why we won’t be able to watch “Black Swan” in Amman
Well, apparently we get our subtitled movies either from UAE’s Gulf Film or Lebanon’s Tetraspot. So, if a movie is heavily censored, then it is coming from Dubai and if it is not, then it is from Beirut. Besides Natalie Portman being an Israeli-American Jewish, the movie “Black Swan” was banned by the censors in …
What is Angry Birds?
According to Wikipedia: Angry Birds is a puzzle video game developed by Finland-based Rovio Mobile, in which players use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures, with the intent of destroying all the pigs on the playfield. Inspired by a simple sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was …