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2/19/2012
Most twisted tech. college video ever
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Hezbollah goes mainstream with sponsored advertising on Facebook. 'Atta boy Zuckerburg.
12/22/2011
News Round Up - Nipples, Nightlife and Nouveau Riche
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Mercosur approves Palestinian free trade deal - Yahoo! News
The Mercosur trade group of four South American nations has signed a free trade agreement with the Palestinian Authority. It's the first trade deal between the Palestinian territories and a bloc of nations outside the Arab world.
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Thousands of Women Mass in Major March in Cairo - NYTimes.com
CAIRO — Several thousand women demanding the end of military rule marched through downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening in an extraordinary expression of anger over images of soldiers beating, stripping and kicking female demonstrators in Tahrir Square.
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Cash-flow problems delay Dubai skyscraper - Construction - ArabianBusiness.com
Liquidity woes may push Dubai’s second tallest skyscraper, the Pentominium, past its completion date as developer Trident struggles with financing, the project manager said. The planned 516m tower in Dubai Marina was scheduled for completion in 2013 but saw work suspended in August amid wider financing concerns.
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BP, Total and Statoil secure Angola rights - FT.com
A new exploration frontier off the coast of Angola that may be similar to oil fields found in Brazil is to be opened after the government of the African country awarded drilling rights to some of the world’s largest energy groups. Britain’s BP, Total of France and Norway’s Statoil all secured licences to explore in Angola’s pre-salt deposits – a layer of salt accumulated millions of years ago under the sea.
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BP to exit solar business after 40 years - FT.com
BP will close the chapter on more than 40 years of history after deciding to shut down its solar business, once regarded as one of its flagship alternative energy divisions. The group has told staff that it had made the decision after the business became unprofitable.
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Saudi Dairy Giant Spends $83M On Argentina Farms : NPR
Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company said Wednesday it is buying Argentine farm operator Fondomonte S.A. for $83 million in a bid to secure access to animal feed. The acquisition will give Riyadh-based Almarai Co. control of roughly 30,000 acres of farmland in the South American nation. Almarai said the deal is in line with the desert kingdom's policy of "securing supplies and conserving local resources."
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China Hackers Hit U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Last Year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers in China broke through the computer defenses of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year and were able to access information about its operations and its 3 million members, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Barney Frank’s Protruding Nipples: Why Do Nipples Harden in the Cold? - Slate Magazine
Rep. Barney Frank was "upstaged by his own chest" during a speech he gave Monday with erect nipples. According to the Huffington Post, his appearance “raised questions about how cold it was in the House chamber.” Why do nipples harden in the cold? No one knows, but it's probably for the same reason that cold gives you goose bumps.
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London club aims to shake-up Dubai’s nightlife scene - Lifestyle - ArabianBusiness.com
Mahiki, the Mayfair club made famous by regulars such as Prince Harry, is hoping to shake-up the Gulf’s nightlife scene with the launch of its Dubai venue and infamous open-door policy. The owners of the venue are mulling a regional-wide expansion, and said Dubai’s clubbing scene had become a “spectator sport” thanks to strict door policies that bar entry for certain customers. The London club has previously pledged to allow entry to anyone, whether “fat, thin, bald, ugly or old”.
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Dutch firm targets super-rich Arabs with $1m submarines - Lifestyle - ArabianBusiness.com
For the GCC’s super-rich residents that are bored with their 150-ft yachts, private jets and luxury speedboats, now there's another toy on offer – a personal submarine. Dutch company U-Boat Worx is targeting the region’s wealthiest residents with its range of private submarines, with prices starting from €730,000 ($951,371) per craft.
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Football legend Cristiano Ronaldo to meet fans in Dubai - Lifestyle - ArabianBusiness.com
Football legend Cristiano Ronaldo will be in Dubai Mall next week to raise funds for international charity Save the Children. The Real Madrid player, who will also be participating in this year’s Dubai Sports Council's (DSC) Sixth Dubai International Sports Conference, will meet fans in the mall on December 27, and sign 10 charity t-shirts for winners of a Dubai Mall competition.
Go to google.com and type "Let it snow"
Enjoy
If you want to die laughing, go here.
So to some of you in recent years I have commented that I have been surprised and oddly disappointed through all my years of travel that I've never faced any crazy incidences such as natural disasters, hospital stays, muggings or general events outside the pace of normal life. While presumably these events are terrifying and awful at the time; with the salve of time and a return home, they inevitably make a great story best told over a Christmas dinner table with family or a pub night with friends.
Today on this cold rainy evening in northern Portugal, my luck has changed.
I arrived in Portugal a few days ago and have spent the last 5 days endlessly treading the streets of Lisbon and Porto, sipping fine wines and portos, meeting groups of Brazilians and Portuguese and having a rather enjoyable vacation before returning east to meet my brother in Sofia, Bulgaria in a few days.
Taking a break from Porto this morning, I hopped a train to the nearby town of Guimaraes, the recently acclaimed 2012 European City of Culture. The weather has been a bit overcast with intermittent rain; however, the greenery of it all makes the foul weather enjoyable (as does the respite from the heat of Dubai). I walked the streets for a few hours, taking in the old city, enjoying a meal of Portuguese seafood and trouncing through old castles, parks and streets paved (cobbled?) with cobblestones.
After the enjoyable day excursion, I caught an early evening train back to Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, where I am staying for the night. Arriving in Portugal around 7:30pm, I began the 10 minute walk from the centrally placed train station to my hostel which is just up the hill following a well lit and traversed main thoroughfare.
Casually walking with a book in hand and bundled in a winter coat and scarf, a guy approaches me and asks for some money. Now mind you, this shopping street has a fair amount of people walking up and down and several stores lining the path. I dig in my wallet and remove the change I have accumulated, a not so whopping 1.40 Euros, but conversely, not the smallest sum one could give a guy who is holding a bread roll and asking for money for food. Here's a quick replay of the conversation:
Me: Here you go (I start slowly walking on)
Him: No, give me 5 Euros, I see that you have it.
Me: I just gave you money.
Him: No, give me 5 Euros, I'll give you change (He pulls out the 1.40 I gave him, plus an additional euro or so)
Me: No, sorry.
At this point, I start walking on a bit hoping someone else will catch his attention. However, the stream of pedestrians seems to have cleared up.
(He walks with me)
Him: I don't want to rob you man.
Me: I don't want you to rob me either. Why would you rob me? I just gave you money.
Him: Come on, give me 5 euros. (at which point he pulls out some sort of half-inch knife... now I use the emphasis, as this knife appears to be some sort of dull butter knife attached to a key chain.
I pause a bit, realizing that I am sort of being mugged, but also appraising this 5 foot homeless man in front of me who certainly could not keep up if I ran away, holding a knife that if he were to stab me through my warm winter coat would cause some mild discomfort at best. I keep walking and talking a bit, trying to stall for time a bit with the expectation that some more pedestrians will come by and he will melt away.
Him: Come on, give me 5 euros, I'll give you change. I just want to eat.
Me: No, sorry. I gave you money and now I'm pissed off that you want to rob me too. Go ask someone else for money, there are lots of people around.
Him: Yeah, but they aren't giving me money.
Me: So I was nice enough to stop and actually give you some money, and now you want to take more money from me?
I walk on a bit further, at which point he stands in front of me, but has put his key chain butter knife away.
Him: 5 euros, I'll give you change.
Me: No, I gave you money
At this point I'm getting pissed off, but still finding the situation to be oddly funny and a bit unnerving as well (after all, it is my first mugging)
Him: Come on man, I don't want to rob you.
Me: Don't rob me. I'm sorry, but I gave you money and I'm not giving you any more as I had to work for this money (some pedestrians get closer).
Him: Ok
He walks away and asks the new pedestrians for money. I walk up the street to my hostel laughing.... yet looking over my shoulder to make sure the midget Portuguese homeless man is not chasing me with a brandished butter knife key chain.
Chicken with peri peri sauce, salad, kiwi, Guinness and the FT...
Bachmann blames Obama for democratization movements in the Middle East... Republicans just keep upping the crazy amongst themselves.
Ongoing revolution in Libya? Nope
Continued struggle for democracy in Egypt? Nope
Palestinians fighting Israeli colonialism in the UN? Nope
Random 16-year-old singing about the malls of Dubai? Oh yeah. This is what qualifies for news on Arabian Business.
8/18/2011
Awkward interview with former Tea Party candidate
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A very awkward interview with Christine O'Donnell, resulting in an even stranger pan-out and end of interview
A must read from my friend Ali at Al-Masry Al-Youm http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/465580 Al-Masry Al-Youm: When, and more importantly, how did you come up with this idea? Al-Sayed al-Essawy: I discovered my incredible strength at the age of 13, and, almost immediately afterwards, promised myself that, one of these days, I would fight a lion. Since then, I’ve been thinking about the best way to go about it, and, after the revolution, with the economy the way it is, I’ve been given the perfect opportunity to realize my dream.
Part of a well-balanced breakfast - pizza and orange juice
I'm off to Beirut, Lebanon later today. I'll keep all you blog readers (all four of you) entertained with pictures of one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
Impressive
Courtesy of Jess Devaney
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