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 How
McDonald's managed to bypass a Happy Meal ban...
Angry about the McDonald's menu change...
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Eiffel Tower could
become 'world's largest tree':
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Facebook flaw allows
message hacking...
Cellphone made to steal keystrokes:
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Tina Brown not quite proving to be Newsweek's savior...
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Brains on display at Miss World?
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A very analytical view of the small changes that are leading to the big changes
in Arab world...
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The Cosby show for US
Muslims?
New reality TV show -- All-American Muslims...
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The diminutive Seychelles island of Praslin
boasts crystal-clear waters, soft, white beaches and
a nut so rare you're not even
allowed to taste it.
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Blackberry outage
affecting users on every
planet...
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Vodafone company policy:
no desks, no
paper...
 You're not alone in this world -- Life in a Day...
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Green cell phone tower...
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Very interesting origins of commonly used phrases...
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Whopping fine in Italy on parked car dating back to 208 AD
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What's the big deal about Artisan food?
Interesting musings on modern man and clean food...
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The uprisings in both countries have been called "Facebook Revolutions", but
they will not have "Facebook Elections"
 What Facebook knows...
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Apple imposed extreme measures on us to keep iPad a secret: Developer
Outrage in Saudi over contradictions in women's rights...
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restaurant fines diners for leftovers
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“When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don’t take a good picture,’ what they mean is
they haven’t come to terms with how they look,” he says. “They take a fine
picture, it’s just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch
with the reality.”
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Qatar tries to host 2020
Olympics...
6 cities bidding...
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Israel Is an Ungrateful Ally
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Japanese mourners get lookalike dolls...
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Ai Weiwei worried about future activism...
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Mom makes boy wear 'thief' sign
 Parallels with a much, much earlier US-Libyan battle...
"The question
at the UN this month is not, as is still frequently misreported, whether
Palestine will declare independence. (It did so 23 years ago.) The question at
the UN this month is whether the United States of America will declare
independence."
Israeli writer figures out why
Arabs and Egyptians hate them...
More similar sentiments...
Israel --
Apartheid on Steroids
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Cool interactive -- best way to board a plane...
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Slow news day: One
resident told a local television station that his cat went running for cover
during the quake but that he saw no signs of damage to his home.
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How to cure post Ramadan insomnia...
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Useful information for back to school: "A loaded backpack shouldn't exceed 10%
of a child's body weight..."
it’s
equally possible that we could one day print our own furniture
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How to prevent illegal parking
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Whole Foods Celebrates, Monetizes Ramadan
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Interesting
infographic on US debt...
U.S. Treasury has less cash on hand than Apple Inc.
The US debt debate reveals a nation living beyond its means.
The nonsense battle over the debt ceiling
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Lesson to other Arab dictators: Mubarak gave up too easily...
Libya crisis had interesting oil roots...
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Interesting analysis of Obama's personality
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Great speech about teachers...
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The future of watching soccer...
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Meet the UK's 200,000 house husbands...
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Dubai tops tourist spending list...
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McDonald's to use veg. oil to run trucks in UAE
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There’s a quote I like, apparently from Mark Twain, which goes: “When I was a
boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man
around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in
seven years.”
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Forbes
Celebrity 100 List
 Why
the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods
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in one
government-sponsored advertisement produced by ad agency Memac Ogilvy, a nude
woman is getting a massage with the phrase, “They say that in Tunisia, some
people receive heavy-handed treatment.” Another depicts Roman ruins with the
caption, “They say Tunisia is nothing but ruins.”
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China has more than
built 300 ultra-modern railway stations during a decade-long railway building
boom; grand symbols of its rising economic power, just as the great London
stations of Euston, Paddington and Kings Cross were for the Victorians.
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Famous architects today
usually exist in a global miasma of first-class lounges, private jets, award-dos
and Prada, designing expensive megastructures for dodgy regimes wherever they
may be
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Sweeping stigma under
carpet, Saudi women burnish cleaning profession:
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Dad sacrifices job to watch son play ball...
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Kuwait's has Highest Water Consumption Per Capita Rate in The World
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