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Sharp Actius MM10 is thinner than the MacBook Air
2008-01-17 08:01:54
“Apple boasts that the MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest notebook. The trouble with boasting is that people like to prove you wrong. We reported on the Mitsubishi Pedion, which, ten years ago, came in at 0.04 inches thinner than the Apple notebook. CNET has since dug up an even thinner machine, the Sharp Actius MM10, which is an unbelievable 0.54 inches thick, soundly beating the MacBook Air’s roly-poly 0.76 inches, and managing to squeeze in an ethernet port, a PCMCIA slot and two (2!) USB ports.” Link ————————- I guess it is a question Aesthetics vs. Functionality… but the MacBook Air looks far better, however Sharps 2 USB slots and ethernet port gives it better flexibility. Also, the “AirMail” - a vinyl Manilla envelope developed by various suppliers to carry the MacBook Air also kicks ass (See Picture Below) I guess it will all boil down to preference and what you’re going to use t ...

g33k Coffee.
2008-01-16 11:43:53
Handpresso: bike pump espresso machine works without electricity The Handpresso marries a bicycle pump with an espresso machine. You pump it up to 16 bars, pop in an espresso pod (ick — I hate those things), add hot water and hit the release and the water is driven through the ground to make an instant espresso at a picnic, on the road, or wherever (assuming you carry around a thermos full of hot water). Runs about €100, which is the cost of a mid-range home machine — but I suspect you wouldn’t want to replace the kitchen machine with this Spycam cappuccino machine This Amanti espresso setup in the Melbourne airport in which each machine was equipped with a little webcam on the barista’s side and a small color LCD on the customer side, so that you could watch the barista’s hands dance and twiddle as he pulled your crema. via BoingBoing ...

Amazing Prayer: The Prayer that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) made at Taif
2008-01-16 03:39:37
After going through such hardship and torment by the people of Taif, the Noble Prophet (pbuh) turned to our Lord and Creator and said: To You, my Lord, I complain of my weakness, lack of support and the humiliation I am made to receive. Most Compassionate and Merciful! You are the Lord of the weak, and you are my Lord. To whom do You leave me? To a distant person who receives me with hostility? Or to an enemy You have given power over me? As long as you are not displeased with me, I do not care what I face. I would, however, be much happier with Your mercy. I seek refuge in the light of Your face by which all darkness is dispelled and both this life and the life to come are put in their right course against incurring your wrath or being the subject of your anger. To You I submit, until I earn Your pleasure. Everything is powerless without your support. Technorati Tags: Prayer, Prophet Muhammad , Taif ...

Blogging the Quran
2008-01-15 07:02:04
The Guardian has just launched recently a project called “Blogging the Quran” in which verses of the Quran are blogged daily and a discussion is facilitated between two writers for the Guardian, Madeleine Bunting and Ziauddin Sardar. I’ve read it and it’s a brilliant exercise in explaining the Quraan to both Muslims and non-Muslims. The verses are analysed from a western context by Madeleine in which certain questions come up and initial interpretation is made from a Western context. Ziauddin then explains from an Islamic point of view the interpretation of the verses and the meaning behind them. Being a blog, all the benefits are available as well.. commenting, discussing, etc. you can also send e-mails to the writers for any further clarification. I highly recommend this for everyone to read. For myself, I have found it very enlightening and, as usual with the Quraan, the various levels of meaning and their significance leave me ...
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Saudi Girls Gone Wild?
2008-01-15 02:51:38
Just got my hands on a very interesting article regarding the younger generation in Saudi Arabia… who live in one of the strictest social conditions implemented by any government. I remember having many a conversation regarding the dark side of the segregation of the sexes in Islam, although you can understand where it comes from… the extreme implementation of this often leads to things far worse than the rules were intended to prevent. The article also alludes to a book which I want to try to get my hands on… Girls of Riyadh, of which it says… “…In a country where “driving while female” is illegal, as is checkinginto a hospital without a male guardian’s signature, a gossipy romancecan spark an explosion of political debate. That’s what happened when aBeirut publishing house first released Girls of Riyadh in2005, by 24-year-old Rajaa Alsanea. It was initially banned in hernative Saudi Arabia, but young Saudis quickly go ...

Ba’dal Hajj (After Hajj)
2008-01-11 02:28:17
Before I left for Hajj, I kept getting this pressurised comment from people saying that a person must change after Hajj. But after actually going for Hajj, I see that it’s actually me who wants to change. I want to be better to do more… to right all my wrongs and change all my bad habits. I feel so much more content. Like I know what needs to be done, what’s right and wrong seems so much clearer that it used to be, more black and white instead of shades of grey. The whispers which used to edge me closer and closer toward evil are now more recognisable, I can see them for what they are and stop them. It’s less of an impulse to follow and a more sort of patient understanding and conscious choice of what I need to do next. I don’t want to react on impulse anymore; most of the time it costs me both money and time when I blindly follow, and that’s just the material cost. I can see that my previous behaviour patterns ar ...

On Government.
2008-01-10 08:17:30
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.” - Michel de Montaigne ...

The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!
2007-11-06 03:09:53
If you ever have the need to break the boundaries of musical collaboration… you don’t have to look further than Saul Williams and Trent Reznor (Nine inch Nails). Reznor’s just produced Saul’s New Album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust! The music is something akin to “ghetto gothic”, but the best thing about the album is that its available to download… FOR FREE!!! (192 kb MP3) (or a $5 fee for a better quality download (300 kb)) Saul is my all time favourites when it comes to spoken word and mindbending philosophy, meshing concepts you never thought could belong in the same space. Mix that up with music, and you start feeling your soul start to rock along with your body. Hard Core. Technorati Tags: Saul Williams, Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!, Cool ...

Censorship.
2007-11-02 05:07:16
“Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.” – Charles Bradlaugh “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ” – Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996) “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” – Winston Churchill “The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion…” – Henry Steel Commager “B ...

Inspiration
2007-10-14 05:12:45
Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the element it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual…..Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude-the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer ...

Eid Mubarak!
2007-10-13 02:23:55
Ramadaan is a time I will definitely miss. I felt so close to the One, so at peace with who and what I am and what my purpose is on this Earth. I don’t want that feeling to go away. I don’t want this closeness to disappear. Now is the time the real test begins. Faith is tested in reality, amongst the things we cherish most, our lives need to be governed by the same principles we imbibed during Ramdaan. Even if it was just little changes we made to make ourselves better people. We need to carry on those little things outside of the Holy Month. Eid for me is a time for celebration, but also the time for real reflection. Will I be able to keep up with the changes I had made during Ramadaan, or will all the lessons be forgotten so quickly, like the flip of a switch, or a press on the remote for the TV. What have I learnt from Ramadaan? I learned that this life is nothing but a test. Everything material will melt away, we have so many examples of how everything will per ...

I’m not making this up…
2007-10-12 02:44:08
Church minister found dead and hogtied, wearing two complete wet suits, a face mask, diving gloves, slippers, rubberized underwear, and a head mask… [The Smoking Gun] Ann Coulter doesn’t want to kill the Jews, as they say. She just wants “to see them perfected,” as they say. [Media Matters] Dude, Bill Moyers would totally be a self-hating Jew if he were Jewish right now. [PBS] Calling Desmond Tutu an anti-semite is making anti-semitism sound like a good thing. [JTA] If Che Guevara had never been killed 40 years ago this week, he might not still be alive today. [SF Chronicle] Soccer player to boycott Israel because it’s in his DNA to do so. [AP] In his defense, this was waaaaay before we thought we’d ever need anything from Turkey. [Think Progress] via ...

Free Writing – First Attempt
2007-10-01 02:21:25
This has been floating around my mind recently… A grey day… stone cobbled street, empty, shops closed on the right side. Sitting on a grey concrete bench facing away from the shops toward the refreshingly green park on the opposite side, is Kafka, wearing red-shaded horn-rimmed glasses masking tears as he reads today’s newspaper. Why tears? Because the monsters manifested in his tales have manifested themselves in men’s souls today… they’ve become animals. His tears fall like rain from the threatening clouds above onto the paper flowers in the park. Each flower had a kid’s writing on it. They were from kindergarten classes the world over where kids were asked to write down their dreams on pieces of paper and were then made into awkward origami flowers, now lying in the luscious green… being soaked, faded and limp from Kafka’s rain tears. He slumps into the bench, Kafka, falling inside himself, the rain now burning holes into the ground around him, each hole ge ...

God’s Plan
2007-09-29 14:26:31
I though this was too beautiful not to put up. Some things are beyond planning. And life doesn’t always turn out as planned. You don’t plan for a broken heart. You don’t plan for an autistic child. You don’t plan for spinsterhood. You don’t plan for a lump in your breast. You plan to be young forever. You plan to climb the corporate ladder. You plan to be rich and powerful. You plan to be acclaimed and successful. You plan to conquer the universe. You plan to fall in love - and be loved forever. You don’t plan to be sad. You don’t plan to be hurt. You don’t plan to be broke. You don’t plan to be betrayed. You don’t plan to be alone in this world. You plan to be happy. You don’t plan to be shattered. Sometimes if you work hard enough, you can get what you want. But MOST times, what you want and what you get are two different things. We, mortals, plan. But so does Allah in the h ...

Facebook investigated over claims it isn’t safe for kids
2007-09-25 07:24:41
FACEBOOK is under investigation by the New York attorney general’s office, it’s reported today in the New York Times.The prosecutor is looking into whether Facebook really provides its 42 million users with an online venue where high school age and younger children are as safe from paedophiles as it claims or is misleading customers.Yesterday, the attorney general issued a subpoena to the social networking site requiring it to produce documentation about its security provisions and complaint resolution practices. The demand comes after investigators joined Facebook posing as children and reportedly received online sexual invitations from adults within a matter of days.In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo wrote “Facebook has the right to operate any type of Web site it deems fit. It does not have the right to represent that its site is safe and that it promptly responds to complaints when such statements are not accurate.& ...

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