Category: Interesting

Found this via Hilaliya, some teacher who was living in Kuwait in the 80s scanned some old pictures he had taken here and uploaded them to his flicker account. Some cool stuff, Kuwait really hasn’t changed much. [Pictures]

I just read on Kuwaitism’s blog that the English version of BBC World is now available in Kuwait on 100.1 FM. I used to listen to the station the whole time while I was in Lebanon on the frequency AM 1323. It was the coolest station filled with news, documentaries and interviews. Here in Kuwait I listen to VOA news on FM 96.9 but early in the year they changed their programming to focus more on educating people on the English language and its just really crap now. Can’t wait till I get into my car and try tuning to BBC World.

Football players whose pictures grace the covers of Madden NFL video games are doomed. I had heard of the curse before but I just saw the facts to back this curse up and its just freaky. [Link]

I just watched the trailer for Little Children and it looks like its going to be a really fucking cool. Its starring Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly and Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy). Check out the trailer. [Link]

I am looking at the symptoms and I have 4 out of 6… [Link]

The “Special” tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for “SMS”. Similarly, the “Ascending” SMS tone is Morse code for “Connecting People,” Nokia’s slogan. The “Standard” SMS tone is Morse code for “M” (Message).

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13- During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.

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Q80-Chill Girl just posted that Dunkin Donuts will be opening this Tuesday the 29th of August at noon time. She was even lucky enough to attend the pre-opening. For more information and pictures click [Here]

note: Picture above by Moey, more of his pictures available [Here]

Did anyone notice they changed the color of the KTV building? It used to be green but now its blue. Here is another more clearer shot. [Picture]

Gnarls Barkley + Notorious B.I.G. = Gnotorious
My favorite mashup since The Grey Album.

[source kottke]

I was looking at the pictures and I was like why would a boat dock inside a boat? Then the rest of the pictures were loaded and I was just like what the fuck?! Its really weird. [Link]

Flickr has partnered with Nokia to offer pre-installed Flickrness on some N Series phones so you can easily upload high res originals directly from your device without having to download and install any additional applications. [Link]

Blogger.com is migrating accounts to Google Accounts. Also, Blogger introduces some interface changes on a beta.blogger.com domain. [Link]

I found this high resolution picture of London via Digg and it was taken sometime around the 1930s. I really love it. Notice how everyone is wearing the same black and beigh colors and how all the cars are also similar in colors. [Link]

Definition according to Urban Dictionary:

A phenomenon which typifies Murphy’s law. The absolute worst possible outside circumstance which can and will negatively affect the current situation. Greater than minor inconveinienves, this is the sort of instance which all hope of success is lost.

An “Oh Shit…Meteors” event is also notable for the lack of control the participant has over the situation. In spite of all careful planning, this is the sort of situation in which all hell breaks loose for no apparent reason.

1) While driving to a friend’s wedding, you experience heavy traffic and are ten minutes late = minor inconveinence.

2) While driving to a friend’s wedding, you crash into another driver resulting in all sorts of pain and misery = tragic accident.

3) While driving to a friend’s wedding, an awkwardly positioned nail in the road hits your front tire and pops it, which causes it to fly back and blow out your back tire. The resulting blow-out causes you to spin, knocking your way across the road and into several other cars, which bounce you back into other cars, resulting in a fifty car pile-up which results in a massive explosion. In spite of all of this, you still survive, and as you are crawling out of the fiery wreckage you look up to the sky, only to see a ball of pain and doom, known among as a meteor, flying out from the sky, headed directly for you = Oh Shit…Meteors