Category: News

NASA lost 700 boxes which included a lot of important items including the original tape recordings of Neil Armstrong’s famous “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Misplacing 1 box I can understand, but misplacing 700??? [Link]

Etisalat the only ISP in UAE has recently started blocking YouTube. I always thought UAE was more “open” than Kuwait with all the alcohol, prostitution and a lot more westerners yet the ISP seems more conservative then the Saudi Arabian government. Last year they blocked Flickr which was EXTREMLY popular with all the creative photographers in UAE and now they blocked YouTube. Etisalat just really sucks. [Link]

This is Web War 2.0 [Link]

Was just reading the news headlines on Naharnet and the first one I read was:

The Israeli army warns it will destroy 10 buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs for each rocket that lands on Haifa

Then a couple of headlines later I read the following:

Six rockets hit Israeli town of Haifa, Al Jazeera TV

So 6×10=60, do we even have 60 buildings in Beirut?

The screenshot above is from the CNN main page. The area which I have highlighted in yellow is where they mention an Israeli woman and her grandson got killed and they have it as an important point. Yet they don’t mention the fact that over 60 people in Lebanon (including 2 Kuwaitis) have also been killed. I don’t mind CNN being biased but they shouldn’t make it that obvious…

For updates on whats going on in Lebanon check Naharnet.com

Current news flash:

Israel imposed Thursday a general air, sea and land blockade on Lebanon as part of its large-scale offensive to retrieve 2 soldiers snatched by Hizbullah.

The Jewish state widened its assault beyond Beirut and the South by targeting Hizbullah strongholds in the Bekaa where it launched air raids against a Shiite prayer house and a Manar TV transmission station.

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz vows that Hizbullah will not be allowed to return to its positions on the border and demands that the Lebanese army deploy along the frontier.

Carlsb3rg posted this link to an article on ticketing corruption in the forum. Two researchers found that the number of parking tickets that legally-immune foreign diplomats acummulate in NYC and refuse to pay is a great measure of how corrupt their home countries are. Guess which diplomats blew away the competition… Kuwait! [Link]

“In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2MILLION pints of beer – an average of 17 pints each…” [Link]

There seems to be a large fire at the Shuwaikh port. According to Stallion, a storage warehouse inside the port compound between the ugly blue building and the free trade zone caught fire.

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Note: Picture taken by Stallion

Well they look the same… Abu Ayyub al-Masri is believed to be the new head of al Qaeda in Iraq. [Link]

One plant has over 200,000 workers who get paid only KD14 a month! [Link]

I don’t know if you guys heard about this, the news is a few days old but it just got more interesting today since I found a video for it.

Basically what happened was BBC interviewed the wrong person live on TV, they were supposed to get this technology expert to come in and talk about the legal battle between Beatles’ Apple Corps and Apple Computers but somehow they messed up and they ended up bringing a taxi driver on the show instead and they interviewed him thinking he was the technology expert. Anyway I found a site now that not only has an article on this incident but actually has a video of the interview. Its really funny. [Link]

Note: Notice the guys face when the BBC chick introduces him

From the ArabTimes:

‘Girlfriend’ blackmailed for sex: Police have arrested a Syrian salesman of a phone shop in Jahra for allegedly taking nude shots of a bedoun girl in Jahra using Bluetooth technology and threatening to post her pictures on the Internet web site if she refused to have sex with him, reports Al-Rai Al-Aam daily. The suspect was arrested after the girl filed a complaint against the suspect who is believed to be her boyfriend. Acting on a complaint police raided the man’s shop and seized from his computer the woman’s photos and telephone numbers of several girls.

Maybe I am low-tech or something but how do you use “bluetooth technology” to take pictures?

Five people just got executed today morning for crimes ranging from rape to drug smuggling. The interesting thing is it turns out I could see the hangings from my office window. I used the office camera with a 120mm lens to zoom in as much as I could onto the hanging yard and if you look at the picture, on the left side you can see people wearing black. I think this picture was taken after one of the people got hanged because you can see the trap door open and some people dressed in black underneath it… [Picture]

Kuwaits rank increased this year from 141st to 134th place. Zurich scored the highest for quality of living while Baghdad ranked the lowest. Lebanon is in 155th place, Saudi Arabia 162, Dubai 85, and Bahrain 125. For the full list and more details click the [Link]