2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003

WordPress is launching a commercial hosted service similar to TypePad. You can only be invited to the service at the moment so go and give them your email address so they can send you an invite. [Link]

From the Arab Times: A security source disclosed an Arab girl who is seen in a clip wearing police uniform is outside the country. A security source said contacts have been established with concerned authorities in her home country to arrest her, reports Al-Rai Al-Aam daily. Earlier it was reported the picture was circulated among phones users with the Bluetooth technology and the policeman who allegedly allowed the girl to wear his uniform is in police custody, said a source who refused to give his name. Police have also arrested the policeman’s friend for taking part in the crime. The same source said the girl was in an apartment hired by a policeman contrary to earlier reports which said the suspect was a police officer. The source added the rank on the uniform was a forgery.

Anyone have this video clip?

Update: Thanks to DNA-Q8, here is the clip. [Video 200kb]

So this is why our papers always take time to finish at the ministry.. [Video 76kb]

Shopping.com has product pages for the 2GB and 4GB iPod Shuffle. Do they know something we don’t? [2GB] [4GB]

My favorite mail.app anti-spam tool just got better. With their most recent update, JunkMatcher can now integrate with SpamBayes! [Link]

And I thought models in Kuwait were underpaid. Dancer Mandy Coulton became famous as one of the dancers from the colorful iPod ads but Mandy herself can’t afford her own iPod. She was paid $1,500 for her three-hours work on the campaign and finds $400 for an iPod too much to pay. “I can’t justify spending that much money when I have day-to-day stuff to pay for like the car and rent.” She works as a nanny part-time while she waits for her dancing career to take-off. [Link]

You imperialist running dog! [Link]

A new food blog, just what I needed. /me Add to Favorites [Link]

I am FOR the war in Iraq ofcourse since I live in Kuwait and Iraq with Saddam was posing a threat to me. But today I read something very interesting by Michael Scheuer which made a lot of sense. He was giving an interview on the TV show Hardball when the reporter asked him if the war on Iraq was a good decision, his reply made a lot of sense and it makes me wonder if the US administration knew this would happen. If they were then what is so important about Iraq that made them take such a risk. This is the full transcript.

O‘DONNELL: And, finally, the president has made the case that winning the war in Iraq is central to winning the war on terror and making sure that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda cannot take—harm the United States. Is that true, if we win there, will that help?

SCHEUER: No, ma‘am. The war in Iraq has broken the back of our counterterrorism effort. I‘m not an expert on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, but the invasion of Iraq has made sure this war will last decades ahead and it has transferred bin Laden and al Qaeda from being man and an organization into being a philosophy and a movement. We‘ve really made sure that the war against us is going to be a long and very bloody one. Iraq was an absolutely disastrous decision.

IDontLikeYouInThatWay had a link to footage from the new Superman Returns movie coming out next year, the movie was 81MB and really didn’t show much footage from the movie, it was mostly footage from Comic Con and Bryan Singer with very little of the actual movie. So for those of you who don’t want to download 81MB just to see a few seconds from the actual movie, here are some screen shots highlighting some of the best footage.

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Never knew making my own softdrink could be this dangerous. Out of 13 pages on instructions, maybe 10 are warnings. [Link]

Found via Kottke, Radiohead just started a blog. [Link]

This is interesting, makes the N91 more likable but I would still not buy one. [Link]

Update: According to Nokia, this information is inaccurate. [Link]

A short video of a BMW M3 racing against a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, I won’t ruin it by telling you who kicks whos ass. [Video 1.2MB]

Audi finally released official pictures of its new SUV the Q7. From the pictures though it looks like an over sized station wagon, not very pretty. [Link]