2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003

From the Daily News: Salman Rushdie corroborates that new study that says video games can be good for you. Back when the the “Satanic Verses” author was hiding from the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 death warrant, “My main pastime was playing Nintendo games,” Rushdie told Webster Hall curator Baird Jones at the Francesco Clemente show at the Larry Gagosian gallery the other night. “I devoted so much time to mastering Super Mario that I must have been the world champion by the end of my seclusion”… [Source]

Its a 129MB file but its worth it. If you have ever played Grand Theft Auto then you have to download it. Some guys went and acted out GTA in real life, its really cool and very funny. [Link]

From BoingBoing ” This mash-up of Snoop Dogg’s Drop It Like It’s Hot with Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love is completely badazz — It actually had me up and dancing; those nasty guitars crossed with Snoop’s nasty lyrics, wow!” 3MB MP3 Link

Update: For those of you who haven’t downloaded The Grey Album (The Beatles White Album mashed up with Jay-Z’s Black Album) then click here to download it.

Check out this very cool short movie called Grocery Star Wars about how Organic food will defeat the darkside. [Link]

Dortmund, one of 12 host cities for the 2006 World Cup, is hurriedly building wooden sex huts with the aim of encouraging discretion among prostitutes and their clients. According to Reuters, “experts estimate as many as 40,000 prostitutes may travel to Germany to offer their services to fans during the tournament.” To make them comfortable, “Dortmund plans to arrange the Dutch-designed huts … in an area with condom machines and snack bar.” Like a highway rest stop, but cooler. “We don’t want a situation where prostitutes and their clients disturb residential areas,” says an official. [Link]

I found this link via Boing Boing, Bruce Sterling made his students write on a whiteboard stuff they should never say to a teacher during design critiques. Now other then the fact the stuff they wrote was hillarious, I was very surprised that Bruce Sterling actually blogs. [Link]

I found a Baseball field in Kuwait.. with grass!! [Link]

“What’s the most frequent question Carl’s Jr. (Hardees) is getting from viewers about the “hot” Paris Hilton car wash ad? According to a Carl’s Jr. executive, it’s the swimsuit.” The swimsuit is made by Shay Todd, the couple who have been dressing Hollywood’s elite in sexy bikinis for the last four years. So if you are interested, you can have a swimsuit just like the one Paris Hilton wore in the commercial for just $185. [Link]

Just read this article in Arab Times where they are talking about building a rail system in Kuwait in preparation for the major traffic congestion we will be facing in the upcoming future. Now the cool thing in the article is they are proposing the futuristic Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) to connect major buildings. It was the first time I had heard about it so I did a bit of research and this thing is like super cool. Its like mini trains that hold around 4 people for example, and if you are say at the main NBK branch in Kuwait City and you want to go to Souk Sharq for lunch, instead of taking the car you just hop into one of these tiny air conditioned capsules and tell it to go to Souk Sharq and it will take you. This system just requires major buildings to be connected via tracks and you no longer need to your car to travel from your building to another down the street. Here is a link with more information on PRT. [Link]

No surprise here, Windows sucks like crazy is misunderstood.. [Link]

LogoLounge uncovers the top 15 latest trends in logo design for the year 2005. Some of the trends are really cool, I really like the Secura Speed logo under weaves and the North Island logo under drops. [Link]

Was talking to a friend of mine and he was surprised to hear the Pizza Italia is still open. So incase you guys didn’t know, Pizza Italia IS still open. I know of 2 branches, one in Bayan next to McDonalds, and one in Hawalli nearly opposite Mouhalab Mall. There phone numbers are 538-7798 and 266-7711. They deliver, the Large sized pizza with everything on it (called the God Father) is for only KD1.500

I have been sitting infront of the computer now for 1 hour just trying to think of something and nothing is coming out. I think I have blown a fuse because of the overload with work. Since the creative director left the agency, my responsibilities have trippled, I am growing white hair and I never have time to think anymore. Awhile ago I found out they want me to come in on Friday even, which I won’t do ofcourse. Friday is MY fucking day off, its bad enough we don’t have a 2 day weekend and I am not gonna give them my Friday, even if its only this one time, I will not give it up. I need a mother fucking long vacation…

Update: Just asked for a raise… it won’t happen..

An article on WIRED brings to light the sad truth about the people who survived the World Trade Center attacks. The majority of the survivors were the ones who ignored officials’ orders to stay put… “According to the engineers, use of elevators in the early phase of the evacuation, along with the decision to not stay put, saved roughly 2,500 lives.” [Link]

Your Zero Day Source. [Link]