Jordan's Free Voices

Thursday, March 06, 2008 - Posts

• The New Middle East Map: Welcome to the Islamis Emirate of Gaza

  It seems that one of the most popular amusements for the so-called "Middle East experts" in American research centers and media outlets is to redraw the map of the Middle East according to their own wishful thinking, often influended by the strong neo-conservative Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 07:54 from Jordan Watch | 0 Comments Filed under New Middle East

• A Good Wife Always Knows Her Place

  Click on the picture for a good laugh Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 06:13 from Maioush | 0 Comments Filed under fun

• 2 girls - One link

  CLICK TO SEE FULL IMAGE. Check out the two hot chicks dressing up as Link from The Legend of Zelda. Link is a dude, but I couldn’t care less right now. Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 02:15 from Jordan Mafia - | 0 Comments

• Introducing Microsoft's Non-Windows OS : Singularity

  Microsoft has made the announcement at its Microsoft Research TechFest 2008 event in Redmond, that the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) 1.1 is now available for academic non-commercial use. You can download it from Microsoft's open source code Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 01:38 from Jordev | 0 Comments Filed under OS, download, microsoftft, non windows, Singularity

• Precautions and Moral Responsibility

  Is it advisable to take precautions that reduce one's risk of suffering victimization? That seems like an easy question. But in specific cases, people sometimes fear that an affirmative answer risks "blaming the victim", or excusing the actual wrongdoer. Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 10:27 from Philosophy, et cetera | 0 Comments Filed under politics

• Clueless, or are they?

  After reading this piece one has to ask the question are "our" officials clueless? I don't think they are, many of them have their own agendas and as such it is expected that each one will point to different causes for the mess we live in! Politicians Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 09:39 from Jordan, I will be back... | 0 Comments Filed under Jordan, Corruption

• I *totally* agree with her but not her reasoning

  Love it or hate it, she’s making a sense Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 08:58 from Jad's thoughts | 0 Comments Filed under politics

• Free Collective Speech

  Peter Levine has a very interesting post on ' free speech for the public as a whole ', in which he argues that courts should "require states to offer all the traditional benefits of marriage to gay and straight couples, but allow states to reserve the Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 08:39 from Philosophy, et cetera | 0 Comments Filed under political theory, democracy

• Geeky Grafitti

  For more + photo credits check out the Royal Pingdom Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 08:28 from And Far Away | 0 Comments

• Right Up My Alley

  A reader sent me a link to a story about a Japanese woman who was accused of kicking a hole in some guy’s door, crawling through the hole, and destroying his property. She was acquitted when the court realized that... Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 07:21 from The Dilbert Blog | 0 Comments Filed under General Nonsense

• Flag stomping

  I know that this is a controversial issue, but I think it shouldn't be. Why would you punish someone for stomping on a flag? I mean really, even if he did it, is punishing him going to change anything? Will he love Jordan more or hate it less because Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 07:06 from Jordan, I will be back... | 0 Comments Filed under Jordan, Corruption, AHHH

• A History of Evil

  I love this mockumentary: Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 06:07 from Tololy's Box | 0 Comments Filed under V for Video

• And before there was Flickr…

  ... there was Geocities :)When I first started blogging, Flickr did not yet exist and YouTube was not even something I could have imagined. Blogger did not yet have the photo upload option and no online photosharing services were out yet.Being the person Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 04:09 from And Far Away | 0 Comments

• Rich Arabs, Between inheritance and Self Made

  Forbes Magazine published its annual list of Billionaires of the world. Here are the Arabs on the list: (Notice the absence of Jordanians!) World Rank Name Age Billions Country Source 19 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud 51 21 Saudi Self Made! 46 Nasser Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 12:58 from Arabs & Globalization | 0 Comments

• A Scary World

  I was inspired by a post by Jasim and decided to share my two cents not only about trust, but about the general concept of safety and protection nowadays. I think we are living in a materialistic world where people tend to be more selfish and greedy and Read More... Posted 06-03-2008 12:44 from Soul Blossom | 0 Comments