Jordan's Free Voices

Friday, June 13, 2008 - Posts

• New Website

  Crooked Timber has a post on ' The importance of Web sites for academics '. It seems like good advice, so I've composed this page (now linked in the sidebar, in place of the generic philosophy department homepage which is currently broken in any case). Read More... Posted 13-06-2008 02:17 from Philosophy, et cetera | 0 Comments Filed under admin

• Paying Commissions

  “A fee paid to an agent or employee for transacting a piece of business or performing a service” is a definition of 'commission' in my dictionary. My father made his living as a commissioned salesman for the same chemical company until he retired. He Read More... Posted 13-06-2008 12:31 from Jordan Journals | 0 Comments

• Jordan Festival: Everybody's Gonna Love Today!

  Yes, I still disappointed with the unpopular decision to replace Jerash Festival with what's now called "Jordan Festival". I don't know what crossed Minister of Culture's mind to issue such decision since I've not heard justifications or good Read More... Posted 13-06-2008 11:27 from Yugi's Blog : Source Lines Of Code Of My Life | 0 Comments Filed under Jordan, Music

• Mind Reader!

  Try to take this test mentally.   1) Pick a number from 2-9.It can be 2, 9 or anything inbetween. 2) Take that number, and multiply it by 9. 3) That should give you a two digit number. Take those two digits and add them together 4) Take the Read More... Posted 13-06-2008 11:27 from M For Mystery | 0 Comments

• ... meanwhile on TED

  Time for something else other than politics ... and what better than the TED blog for a bit of inspiration ... and hope. Check out anthropologist Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual and what it is that makes us human: http://blog.ted.com/ Read More... Posted 13-06-2008 10:12 from Jordan Journals | 0 Comments

• Young Brides for Sale

  Poor Egyptian families definitely see marrying their young daughters off to wealthy Gulf men as a win-win scenario; the girls are supposedly provided with a chance to escape poverty, and their families get financial aid and remain with one less mouth Read More... Posted 13-06-2008 08:51 from Tololy's Box | 0 Comments Filed under Wonder Woman, Culture Arabia

• Stop … don’t read ….propaganda's a’comin …

  Is this Bush’s last stand for his neocon foreign policy, as he dances with wolves in Italy, in Europe, the ‘old’? Complaining at the 'misinformation and propaganda’ about the United States, Bush told Italian entrepreneurs: 'The best diplomacy for America, Read More... Posted 13-06-2008 02:31 from Jordan Journals | 0 Comments

• Mustafa Salameh

  A sense of pride overwhelmed me when I saw the picture in the Al Ghad newspaper on the breakfast table of Mustafa Salameh standing on top of Mount Everest holding the Jordanian flag high above his head. Mustafa is the first Jordanian to reach the summit Read More... Posted 13-06-2008 01:34 from Jordan Journals | 0 Comments