January 2011
40 posts
“Egyptian state TV reported Sunday morning that the Al Jazeera office in Cairo is...”
– Al Jazeera In Cairo Being Shut Down, Press Credentials Revoked: Egypt State TV
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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“They are calling for regime change, not cabinet change”
– Protesters back on Egypt streets - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Jan 29th
Jan 24th
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“Drug abuse is driven to a significant extent by fashion. If there’s one...”
– Harm reduction: Fighting drugs through jujitsu | The Economist
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
“You would think a show like ‘Skins,’ which brags about its realism, wouldn’t...”
– Hank Stuever, in his review of MTV’s “Skins.” (via washingtonpoststyle)
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
“Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him...”
– The brutal truth about Tunisia - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent
Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
Jan 14th
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“MOST political leaders struggle to speak fluently in a foreign tongue. Only the...”
– The French language: Sarkozy can’t speak proper | The Economist Alright. Amidst a discussion of the proper use of the possessive apostrophe, the first episode of the Arabic version of (America/Britain’s) Got Talent aired tonight. Almost every instance of this title across the internet...
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
“Tunisia’s president has stepped down after 23 years in power amid...”
– BBC News - Tunisia: President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali forced out
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
“I gotta testify, My cake’s in the oven lookin extra fly ‘fore the day I fry,...”
– Touch the Pie submitted by ThisIsTheBeat (via noonemanshouldhaveallthatflour)
Jan 14th
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“In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual...”
– Slate’s Farhad Manjoo, explaining why you are wrong, wrong, WRONG to type two spaces after that period. To save a copy editor a trip to the loony bin, read the whole story. (via motherjones)
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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“To an artist, first an audience is a life jacket, then it is a dinner jacket,...”
– Twitter / Clayton Cubitt (via claytoncubitt)
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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“Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had...”
– Egypt’s Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as “human shields” - Ahram Online
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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kateoplis: There will be blood →
homeofthevain: There will be NO free downloads, there will be NO bonus tracks, there will be NO remixes, there will be NO hidden footage, there will be NO additional content, there will be NO corporate partners, there will be NO fashion lines, there will be NO tabloid pictures, there will be…
Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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“Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza’s economy “on...”
– WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse - Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Jan 5th
“Coca-Cola is raising the price of its products in the UAE for the first time in...”
– Coke and Pepsi leap in price - The National Truly the end of an era. Will RC cola now be 1Dh?
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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“… and yet my own art feels like the bloody aborted foetus of a woman with theory...”
– moving on « Come Downstairs Now
Jan 1st