#Vodafone #Buzz #Fail

I was online through my favorite IM client; Google Talk, when a work-colleague started talking to me, asking me:

دا ايميل مين انا تعبت رابع ايميل يفتح غلط

I am using Vodafone Buzz from my mobile. Get it now for free from http://vf.eg/buzz

After talking for a while, I realized he was a total stranger; not my colleague. He's another user of Vodafone Buzz, like my colleague. The issue was that every time he signs in to Google Talk (using Vodafone Buzz), he signs in with my colleague's account. As far as I remember, Buzz associates your Vodafone number with the passwords you supply for your social networking sites (likes Facebook, Gmail , etc) so you don't have to type them every time you fire up the app.

If that was not scary enough, I'd just direct your attention to the fact: that stranger is not intending harm, (he's not a hacker for eg, or even evil enough to abuse the situation, he probably lack technical expertise too) so I'm expecting a disaster if he intended!! That if he was the only case of compromised password!!

Conclusion: If you're using Vodafone Buzz, just don't! And more importantly: UPDATE EVERY PASSWORD YOU'VE EVER SHARED WITH VODAFONE!

Side note: Thank GOD I don't save my credit card number on their website!!

الذين قالوا نعم و الذين قالوا لا

الإسبوع ده كان من أكتر الأسابيع المرهقة بالنسبة لي. مش بس عشان النقاشات(الأسعدتني جدا لانها أول مرة في حياتي تبقى بالشكل المفتوح/المتفتح ده) الغير منتهية عن تعديلات الدستور والاستفتاء. لأ كمان عشان كان من أكتر الأسابيع الكنت مضغوط فيها في الشغل  لدرجة إني -لأكثر من مرة- تقريبا "طردت" زملاء لي بيتناقشوا في نفس الموضوع من حوالين مكتبي عشان أشتغل :D

بسبب ضغط الشغل ده مكنتش متابع بشكل كافي الأحداث.. والإكتشفتها امبارح بليل والنهاردة وانا بحاول ألحق الفاتني.. كنت مبسوط معظم الإسبوع بالمقالات الكنت بقرأها في السريع عشان أحاول احدد هصوت بإيه في الإستفتاء.. كنت بحاول أقرأ لكتاب أرائهم من "المعسكرين" , نعم و لا, عشان أحاول  أكون رأيي الشخصي..

قرأت لعمرو حمزاوي و معتز عبدالفتاح و لكثيرين غيرهم, ده غير التحليل الوافي الذي قام به وائل خليل. اليوم أثار حفيظتي عدة أشياء.. معظم ماكنت اقرأه خلال الأسبوع كان محاولة لتحليل السيناريوهات المتوقعة لنعم و لا.. لكن فجأة اكتشفت إنه الموضوع تحول إلى استفتاء على دينك و وطنيتك!!

كنت سمعت خلال الإسبوع إنه بعض الأصوات في الكنيسة قالت للناس تصوت بلا.. بس لانشغالي و أسباب أخرى وضعت هذا الكلام في خانة الإشاعات. اليوم اكتشفت إنه كلام صحيح. سمعت أيضًا أن السلفيين والإخوان المسلمين كانوا بيدعوا الناس لنعم و اكتشفت حقيقة الكلام ده في صلاة الجمعة اليوم.. لدرجة اني قمت رحت اصلي في مسجد تاني لأكتشف إنه بيقول نفس الكلام.. أخيرًا شفت الفيديو لبعض المشاهير بيحاولوا يضغطوا به على مشاعر الناس عشان يقولوا لا.. واليحسس أي حد إنه مش مصري لو قال نعم

كل ده حسسني إنه الناس ديه مش محترمة عقلي ولا عقل المصريين بشكل عام. يعني بدل كل الناس ديه تدعوا الناس لانها تحكم عقلها و متضيعش حقها و تروح تصوت.. لأ بتقولهم ماتفكروش.. احنا فكرنا لكم والإجابة كذا!! كان أكرم للجميع في رأي لو طالبوا المصريين بالنزول للإستفتاء زي الفيديو الأصلي المأخوذ منه فكرة إعلان  قول لأ.

الأسعدني حقيقي إنه فيه ناس بتنادي بالمشاركة في الاستفتاء بس.. كمان بعد الصلاة ناس كتير كانت -على غير ما كنت أتوقع-  مش عاجبها استغلال الخطيب للخطبة.. ده غير إني اكتشفت كمان إنه كاتب ليه وزنه زي فهمي هويدي بيحذر من كلام مشابه. مش عاوزين يجي يوم نتكلم بنغمة شفيق: "أنا حضرت الثورة و هتفت و استشهدت" :D

TEDx, El Sawy Culture Wheel, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Open Brands, etc

I was having a chat with a friend, who is an enthusiast about community work, about that same topic (more specifically in Suez, my hometown) last week. Our conversation drove me to think about an idea that should have been done a little while ago (IMHO).

We all like the cultural "presence" of "organizations" like El Sawy Culture Wheel, and Bibliotheca Alexandrina. But unfortunately their effect is pretty local to where they exist. Another thing, similar organizations are too limited in resources, to reach out of their physical locations. They might try to expand vertically; creating more services, and enhancing them. But they almost never try to "branch out" in other places.

My idea for them is to spread their spirit/culture, share their experience with others who are willing to create similar experiences for their local communities, in a way similar to TEDx. Imagine if every city/governorate had their own Culture Wheel, which operate the same way, with the same spirit, but totally independent (financially for eg) on El Sawy's. Imagine instead of the usual bureaucratic "cultural palaces" (قصور الثقافة) there's a real cultural experience where people from all ages (specially youth) can find a decent place to mingle with like-minded people talking and sharing ideas, etc.

The main thing

I was having a long walk/talk with a friend today when this came up:

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” ~Stephen R. Covey

We first agreed that our major problem is that we don't keep the main thing the main thing.. Later we agree that may be the problem is that: we are not sure what our "main things" really are?

Power to the people!

Earlier this week, I posted about Vodafone Ad showing a distorted version of Abbas Ibn Fernas (check it here). Finally today, Vodafone issued an apology on their Facebook page. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but they are promising to stop airing it on TV, too, soon (I won't listen to the "conspiracy theory" roaming in my head now).

Some people suggest that: nobody really watches ads on TV any more. But I'm kind of reluctant to accept it. Many "regular" people, who aren't familiar with Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc (my dad, & granddad generation, also, people with less education/social status) usually depend heavily on TV as their main source of entertainment.

One last thing, I just realized I didn't publish an important link on the last post, which was really the main pillar behind the campaign, this is vodafly.tumblr.com. Actually I'm very eager to use tumblr for similar stuff, it allows great collaboration for similar usages.

THANKS FOR STANDING TOGETHER, GUYS!!

Vodafone Egypt #FAIL!!

Today I came a across a video shared by @MostafaNageeb on Facebook. The video is a part of Vodafone ISP ads campaign, the one with the three guys from “سمير و شهير و بهير”, the movie. I didn’t watch the movie, and I’m a (kind of) loyal customer of Vodafone Egypt, but I find the video pretty offending and ignorant too.

The video show Abbas Ibn Firnas, [a polymath: an inventor, engineer, aviator, physician, poet, and musician], as a maniac who would throw oneself over the edge of a cliff just for fun, mistaking him for the Greek fable of Daedalus and his son Icarus.

After sharing the video with a couple of links about who is really Abbas Ibn Firnas, and reading a couple of comments on my post on Facebook, I realized that some people were really anxious that they filed complaints to Vodafone Egypt about it on their Customer service complaints page, even more: some complained on the phone! The reply was: it depends on the volume of feedback they get, whether they will take it down or not. On YouTube, Vodafone replies (through the comments) is pretty mild.

Already, the ad on YouTube is getting lots of dislikes, so if you can, add yours too, there. If you find it that irritating, you might file a complaint too (find the links below).

One last note, Abbas didn’t get killed from that experiment!!

 

UPDATE (14-15/11/2010):

The ad video I mentioned above (which was "disliked" a lot on YouTube, also had many negative comments), was removed earlier today (14/11/2010) which made may people cheer about it. Only to find it republished under another name (Browser), a couple of hours later.

I was starting to feel that people were (kind of) exaggerating about the ad (even thought about re-blogging about it). But, now, that feels pretty sneaky of Vodafone, as if the people's feedback doesn't really matter, why are you doing ads for in the first place!? More over, were the marketing guys thinking that the (angry) users won't find out they did the republish!? Dah!?

 

UPDATE (17/11/2010):

We almost made it!! Read this post about it..

 

References:

The second ad republished, Browser [Arabic]

A video about Ibn Firnas [Arabic]

Wikipedia page about Ibn Firnas [English]

Vodafone Customer Service [English Complaints page]

Vodafone Customer Service [Arabic Complaints page]

About #ArabNetMe, #EgyITevent and similar stuff!

Was there pretty late (around 1.25hrs late), traffic was awful

I met a lot of people @NohaMahmoud @MGhoz @maha_ashour @Salma_ts2al @AhmedMoneim @RamyMahrous @MostafaNageeb @mostafasiraj

I suffered a bad headache so if I wasn't that nice, please pardon me

I came across many people who seemed (twitter familiar) but due to my grumpy attitude, I was too shy to ask them if they were who I thought they were (@3GFalcon, @a_monem).

Saw @AhmedYahia face-to-face for the first time but again I was too lame.

Had a brief discussion with @AhmedMoneim about (what they decided to "hashtag" as) #EgyITevent, (aka Limousine Gatherings)

Saw @remon_z for a sec before he disappeared!

Was planning on travelling but had to stay for urgent stuff at work that just came up, a couple of min before I leave!

As usual (saw it twice till now) @ZiadAly embarrassed himself by asking the audience to raise their hands if they used or knew about his latest startup but a pretty small number of people raised their hands.

Someone was sarcastically talking about the analogy between @kanaafa (Irish I think?) being an investor here in Egypt & a typical Egyptian going to invest in an even less developed country than Egypt (if that is ever possible!). Though, I find what he did pretty brilliant, the note was quite funny on the spot, though!

The typical idea in my head of a digital media marketer (like .digitalrepublic CEO?) is quite the "showy" extrovert type of people. On the extremely unexpected side, Karim? was pretty introvert not talking or even giving context to data he was showing us (on a discussion panel!). Yet the data was pretty useful, but needed much accompanied talk, insights before and after. They could have become something like @HansRosling talks if done well.

Something the Lord Made

Just watched a movie with that name today. The movie was really inspiring, probably the life of Dr Vivien T. Thomas was too. The movie based on his life (probably though his autobiography, published after his death) & his complex relationship with his fellow/teacher Alfred Blalock.

Dr. Thomas life is a great example of how can one live in such miserable conditions & yet achieve great things in life. Though he didn't get enough appreciation until later in his life, Thomas (who had no more than high-school education, even before the civil rights movement; ie he was treated as a "colored person") was able to along with Alfred a cure for Blue baby syndrome through a major heart procedure at a time when the such "insane" procedures weren't the norm.

This is a MUST-watch movie..

About Swine Flu

Is it just me or It has been quite sometime since I heard anything about swine flu? After all the propaganda about how dangerous it could be, specially for countries who are already suffering a lot without it (like Egypt for eg)..

Was it really a hoax? Were the "conspiracy theories" loads of email that circulated the cyberspace true? Or may be it's really getting bigger and wilder but no one (from the media ppl) is giving it much of a focus??

About TED, TEDx, etc

Applying Hanselman's advice about conserving one's key strokes, & since I've been asked about TED, TEDx, TEDx Nile lately a couple of times, I'll sum up all the answers (to the questions I was asked) in one blog post to refer people to it whenever I'm asked again :D

So, first TED is a a foundation, that is mainly focused on sharing Technology, Entertainment, & Design ideas (that's where the name TED, comes from) through (mainly) a series of conferences held across Asia, Europe, US. There's also a TED prize for the best idea. TED later decided to share their talks with the world through their website. Also, the talks aren't bounded by technology, entertainment, & design ideas anymore..

Later, another project called TEDx was started. That's independently organized events (aka independent from TED foundation) where people share their ideas, or watch TED videos & discuss the ideas, in a TED-like environment/format.

Since TEDx project started, a lot of people -here in Egypt- were really anxious about bringing such an experience to us. The first one that came to my knowledge was TEDx Cairo, I was then introduced to TEDx Nile(which is the only & first TEDx in Egypt to come to reality, as far as I know), & TEDx Giza.Yet, I need to add that a fellow twitter pal claims that TEDx Giza was the first initiative :)

For more about the topic you might wanna read:
Wikipedia entry about TED
TEDx Introductory video
Review by fellow TEDster أحمد المهدى مسعود
My review about TEDx Nile (April 1st, 2010)
TEDx Nile hype on twitter
TEDx Arabia
My favoorite Talks & speakers

TEDx Nile (2010-04-01)

Every now & then, I tries to go out to see completely different people, either on events or with friends of friends who are of completely different background, education, careers, mindsets & usually it is a nice experience.. Usually, I have back-up plan in case the lonely geek inside took over me, that’s my friends who I can fall back to when ever I’m to shy or too lazy to network & get to know new people :D

So, last night, I went to Cairo Opera House to attend the first TEDx event held in Egypt: TEDx Nile.. I knew about the event by plain chance from Ahmed Adel’s tweets, & later from Khaled Adel, on FCIH-blogger mailing list.

I was following (for quite sometime) the news of another TEDx: TEDx Cairo,  There was a buzz earlier about it, & some rumors that Khaled Abo-El-Naga will be the host. competition is good, so I’m expecting that TEDx Nile will make TEDx Cairo organizers move a bit faster, they seem quite lazy!!

Just realized while writing this post that there’s TEDx Giza too!! :D

Through out the night, I’ve been heavily tweeting (never thought I could do so, with my humble cellular, specially that I hate typing on it).. So I thought the best way to write about the the event is to list my tweets through the night & comment about them, so here we go:

TEDxNile until now: total failure :S

What a start!! :D At that point we already had a couple of sessions I think, Yasser Quessny’s & Salah Makhlouf’s.. I was (irrationally) expecting “TED-class” sessions/talks, my expectations were a bit shred to pieces.. The talks weren't bad but I wasn’t taking into consideration many factors like: this is the first time in Egypt, & that most of these speakers aren’t exactly acquainted with such situations.

#tedxnile somebody kill mado
#tedxnile thu mado looks like a total :L that 2nd song (ketab l ser2a) was awesome

That was during the first performance on the night, a fairly young singer : “Mado”, from Taxi band, sang around 3 songs, the first one was kinda disappointing (not to mention that he looks, talks in a pretty weird way for me) that’s why my first tweet with a bit over the edge. He then sang couple off songs, “كتاب السرقة” & “جوايا حلم” which were awesome (Generally I loved most of the performances coz most of them depended on guitars heavily).

#tedxnile ahmed adel talking abt cloud computing not #enwi :( & in English too ! y?
#tedxnile finally adel is talking abt #enwi

Ahmed Adel, then started his session, about cloud computing, he had to suffer a lot since most of the audience weren’t that technical.. I was expecting his whole session to be about ENWI, it wasn’t exactly, but at least he mentioned it.. At some point he was talking about Bill Gates being the person who started the “PC era”, and one of the audience corrected him saying it was Steve Jobs :D..

#tedxnile why ppl r talking in English?
@ahmed_adel fine talk, hated it being in English thu :D #tedxnile

Though there’s nothing in TEDx that implies that it should be in English, almost all the guys (even some of the performers) were talking in English, the issue here, is why? We are Egyptians for God sake!! Not to mention that a couple of them were barely pronouncing any word right!!

#tedxnile akid ana leya lazma :D
#tedxnile it's getting better here
ROFL! the devil is running #tedxnile

That was when Ahmed Hayman started his session about “Picture the change”, & he experience of using photography for doing good to the less fortunate, which was pretty touching (the first tweet is a quote from his talk). Also, I started to feel better about the host: Amr Salama, he has such charisma.. Also, during Rabee Refaat session about “Mutable building envelope”, the laptop they were using for showing the slides desided to stand-by & when they logged in again the user name was “devil” :D

#tedxnile men dol ya 3am l 7ag :D the weirdest set of performers I've ever seen! :D
#tedxnile if he only shuts up & let the guitar say it all :D
#tedxnile @ramymahrous beside me suggests that he yesama3na sedy wesalak :D
#tedxnile when Mario falls in love :D
#tedxnile I hate to admit it but till now I'm enjoying the performances more than the talks !

That was during ‎RaSh Radio‎ performance, the guy -like all of the performers, last night- looks weird, pretty “Un-Egyptian”, unauthentic to me.. Yet, to tell the truth, his music (I only liked the lyrics/idea of Mario song) was great!! The note about Ramy happened as is :D

#tedxnile Quesni's are trying to sell the idea that design is a random process, isn't that obvious!?

Mariam El-Quessny was talking to much but I didn’t get much of what she was talking about actually, at some point, what I got was that both her & Yasser Quessny (not sure if they are relatives) were trying to saying stuff everybody already know, in a way.. Either they are to much for me, or I’m..

#tedxnile now I'm sure they are paid :D
#tedxnile they are not paid they are maniacs!
#tedxnile & they were talking abt not copying others! We really lack an identity!

At that point, I was wondering whether the ppl clapping all the time (almost the same direction (Back of the audience to the right!) was paid to do so :D, then after they started wowing & clapping for that lunatic called NeoByrd I was convinced they are maniacs!!

Yes, he was on stage wearing the exact outfit you can see on his page (including the helmet/mask!).. I was really feeling uneasy by that time, feeling the whole even is to fake.. Yet when I tried to listen to his music now, it doesn’t sound that bad. But still I can’t help feeling disgust when ever I remember his appearance on stage!!

#tedxnile finally 3amr is making me enjoy it
#tedxnile loved 'how to play life'

As I told you before, Amr Salama (director of  “زي النهاردة”) was such a great host. Though he seemed  (or may be he’s playing) shallow a bit when it comes to technical stuff, he sees things from a completely different point of view. That really showed when he was introducing every, idea/speaker to us.

His own talk (& the final one) was titled “How to play life”, in which he tried to tell us (& convince to do the same) how he looks at life as a “game” (not a path/journey, or test) & how that affects his decisions in life, & his passion about everything he do.

Open letter from Egyptians and Algerians on football row

Copied from Bikya Masr
Sign the petition: http://www.algypt.com/


From Egyptian and Algerian intellectuals, bloggers and activists:
Common Decision.. Won’t separate..
In the name of Allah the most merciful,
In terms of history, religion, Arabism, humanity and the principles of ethics:
We, the undersigned, agree to this statement on the spirit and content at the current time in which we are in greatest need for the voice of reason and conscience and to rise above the pettiness and nonsense things. If not in the name of Arabism and Islam and the cross ties of geography and history, at least on behalf of common interests and mutual understanding that we are trying to make off with the other west, let alone “the other Arab!”
At a time when the elite has failed to take the leadership of public opinion, and some of them fell in the exam, and it appeared that all songs of Arabism and unity that they presented was from the womb of hypocrisy except a few .. Then the scene was left to the non-professionals and bad opinion makers to mislead people and engage them in unnecessary issues. It is therefore better for us to take the lead. And sign this statement of principle for all of us to drive up the skirmish immoral

Quote of the Moment

"Professionals see themselves as part of a community of like-minded individuals who put their professional standards above their individual self-interest or their employer’s self-interest." –Steve McConnell, Leonard Tripp

I hate stereotyping

البوست ده مكتوب من زمان بس معرفتش انشره عشان حوارات كتيرة من بينها إنه كان مكتوب فرانكو ومكنتش عارف اشغل Microsoft Maren على الماكينة بتاعتي.. ده على أساس إنه الأنا كاتبه ده فارق كتير عن الفرانكو :)

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الايام إلي فاتت خاصةً بعد خطاب اوباما خبط في كذا حاجة اونلاين بتشتم في الخطاب . طبعاً هو أصلاً نص الناس إذا كان جوا ولا برة بيشتمو.. نصنا احنا بيشتم في إنه أهو كله كلام و إنه حتى فيه كلام معجبهوش أو في كل الكلام معجبهوش و نصهم برة مش عجبو إنه قال كلمتين إحتمال يدو إنطباع و لو من بعيد كدة إن العرب و المسلمين دول كان لهم أي لازمة في الحياة.

الحاجات ال أنا خبط فيها بقى مش بتتكلم على خطاب بذات.. هم مبتدئين من نقاط قالها اوباما في الخطاب عن المسلمين\العرب.. انهم عملوا و سووا.. و ماسكين الكلم ده بيفندوه..الخلاصة من كلامهم و العاوزين يوصلوه ان الفترة من القرن الخامس للقرن السادس عشر (القرون الوسطى) كانت فالضياع..يعني من ايام عمك سقراط و ارسطو والعالم القديمة ديه..هباااا.. لنيوتن و جاليليو والعالم الحلوة دي عِدِل..مفيش حد كان ليه لزمة كده فالنص خالص.. :D

و ان الحضارة الاسلامية دي معملتش اي حاجة في اي حاجة خالص.. وانهم كانوا و مازالوا عالم همج والمفروض نخلص البشرية منهم..

المشكلة إنه أنا مبحبش الميل (بص على بوست ده) بتقعد تهيج الناس و "بصوا على موقع مش عارف إيه عشان ده بيهاجم مش عارف مين"... ببساطة عشان كل البيحصل إن الناس على المواقع و الفيديوهات و الصور دي أكتر و ردود المسلمين المعتدلين مش بتبان و البيبان بس المتعصبين من عينة "يا كافر هاقتلك و هتولع في نار جهنم..." و عادةً بيبقى ده رد طبيعي فعلا لتعليقات من نفس المستوى من وجهة النظر التانية.. ببساطة بردو كل البيحصل إنه الصورة النمطية (stereotype) بتاع إن أي مسلم/عربي == متخلف/همجي/متعصب بيثبت أكتر عند الناس المش عاوزة تقتنع بغير كده.

و من هنا قررت الآتي.. كل شوية لما أشوف حاجة من التسد النفس دي هادور على مقال على ويكيبيديا ولا فيديو ولا أي حاجة (غالبا بالإنجليزي) بتتكلم عننا بإعتدال و انشرها هنا ولا على توتير ولا جوجل ريدر.. كيفما اتفق .. حاجة مش كبيرة آه.. بس على الاقل مش هاعمل حاجة أنا شايفها غلط.. و في نفس الوقت مش هتلكك و أقول مش فاضي..

Tribute to Marwa

This post has been updated alot since I first wrote it.. so please excuse my lack of organization :)

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First, let me announce that a site is in the making (I'm not involved in anyway, (hopefully) "yet") in the memory of Marwa.. The site is MarwaElSherbiny.com

NOTE: Remember you can always use Google Language tools to translate the pages 

News:
Egypt funeral for stabbing victim: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/20097612424648553.html
Egypt mourns 'headscarf martyr': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8136500.stm
The headscarf martyr: murder in German court sparks Egyptian fury: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/german-trial-hijab-murder-egypt
Burial of the Egptian woman racially killed in Germany (Arabic): http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/worldnews/2009/07/090705_ah_racist_attack_germany-tc2.shtml
Egyptians angry over German court slaying (6 Days late, check their summary to the incidence in the “Story Highlights” section!!): http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/egypt.woman.killed/index.html Islamophobia victim was pregnant, body arrives from Germany: http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=22902
The German Embassy is Following up on Marwa El-Sherbini Killing; Her Family to Take Body Back to Egypt Today: http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article2.aspx?ArticleID=217708
Marwa killed due to propaganda against Muslims (Arabic): http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/EXERES/66B429F4-7E40-4325-9751-0434271DB1C2.htm
Egyptian woman killed in German court for being veiled (One of the best I’ve read, IMHO): http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/06/egyptian-woman-killed-in-german-court-for-being-veiled/
Marwa’s Husband emerged from the coma to the news of her death .. He was in tears that he wasn’t able to save her: http://www.shorouknews.com/ContentData.aspx?id=70500

Blogs:
Her only crime was the veil, Anderson Cooper 360° (Again was too late several days – 10-11 – & strangely the incidence data is not exactly right) : http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/10/her-only-crime-was-the-veil/
A murder that Germany ignored: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/10/germany-murder-marwa-sherbini
Marwa. Mainstream Media Fail? AGAIN? (this guy said it all): http://fakeplasticsouks.blogspot.com/2009/07/marwa-mainstream-media-fail-again.html
What If She Were A Lesbian: http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-if-she-were-lesbian.html
The west should be more reasonable (Arabic):http://www.lastoadri.com/2009/07/blog-post.html

Is this is the German democracy? In its (Germany) courtrooms, Muslims are being attacked: http://www.sadafat.com/?p=562
I hate everything about You!: http://blog.hichamaged.net/i-hate-everything-about-you/
Not Fair!!!!: http://lebnights.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-fair.html
Marwa El-Sherbany came back again to Egypt !!!: http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/marwa-el-sherbany-came-back-again-to.html
All the links from Bikya Masr; allegedly the first blog to report the incidence: http://bikyamasr.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/bm-news-all-bikya-masr-links-on-marwa-killing/ 
Marwa Al-Sherbini: Killed For Wearing A Headscarf But At What Point Do We Say “Enough”?: http://www.black-iris.com/2009/07/07/marwa-al-sherbini-killed-for-wearing-a-headscarf-but-at-what-point-do-we-say-enough/

Pix:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahmedcarlos/tags/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A/
http://alexhopealex.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html
http://alexhopealex.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_06.html
http://alexhopealex.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_223.html

Vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSmIcEbCHQ (English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8tZtBrZH6s (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tw6fhdeol8 (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3keduYo5sBo (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B5hmOE6EQM (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m0h_ZpGKWQ (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwkxscz4Dqw (Arabic) 

Check twitter (trends) for more:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Marwa
http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=Marwa&span=168

Please join the Petition:   http://petol.org/marwa
& keep spreading the word about Marwa.. On twitter please use #Marwa coz it’s the shortest & most commonly used hash tag used there about Marwa..
IMHO, most of the main stream media (most of the news section above) not only reported the incidence too late (even Arabic speaking news agencies), but also reported mainly (or focused on) the Egyptian reaction as if it’s irrational without much mentioning of the racist act that caused that reaction!

Wikipedia Masri!!

ذهلت من يومين لما اكتشفت انه في حد اقترح (و نفذ) مشروع ويكيبديا مصري.. ايوة!!
http://arz.wikipedia.org/
على اساس ان المصري ده لغة مستقلة.. ممكن تقرأ اكتر عن النقاشات الانتهت باقرار المشروع هنا:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Egyptian_Arabic

المصيبة كمان انه في مشروع تجريبي لي وكشيناري مصري كمان!هتلاقيه هنا!
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/arz/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%87

انا ناوى اعمل اقتراح لغلق الاتنين ذي ده
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects
بس لما افضى شوية.. انا بس بكتب التدوينة دي عشان مفروس و كمان عشان لو حد همته اعلى شوية يسبقني عشان انا عارف حبالي طويلة!!

المصيبة انه اصلا مافيش في ويكيبديا مصري دي غير مقالات قليلة جدا.. طاب مابدل الهبل ده ما يساعدوا في المشروع/مجموعة الاسمها "لنكتُب في موسوعتنا.....ويكيبيديا العربية"
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26336582446

Analogies

Last week, I read this ridicules article from Haaretz, the Israeli news paper, about three alleged analogies for Ghaza's Crises; Strip Maul.. Just a minute ago I've read these analogies in reply to them which I find much more real!!

Quote of the Moment

"If you're in your apartment and some emotionally disturbed person is banging on your door, screaming, 'I'm going to come through this door and kill you!' do you want us to respond with one police officer, which is proportional, or with all the resources at our command?" --New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg.

"I guess it depends if I forced that guy to live in my hallway… and make him go through checkpoints every time he has to take a sh*t!" Popular Comedian, Jon Stewart.

هؤلاء النصابون الكبار وابتكاراتهم العبقرية

سلسلة مقالات (6) لأحمد خالد توفيق عن مدعي العلم و النصابين باسم العلم :

1. http://www.ahmed-khaled.com/newahmed/arti45.htm
2. http://www.ahmed-khaled.com/newahmed/arti46.htm
3. http://www.ahmed-khaled.com/newahmed/arti47.htm
4. http://www.ahmed-khaled.com/newahmed/arti48.htm
5. http://www.ahmed-khaled.com/newahmed/arti49.htm
6. http://www.ahmed-khaled.com/newahmed/arti50.htm

جامدين آخر حاجة!! :D

When irresponsible people use technology!!

I won't say much check the above image. Some irresponsible person(s) translated & other person(s) confirmed that the right translation for "Get well soon" is "ابو احمد البواب"!!!!!!!

Please help fix it.. That can be done by looking for "Get well soon" translation on google language tools then suggesting a "better" (right) translation (I guess "تعافى سريعا" is appropriate translation)..