How much time does it take to convert Jordanian Bedouins from "gahwa sada" with cardamom to Swiss-made Nescafe?

(Photo from Nescafe page on Facebook).

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The three creations I liked most are:

1. Lego Harpsichord
This Harpsichord was constructed entirely from Lego parts (over 100,000!), including keyboard, jacks, jack rack, jack rail, plectra, soundboard, bridge, hitch pins, tuning pins, wrestplank, nut, case, legs, lid, lid stick, and music stand. It has a range of 61 notes and weighs 150 lb.

2. Lego Volvo XC90
Built by Lego Master Model Builders, this Volvo XC90 is the official car of Legoland California.

3. Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite
Nathan Sawaya used over 10,000 Lego pieces and spent 3 months making this "Han Solo in Carbonite" masterpiece.

You can discover the other seven by visiting this blog.

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From ScienceDaily.com:

IRBID, Jordan, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Jordanian scientists have discovered potato chip flavoring can increase the longevity of concrete.

Awni Al-Otoom of the Jordan University of Science and Technology found sodium acetate -- the ingredient that helps give salt and vinegar-flavored potato chips a tangy snap -- is the key to a new waterproof coating for concrete.

Al-Otoom and colleagues note concrete -- the world's most widely used structural material -- is so porous that water soaks in, corroding steel reinforcing bars and meshes that strengthen concrete roads and buildings. That, in turn, causes cracks as water expands and contracts during freeze-thaw cycles.

But the scientists discovered sodium acetate easily seeps into concrete and swells when exposed to water, blocking entry of additional moisture. Under dry conditions, the crystals shrink to their original size and allow moisture to evaporate.

The net result is "a significant reduction in water permeability (that) can be expected to increase the service life of the concrete," the scientists said.

The study is detailed in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

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Wow... An attacker and a goalkeeper at the same time !!

(PS: This is his second goal).

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The man on the right of the photo is Amir Peretz, the Israeli Defense Minister. Take a closer look at the photo, did you notice anything strange? Peretz gazes at a military drill through binoculars, without realizing the lens caps were left on!

Peretz was inspecting Israeli troops near Syrian borders, along with Israeli Army's commander Ashkenazi who helped Peretz to pull through the situation, the BBC said that Peretz gazed three times through the capped binoculars before Ashkenazi's intervention.

Do you think Israeli Army is overestimated?

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For sure, you've listened to many stupid news last month, but one of them appeared with more emphasis on several US media, international newspapers and internet sites, the one regarding Tigger of Winnie The Pooh.

I'm not a big Disney fan, and I've never enjoyed watching Winnie The Pooh, I don't know why, but sometimes this cartoon saddened me! However, this time I'm definitely with Tigger.

All we know the world is full of injustices, and this is a tragic example: Tigger has been accused of punching and hitting a boy's face, during a pose for a photo.

Well, I watched the video, and it's so evident that Tigger did not punch the kid's face, it kindly touched him after losing balance. And the so-named "boy" is a 14 year kid, has found nothing better than to visit Disneyland and take a photo with a two-meter tall plush. And then, for what reason should Tigger hit a boy?

The fact that there is a man who has to wear in a ridicule way, to get an underpaid salary and an underestimated job is a good reason, and that hundreds of nasty small boys peeve him daily and he must grin and bear it. So, little poor boy, do you know what I think? If I were Tigger, I would really break your face!

(If you're a Tigger fan you can subscribe to this fanlisting, visit this site or watch this movie).

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Well, for those who are not habituated to eating spaghetti it's a big trouble. Things are even worse if you wear hijab...

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Paul Wolfowitz, the president of the World Bank, says he would free world from poverty but I suppose he forgot to take care of himself... In a recent visit he did to Turkey, Mr. Wolfowitz entered an Ottoman-era mosque in the city of Edirne, but when he took off his shoes two big holes were revealed on both his socks with his toes peeking through. [see photo below] Yes! Mr. Wolfowitz has socks with holes!

Is that an acceptable sartorial deficiency, or World Bank finances do not go so well? If these are the best pair of socks the president found in wardrobe, well I think we have found another motive to not be so friendly with World Bank.

Another unpleasant economic situation was revealed after this event in the mosque, Mr. Wolfowitz decided to buy two bracelets on a market, but he did not have enough money!

Wolfowitz was previously shown in Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 when he used his own saliva to style his hair, he was seen to spit on his comb before running it through his hair ahead of a television appearance.

(However, Turkish Socks Producers Association has sent 12 pairs of socks to World Bank chief after this incident)

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A recent Reuters news story reported from Beijing that hundreds of chickens have been found dead in a small village in east China . The reason was the screaming of a four-year old boy that had been scared by a barking dog. A witness said that the little boy bent over the henhouse window, screaming for a long time, after being frightened from the dog.

A court has officially ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of the boy, since it was "the only unexpected abnormal sound" and that 443 chickens trampled each other to death in fear.

Also, the father of the killer-boy was ordered to pay 1,800 yuan (164 JD) in compensation to the owner of the chickens.

For further reading, I advice you to take a look at a valuable scientific article of Mr. Graham B. Scott (of the Scottish Agricultural College) entitled "Effects of short-term whole body vibration on animals with particular reference to poultry".

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Or, a donkey up in the air, this is a video my friend Zaid sent to me last night, watch it and if you feel upset take a visit to this site.

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Do you know the Pope wears Prada? The lion costume in the Wizard of Oz movie was made from real lions? And Tony Blair’s favorite meal to cook is spaghetti bolognaise? Royal Mail stamps are printed in Holland? Cows have regional accent?

What's Barbie's full name? And what does hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs mean?
Well, the BBC answered all these questions in its lately-published list of 100 things we didn't know last year!

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Ok my friend Anas told me about that:

1 - Open google.com
2 - Insert the word "failure" in the search box.
3 - Press "I'm Feeling Lucky" button
4 - Laugh!!

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Is that a hearsay, or uncle Bill really wants to be the president of the United States ?

I don't know if any of these gossips could be true. Anyway, different sites on the net are imagining what will be the consequences of such a decision…

Mr. William Henry Gates III , if you don't know, is the president of Microsoft Corporation and has a large number of supporters and fans worldwide(?). In a recent ZDNet poll, nearly 65% expressed their support for a possible candidature of Bill. More than this, the www.billgatesforpresident.net blog is having more and more visitors around the world, it is looking for people to join the (until now virtual) political campaign, and it will publish online polls with Bill facing other potential candidates for 2008 elections.

How it all began? Probably all started with a post in Dilbert Blog, when Scott Adams predicted an 'atheist business leader' as future candidate for US president, so he named Bill Gates as most appropriate:

Bill Gates will have done so much good for the world through his charitable works that combined with his business success he'll appear more qualified than any other candidate.

However, days ago Adams criticized the billgatesforpresident blog, stating that his ideal president would be a mixture of Mother Teresa, Carl Sagan, Warren Buffet, and Darth Vader, and Bill (according to Adams) has all of their good stuff;

Forget about whatever Bill Gates did in the past that made you curl up with your free copy of Linux and cry. In his first week in office he'd probably link Microsoft Virtual Earth to the government's spy satellites so you can look for Osama yourself. I've always felt that terrorism is a technology problem disguised as a political problem. Bill Gates can fix that.

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Daddy, Is this Santa?		"Divine Victory" :)
100% Political activist of Hezbollah		"Hezbollah: Islamic Resistance in Lebanon"

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No I do not mean myself … (Metallers are having bad reputation here lately), I'm talking about Japanese anime accused to be satanic, and mainly the set of cards related to these cartoons.
Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards represent skulls, dragons and other mythological creatures are seen by many as a "work of the devil" and are accused to be a kind of worship to demons; read what's written in this web site:

(Satan) uses the occult to ensnare the minds of people, and he works to introduce people to the occult by using supposedly "innocent" games like Yu Gi Oh.

Adding;

(T)he devil (satan), who uses his demonic power to blind the minds of children and adults nationwide to the dangers of Yu-Gi-Oh. Yu-Gi-Oh is an occult oriented game and anything of the occult is dangerous. You say, “That is ridiculous! Yu-Gi-Oh is just kids stuff, a card game, a cartoon!” That is exactly what Satan wants you to believe.

And the whole page is an official accuse to Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic of being demonic. Gregory Reid goes on with this thesis, but in a scientific-historical approach. (You can read his page full of explanation of the card images here).

They let me remember an unordinary 'fatwa' issued years ago here in Jordan and the whole Arab world, that severly prohibited playing with, purchasing and collecting Pokemon cards. Pokemon was banned also from TV...what a pity!

Mui, in his political Italian blog, found the argument ridiculous and absurd. Sarcastically; he said that we must inform President Bush that Pokemons will move our world forward a catastrophic end, so he asked: "Why shall we make the things in this world so complicated, if we know that the main reason is Pokemon?"

PS: Although I wrote this article, and this blog is named after Yugi, I have no intention to talk about Yu-Gi-Oh again here.

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