(warning: this is an incredibly depressing video)
How U.S. marines executed 2 dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians and then paid their relatives $2,500 in “compensation”…

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Hamzeh wrote an interesting post about living in a linguistically challenged society (i.e. America) where one’s name is rendered unpronounceable. It inspired me to recollect some of my own musings on the same subject.
Like Hamzeh my name, Naseem, has only two syllables yet every time someone reads my name it’s always in the form of […]

This is such a cool idea and so simple too. I think I saw something like this in the movie Minority Report.

The eStarling frame is a standalone Wi-Fi LCD photo frame that connects to a wireless network and automatically displays photos e-mailed to it in a slideshow format. Imagine having this thing display your latest […]

I confess: I’m not a big sports fan at all. I don’t memorize useless facts about what player got traded to what team and what their scoring average is, how many injuries they’ve endured. And while I’m in the confessing mood, I’m also not into other “guy” things like memorizing the model of every single […]

AMMAN â?? The Conciliation Court on Tuesday sentenced two journalists to two months in prison each for republishing controversial cartoons vilifying the Prophet Mohammad.
Jihad Momani, former chief editor of Shihan weekly, and Hashem Khalidi, the editor of Al Mihwar weekly, were released on bail pending their appeal. Their lawyer Mohammad Qteishat pledged to launch […]

Amman - Italian commercial television network Mediaset is in Jordan shooting a romantic comedy on the life of Jesus.
Jordan’s Royal Film Commission said yesterday that The Holy Family is being directed by Italy’s Raffaele Mertes, who has made several religious productions. The two-part TV film “seeks to narrate the human side and the interrelationships between […]

LONDON (AFP) - An English radio station said it has banned songs by British crooner James Blunt from its airwaves after listeners said they were fed up with hearing “You’re Beautiful” and “Goodbye My Lover”.
Chris Cotton, programme controller of local radio Essex FM in southern England, said: “We don’t have anything against James Blunt and […]

Now I usually don’t care about competitions, probably because I don’t like losing. But the good people of Toot are running a Design Competition for the most visually stimulating blog on Toot. Now I’m not an artist and I don’t have that phenomenal sense of taste that some people do but when it comes to […]