Tarzan make translate … again -

This time its from AlWatan yesterday.

The problem is that its a headline!!

A friend of mine sent me this by email earlier today, it was in yesterday’s AlQabas page 36 -

This is perfect because it comes right after my post about Ghiras’s translation problems, and the show is apparently on the new Ghiras TV!! I really hope they keep it that way and don’t fix it!

فتوى تبيح للمرأة ارضاع زميل العمل منعاً للخلوة المحرمة

الخبر لا يحتاج الى اي تعليق

قمة التطور و الرقي

I saw this at work today. Some company actually faxed this ad offering their services!

wow.

A friend sent me this pic yesterday.

You can see the date and time at the bottom corner, so you know the time, yesterday afternoon …. the place is somewhere between Saudi and Kuwait City, and the license plate of the truck was a Saudi plate!

One thing is clear from this picture……

……its officially SUMMER!

I haven’t posted anything in ages I know, but I have been very busy recently with a minor block in mental abilities.

Anyway, after my 2 previous attempts at creating videos and posting them on youtube, I finally decided to make a 3rd one!

The first one I did was - firqat bin figure stick, then - Sheelay Gashich, and now the latest installment -

Bitro7lak Mishwar

enjoy!

I’ve talked recently about global warming and environmental issues, and I totally support initiatives that helps reduce CO2 emissions such as the carbon offset (or carbon trading) programs which Cathay Pacific, Tesco, Expedia, Virgin and many more companies are adopting, but this article from the Russian news agency takes the global warming issue to a whole new level!

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Belgium to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming

12:27 | 03/ 04/ 2007

BRUSSELS, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - The government of Belgium’s French-speaking region of Wallonia, which has a population of about 4 million, has approved a tax on barbequing, local media reported.

Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas, is emitted during barbequing. Beginning June 2007, residents of Wallonia will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling session.

The local authorities plan to monitor compliance with the new tax legislation from helicopters, whose thermal sensors will detect burning grills.

Scientists believe CO2 emissions are a major cause of global warming.

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First of all, taxes on barbequing??? The Belgians need to recheck their priorities! I am 100% sure there are at least a million other more harmful causes of CO2 all around them that should be looked at before barbequing!!

Second, and more important …. they will be using helicopters to monitor barbequing to prevent CO2 emission …. hmmmm, lets go over that again, HELICOPTERS will be flying around all day trying to find if anyone has his grill on!! Are they magical helicopters that move around with the help of the chopper fairy?? Here’s an idea to cut emissions, how about we ban helicopters from circling over the city all day long??

**UPDATE**

She didn’t wear it. Good for her for sticking to what she believes in!

Link

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بورمية يحذر الصبيح من عدم التقيد بالضوابط الشرعية

حذر النائب د. ضيف الله بورمية وزيرة التربية نورية الصبيح من عدم التقيد في الحضور الى جلسة القسم من دون مراعاة للضوابط الشرعية التي نص عليها قانون حقوق المرأة السياسية قائلا: سبق ان قالت في الصحف إنها جاءت لتطبيق القانون وعليها ان تطبق القانون على نفسها قبل ان تطبقه على الآخرين.

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الوزيرة نورية الصبيح تعرف الأصول و انسانة تحترم الدستور و في مجال التربية من أكثر من 30 سنة و وكيلة في وزارة التربية من 8 سنوات … مو أبو رمية اللي يقرر إذا تتحجب أو لا

متى صار مجلس الأمة ديوانية أبوك غصب تحجب و تلبس الناس على كيفك ؟

Im a big fan of fantasy football, for the English premier league as well as the Champions League. It is basically a game in which you pick any 11 players every week for your team. You get points according to their performance that week and it goes on the whole season.

Anyway, as you all know, the government has resigned and the positions are all available, so I was thinking, what would happen if we were to apply the fantasy gaming idea and have the choice to pick our own government ministers? BUT …. I dont want any politicians to be involved!

If you had the choice to pick a government purely out of actors...I dont care where or when they are from, they could be current US actors, old black and white Egyptian actors, anything you want…

1. رئيس الحكومة و رئيس مجلس الوزراء
2. وزارة الخارجية
3. وزارة الداخلية
4. وزارة المالية
5. وزارة الطاقة
6. وزارة التربية و التعليم العالي
7. وزارة الدفاع
8. وزارة العدل
9. وزارة المواصلات
10. وزارة الإعلام
11. وزارة الأوقاف
12. وزارة التخطيط
13. وزارة الشؤون
14. وزارة الاشغال

I love Robot Chicken, I haven’t seen that much of it but everything I’ve seen from it is extremely funny. The reason I mention the show is because it is the first thing that came to my mind when I read this article from CNN.com -

Chinese scientists command pigeons via remote control

POSTED: 2:11 a.m. EST, February 27, 2007

Story Highlights

• Scientists send signals to pigeon’s brain via computer
• Chief scientist calls experiment unprecedented on pigeon in world, Xinhua reports
• Scientists have had similar success with mice, news agency reported

BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Scientists in eastern China say they have succeeded in controlling the flight of pigeons with micro electrodes planted in their brains, state media reported on Tuesday.

Scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology said their electrodes could command them to fly right or left or up or down, Xinhua news agency said.

“The implants stimulate different areas of the pigeon’s brain, according to signals sent by the scientists via computer and force the bird to comply with their commands,” Xinhua said.

“It’s the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world,” Xinhua quoted the center’s chief scientist, Su Xuecheng, as saying.

Su and his colleagues, who Xinhua said had had similar success with mice in 2005, were improving the devices used in the experiment and hoped that the technology could be put into practical use in future.

The report did not specify what practical uses the scientists saw for the remote-controlled pigeons.

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This all sounds cool and interesting, but its also very scary! What if they use these pigeons as suicide bombs?? Or even worse, implant these micro electrodes in human brains and have control over millions of soldiers who could act like killing machines with a press of a button!

Science-fiction is becoming a reality!! And Seth Green is a genius who predicted the future

Totally unrelated clips from Robot Chicken (both mature) -

Star Wars

Mario Bros at Vice City