Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 15th, 2006
According to Nostradamus fans, the famous publisher of prophecies would have predicted an Intel Bug. Well, it’s funny, but can not be refuted.
He wrote the following
Aupres des portes & dedans deux citez
Seront deux fleaux, & onc n’apperceut VN TEL,
Faim, dedans peste, de fer hors gens boutez,
Crier secours au grand Dieu immortel
Translation:
Near the gates and […]
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Italy’s controversial journalist Fallaci dies :
Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy’s most outspoken critics against Islam, has lost her long battle against cancer. The 77-year-old died in her home town of Florence. Fallaci caused an uproar with her bestselling book, The Rage and the Pride, published two weeks after the September 11 attacks. In it, […]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Jennifer Connelly is for me the greatest dramatic artist; she could perfectly express desperation, depression and sadness. This has been proven in Requiem for a Dream, Beautiful Mind, and House of Sand and Fog.
Because of wrongly attributed taxes, Kathy was forced to leave her father’s house; an Iranian refugee family bought it; both […]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Euronews
The Summit for the Non-Aligned Movement got underway in Cuba on Monday but without its host. President Fidel Castro is still recovering after emergency surgery on his intestines and it is unclear whether he will attend the six day conference at all. Some 50 heads of state are present at the fourteenth summit for […]
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
On September 11 1973, the General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte led a military coup against Salvador Allende’s goverment, striking the presidential palace, and starting a mass of tortures. Victims are intellectuals, artists, Allende’s supporters, … Salvador suicided, letting Pinochet establish one of the most cruel and the most bloody dictatorships in the history of humanity. […]
Posted in General, History, Chile | 3 Comments »
Monday, September 11th, 2006
Forbes has published the annual listing of the 100 most powerful women in the world, it’s based on a power ranking that is the composite of visibility (measured by press citations) and economic impact.
The most powerful woman in the world is the German chancelor Angela Merkel whereas Condoleeza rice comes as first in most […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
A turkey is either one of two species of large birds in the genus Meleagris. Turkeys are birds classed in the gamebird order. As with many galliform species, the female is smaller than the male, and much less colourful. With their wingspans of 1.5-1.8 metres, the turkeys are by far the largest birds in […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
عانق الكون الخشوع
في سكون الليل لما
خلف آفاق الهجوع
واختفى صوت الأماني
رددته الكائنات
رتل الرعد نشيدا
ح بأعماق الحياة
مثل صوت الحق إن صا
في خلايا الأودية
يتهادى بضجيج
بأقصى الهاوية
مثل جبار بني الجن
فسألت الليل والليل كئيب ورهيب
شاخصا بالليل والليل جميل وغريب
أتُرى أنشودة الرعد أنين وحنين
مهجة الكون الحزين؟
رنمتها بخشوع
باعتساف واصطخاب
أم هي القوة تسعى
صوتها روح العذاب
يترآى […]
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Her majesty is now selling fertile lands to us!
I found this advertisement in a Tunisian newspaper, an Emirati real estate company selling lands in Great Britain to any Tunisian who is able to buy; those lands are tax free, with good infrastructure and have no issues with law.
I don’t understand what did happen to them […]
Posted in General, United Kingdom | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Click here to download the track
This theme song is one of the most famous and popular TV shows.
Thanks Kassus for the help, but please don’t answer, I know how strong you are.
Can you guess about it?
Click here to download the track
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
Those who like cows can’t ignore the political cows, cows with guns, The American Spy Cow Information. Now not less funny, Cow say and Cow think.
Cowsay is a Perl program that draws an ASCII cow with a speech balloon saying whatever pithy comment you give it on the command line. (Guess we’re talking about […]
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal.
The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the world is slow, gradual and stupid. […]
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