Saudi Jeans

I can’t for the life of me understand why would someone pay $1.72 million for something ugly like this, even if it carried the number AAA-1111. But I guess you know what they say: you can’t buy good taste.

Fellow Saudi blogger Nouf has collaborated with her sister to offer this neat collection of hand-made laptop sleeves. The price is SR 150 per piece and you can order from here. I like the shmagh one

I already have a sleeve for my MacBook that is also hand-made, although it’s not as fancy and cool as the creations of Nouf and her sister. Last year I found this DYI on Lifehacker, so I gave an old T-shirt to my mother and she sewed the thing to fit my laptop. I was going to put a picture of my sleeve but it looks exactly like the picture below because somehow I ended up not just following the instructions but also using a very similar color.

I have previously posted about the album I compiled for images of the new projects under development in Saudi Arabia. One of the projects that does not appear there is King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), which is described as a unique world-class graduate research university that will provide significant support for scientific discovery and human advancement within Saudi Arabia, the region and around the globe.

The core campus, located on more than 36 million square meters on the Red Sea near Rabigh, is set to open in September 2009. This project, as well as Knowledge Economic City (KEC) in nearby Medina, show some features of the future face of this country. It is the hope that such megaprojects would achieve their goals and help our nation to move forward. You can see more pictures in the virtual tour KAUST website provides here.

Are the new number plates fugly or what?

Last night I stumbled upon this Interactive Map of the Blogosphere. My blog is there on the map, but I can’t find it. Can you tell which one of these colored nodes links to Saudi Jeans?

UPDATE: Found it! Big thanks to Matthew Hurst who created the map and left a comment on this post. Check it out.