Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen on the most hated advertising techniques.

Arafat ancestor is Imam Ali bin Abi Talib? This is simply not believable.

According to Arab News, the Saudi Football Federation has decided that the proceeds of the matches of the Kingdom’s first national football team in the Asian elimination round of the 2006 World Cup be donated to the tsunami victims. Sounds nice, right? However, I think it’s just funny.

I have been following our national team for about a decade, and I can tell you for sure that Saudis now are less interested in the national team’s matches more than anytime in the past. Due to mismanagement, low performances and poor marketing, Saudis don’t go to watch football in stadium anymore. They prefer to stay home, watch the match on TV, and if it gets boring, and it always does, they can easily change the channel or simply turn off the TV. So, I guess the final result will be zero worth of donation.

Lately, I am trying to pay more attention to Arabic blogs. In the past few days, I added more than ten Arabic blogs to my Kinja digest. I can notice that most of them belong to programmers, but sometimes things can get interesting. As far as I know, Serdal, one of the pioneer Arab bloggers, helped many other users to set up their Arabic journals, with WordPress as the most popular tool. I’m glad that blogs are finally finding way to Arab World, and I’m sure many users of the forums will turn to blogs to express their thoughts.

Here, you can compare your height to a long list of celebrities. (via Boing Boing)

Life of Nizar Qabbani in a TV series by the Syrian director Bassil Al-Khateeb.

If you use Kinja to keep up with your favourite blogs, you will notice that they just added the flag of Saudi Arabia as a logo for my blog. I sent them the image about two months ago, and finally it’s here!