Do you have any idea how’s the weather in Riyadh these days?

Husein Shubukshi is happy about the transparency regarding the contract to sponsor our national football team. However, he is pointing to a “conflict of interests” because one of the companies offered to sponsor the national team is partially owned by a member of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation. Well, that company could not get the contract, but the company which got it is owned by a former member of the federation.

Hoder: “SMS or mobile text messaging is playing a big role in Tehran these days.”

Technorati is out of beta, with a new design.

Al-Majalla, one of my favourite Arabic magazines, has launched their website recently, and it looks very nice. However, the designers of the website have made a little mistake that prevents the users of Firefox from scrolling down the pages. I sent them an email regarding this few months ago, but till today, they did not reply to me, and they did not fix the problem. All they have to do is to change one word in the style sheet, but they did not do that.

Cory Doctorow has released his new book, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and it is available to download for free under a Creative Commons license.

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