Hayfaa for the Lebanese Parliament?

I read about this album on Zaydoun‘s blog, and I was not quite sure if I should purchase it, but now I can tell you I was impressed. The single ‘American Idiot’, could be a good way to understand the feelings of some Americans in Bush’s War on Terror administration period. The album was rated highly as one of the best rock albums of the last year. I don’t usually listen to much rock music, so if you were like me, this album is perfect to start with.

NYTimes: Google and Yahoo are extending search ability to TV programs.

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.