Here is a little game that will drive you nuts on days that you nothing better to do.

The Freakonomics guys tries to answer the questions: Why one would vote when the odds that his vote will actually affect the outcome of a given election are very, very, very slim?

It seems that the unblocking was kind of a mistake. Most of those websites are blocked now.

Biz Stone says Amazon has used one of the ways that CAPTCHAs are solved by spammers and has turned it into a product, called Amazon Mechanical Turk. “The ways CAPTCHA are solved by spammers include but are not limited to asking people who want to see porn solve them framed from another site, employing people in places like Costa Rica to solve them all day as a “computer industry” job; and of course, using software to solve the test,” he wrote. I think it is smart. Wicked, but smart.

Few days ago, I received an email asking me to check out a blog post that I might be interested in. I rarely receive such emails, so I was curious to find out more. I took a quick look, but then something else grabbed my attention, so I took a note to get back to that blog post later.

Reading the post, I found that the blogger, who sent me the link himself, is asking some very good questions. I will try to answer the questions later, because I’m facing some trouble with time management these days. However, you can go, read, and write your point of view regarding the questions.

Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper are doing a redsign. I hope they implement RSS in the new design. Not many Arabic websites support RSS. Man! They make our life on the web much more difficult than it should be.

Browsing through al-Hayat English website, I just found that Jihad al-Khazen has a weblog. Subscribed!