Archive for January, 2008

Apple brands air, sells it for $3.99 a bottle

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Some say that this banner that appeared on the Apple home page today is a teaser for a new light-weight laptop called the MacBook Air. Some say this laptop will have super wireless capabilities (including Wimax). Some say it will not have any wires and will be powered by induction through a special dock. Some [...]

Toot gets Pulped

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Getting ‘Pulped’, in publishing jargon, refers to the process of recycling unsold books or magazines, back to raw material. But as TootCorp is a digital (and not paper-based) company, we were spared this fate

OK, enough of that..

Check out the latest issue of Pulp magazine, which, among other cool internet related stuff, contains [...]

It’s REEEAAAL: the Optimus Maximus keyboard displayed at CES 2008

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Finally. After years of waiting, the skeptics have been proven wrong. The design geniuses at Russian design company Art Lebdev have come through with a working model of their Optimus Maximus keyboard, which, for those of you who have been living in cave for the past couple of years is a keyboard which [...]

Finding modernist architecture, in Mugabalein!

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

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Yes the mural is crazy. And yes the last floor looks added on. But I was just fascinated to find this example of international style modernism on a main street in Amman’s Mugabalein district!

Apparently, this building belongs to the Ministry of Health (the sign says, “psychiatric health clinics”). It has a socialist air [...]

Photo: the new Amman, a city in upheaval

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

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Captain Abu Raed: a trailer and two reviews..

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Like many, I have been waiting for waiting for Captain Abu Raed, the first Jordanian feature film in decades. The film’s production, understandably, received a lot of media attention in Jordan (dare I say: “hype”?).. Now that it was shown in Dubai, the buzz around it is starting to spread.

Captain Abu Raed will be screened [...]