Year: 2004

Medina Mediterranea in Yasmine Hammamet

Medina Mediterranea in Yasmine Hammamet

Yesterday, and at last, we visited the Medina Mediterranea in Yasmine Hammamet and took a full tour inside it.

We actually attended a concert there last year, but most of it was still under construction and not open to the public.

The Medina Mediterranea is a new touristic project that embodies a whole old-style Tunisian city recently built in the touristic station of Yasmine Hammamet to be a living memory of our old Tunisian and mediterranean heritage and life. Some sort of a trip into the past and how cities and life were.

Anyway, I’ve taken a bunch of pics for you guys to see. So check them out here: Medina Mediterranea.

Enjoy, and tell me what you think 🙂

Mosques in Iraq

Before, the US army PR department used to distribute nice pictures showing how culturally sensitive they are. The US administration said, at that time, that they were very careful in dealing with mosques. But now, things are different. The smiley face mask fell off.

New pictures are either showing mosques under attack, or US soldiers using a mosque like a lounge. Entering with their shoes on, and sleeping on the floors, etc… This does outrage Muslims…

[Via: Raed In The Middle, Je Blog, Jalan-Jalan]

NBC to air hidden Princess Diana video

NBC television network will broadcast a never-before-seen video tape of Diana, Princess of Wales, next week in which she says she suspects a member of her staff with whom she fell in love was “bumped off.”

Earlier this year NBC aired audio tapes Diana secretly recorded for a 1992 book that exposed the turmoil of her marriage to Prince Charles, whom she divorced in 1996. The princess was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

The two-hour special is to be broadcast in two parts, on November 29 and December 6.

“This unusual tape, recorded in Diana’s living room, hidden for years after her death, and fought over for months in the British courts, offers a view of the princess quite different from the formal public face she usually put forth,” NBC said.

It seems that even years after her death, the press just isn’t willing to let the poor Princess Di rest in peace.

In her life and after her death, it seems all the press can seem of thinking about is how to make more noise and profit off her back.
It’s about time everyone quit and let her soul enjoy some peace at last.

[Via: CNN]

Nour El Sharif To Portray Yasser Arafat

Prominent Egyptian actor Nour El Sharif has announced that he plans on presenting the life story of the late Palestinian President, whom he was very good friends with, in a new film. Nour revealed that he video taped the funeral ceremony held for the President in Egypt and Ramallah in order to use them in the film, which he will begin work on once the mourning period is over.

Nour stressed that he will seek a good scenarist to write the script of the film once he completes collecting all the needed research on the President

Ketchup ‘hero’ dismissed

An Indian soldier who used tomato ketchup to fake his claim for a bravery medal has been dismissed from service.

Colonel H.S. Kohli, who commanded an artillery regiment in Assam, tried to present photographs of civilians splashed with ketchup as ‘enemy casualties’.

But the fraud came to light while authorities were processing his claims for an award.

The army officer was tried and found guilty in a court martial while a major who connived with him in the fake encounter, faces a five-year suspension.

How pathetic, lol…

[Via: Ananova]

Anger!

“I have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me because I get angry.”

— Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989

Space Imaging

One of the sites I love passing by every once in a while is Space Imaging.

Their gallery section is just awesome, the satellite images they’ve got in there are so beautiful.
They give you a perfect bird’s eye view of the places and so much detail to enjoy.

It’s truly amazing what kind of high quality photos they can shoot from outer space and how much they can zoom in on a place.

I mean, here I am looking at a photo of Dubai and I can see the “Burj Al Arab” hotel, houses, highways, small streets, cars and more.
Or this other picture of Zimbabwe’s Victoria falls and the region around it. I can even see the Victoria Falls hotel that we used to stay at and the swimming pool I used to swim in.

It always makes me wonder that if these photos they just put up for free on their site are that good and give so much detail, then what they actually sell commercially or what the military has access to is certainly of higher and better resolution, giving way to even more detail.

Now that thought reminds me of the movie Enemy Of The State. I wonder if they’ve gotten that far though, technologically speaking.
But it’s pretty scary even if they haven’t reached that level of real-time satellite surveillance.

Anyway, next time you look up to the sky you might as well smile. You don’t want to look bad on your satellite photo 😛

On a slightly different note. With this kind of technology, how the hell couldn’t they find Osama Bin Laden and his people for such a long time?!

New Enhanced Feed

To the nerds within you who read this blog through an aggregator or feed reader, I’ve added a new enhanced feed that contains posts from this blog spliced with photos I’ve posted on flickr spliced with interesting stuff I’ve posted on my linklog.

So, it’s sort of an all-in-one feed, and you can find it here.

Enjoy 😉