Stumble upon… websites!
After hearing and reading so much about it the past few months I decided to sign up for StumbleUpon.com. You have no idea what it is? Let’s see what Wikipedia says about it…
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Java/Oracle related website: theserverside.de
I’ve recently started filling theserverside.de (yep that’s mine!) with content. Any help is appreciated, so if you’re tech savvy and interested in filling theserverside.de with Java, JEE/J2EE and Oracle related content then drop me an e-mail. I’ll check out your skills (website or profile etc.) and provide you with decent access to the site :-)
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wanna-Be Hackers
This is the “Top 5″ of this month’s folders that people expected to find stuffed with lots of interesting (meaning: private) data when playing around with the URL of this website…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi
Today, again, I caught myself reading Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi’s (also known as “Rumi”) poetry for hours. I don’t really know what makes me do this as I’m not into Sufism nor any other kind of spirituality that Rumi’s poetry expresses.
What does make me read his poems over and over again is the fact that much of his poetry forms the basis of classical Afghan music, such as Nashinas’ beautiful version of “Beshnaw az nay”, meaning: “Listen to the reed”. That might have built the bridge.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Imagery Of Islam
For weeks and months the world was supplied with images of westerners and alleged traitors being decapitated in Iraq. For non-Muslim viewers these pictures likely appear to be the maximum amount of horror a human being can quell, but for Muslims decapitation is beyond the fear factor. It’s an anology to the ancient times of the Prophet Mohammad (saw) and the legendary Salah al Din Yussuf Ibn Ayyub - in the west known as “Saladin”.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tora Bora - Afghanistan’s New Tourist Attraction
The British Telegraph is reporting that the Afghan Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry is planning on developing the Tora Bora mountains into a tourist attraction.
“Tourism was once a major industry for Afghanistan. In the 1960s and 1970s the country was a key stopping point on the Hippy Trail from Europe to India - famed for its spectacular scenery, ancient ruins and local intoxicants.”
Alright.
Now imagine if you will, a group of shirtless American tourists (let’s say: Republican males from Texas), aged 50-60, sporting black sunglasses, cowboy hats, and tropically-patterned Hawaiin shorts (a look they so naturally are comfortable in even in a covered Muslim country) collecting “souvenirs” from the mountains of Tora Bora.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Afghanistan Justice Project
The Afghanistan Justice Project, established by Human Rights Watch and staffed with non-Afghans and Afghans from the entire spectrum of the country’s major ethnic groups, has published its first report on war crimes and and crimes against humanity committed by all of the parties to the conflict during the wars in Afghanistan, 1978 - 2001.
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General Dostum’s Vice-President
Infamous Afghan warlord and mass-murderer General Dostum has adopted Shafiqa Habibi as his first vice-presidential running mate.
There would be nothing extraordinary about this fact, if it weren’t for her simply being a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, journalist, and a women’s rights activist.
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