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My friends and probably people who follow me on twitter probably know that I do not like Apple (probably much more than not liking - perhaps despising). I'm sick of people keep bombarding their Apple products in my face every time I say something, and I am sick of the shameless brainwashed promotions from live conversations to social media to TV programs and ads. Upon the request of one of my friends, I would like to share my reasons for this hatred to Apple as a whole, and not any certain product. The Apple brainwashed culture   It is perhaps what I hate about it the most: the over-zealous fans (or shall I call addicts) who are eating, drinking and breathing Apple and are basically walking billboards for the company. I like Google and Facebook and you don't see me shamelessly promoting them like crazy every chance I get. And it's not even just that, Apple owners think they are better than other people, that they are some sort of super-humans. Let me tell you this: o...

MIND SOUP : So today, October 15, is Blog Action Day 2010 . The theme this year is water . As I live in a country where water is theoretically abundant, I, as many other Lebanese, may not feel the urge to conserve water or use it wisely. But as I watch TV and read bloggers posts from other countries, I have become more aware of the critical water situation the world is facing. After enrolling as a blogger against hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and engaging more into the world blogosphere, I was shocked to know that around 4.500 children die daily from water related diseases and that a almost a billion people on Earth don't have access to clean and safe drinking water ! Since then I realized that there are so many things with our water consumption in Lebanon. We take hour-long showers, flood our houses to get them cleaned, stare at the open faucet while brushing our teeth, and use excessive amounts of water to irrigate our flowers and plants. But the most un...

.. . and I am back! @ jrsaba (left) and @ JimRamK (right) If you have noticed that I haven't posted much during the past few weeks, I was taking a little break due to lots other engagements. But now I'm back and I'm hoping to post regularly again. L-R: @ Loulouhilal @ mhijazi @ Haythamelzein @ Sarahilal000 @ jrsaba Yesterday (Tuesday), there was a tweet up gathering in Copper - Gemayzeh. I (@ mhijazi ) went with a close friend of mine @ jrsaba [ blog ]. @ loulouhilal and @ sarahilal000 [ blog ] generously picked us up with @ haythamelzein from Hamra and we headed to Gemayzeh. It was a little weird at first, but we started mingling and meeting people we have only @-replied before. People who I already knew personally include: @ JumRamK [ tumblr ], @ GinoRaidy [ blog ], @ YasmineHajjar [ blog ] and @ BMaks88 . But I got to meet really awesome people who I have been in contact with online. Below are a few examples: I was really looking forward ...

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Check out another great comic by Sareen Akharjalian , the woman behind Ink on the Side . This piece is about Lebanese people who steal electricity from their neighbors. Sad, but true!

Comic by Decomixs I would just like to express my gratefulness that my birth-date was 11 days after the official day of exemption from the obligatory Lebanese army training! :D

(photo from Dexcomics by Hatem Hamaoui) Well, this would have worked just fine; if octopuses weren't attracted to silicon! I guess that Paul the Octopus could have chosen a better decision than the panel of judges who were there. Most of them were business people or other non-related figures who really had no knowledge of beauty. Such decisions should be made by experts, such as people with the knowledge of the female body, artists, etc... Tallness is not the only criteria of a Miss Lebanon.

METRO : It’s an age-old puzzle that’s stumped generations of scientists. But now they believe they have cracked the conundrum of what came first: the chicken or the egg. British researchers say the chicken must have come first as the formation of eggs is only possible thanks to a protein found in the chicken’s ovaries. ‘It had long been suspected that the egg came first but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first,’ said Dr Colin Freeman, from Sheffield University , who worked with counterparts at Warwick University. ‘The protein had been identified before and it was linked to egg formation but by examining it closely we have been able to see how it controls the process,’ he added. The protein – called ovocledidin-17 (OC-17) – acts as a catalyst to speed up the development of the shell. Scientists used a super computer called HECToR, based in Edinburgh , to ‘zoom in’ on the formation of an egg. It showed OC-17 was crucial in kick-start...

Today's comic is drawn by Sareen Akharjalian, a great cartoonist and comic artist. You can check out her blog Ink on the Side for more of her comics.

This is why engineers are cool. [ via ]

Via Maurice Salem , from Cyanide & Happiness (my favorite comics website).

I should probably starting applying this method, seeing that other methods aren't really working out as predicted.

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