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In the fantasy Dragonlance universe, The Tobril is the book of all-knowledge held by the Scribe-God Gilean. In it are all the secrets of creation and knowledge of all there was, is and is to come.

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This blog's author considers himself an agnostic, social-liberal, religiously tolerant, right-wing hating, secular Egyptian. This blog offers his views.

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Democracy

Cairene has a critical piece that really touches on the true essence of freedom and democracy since he apparently dislikes the Muslim Brotherhood as much as I.

New Wordpress releases

So the people over at Wordpress have two new releases:
WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one.
And
bbPress is forum software with the WordPress touch, and developed by the same folks. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, […]

My favourite things

I was tagged by Isabelle of istas to list my 15 favourite things, or so I understood. I don’t usually do tags… but what the hell.
And thus… here they are:

Kissing.
My girl-friend (She might be reading this!)
A good Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novel (AKA The Dune Series).
History books… and books about the Military. (So that’s 2 in 1, er…)
My […]

It hit the scenes…

This is something of an announcement.
Hossam (with an O and not a U, in contradiction with all the written and unwritten rules of Arabic Grammer, society, social norms and mores… but in keeping with his wishes) El-Hamalawy (of The Arabist fame - on the Internet, of course) has started his very own Weblog; 3arabawy.
Congrats ya […]

It must have been Yuri!

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction… well, not really.
Depending on how busy my workday is, I always manage to spend a bit of time everyday readings news and opinion articles, checking out blogs, watching some of those YouTube videos, using Google Talk (strongly recommended by me!) etc. In short, well-developed and researched time-wasting schemes.
Moving […]

When political analysis goes bad…

So Hassan Nasrallah comes out on television and says that he did not expect the magnitude of Israel’s response and that if he knew that so much destruction would ensue, he would not have kidnapped the two soldiers.
Okay.
Does that make the Israeli attacks, in terms of size and magnitude, and the destruction they caused in […]