Female crushes and the obsession with men- explained

On teenage girls and formative experiences as crushing and pining for celebrities or just boys next door...

"Remember when you were a teenager and you had a huge crush on Robbie Williams when he was still with Take That (an extremely famous boy band in the early 90s you probably never heard of if you were born after 85) your room was a shrine of posters you even had them on the ceiling so you could wake up to his face every morning, you doodled his name and yours together with little hearts and fantasized about your wedding day, you bought all the pop magazines and scanned them for any news of him and of course you would cry your eyes out every time he was linked to some actress or another

Seems pretty harmless right? NOT

As we grow up as girls we spend a lot of our times doing girly things like braiding each other’s hair or trying on different clothes and make up, and part of this growing up process is inevitably BOYS"

On a real campaign to notch up the speed of Lebanese internet service- started off by people with real pain-rending experience of the snail-service that is Lebanon internet. Ontor-net (meaning wait for the net) means to get serious, and fast with business plans, a road map, events -- action not just another complaint aired.

"We are just 6 internet users, who decided not to just rant anymore but act."

“Our point is, we are last in the world. This is holding back our intellectual growth and our economical one. While we sit back there, watching the world advance and we are at barely 30 kbps anja22 on an everyday time usage, we are like we were in the 1950s… and the whole world is somewhere else” - Taken from the first thread."How it started

Frustration reached its peak on February 25, 2011 at 11:29 am (Beirut time). Email was sent to some bloggers and tweeps1, ranting about the Internet situation in Lebanon, and deciding to actually doing something about it.

"We are not going to tell you about the coma that Internet puts us through every time we try to download and upload. We think you all know!"

Following yesterday's identity gripes in the Middle East, here's another installment, specifically again on the Egyptian condition. Never Egyptian enough:

"Here I go on about being half- Egyptian yet again.

The Supreme Military Council continued its experiments in Egyptian identity this week with a law that bans me from being involved in the establishment of an Egyptian political party or holding any position within one.

I happen to have been born to an Egyptian mother and British father. If their nationalities were swapped you wouldn’t be reading this and I might be busy peddling bullshit on satellite TV. But alas fate wanted otherwise and I have been saddled with this version of Egyptian citizenship, a car with no engine."

"But I’m not sure if it’s really a good idea to use an iPhone in the advertisement, although Apple should consider it as an opportunity to be part of it." !

An opinion, an idea explored on what headway Jordan has still to make hypothetically on a road to 'democracy'.

"So, a couple of months ago I put out there the idea that Jordan simply isn't ready for democracy yet. It is an idea that ruffles some feathers... lots of feathers. I stand by the idea, though. In fact, the unfortunate end to the March 24 demonstrations rather added more evidence to my assertion. Thinking about it, I decided it would be good to explain just WHY I say that Jordan is not ready for democracy yet. Perhaps it will provide perspective and understanding as to what I mean. Perhaps it will help some, particularly the young folks, take steps to BECOME ready. Because, after all, a unique and functional Middle Eastern-style democracy would be a thing of beauty to behold. So, I will try to express some of the key ideals that are missing that are going to be necessary to find a path to democracy Jordan-style."

More lawsuits or alleged lawsuits on FaceBook and more Zuckerberg under fire.

‘American citizen of Jewish origin’ sues Zuckerberg for $1 billion for not removing page fast enough

"Perhaps this ‘American citizen of Jewish origin’ should sue the zionists that probably put up the page in the first place…
Facebook sued over Intifada page.
Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg have been hit with a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages over a page on the social network which called for a “Third Intifada” against Israel."