Is Apple having it's "1990" moment?

On belonging, living with brittle brone disease, dancing in Union Square, the suspicious halo of Khamenei, Zaatar and your IQ and is Google Android the future?

Convention attendees use Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablets at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 6, 2011

Apple Inc [2]

Galaxy Tab [3]

360EAST [5]

iOS vs Android: does “open” really always win?

360East asks if Apple is having its ‘1990’ moment, suggesting that Google’s ‘Andriod’ may overtake the Iphone and other offerings simply because of the range of devices it’s being used on: according to the post Google is switching on 30,000 new devices per day! Just as Microsoft’s operating system was licensed to as PC’s as possible, while Apple refused to license its probably superior OS, the blog ponders whether the same pattern is happening with phones? It then goes on to debate whether ‘open’ systems are always the best, or whether the ‘open vs closed debate’ has moved on. The piece quotes Steve Jobs, saying ‘people just want a phone that works’.

BUZBERRY [6]

For the love of Zaa'tar

It’s been two weeks now, and BUZBERRY can’t stop eating Zaatar. According to this post Palestinians are smart people because they eat lots of Zaa’tar – an olive oil and thyme mixture on dough – especially good with orange juice.

MY WORLD AND MORE [7]

Have You Ever Heard of OI ?

After reading a novel about a child with "Osteogenesis Imperfecta ", better known as ‘brittle bone disase’, MY WORLD AND MORE does some research and shines a spotlight on the disease, and the brave people battling against it, or help those suffering from it.

ZDICTRICT [8]

URBAN ACROBATS

ZDISTRICT – a “techie living in Kuwait” – posts a video of street acrobats in Union Square New York City… asking “how to they do that”?

KUMAIL [9]

Easy peasy journey

Photo of the day from KUMAIL’S blog – but can this be real?

IHATH [10]

Where are you from?

IHATH writes a poem about belonging everywhere and nowhere, and always telling people she comes from a different country, until she concludes: I do enjoy playing these pranks They are terribly fun But what I secretly long for Is to one day arrive in place where Nobody asks me: “Hey! You! Where are you from?” Not even once

BEIRUTSPRING.COM [11]

Khamenei’s Artificial Halo

Does Iranian supreme leader Khamenei ‘fake’ a halo? Beirutspring exposes in photography what he refers to as ‘artificial holiness’.

SAUDI JEANS [12]

Reuters does Riyadh

SAUDIJEANS chooses some of the best articles from the past week, including a Reuters guide to Riyadh, and an excellent piece on the religious oppression and intolerance in Saudi Arabia.