links for 2009-04-27

• YouTube – Jad Choueiri – Funky Arabs
  jad choueiri showcases that arabs can be every bit as materialistic, hedonistic, sexsinandsun-seeking, botoxandtattoo-obsessed as their partyanimal ilk everywhere else in the world.

  must confess, some really friggin hot women.

  the music sounds very familiar. not sure if it's ripped off, or if it's just the fact that it's the horrible contemporary partytrack sound

  (tags: arab)
• 370 – Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator « Strange Maps
  (tags: graphic palestine politics israel map art apartheid)
• Al Qaeda & Oil Facilities in the Midst of the Global Economic Crisis
  (tags: oil oil-price security economy MiddleEast al-qaida terror)
• What does a Trillion Dollars Look Like? | Deliveries Galore
  (tags: finance economy economics business graphic design)
• Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | Caught in two minds
  diff in reactions to hizballa cell, between MB parliamentary block (egypt first) and office of supreme guide (resistance first)
  (tags: muslim-brotherhood egypt politics hizballah)
• Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London | Books | guardian.co.uk
  "It's not elegant and it's not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait."
  (tags: books technology literature book culture copyright)
• ILO Regional Director: We Do Not Deal with Illegal Organizations in Egypt- Almasry Alyoum
  (tags: ILO union egypt)
• Prevent the brother of the leader of “The Quranist Muslims” from travel
  (tags: qur'anists egypt humanrights)
• Interior Ministry Requests Bigger Budget to Handle Strikes and Protests – Almasry Alyoum
  unbelievable sums of money for MOInterior, yet they want more, to handle incresed strikes and protests (among other things).
  (tags: egypt police security humanrights)
• What Nonprofit Employers are Looking for Today
  (tags: job ngo united-states economic-crisis)
• The Complex Universe of Games and Puzzles, Simplified
  (tags: graphic map design gaming math)
• Finding Utility in the Jumble of Tweeted Thoughts – NYTimes.com
  (tags: twitter socialmedia social technology media society NYT web2.0)