Sketch-A-Move

Sketch-a-move is a concept for a toy car that allows you to explore the unique relationships between small surface doodles and actual physical movements. If you draw a circle on the top of the toy car, it will move in a circle. If you draw a complicated spiral, the car will move in a spiral.

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Why is Flickr Blocked in The UAE

I got the image above when I tried to access flickr during my stay in Dubai. I have no idea why would flickr be blocked, it just makes no sense. I thought they just might be religiously strict so I tried to  access a gambling site, and I did.

And just to make sure that I didn’t just access a site that just wasn’t blocked, giving them the benefit of the doubt (even though that the word casino might have been on top of their list) I tried again, with the first Google result for the search “online gambling”.

So if its not religious, what is it?

New Kuwaiti License Plate Numbers

It seams that we are finally going to get the wide version of the license plate here in Kuwait. Don’t worry, we are just a few decades late. I mean car manufactures had this size in mind when they where making there cars since god knows how long. Anyway, better late than never.

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Al-Jazeera World Cup Pricing Announced

It seems that AL-Jazeera just announced that if you would like to watch the 2010 World Cup, you will have to fork out $100 ($130 for new customer) to get the pleasure of enjoying the prestigious Football tournament.

But $100 (KD28) is not a lot at all, I remember when ART had the rights for the competitions and people had to pay an arm and a leg (~KD125) to watch 1 month of football.

Thank you Al-jazeera, and I hope I can do the subscription online.

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TVU – Watch TV Anywhere

TVU is a good way to watch a number of TV channels via internet either using your PC,Mac or iPhone. On all platforms you will need to install an application that will act as your player.

In the desktop version its much easier to search for a channel as there are categories you can go through. But once you get to know the good channels, it shouldn’t be hard to hunt them down on the iPhone too. And I also recommend once you find a channel you like, add it to you favorites.

I’ve tried TVU on my iPhone a few months back. it was pretty stable and did what is said it did. And today, I gave the desktop version a try.

Both desktop and iPhone apps are free.

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Ping Pong Dim Sum – Dubai

We went to Ping Pong Dim Sum restaurant when we we here in Dubai, I never been there before but my wife have tried it in London. So I let her do the honors of ordering.

We got several orders of fried and steamed food, ranging from vegetarian to shrimps and chicken. At first I thought that it would be a lot but after the food arrived I realized that I was mistaken.

Both fried and steamed Dim Sum were great, loved every order we had except for the “Wasabi Peanuts” (The only thing I ordered), those things where burning HOT!! and not in a good way.

We had a total of 7 orders I think, and that was not enough I still left there not full, I recommend having 4 of Dim Sum orders per person and you can share them around.

I really liked it and recommend it to anyone who likes dim sum and/or Chinese food.

Ping Pong is located at the lower ground level in Dubai Mall towards the fountains.

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New Movie Trailers

Tron Legacy

Robin Hood

Shrek Forever After

P2BK Ad

This year’s P2BK event will be held at the “International Fair Ground” 17th,18th and the 19th of March at hall 8.

Cop Out – Movie Review

A comedy about a veteran NYPD cop whose rare baseball card is stolen. Since it’s his only hope to pay for his daughter’s upcoming wedding, he recruits his partner to track down the thief, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.

I am a fan of Bruce Willis and enjoy his movies. I am also a fan of Tracy Jordan ever since I saw him in 30 Rock, but that didn’t affect  my decision one bit.
The movie was a below average movie just because there was a lot of  childish comedy that wasn’t that funny and they kept repeating it all throughout the movie. you are not missing a thing by not watching this movie.

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Use Your Hoodie as a Laptop Sleeve

With winter gone now in Kuwait – If you call what we had winter- and if you are one of the poor souls who bought winter clothes but never got around to wearing them. You now can use your hoodie as a laptop sleeve.