I opened a new page on the blog with a list of Free Wi-Fi Hotspots in Lebanon, I am sure a lot of places are missing from the list so please use the comment section of this post to give me more places with free Wi-Fi to add to the list.
Category: Lebanon
I was checking the Top 100 websites on Alexa for Lebanon and found that the 38th most visited website in Lebanon is Manjam.com, Why is this good/bad? Well here’s ManJam description: “The Ultimate Gay Social Network for dating, work and travel. Promote yourself, your talents and lifestyle through a network of like-minded people. Hookup Now with the Hottest Guys Online!”.
The rank of this website is better then the rank of NowLebanon, LebanonFiles, Download.com … so a lot of Lebanese men are apparently interested in other men, so if you’re a man, you now have more chances of finding the love of your life, and if you are a woman, you better find yourself a man real soon because apparently half the men are gay and most of the other half is outside the country :P .
A new singer joined the group of Bachar L Assad entertainers, after Najwa Karam, Wael Kfoury and some other Lebanese singers sang for the dictator Sabah followed and decided to sing for his dictatorship praising the fact that he wont get his ass of the chair.
Sabah sang for him during the Damascus Cinema festival were she received an award. I know Lebanese singer and artists in general are not appreciated, supported and respected by the Lebanese government but that shouldn’t get her to sing for this guy that contributed a lot in forming this breed of politicians that got Lebanon to the place it is in today.
Here’s an extract of the article from AnNahar.
في حفل تكريمها بمهرجان دمشق السينمائي الخامس عشر، فاجأت الفنانة صباح ادارة المهرجان والحضور باصرارها على غناء موال يمتدح الرئيس السوري بشار الاسد.
وقد احتاجت صباح الى مساعدة لاعتلاء منصة التكريم والوقوف قائلة: “ما زلت أستطيع الوقوف بفضل محبتكم”، وأصرت على غناء موال يمدح “شموخ” الرئيس السوري الذي “لا يهتز عرشه”، اضافة الى مقطع من احدى اغنياتها القديمة
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SEAWATER LEVEL in Beirut streets
This morning I passed in Achrafieh and saw blue plastic lines (similar to the yellow “DO NOT CROSS” police lines) all over the sidewalks with SEAWATER LEVEL written on them, I am guessing Greenpeace is behind this to warn people about the rising sea levels around the world but I am not sure so does anyone know who is behind this?
Apparently you can now buy your gun online in Lebanon, all you have to do is go to Elmazad.com and bid on it! Bidding starts at 400$.
The websites of Al Shira3 and of the ministry of tourism were hacked today by a guy called “Controller” that wants them to stop attacking Hezbollah!
http://www.alshiraa.com/alshiraa/index.asp
http://www.destinationlebanon.gov.lb/
Hacking is not something new and it is not the first time Lebanese do it to express a political view, Many .gov.lb sites were hacked during the Syrian occupation and Tayyar.org was hacked a year ago but what I really didn’t like about this hack (not that I liked the previous ones) is that this guy attacked the website that is supposed to let foreigners discover Lebanon. We are free to attack each others “internally” but not every person in the world should be able to see that Lebanon is currently messed up!
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Uncyclopedia and Desencyclopedie (French) are two funny encyclopedias on the net that work much like wikipedia so anyone can edit them to make them funnier and push the definition away from the truth.
Lebanon has an article in both of them. The one in Uncyclopedia is more developed with pictures and more details, the one on Desencyclopedie is smaller but quickly gets to the point. Here are some extract from both of them:
It
wasis known for general civil unrest. Despite a few dozen wars over the past two decades, Lebanon has a famous reputation of being a very peaceful country which attracts millions of tourists every year for Israelians bomb target practice.Motto: “Hi, Kifak ca va?”
Religion: Politics
Prominent Lebanese citizens include: Casey Kasem, Alex Rayes, Philippe Bigass, Thierry ‘immature’ Yazbeck, Abu Riad el 3azizeh, Klinger from M.A.S.H. and The Guy who did the voices on Scooby Doo
The issue of Lebanese demographics is very complex and is in fact listed as one of the Hilbert problems (which, incidentally, no one can solve). Lebanesians are Arabs who believe they’re French, which is the reason why they try to speak French.
Half of Lebanons population resides in Broadmeadows, a place in Australia
When you check the original article don’t forget to look at the stuff in the table on the right.
After the little under construction Gif that we used to see in all the website in the 90s with “Pays en reconstruction” next to it, the definition is:
Le Liban un des pays phares de la mondialisation. Tout comme les usines de chaussures ont été délocalisées en Chine et les centres d’appels en Inde, nombre de guerres d’autres pays ont été transportées dans ce petit pays, dont les oliviers, l’Arak, les pistaches et le taboulé en font le cachet et l’originalite que seuls les Libanais sont capable d’exploiter en mettant en oeuvre leur ingéniosité millénaire. Bien dommage quand ils ne le font pas!
The funny thing is that at some points when reading those articles you feel they get closer to the truth more then the articles of Wikipedia.
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Turkey and… Lebanon
MPs in Turkey are due to debate a motion authorising cross-border military operations into northern Iraq to target Kurdish rebel bases there.
So in other countries MPs are allowed to give an opinion before cross-border military operations?