Posted on December 1, 2008, 9:36 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
Pakistan.
Two months ago, this Urdu + English “sponsored link” ad for a website worstnation.com started showing up in my Gmail every day. I will not link to it for obvious reasons, but here’s what is says:
دنیا کی سب سے بدترین قوم
www.WorstNation.com
پاکستان سے زندہ بھاگ آپ یقیناً اتفاق کریں گے۔
The Urdu text translates roughly [...]
Posted on October 1, 2008, 6:56 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Life.
This song came up on my playlist just as I published the previous post, so I had to share it.
Consider spending six minutes of your life listening to Pink Floyd.
I tried looking for a ‘moderate’ flavored documentary, but couldn’t find any good video that didn’t mention the US of A.
Warning: it contains some very shocking [...]
Posted on September 24, 2008, 4:22 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
It started with the perceptive ProPakistani people noticing how Google has never had an Islam themed doodle on their homepage, and Dr. Awab picked up the discussion the next day.
I personally think that Google not showing any Doodles for Islamic events has something to do with their “Do No Evil” policy Seriously though, while [...]
Posted on September 19, 2008, 7:34 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
I have invented this thing that I call “Roza-rolling” in the spirit of ‘rick-rolling’. It involves a Google image search on queries like “chicken roast” or “bbq meat”, wrapping a tinyurl around it, and throwing it towards my fellow Pakistani ‘Rozadaars’ on Twitter - during fasting hours. Thankfully, they don’t mind (I hope) due to [...]
Posted on September 18, 2008, 1:32 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
I never thought I would waste ten thirty minutes of my life praising our new president, but I just have to write this one. This post on Karachi Metblogs is criticizing Zardari’s comments in the visitors’ log of Jinnah’s tomb on his death anniversary. Though I secretly hope for a day when discussing the Pakistani [...]