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Friday, July 11, 2008

For your surfing pleasure:

Time magazine has a nice photo gallery of what 16 families from across the world eat in one week.

Is it me or does the family from Ecuador seem amazingly happy? Especially in comparison to that German family. They really seemed pissed at something. (h/t to Aaminah)

JD over at Dunner's Blog put together a series of amazing posts (here and here as well) inspired by Hugh Kennedy's book, Great Arab Conquests. In fact, his posts piqued my interest so much so that I actually ponied up $10 for a used copy. JD bro, it better be worth it! :-)


Finally, here's a funny video:

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2 comments:

JDsg said...

Salaam 'alaikum. So, what are you gonna do if you don't like the book? Charge me? ;) Thanks for the links.

July 13, 2008 at 6:37 AM
Naeem: said...

AA- JD,

Gee, thanks for calling me out! As usual my threats are empty and worthless. :-P

July 13, 2008 at 10:20 AM

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