It seems that some Arabic words are being used subconsciously for open source software projects.

Here are some recent examples.

I have wrote about Professor Robert Pape in a past article. He has been doing more speaking lately. The latest is speaking to a Muslim banquet and a Jewish audience in Cleveland. Details in this article on Cleveland Jewish News.

Avraham Burg, is an Israeli politician who was the former speaker of the Knesset from 1999 to 2003. He was also the chairman for the Jewish Agency for Israel, and the World Zionist Organization. In 2003, he wrote an article for The Yediot Aharonot (translated for the Guardian) titled: The End of Zionism. In that article he says that "...

The CBC asked the public to nominate and vote for the "Seven Wonders of Canada". Many worthy entries were nominated.The final list judged by the panel can be seen in the gallery of the Seven Wonders of Canada. Check the full list of nominees, with votes.

Tariq Ramadan writes an article in the Guardian titled Blair can no longer deny a link exists between terrorism and foreign policy. Tariq Ramadan, in his usual analytical and articulate manner raises very good points. Below, I highlighted the parts that are important:

From the meaningless numbers are fun ... Druplicon likes to congratulate user mightymod@ubuntu.schmidtke-hb.de for posting the 150,000th node on Drupal.org! Five days ago, user ineffable from Canada got to be user 150,000. Congratulations to both of you, your Drupal addiction kit is in the mail...

Last week we had smog warning days in Southern Ontario with temperatures of 29C. Tonight, we are seeing the risk of frost with the temperature being just a few degrees above freezing.And all this in the span of a week, and in June too!

Google launched Street View last week. In a nutshell, it is real images taken by vans, superimposed on Google Maps. The data is available in some select cities, such as New York, Miami, and the like.The level of detail is amazing, seeing people jogging, walking, and more.However, this is raising some privacy concerns. The level of detail is just too close for comfort. A woman has said that her cat is visible behind the window. She asked Google to take the picture down.

The authorities in the United States arrested several people in connection with an alleged terror plot to destroy New York's city JFK airport by blowing up a jet fuel supply line.Among the four accused there are people who are unlikely to be terrorists.

The Canadian dollar keeps gaining against the US dollar. It is now at 94 cents, from the historic low of 61.70 in January 2007. A stronger Canadian dollar is good for Canadians when shopping across the border, be it online or in person, or when vacationing in the USA. However, it is not good for Canada's economy as a whole.