Photo of a Beirut metro by @KarlreMarks
Software engineer and open-source advocate Bassel Khartabil spends his 2nd birthday in a Syrian prison today.
(Source: indexoncensorship.org)
Graph: Student loan debt vs credit card debt
“Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.”
-The Lorax
Infographic: An ongoing displacement and the forced exile of Palestinians, by Visualizing Palestine for #Nakba
“May 15th marks the 65th anniversary of the Nakba - when 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from the territory that became Israel. In 1948, more than 50% of the entire Palestinian population was ethnically cleansed.
In commemoration of the Nakba, and the displacement that continues today, we are releasing ‘An Ongoing Displacement’. The new visual quantitatively catalogues the multiple dimensions of Palestinian displacement and loss of land.”
(Source: visualizingpalestine.org)
“I’m a human being, not a bum”
Plug It On The Window
The Window Socket offers a neat way to harness solar energy and use it as a plug socket. So far we have seen solutions that act as a solar battery backup, but none as a direct plug-in. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively.
Screwing around with world interest rates that affect billions of people in exchange for day-old sushi
Screwing around with world interest rates that affect billions of people in exchange for day-old sushi – it’s hard to imagine an image that better captures the moral insanity of the modern financial-services sector.
@battutta: 17.5 million egp spent on US made tear gas while government enforcing austerity measures saying its broke
A member of the Jaradat family stands in the remains of his home demolished by Israeli authorities in the Al Tur neighborhood of East Jerusalem, April 24, 2013. Authorities demolished an addition built for the children of the 45-member Jaradat family. Palestinians are routinely denied permission to build or add to their homes in East Jerusalem as part of a municipal policy designed to maintain a wide Jewish majority in Jerusalem’s population. Israeli forces demolished two other houses in the Al Tur neighborhood on the same day. (Photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
Syria’s red lines
Final issue of the Egypt Independent
Egypt Independent’s 50th and final print edition by Egypt Independent
