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Experimental Evidence for Synchronization to a Musical Beat in a Nonhuman Animal
Submitted by mostafa on Mon, 2009-06-22 21:16- 1521 reads
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Fast food prices in the past few years
Submitted by mostafa on Thu, 2008-10-23 23:01This is a table of a selection of fast food prices from 2004 till 2008. This year's data is from Otlob. I found prices from previous years using archives of Otlob on the Internet Archive Wayback machine. Prices are in EGP.
Well, Clarice - have the lambs stopped screaming?
Submitted by mostafa on Thu, 2007-11-15 21:45[http://moftasa.net/files/hlecter.jpg]
"Well, Clarice - have the lambs stopped screaming? " —Hannibal Lecter
(The Silence of the Lambs - 1991)
Sudoku
Submitted by mostafa on Sun, 2005-12-11 19:24[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Sudoku-by-L2G-20050714.gif/250px-Sudoku-by-L2G-20050714.gif]
I am spending hours doing nothing except playing __Sudoku__. It is very addictive. I don't even want to write about it a lot. Just this breif post is sufficient, I am in the middle of solving a puzzle right now.
[Read more about Sudoku|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuDoku].
!Versions:
* [A very nice web Sudoku|http://www.websudoku.com/]
* [Gnome|http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-sudoku/]
* [Kde|http://ksudoku.sourceforge.net/]
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Hashiriya: Japanese drag racing
Submitted by mostafa on Thu, 2005-12-08 03:09[http://mostafa.foolab.org/files/roulette_zoku006.jpg]
[MasaMania writes (with tons of photos) about street racing|http://masamania.com/archives/2005/07/street_car_raci.html] in Tokyo. Hashiriya is the name of the races. Seeing the photos I never could have imagined that there could be so much powerful cars in just one place.
And the rules are:
;:... Hashiriya never be scare of police. They memorise exactly where speed traps are setted. and they have special divice to detect police car approching. and of course, they are too speedy to be catched by police. They are also professional of not to be arrested by police.
Via [GVO|http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/12/07/japan-drag-racing/]
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The Fiat 128 is back
Submitted by mostafa on Sat, 2005-12-03 01:28The Egyptian version of the [Zastava 128 GLS|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_128] is back and [available for sale|http://yugomisr.com/]. The [Car of the year|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_of_the_Year] 1969 is back in production in 2005. Well, actually it is almost 2006 by now.
Speaking of 2006 and the 21st century and so on. [Read about hybrid vehicles|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicles].
But you know, the 128 deserves our respect. She was so useful to so many people. And probably still useful to many today. For almost 30 years (or more?), this car was the hallmark of the Egyptian streets.
I once saw a 128 in the Netherlands while I was in transit going back home from Canada. I was 16 years old at the time and I was home sick after 40 days in North America. But seeing the 128 suddenly made me feel closer to home.

