Flying With Fish: London Heathrow Branded As “Worst Airport In Europe,” I Think Not!

Travel Photography Magazine looks like an interesting site.

Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere

And on YouTube here are many more. The following one is from Japanese TV.

This is an experiment with ANIMOTO

My conclusion, not impressed BUT it has to cram all the photos into the length of the music track. I’ll try it with fewer photos in a day or two and see what it looks like. Their algorithms fit all the photos into the time of the song. In this case 30 seconds using one of their classical selections. Alternatively you can use your own music but are limited also to 30 seconds unless you pay per video or annually unlimited.

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Wait, hold the presses. They have a minimum of 10 photos so below is 10 in 30 seconds, not much for a transition. Are they forcing you to pay for it if you want to see an image for long enough to see the whole thing!

I flew Jazeera Airways to and from Dubai last weekend. On the Islamic countries airlines such as Pakistan and Kuwait Airways and Jazeera, they play a pre-recorded Islamic prayer before takeoff. The one on Jazeera is very nice and meditative sounding. It would be nice to get a good recording of it. The plane is taxiing while the prayer plays so there is a lot of background noise.

Here is a partial recording:

Found at: Pixelated Pad and Pen: Pre-Flight Islamic Prayer on Jazeera Airways

The referenced post gives the English translation as:

Allah is the Most Great. Allah is the Most Great. Allah is the Most Great. Glory is to Him Who has provided this for us though we could never have had it by our efforts. Surely, unto our Lord we are returning. O Allah, we ask You on this our journey for goodness and piety, and for works that are pleasing to You . O Allah , lighten this journey for us and make its distance easy for us . O Allah, You are our Companion on the road and the One in Whose care we leave our family . O Allah , I seek refuge in You from this journey’s hardships, and from the wicked sights in store and from finding our family and property in misfortune upon returning.

I wish my old Nikon 801s was not stolen a couple years back so I could shoot some film now and again!

Traditional Photography

I was in Dubai last weekend and saw the arrival of Shri Mataji the founder of Sahaja Yoga..

She arrived on 17 April and some photographs are here.

The next night there was a meditation, dance and music program held at the Dhow Palace Hotel in Dubai. Below is a panorama of the room and there are more photos here.

Interesting that our so called padded high-tech shoes are actually putting more force on our joints.

How We’re Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take — New York Magazine

The Hadeeth narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said, “Seven people will be shaded by Allah under His shade on the day when there will be no shade except His. They are:

1. a just ruler;
2. a young man who has been brought up in the worship of Allah, (i.e. worship Allah (Alone) sincerely from his childhood),
3. a man whose heart is attached to the mosque (who offers the five compulsory congregational prayers in the mosque);
4. two persons who love each other only for Allah’s sake and they meet and part in Allah’s cause only;
5. a man who refuses the call of a charming woman of noble birth for an illegal sexual intercourse with her and says: I am afraid of Allah;
6. a person who practices charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given (i.e. nobody knows how much he has given in charity).
7. a person who remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes get flooded with tears.”

Bukhari Vol. 2 : 504

Via: Thoughts of a First Wife

This reminded us look into the Old Testament at some psalms and found this Leviticus Chapter 14 regarding mold and skin diseases. Curious.

1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “These are the regulations for any diseased person at the time of their ceremonial cleansing, when they are brought to the priest: 3 The priest is to go outside the camp and examine them. If they have been healed of their defiling skin disease, [a] 4 the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the person to be cleansed. 5 Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot. 6 He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. 7 Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the defiling disease, and then pronounce them clean. After that, he is to release the live bird in the open fields.

From this link.

I used to use Bloglines to read all my blog feeds, then I switched to Google Reader as bloglines was lacking in some capabilities I wanted.

Here is the Google blog and a tip on using the reader.

Official Google Reader Blog: J-walking with Reader

And you ask what is a blog feed. Well it is the blog postings sent to your reader by RSS or Really Simple Syndication. It allows you to aggregate the latest postings from many blogs into one page, read them, mark them a read or star them for later reading.