A major submarine cable cut somewhere in the Mediterranean sea has disrupted internet and international call in UAE. Ironically, Dubai Internet City is without internet!

Update: There are new reports that the impact is a lot wider, affecting both Middle East and Asia.

“Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages.”

Neil Miller, of Film School Rejects, picks his ten best films of Sundance ‘08. The one I want to see first is–Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Treader, a greasemonkey script from crazybob for posting a link from Google Reader to Twitter.

Ever wondered what all those svchost services are running in Windows? Here is the answer from the How-to Geek.

Facebook has announced the release of a new JavaScript library which allows developers access to the Facebook API. This will now allow Facebook applications to be hosted on any website.

In a surprising and unusual move, Sun Microsystems has acquired MySQL.

Gmail adds new mailing lists feature to contact manager, with a simple interface for creating groups and adding contacts to groups. The group name can then be used to send email to all the members of the group. One missing option is the ability to share contact groups with other Gmail members.

Digital Photography School’s review of 70-200mm fast zoom lens from Nikon, Canon, and Sigma. No prices listed in this review, so here are the prices from pictureline and amazon.

Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom - $1,799
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Telephoto Zoom - $1,743
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO HSM Large Aperture Macro Zoom - $820

Blendlab’s initial thought’s on Motorola’s new ROKR E8, with it’s “ModeShifting” and raised “virtual buttons”, seems worth a look compared to the iPhone.

Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay on 29 May 1953, has passed away at the age of 88. His health had been declining since April after a fall while visiting Nepal.

“He was an heroic figure who not only ‘knocked off’ Everest but lived a life of determination, humility and generosity”
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark

A list of 100 free high-quality WordPress themes from Smashing Magazine. Lesson: When there is nothing else to blog about, create a list of WordPress themes; you can’t go wrong with that, there are always excellent new WordPress themes popping up everyday.