After seeing their billboards like everyday for the past couple of months, I finally decided to take the bold step and visit leshla2.com, Arabic for “why not”, at the beginning I thought it was one of these pointless forums but it turned out to be a cool community for gamers in Jordan.
The first thing you come across is a question about your mood, and soon you’ll learn that boredom is the choice of most of the visitors 
well, I guess since you are bored you will probably be seeking some entertainment.
leshla2.com is an entertainment community in the making, offering two kinds of games; the knowledge based competition “Answer it”, where you can win a monthly prize of JD3,000, and the entertaining game “Find it”, where you can a daily prize of JD100. Pretty entertaining and a good idea to enjoy some time after a hectic day at work.
One of the things that caught my attention is the poll they have, who is smarter guys or girls, and votes go to guys, although I beg to differ!
They’ve already announced winners of August and September on their facebook page, take a look, it’s interesting.
1. Google Vegetable Shop – Aleppo, Syria
2. Google Internet Cafe, Network Games, and Computer Maintenance - Cairo, Egypt
3. Google Inks – Irbid, Jordan
4. Google Internet Cafe – Damascus, Syria
5. Google Internet Cafe – Damascus, Syria
Bonus!
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I like it when people just make up their own rules; yes you can’t park next to my house, even if there is a plenty of space and you won’t be blocking my gate or my garage entrance, I own the street too! And yes, this spot is reserved for customers of this shop, nice but even if you were that lucky customer, you won’t be able to park because of the sign that blocks it!
Now there is a new one, a funny one, you can’t through your garbage in our dumpsters, we don’t want to mix ours with yours! 
Where in this world this sign would lead you? I’m not sure what is the strategy of this group of candidates, misleading potential voters?
Madison Digital ran this cool employment ad yesterday, they’ve included a QR Code for their website, an interesting approach to target designers. QR Codes, stands for Quick Response, are two dimensional codes that meant to support quick decoding its contents through camera-equipped mobile phones using a special software, they are very popular in Japan.
QR Codes were created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994 to track parts in vehicle manufacturing, but now they are used in commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications, if you see a URL in an ad in a publication or a billboard, the chances that you visit that website using your computer might be low, but if your mobile was equipped you can just use it to visit the website the QR is representing, I think it’s revolutionary! You can read more about it on wikipedia.
image courtesy (ads by Madison Digital, QR map and billboard by wikipedia)
I wonder, do people working in Al Ghad newspaper have any access to the internet? Do they conduct enough research before they write the paper? I noticed this piece of news in yesterday’s edition of Al Ghad, it’s about American sitcom 30 Rock’s Emmy nominations, the stupid thing about it is the translation.
30 Rock, or 30 Rockefeller Plaza, is the address of GE Building in New York, this building contains NBC Studios where the show 30 Rock takes place, so it doesn’t have anything to do with rocks and stones, as our friends in Al Ghad thought! Although I know these information because I like the show, I did a small research before writing this post
Traditional media people always take on blogs for the lack of credibility, because they think bloggers are not experts enough to conduct enough research to back their information. I recall a story in the same newspaper about a living doll that turned to be a nonsense, one of the bloggers made fuss about it, I don’t remember who, but it shows that a high-end daily newspaper like Al-Ghad could be inaccurate like this.
This is a goodwill post for a newspaper I like and admire
