“An anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.

Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention.” From the BBC..

This is such wonderful news! Baghdad Burning, the blog, was nominated for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize. The winners will be announced on the 14th of June. The prize is the most lucrative in Britain, topping £30,000.

“I am a woman, Iraqi, 24 years old. I have survived the war. That’s all you need to know.” Baghdad Burning.

Note the cool attitude!

Take me to the long list

toot just finished adding tags to what’s tooting like brilliant, hot, freaky, exciting, funny… Who decides what is what? the tooticator, and that’s Roba who selects our daily what’s tooting and tootreads!

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Wael, what happened to your idea of running a design contest?

Microsoft has added to Windows Live seach capabilities. Window Live Search Beta is quite cool. But the coolest thing for us at toot is that when you search for the word “toot” we appear #1 in the search results, unlike Google and Yahoo! trat ta ta! bom ba la la!

Read more about Windows Live Search.

This week there has been lots of talk about Microsoft’s new product dubbed origami. Origami as you all know is the art of folding paper. Now toot has done its own origami exercise in an Indian restaurant run by cool Egyptians in Amman.

You can check the movie on youtube, but the quality sucks. If you can support 3gpp format on your computer, then I recommend downloading the movie from here (right click and save) as the quality is much better. Real Player and Quicktime support this format.