OK, smallish update... The million man march is happening in Cairo. AJ Arabic and many of the tweets coming in from Egypt have started to call this an intifada, and on AJ there was also an interview from a girl who supported Mubarak, and a small group of protesters below the AJ bureau saying they supported Mubarak-- they were called "protesters for rent" by those walking by. Also, there is growing anger at the Obama administration's neutral stance; people keep saying that today is the end for Mubarak and they will not forget that Obama was silent; Obama was weak.

EDIT: Also, al-Arabiya is now the channel carrying more news out of Eygpt. AJ reporters have said that they're equipment has been taken from them by Egyptian security officials.

I will try-- I am busy with school, and most of my energy is focused on the Tweets coming out of Egypt. You can read what audio recordings people are capturing and then translating here:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?hl=en&key=tVDU006Wt97P_GkYYBmPOKQ&toomany=true#gid=0

People are continuing to translate live and add to it as the day goes on. A blog is too clunky right now-- a lot of my translations are up on Facebook or Twitter.

Jumping in here... I think it would be completely ineffective to ban extended magazines because they're not exactly complicated to make on your own. Anyone determined enough to do it would find a away. Plus, remember Virginia tech? At one point, the perpetrator reloaded 3 times in a classroom, while students tried to play dead as their peers were executed. Nobody jumped him when he took the time to reload.

Extended magazines are also useful if one gets attacked by a gang on the street or there is a riot going on. What size magazine would you have wanted if you were facing lawlessness and danger during Katrina?

I am an Arabic student and I've been switching off between Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English. There is not much difference in coverage; only the Arabic channel seems to get news faster (though not that much faster... maybe about 10-15 more), and everyone, including the anchors, seems to get more emotional. The protesters calling in in Arabic are really letting out their feelings. Islam is intertwined with the Arabic language, so there were more references to Islam, but it wasn't Islamist per say. There was palpable anger towards American support of Mubarak, though, that didn't always come through in the English version.