Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on the ongoing protests in Egypt against Mubarak:
Iran expects Egyptian officials to listen to the voice of their Muslim people, respond to their rightful demands and refrain from exerting violence by security forces and police against an Islamic wave of awareness that has spread through the country in form of a popular movement
I commend the Iranian government on raising the bar in the art of hypocrisy to unimagined levels only a year after the D.O.A. Green Revolution.
Everyone is talking about Net Neutrality (ok, maybe not everyone). It’s a very important issue and if you aren’t familiar with it maybe you should follow the link. But in this post I want to talk about a related issue that does not seem to be getting the attention it should: Device neutrality. Read more if you care to…
The topics were varied. From his time in the Gulag, his early struggles fighting for human rights as a refusenik, the founding and disolution of his Yisrael B’Aliyah political party, the free world’s betrayal of their own principles with their support of a dictatorship within the PA, his criticism of HRW for having become a biased political entity, etc.
If I can find a good article on what was covered I will update this post.
This may be obvious to most readers, but it wasn’t to me: When you eat pancakes in most restaurants such as IHOP, the syrup that they bring you is not maple syrup: most of the time, it’s some gross colored syrup made out of corn and artificial colorants. This is the reason why I get honey instead. Ask for real maple syrup one day: you’ll taste the difference right away. It’s also better for you.
Why don’t you always just get maple syrup? The answer is in the photo below.
IWhen I was a little kid, someone told me that Americans coat their fruit with wax, to make it look shinier. I thought it was B.S. It was quite a shock to see this label. Needless to say, I grabbed a bag of mandarines imported from Mexico.
I guess that, at least with citrus fruits, you don’t eat the peel, but still… More label reading from now on.
From a cool blog called Information is beautiful comes this animation. It’s sort of an animated rehash of an older post. Their point is: we hear that this war cost X million dollars and this credit rescue cost Y million dollars. It all sounds like a lot of money but it’s hard to see what things really are without any context. This video presents you with said context in a very clear way:
For those of you who are marveled by the engineering feats of mankind: This is a really neat video called Ascent – Commemorating Shuttle. It has about forty minutes of high quality video of a Space Shuttle takeoff narrated by a NASA engineer.
