BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian confusion

Grok Headline matches for BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian confusion

Microsoft clears up confusion regarding
illegal PIDs in XP SP2

Microsoft clears up confusion regarding
illegal PIDs in XP SP2 08/07/2004 10:23 AM

Microsoft clears up extra patch
confusion

Microsoft clears up extra patch
confusion 12/12/2003 05:43 AM
Silicon.com Dec 12 2003 4:54AM ET

BBC Persian

BBC Persian 08/15/2004 02:34 AM
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Microsoft, Persian interface

Microsoft, Persian interface 08/01/2004 03:24 AM
AME Info Aug 1 2004 8:09AM GMT

persian webl0g festival!

persian webl0g festival! 06/09/2004 03:48 PM
man, a festival sounds a lot more fun than a conference

Persian photobl0g: Those Sexy Iranians

Persian photobl0g: Those Sexy Iranians 05/10/2004 03:02 PM
Hossein Derakshan says, "I've launched my photoblog, titled "vagrantly." Here's the latest image post, about the Islamic dress code and Nicholas Kristof's New York Times column this weekend about 'sexy Iranians.'"

No one has challenged the cleric's rule more effectively than these young Iranian girls. They have totally changed the Islamic dress code during the past five years. The half-sliced heads of the mannequins are results of Islamic laws that prohibit making identical statues to humans.

Link to Hoder's photoblog post. And coincidentally, BoingBoing's own Cory says from the U.K., "Spotted at the Brick Lane Bengali new year's festivities in London: a little girl in a couture Calvin Klein headscarf."Link to 80K jpeg image.

Persian bl0gger Hoder on how to build a
bl0gosphere

Persian bl0gger Hoder on how to build a
bl0gosphere 04/12/2004 02:11 PM
Hossein Derakhshan publishes this insightful post on how to foster the development of "a local blogosphere in a community, based on the experience of Iranians." Link

PostNuke Persian(Farsi) Language Pack

PostNuke Persian(Farsi) Language Pack 12/07/2003 06:26 PM
Finally...some action!

Video mashup of Russ Meyer + Hoodoo
Gurus / Persian Rugs

Video mashup of Russ Meyer + Hoodoo
Gurus / Persian Rugs 09/24/2004 11:08 AM
Xeni Jardin: Following up to this week's sad news that sexploitation auteur Russ Meyers has passed away (Link), BoingBoing reader Richard Crepeau says, "Thought I'd spread the word about a Hoodoo Gurus side project called the Persian Rugs. One of their videos uses Russ Meyer clips from Mondo Topless. A nice hybrid between garage rock and camp."

On their website, the band says:

"Music and sex go very well together. For proof, just take a look at the video for the Persian Rugs' new single 'Be A Woman'. The band and director Todd Sheldrick have created the perfect setting for the band's 60's Punk-inspired Primal Rock: strippers and cavemen collide in a 21st Century psychedelic garden of eden. (...) The Rugs got in touch with famed 60's director Russ Meyer, the maker of such films as 'Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls' (the latter a direct influence on the Austin Powers movies) and asked for permission to incorporate footage from one of his cult classics, 'Mondo Topless', into their new filmclip. Russ asked to hear the song first, [and] loved it (...)

Link to "Be a Woman" *.asx video in low and hi-res, contains megadoses of kitsch nudity (and shots of vintage '60s electronic equipment). How did those ladies make their humongous breasts do that stuff on rhythm? Weighed down by all that eyeliner, no less?

How to get to BoingBoing - megnut.com

How to get to BoingBoing - megnut.com 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
Meg found Boingboing .. megnut

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BoingBoing goes three columns

BoingBoing goes three columns 06/20/2004 05:18 AM

A New Boing Boing.

I'm proud to say that Boing Boing has launched a new design, one that incorporates sponsors and a cleaner look. I was down visiting with Danny Hillis today (man, talk about mind blowing) and I was very happy to hear that he reads Boing Boing regularly. My role with Boing Boing is the equivalent of "band manager" - I helped them round up the wonderful sponsors - Wired, Google (Blogger), and O'Reilly - and work out the details of how they can take the site to the next phase of it's ongoing evolution ("brain candy for happy mutants since 1988!"). Take a look!...

[John Battelle]

- Me too.

Happy holidays from BoingBoing.

Happy holidays from BoingBoing. 12/25/2004 04:53 PM
Xeni Jardin:

"Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net"

"Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net" 11/01/2003 03:09 PM

Meta BoingBoing network

Meta BoingBoing network 04/14/2004 05:04 PM

BoingBoing tribe on tribe.net hits 700 members. The Boingboing affinity group on tribe.net, created last year by a group of readers, just welcomed its 700th member. Link [Boing Boing]

For a fan club and a way to rate support in teh community - having 700 memebrs is pretty coolio.

I just wish there was a way to:

- break all those adoring fans up into meaningful clusters

- that when folks join Clubs, Tribes or Groups - they participate and not just lurk

- that there be some inter-connection between ALL these networks out there - so a 'meta-BoingBoing network' could exist.

BoingBoing stats under construction

BoingBoing stats under construction 12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: A quick housekeeping note: We're taking our web stats offline for a bit, while we dig into some technical considerations about what data is reported, and how -- to ensure maximum accuracy and clarity. We'll make them public again when that's complete.

Props for BoingBoing from PC Magazine

Props for BoingBoing from PC Magazine 01/02/2004 09:48 PM
Gareth Branwyn says:

"BoingBoing was named Top Blog in the December issue of PC Magazine (Top Ten Blogs). Unfortunately, they list [the site URL incorrectly] as boingboing.COM."

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Xeni Jardin: Jason Gill says,

Someone has posted a script for GreaseMonkey (a Firefox extension that lets you add your own Javascript code to any website, to remove ads or add features: Link) that automatically removes any post by Xeni when viewing BoingBoing."

Link< /a>. Of course, if you're not reading my posts you're gonna miss this one. D'oh!

Update: Jesse Andrews, the fellow who wrote this de-Xeni script, would appear to be busted. :-) Chad Hurley, who identifies himself as Mr. Andrews' employer, says:

Hi Xeni,

Just a note about Mr. Andrews and his "de-Xeni" plugin - We’ve caught him looking at far worse things than your "over the top" posts. Why he has picked you to filter, one may never know, but I have an idea for a plugin. Maybe I will add it to the Grease Monkey requests. It’s really simple. When Jesse opens Firefox, it directs Jesse to a folder on my server called, "Things Jesse needs to do today before the big hand is on 12 and the little hand is on 5"! Just an idea.

Keep on keepin' on,

Chad

Comment dit-on "BoingBoing" en Francais?

Comment dit-on "BoingBoing" en Francais? 07/21/2004 11:29 PM
BoingBoing reader, Rocket Scientist, and honorary Eas t Texas conspiracy correspondent Charles says, "I was in Paris two weeks ago, and saw this production. Sure, there's an extra E, but it's close." Link< /a> to full-size image.

Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net

Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net 10/31/2003 09:37 PM
As you may have noticed, we're in the middle of an extended outage. We've got a new server up and running (with lots of new posts), but the DNS is going to take a day or two. In the meantime, http://216.126.84.59/ is your friend. Link

this clever send-up of boingboing

this clever send-up of boingboing 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
BoringBoring

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BoingBoing adds Technorati support - you
can too!

BoingBoing adds Technorati support - you
can too! 04/13/2004 04:40 AM

Tonight, BoingBoing added in a new feature that allows you to to find "Other blogs commenting on this post" for each post. It is an ingenious use of the Technorati search functionality embedded inside of the Movable Type template that BoingBoing uses. This is a great way for a site to provide a distributed commenting system that incorporates transparency and accountability - to comment on BoingBoing, you just post something that links to BoingBoing, and you'll show up in the "Other blogs commenting on this post" page. It also discourages spammers and tolls, because all comments must be posted on the commenter's blog, and those posts are accountable - even if you want to remain anonymous, the commenting blog can now itself be commented upon, ad infinitum.

Here's how you can add it to your own Movable Type weblog template:

1) Edit your blog
2) Click on "Templates"
3) Click on "Main Index"
4) Somewhere imbetween the <$MTEntries$> and the <$/MTEntries> tags, add this to your template:

<a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&sub=mtcosmos& url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Technorati Cosmos">Other blogs commenting on this post</a>

5) Click on "Save"
6) Click on "Rebuild Site"

I just added it to this blog. Here's a link to the template for Sifry's Alerts main index page. Give it a go, and let me know how it works for you!

Nevermind this, have you checked out the
BoingBoing guestbar lately?

Nevermind this, have you checked out the
BoingBoing guestbar lately? 08/10/2004 07:55 PM
Damn, Rudy Rucker is really tearing it up over there to the right. Go on, have a look.

IE + Moz/Firefox use tied among
BoingBoing readers

IE + Moz/Firefox use tied among
BoingBoing readers 12/19/2004 03:35 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing's sysadmin extraordinare Ken Snider says, "IE has only a 1.6% lead on Moz/Firefox for BB readers now on BoingBoing.net. Check out the stats: Link. Add up Moz and Firefox. And if you include the 1.6% from netscape, which also uses the Gecko rendering engine (so is the same as Moz/FF really), they're exactly tied."

November: IE 38%, FF 30.6%, Moz 5%, Netscape 1.8%
October: IE 38.2%, FF 28.6%, Moz 5.6%, Netscape, 1.9%
Going back 6 months (June): IE: 41%, FF 12.7%, Moz: 7.4%, Netscape: 2.2%

Reader Frank Hecker says,

Two points re your post regarding Mozilla/Firefox use by BoingBoing readers. First, "Netscape" in your statistics may include Netscape Navigator 4.x (or earlier). If so, then it's not strictly speaking correct to count all of the 1.6% Netscape share toward the total percentage share for Gecko-based browser; you should count only the Netscape 6 and 7 share.

Second, note that Camino is also a Gecko-based browser, so its 0.2% share should be added to the figures for Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape 6/7.

With these corrections, the Gecko-based browser share based on the current statistics (Link) is something between 35.9% and 37.5% depending on the relative breakdown of Netscape Navigator 4.x or earlier vs. Netscape 6 and 7. (31.1% Firefox + 4.6% Mozilla + 0.2% Camino + 0-1.6% Netscape.) Given that MSIE is at 36.9% I think it's fair to call this a virtual tie.

BB Sysadmin Ken sez: "This page shows the full breakdown, by browser version: Link."

BoingBoing traffic stats are back

BoingBoing traffic stats are back 01/04/2005 08:56 PM
Xeni Jardin: Here's a note from John Battelle, affectionately known as Boing Boing's "band manager."

Earlier in the month we took Boing Boing's live stats page down ( link). As we noted in our post, we wanted to grok what the program was reporting, and make sure that whatever we posted was clear and understandable.

Well, the stats are back up (link), and you may notice that we've not done much to them. There's a good reason for this - we prefer to post our stats pretty much as reported by AWStats, the log file analysis program we use. We considered filtering those numbers in any number of ways, but always ended up at the same place - statistics are subject to interpretation and judgment, whereas data is data. We prefer to give you the data, and let you do with it what you want.

We did learn a few interesting things about how awstats works, and we did make one minor tweak to the reporting process. First, of the columns you see, only the first one - "Unique Visitors," and the last two "Hits" and "Bandwidth" can be taken at face value. "Unique Visitors" counts unique IP addresses that are hitting the site, so it's a fairly accurate count of actual humans reading Boing Boing. (If anything, its count is a bit low, as it does not account for sites like AOL which may have one IP address for thousands of unique users.) The "Hits" and "Bandwidth" columns count just about anything that moves on the site, so they are fine measurements of how "busy" the site is. But the other two columns - "Pages" and "Number of Visits" - are more difficult to understand. They are AWStats' best guess as to how many total visits a site gets, as well as how many pages are actually viewed by those visitors. These columns have always disregarded image and video files, but because a lot of our traffic comes from RSS readers, they are certainly inflated by some amount.

But how much? It's anyone's guess. We're working with Feedburner (link), among others, to figure that out, but until we know, we prefer not to hazard one of our own. What we do know is that those middle columns had been inflated by php files recently added to the site by advertisements, so we filtered those out.

We hope that posting these stats will be one small step toward the blogosphere working out the moving target of "standards" for measuring traffic to blogs - Mark Fletcher of Bloglines has done some good preliminary work (link) along those lines. As we learn more, we'll keep you posted.

BoingBoing exclusive: new cartoon from
Graham Roumieu

BoingBoing exclusive: new cartoon from
Graham Roumieu 12/29/2003 01:38 PM
Click this cropped sneak peek (or here) for full-size image. Here's a fresh piece from Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Graham Roumieu, who is a very sick a very talented man.

Special BoingBoing report: Live from
SpaceShip One

Special BoingBoing report: Live from
SpaceShip One 06/17/2004 09:49 AM
Paul G. Allen and Burt Rutan's SpaceShip One is scheduled to launch America's first Non-Government, privately funded manned space flight next Monday. Alan Radecki, part of the ground crew stationed at Mojave, is penning pre-flight updates and countdown info. Former BoingBoing guestblogger Todd Lappin has arranged for those first-person accounts to be blogged here.

Background: Link to Mojave airport site with launch info. Link to Rutan's press release on the June 21 launch. Link to Rutan's FAQ. And finally, Alan's first update follows:

Starting today, I plan on sending out a daily update on the activities surrounding the SpaceShipOne launch.

The flight is scheduled to commence at 0630 Monday 6/21, however that is dependent on weather. Should there be a weather delay, such as winds, the folks at Scaled plan on waiting and launching as soon as the weather permits, even if it stretches to the next day.

The public will enter the airport from the main Airport Blvd entrance off of Hwy 58. The airport will open at 3am, but it is pretty much assumed around here that there will be so many people showing up that the roads will be clogged. RVs will be permitted in the day before, with reservations (661/824-2433). I know that there's already 89 coming, some of whom are NASA folks who are bringing a band and everything. Regular vehicles will be charged $10 entrance fee (to help mitigate the huge cost of security that the airport has to bear), and I can't remember the RV cost...check mojaveairport.com for details. Don't try to avoid the traffic by coming in the back entrances...these are for VIPs with passes and tenants with ID badges.

There will be a TFR, and only aircraft with PPR numbers will be permitted into the airspace, starting on Saturday, I believe. Again, see mojaveairport.com for details. If you don't make it onto the airport, you'll still see the firing...it'll be visible for miles. (...) I'll be here starting Sunday afternoon, sleeping in the Mercy quarters. -- Alan

(Thanks, Todd Lappin!)

Sifry's Alerts: BoingBoing adds
Technorati support - you can too!

Sifry's Alerts: BoingBoing adds
Technorati support - you can too! 04/14/2004 06:22 AM
Sifry's Alerts: BoingBoing adds Technorati support - you can too! .. comment tracking feature

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"BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH
2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth""

"BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH
2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth"" 08/17/2004 03:14 PM

The new IT confusion

The new IT confusion 10/30/2003 08:16 PM
Droplets chairman Philip Brittan warns that lingering customer confusion about the differences between "grid" and "utility" computing could stall their wider adoption.

The Confusion

The Confusion 03/08/2004 11:19 PM

The Confusion is almost here. Amazon UK has a 1 April release date and Amazon US has a 13 April release date, but it's coming soon and I'm eager to continue reading the saga. The UK book jacket artwork is so much more colourful and interesting than the rather plain US edition. I've often wondered why there is such a tremendous difference between many US and UK book jacket designs, especially when there isn't really anything in the title or the design that might offend.

.Mac Benefits Confusion

.Mac Benefits Confusion 11/19/2003 08:06 AM
"I looked at that page also, but didn't feel deceived. I felt the page was saying, 'Look what you could have received if you had a .mac account' and [implying] that new subscribers would get equivalent offers in the future." (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

The confusion of the restrooms

The confusion of the restrooms 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni has a funny article today entitled, Forget the Specials, Explain the Restroom. He talks about the confusion taking place in many restaurant bathrooms in New York City, including those at such high-end spots as Per Se and The Modern (the new restaurant at the MoMA). I can concur with many of his observations.

...I couldn't figure out how to trigger the electronic-eye sensors above the commodes, motion-detecting flushing mechanisms with enough of a delay that you were sometimes asked simply to trust in a cleansing aftermath to your departure. I've encountered religions with less daunting leaps of faith.

I couldn't figure out how to tell whether commodes were occupied. Neither, apparently, could anyone else, because whenever I was using one, someone in the communal area would rattle the door, not to mention my composure.

And I couldn't figure out why, in restaurant after restaurant, the attempt to relieve oneself turned out to be anything but a relief.

I always panic when, instead of simple labels like "Ladies" and "Gentlemen" or pictures of a man and a woman, they put those gender symbols on the door. I have to stop and think, "Which one does Austin Powers wear around his neck?" and then when I get the answer, I open the opposite door.

In the various parts of Europe I've visited, I've noticed two great things about the restrooms: 1. They put pictures on the door, which are easy to comprehend no matter what language you speak, 2. When you lock the door to your stall (which is really your own private compartment! Nice!), it rotates a little colored panel on the outside of the door to red. So when you enter a restroom, you look at the doors and see either red or green, and voila, you know which are occupied. New York restaurant designers, please take note!

Gender Confusion

Gender Confusion 04/22/2004 10:43 PM
I really wish spammers would get their story straight. Hey, I just wanted to share with you the experiences I've had in the past...

Wireless Confusion

Wireless Confusion 05/07/2004 04:32 PM
Fixed broadband wireless is in the spotlight, now that 802.16 and WiMax are being written about in the mainstream press: But that attention seems to be adding a lot of confusion to the market, particularly about the difference between different technologies. The Financial Times ran a story about PCCW's launch of broadband wireless in the U.K. but said that the network would use WiMax gear. In addition to the fact that there is no WiMax gear yet, the network will be built with equipment from IPWireless, which doesn't aspire to be WiMax. Strangely, PCCW doesn't even mention IPWireless or the type of technology used in its press release about the launch, which came out yesterday. IPWireless followed up today with an announcement of its own that adds a bit more information. There seems to be a lot of confusion especially around the 802.16 and 802.20 camps and some of it may be caused by some of the companies involved. For example, I was once told by an 802.20 member that IPWireless was active in the development of that standard. I talked with an IPWireless spokesperson at the time who I understood to say that IPWireless had moved to the 802.16 camp. However, she recently contacted me to say that IPWireless has never been part of the 802.20 effort and while the company has an engineer who attends the 802.16 meetings, the company is not active in the 802.16 development effort and does not at this time have plans to build to the 802.16 standard. At the same time that the 802.16 and 802.20 efforts work on developing their standards, some of the member companies are also developing and selling their own systems, which sometimes adds to the confusion. Flarion, for example, is one of the founders of 802.20 and is conducting trials for Nextel and Vodafone. But the 802.20 standard is far enough away from being complete that Flarion can hardly call its current equipment 802.20-based. So Flarion and companies like IPWireless are each in their own category. Generally, it's great that the fixed broadband world is getting a lot of attention but companies and journalists have to be more careful about the facts. The space is confusing enough for folks who are just being introduced to it....

Clearing Up The Confusion

Clearing Up The Confusion 04/15/2004 04:59 AM
Paul Boutin talks with Snow Crash science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson about his latest book, The Confusion, the second part of his ambitious Baroque Cycle of novels.

A Confusion of Styles

A Confusion of Styles 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
In John E. Simpson's latest XML Q&A column he discusses various styling options and alternatives for a nonstandard HTML variant.

confusion and the benefits of WS-I

confusion and the benefits of WS-I 06/22/2004 12:13 PM
the great thing about standards...

Shuffling confusion

Shuffling confusion 02/07/2005 01:05 AM

Steven Levy over at Newsweek has a great article on the iPod's seemingly non-random random function. See I wasn't crazy when I wrote about the rock block, but I do recall a couple people wrote me explaining much of the same thing Levy heard. I took a few courses on statistics and understand how these things can happen, though they seemed to happen with such frequency that it seemed uncanny. Of course, like Ev, I remember when the Pyra music server seemed to play Cake incessantly, even though there were hundreds of other artists on the drive.

Random really is random, and it's human nature to make sense of it all, looking for patterns wherever you see them and doing your best to make order from the chaos. It's what humans do well and what I notice myself doing everyday.

My 2000+ song libary still constantly surprises me by playing artists twice in a row, multiple times in the same 20 minute car ride, but I've resigned to thinking the random really is just that, and I'm just getting lucky rolls of the dice, remember those instances and forgetting the rest of the randomness.

Future confusion

Future confusion 01/23/2004 02:22 PM

Grok Description matches for BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian confusion
GrokA matches for BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian confusion

War Rugs

War Rugs 02/10/2004 01:27 PM
War Rugs woven by Afghanis often depict tanks, planes and guns, but a new set of imagery has appeared recently: the WTC in flames. More in this Forbes article.

The Rugs of War

The Rugs of War 12/18/2003 09:15 AM
WarRug.Com offers the finest select of Afghan rugs woven in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. One review: "There are no people falling out of this one, and the drawing is not as graphic as most 9/11 war rugs." (12-18)

|3uy 5om3 |>rugs

|3uy 5om3 |>rugs 07/09/2004 11:36 PM

Here is proof that Bayesian and spam filters are working. Spammers are getting more and more desperate to disguise their messages from them. Take this email I got today. Here's the list of drugs the guy was selling:

\ V|@grA ? Som.a. ^ :P:ntermin $ Val.i.um $ :XANAX: # At:|v@n Plus: Ad|p.&x, I*0nam|n, M3r:idia, X3ni`ca|, Am:bi3n, S0naT.a, Fl3xeri:l, Ce|3b:rex, Fi0`ric3t, Tram@'do|, U|tr:@m, L3v`|tra, Pr0p3c`ia, Acy`c|0vir, Pr0z@'c, P@:xil, Busp@.r

Seriously — that's what was in the email. The scary thing is, I could figure out what half of them were.

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Robot uses minesweeping technology to
clean rugs

Robot uses minesweeping technology to
clean rugs 07/12/2004 03:45 PM
The newest incarnation of iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner "listens" to dirt with vibration sensors.

Afghan rugs depict twin towers

Afghan rugs depict twin towers 02/10/2004 04:10 PM
Get your hand-made rugs depicting the Twin Towers being hit by planes here. Link (Thanks, Kevin!)

Project: FREE IRAN![activistchat.com] ::
View topic - SAY NO To Israeli Strikes
on IRAN!

Project: FREE IRAN![activistchat.com] ::
View topic - SAY NO To Israeli Strikes
on IRAN! 05/10/2004 03:03 AM
ActivistChat's forum

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Iran Focus-News - Special Wire - Girl,
16, hanged in public in Iran

Iran Focus-News - Special Wire - Girl,
16, hanged in public in Iran 08/22/2004 03:43 PM
This is sickening .. been hanged

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Iran to Prosecute 8 British Crew - Iran
TV (Reuters)

Iran to Prosecute 8 British Crew - Iran
TV (Reuters) 06/22/2004 02:53 AM
Reuters - Iran will prosecute eight British sailors held overnight along with their three boats after apparently straying into Iranian waters near the Iraqi border, Iran's state-run al Alam television said Tuesday.

"Bam, Iran"

"Bam, Iran" 12/27/2003 04:04 PM

Super Iran

Super Iran 02/05/2005 09:27 PM
Part of a democracy is to prevent election of the undemocratic which happened disastrously in Algeria. In December the Associated...

Iran Photobl0g

Iran Photobl0g 05/11/2004 09:12 AM

Hoder, who almost singlehandedly jumpstarted Iranian blogging, has a photoblog.

U.S. Wants Iran to Go Before U.N.
Council (AP)

U.S. Wants Iran to Go Before U.N.
Council (AP) 09/13/2004 10:09 PM
AP - Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the U.N. atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the U.N. Security Council for refusing to freeze work that can produce nuclear weapons.

"U.S. airlifts aid to Iran"

"U.S. airlifts aid to Iran" 12/28/2003 09:17 PM

Women In Iran

Women In Iran 09/22/2004 12:37 AM
Women In Iran With the slogan of "Women's Right Is Human Right", the website tries to tell the story of struggles, issues and successes of Iranian women, and in this way we would like to extend our hands to and welcome all those who believe in the social and intellectual equality of women and men.

Iran Newspaper

Iran Newspaper 06/06/2004 05:30 PM
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The war of words with Iran

The war of words with Iran 02/05/2005 09:14 PM
Traveling through Europe on her way to the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that a military attack against Iran to put a halt to its burgeoning nuclear program is "not on the agenda at this point." There are "diplomatic means," Rice said, to resolving the problem.

9/11 Hijackers May Have Gone Through
Iran (AP)

9/11 Hijackers May Have Gone Through
Iran (AP) 07/18/2004 11:50 AM
AP - Iran said Sunday some al-Qaida operatives blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States may have illegally passed through Iran from Afghanistan months before the terror strike, but Tehran dismissed as "fabrications" U.S. reports that Iran may have helped in the assault.

Bloggers arrested in Iran

Bloggers arrested in Iran 09/08/2004 04:22 PM
Iran: Blogger/Journalists arrested over banned Reformist websites (stop.censoring.us)

'Passion' to be screened in Iran

'Passion' to be screened in Iran 04/29/2004 12:01 PM

October surprise in Iran?

October surprise in Iran? 08/10/2004 08:41 AM
The Bush administration is set to take a tougher line with Tehran despite a lack of consensus among its allies.

" Aljazeera.Net - The US war with Iran
has already begun "

" Aljazeera.Net - The US war with Iran
has already begun " 06/24/2005 09:48 PM

Iran given new nuclear 'deadline'

Iran given new nuclear 'deadline' 09/18/2004 02:55 PM
The UN nuclear watchdog urges Iran to fully suspend uranium enrichment activities before 25 November.

Iran Says U.N. Nuclear Ban 'Illegal'
(AP)

Iran Says U.N. Nuclear Ban 'Illegal'
(AP) 09/19/2004 04:15 AM
AP - Iran on Sunday denounced as "illegal" demands from the U.N. atomic watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment — technology that can be used for nuclear weapons.

Iran To Indict Saddam Over War

Iran To Indict Saddam Over War 07/06/2004 12:05 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 6 2004 4:15AM GMT

Blogging Festival in Iran

Blogging Festival in Iran 05/26/2004 01:00 AM
Bloggin g Festival in Iran: "Attempting to form a society of the web Persian content providers, this festival tries to improve the quality of the published information by the means of discussing sessions, roundtables and the exhibition. This festival, backed by the PersianBlog team, as the greatest Farsi weblog provider, and the National Youth Organization of Iran, is the first practical attempt for sponsoring the bloggers and internet magazines."

Emergent bl0gging from Iran

Emergent bl0gging from Iran 02/11/2004 12:15 PM

Yesterday, Jeff Jarvis introduced us to the Iranian blogger, Pedram Moallemian. Pedram blogs at Iranian.net. He is one of the outspoken Iranians who blogs in English and help us understand what's going on on the incredible number of Persian blogs. He explain that the Persian blogs can be traced to the short explanation written by Hoder at Hoder.com explaining how to use Blogger in Persian. There are now over 100,000 Persian blogs. Most of the blogs are about politics and sex as well as other things like poetry. The suppression of free speech in Iran is one of the explanations for the number of Persian blogs, but the notion that one short page of Persian documentation for Blogger starting this incredible trend is also very important. Many countries and languages probably just need a small seed to create an emergent cascade of blogging adoption.

Jeff writes about an arrested Iranian blogger who was recently freed. Great post with links to other interesting posts about Iranian blogging.

Iran reinstates more candidates

Iran reinstates more candidates 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
The conservative Guardian Council revises its ban on a further 100 people wanting to stand for election.

Webl0g fest in Iran

Webl0g fest in Iran 05/27/2004 11:02 AM
Persian blogger Hossein Derakshan says, "There will be a big Weblog Festival held in Tehran from 8-10 June 2004. It is hosted by National Youth Organization of Iran and PersianBlog." Link

Iran MPs challenge reformist ban

Iran MPs challenge reformist ban 01/25/2004 08:15 AM
The Iranian parliament backs moves to change the election law and overturn a ban on would-be candidates.

BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian confusion

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