Just another dent in the damage...

This is my round-up of interesting posts about the Iranian President’s visit to the US and some of the responses to his absurd comments that there are ‘no homosexuals in Iran’.

View from Iran – Why are the questions for President Ahmandinejad so simplistic?
Rotton Gods – Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust and Ahmadinejad in Columbia University.
Mr Behi [...]

After my daily perusal of Craftzine the other day I decided it was time to stop avoiding the knitting needles just because my latest project seems to be so bloody hard. This week I’ve been working on a Henry Rollins doll (courtesy of Stitch & Bitch Nation) for a friend of mine (shhhhhh, it’s a [...]

Well it’s about time I came across a nice story such as this (hat tip: Drink-soaked Trots). In response to the bullying of a Central Kings Rural High School student for wearing a pink shirt on his first day of school David Shepherd and Travis Price (both pictured) brought 75 pink tank tops and encouraged [...]

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I’ll be there hobbling around somewhere safe…

So it seems Google is ‘officially’ blocked in Iran. Sadly it means that not only will fellow Gmailers have trouble accessing their email accounts but also that Google Reader, which numerous Iranians rely upon to get round government restrictions on Persian weblogs, is also now a no go zone. I have no doubt that the authorities [...]