Just another dent in the damage...

Sorry I’m a little late getting it up… I’ve been too busy doing NOTHING all week!

p.s. Hope y’all had a very Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year!

Channel 4 has opted to end the year on a controversial note by inviting the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to give the broadcaster’s alternative Christmas message tomorrow (The Guardian).

Crazy or what!! Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offering Channel 4’s traditional alternative Christmas message!! It won’t be clashing with good old Queenie though… that’d just be way too controversial. Good [...]

Monday’s Radio 4 Woman’s Hour included a short interview with Parastoo Dokoohaki, author of The Remains of the Day (Persian) about female bloggers in Iran.
Over a quarter of the population regularly use the internet and more of them post their thoughts on blogs than anywhere else. It’s estimate there are about 20,000 female bloggers in [...]

Steven Chu (of The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), a remarkable Nobel Prize winning experimental physicist, is to replace Samuel Bodman by becoming Barak Obama’s new Energy Secretary.
In 1997 Chu shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips for their work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light. This technique [...]

Farhad Hakimzadeh, previous Chief Executive of the UK’s Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) is a bad man! Last month he pleaded guilty to 14 counts of theft from the British and Bodleian Libraries and is due to be sentenced sometime in January. Over a period of eight years he systematically stole pages from rare book collections, [...]