Entries Tagged as ‘Bundle o' Links’

June 23, 2007

Bundle O’ Links

For your reading enjoyment:

Do Blackholes really exist? Interesting new research postulating the NON-existence of black hole event-horizons.
Images that changed the world: A nice compilation of famous and infamous photos of the past century.
What mainstream media can learn from Jon Stewart: An article from the American Journalism review on the jon stewart effect.
TV-Links : Another site [...]

May 2, 2007

Bundle O’Links – XII

For your Informative Enjoyment:

They Sold out the world for an f-16 Sale: One time CIA analyst alleges Cheney, Libby lied to congress about Pakistani nuke

Unlike us, the French do it all wrong, and still get life so right: Commentry from the TImes Online, on the first round of the french elections

Princeton professor who criticized Bush, [...]

April 8, 2007

Bundle O’ Links XI

For your reading enjoyment:

Spanish Judge calls for the architects of iraq war to be tried for War Crimes: Well it’s about time someone did!
Can Rumi Save us Now? It’s an interesting article from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Why cell phones are not allowed in airplanes: No! it’s not becauses they interfere with airplane avionics!
How Fat is [...]

February 1, 2007

Bundle O’ links X

For your readin enjoyment:

Earth Album : A very nice flickerbased site with amazing photos from all over the world.
Interview with Bob Woodward: Der Spiegel interview Bob Woodward on his new book "state of Denial".
The Tom Cruise Butt-Plug: I kid you not. You have to see it to believe it
One of the saddest most [...]

October 11, 2006

Iraq’s New Democracy

Here it is.  A new survey by Johns Hopkins University has put the estimate of Iraqi deaths since the 2003 american invasion, at 655,000. I'm going to rewrite that in large letters for those who need to see it in large letters:
 an estimated 655,000 iraqis have died since the illegal american invasion of 2003

You know, [...]

October 10, 2006

Season 1 – Episode 3 : My Mysterious Origins

This is something that would never come up in Iran, due to its racially homogenous nature, however in Canada and France, the question of the Origin of your Teacher, is a fun hobby of students.  With my students in grade 8 i have managed quite well to keep the mystery alive.  They top three hypotheses [...]

October 8, 2006

Bundle O’ Links IX

For your reading enjoyment:

The 'How to' List: A list of more "how to"s than you can shake a big stick at
The Super-Spy-O-matic: Cross Reference your friends on the NSA and more
The Pirates Laws: Finally, we have a compilation of ALL the laws of pirates; that's more laws than you can shake a hook [...]

October 1, 2006

Bundle O’ Links – VIII

For your reading enjoyment:

Newsium: A flash compendium of world-wide Front Pages.
FROGMANIA: A Frogtastic game.
Hidden Stuff in Logos: There are some really cool ones in here.
Dead Fake, Fake Email: Send email from any email address you like, even bush@whitehouse.org!
The Holy Toaster: Produces an image of jesus on every toast! (I kid you not)

September 23, 2006

Who is Cyrus Nowrasteh?

It's funny, more and more, i keep running into Iranians or Iranian-born Americans who are in high places in the US, and most of them are quite right-wing/republican. Here is the newest one. 
I first found out about this guy, a short while ago while watching a funny clip from the Colbert Report, about the ABC [...]

September 6, 2006

Bundle O’ Links – VII

For your reading enjoyment:

8 Important lessons learned from 80's Cartoons:  Pretty funny, but you know, some of it actually makes sense!
Skyp Phones without PC: very very cool, if only it was cheaper.
Alcohol-based fuel cars make up 77% of Brazil's market: This is absolutely great, and should be adopted everywhere else too.
What should i [...]