Have a good weekend!

Greg's Digital Portfolio (Popdex)

President of Brazil seems to be a pretty cool guy!

78 differences between women and men.

Fight over a stolen domain: Owner of the swiped domain can sue Verisign.

You are gonna love this one! :-) A basic guide on how to keep your parents off the net! It's hilarious! :-)

How geeks became chicks.

Davis/Arnold?!

Ever wanted to find out if a famous person is dead or alive?

Pictures of a real armed robbery.

The original Dancing Jakob Nielsen!

The history of the world in ten seconds.

And, a very interesting food timeline.

Have ever tried to catch a fly with chopsticks? [Flash Game]

Here are some very interesting pictures of Tehran by Salah Sevi, a photographer from Turkey.

Everybody knows that web technology rocks, but not everyone knows that it rocks a big deal! The new ideas/technologies recently featured on /var/log/blog are just a few examples of how the Internet and the World Wide Web can changes our lives and make our lives easier (and happier?).

Friendster is an online community that connects people through networks of friends for dating or making new friends.

Imagine inviting a bunch of friends to this service and marking them as your friends. They will build their profile and invite their friends as well. This story goes on and on, making a huge network of friends and buddies where every person has a list of buddies and they are the ones who are connected to that particular person through a link in a graph where people are its nodes. And best of all, friend lists are public and available to everybody.

You may have heard that everyone on Earth is separated from anyone else by no more than six degrees of separation, or six friends of friends of friends. Here is another web site that was trying to prove/experiment Six Degrees of Separation and show how small the world can be (apparently, it's down now).

The cool fact about Friendster is their company is just a couple of blocks away from where I work! (Another fact that shows how small the world can be!)

Last but not least, you might want to check out Friendster's rival: Introvertster. It is an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harassing you online! :-) [Love their Logo!]

That's it I'm dead. Last words heard in the airplanes before they crash.

More MP3s | Crash Videos | CVR collections

(Through Metafilter)

Muir Woods National Monument is the best tree-lovers monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world according to John Muir. (History)

We went on a ten-mile hike yesterday. Well, it wasn't supposed to be that long; but thanks to our professional hiker and genius Navigator "Bahram", we somehow got lost during our adventure to find the ocean without a map and had to go around the park and roll down as quickly as possible to beat the sunset.

But seriously, it was a pretty good hike, lots of old-growth redwood, mysterious rivers and beautiful wild flowers.

Oh, here are some pictures from the last hiking trip to Castle Rock. (Personal favorites: Link | Flower | Lizard)

ISNA has published an interview with me on electronic publishing and copyright in Iran.

Skypic.com has an excellent collection of wonderful arial photos featuring New England, Florida, California, Caribbean, and National Parks.

Joseph R. Melanson: We show your world from a higher perspective.

More than 6000 photos in these galleries: Alcatraz (SF) | Downtown San Francisco | Treasure Islan | Grand Canyon | Niagara Falls | More Galleries

On July 28, 2003, Badi Badiozamani, Ph.D. filed papers to run as a candidate for Governor in the Recall Election in the State of California. This the first time in history that a Persian-American is running for such a high office.

Dr. Badiozamani is running as an independent. His agenda includes saving California from bankruptcy through implementation of sound economic policies, bringing honesty and transparency to the government, and tackling the ever-increasing traffic problem.

(Interview with NBC San Diego)

Here are the links for this weekend! Enjoy!

iGlassWare by Mistubishi Research Labs, detects fluid levels via a high-resolution capacitance measurement and notifies the servers if it's lower than a certain level! (via Hoder)

Liquidman follows all your moves!

I wish I had seen Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics when I was studying Electronics!

This Persian Cat looks exactly like the one my ex-roommate Jeff has!

Blogstop: The last word from the latest post is up for grabs. It's the acronym for the next. (via MetaFilter)

Eight Questions that Freak Men Out! :-)

Quiz: Are these guys programming languages inventors or serial killers?! :-)

The walk-thru fog screen is a novel and intriguing method for forming a superior quality physically penetrable dry fog display.

You saw Mona Lisa in the above link... It's time to make over Mona Lisa now! [Flash] (Don't forget to click Randomona a couple of times!)

And, here are 101 things you don't want your system administrator to say!

A "Dishwasher" is God's greatest gift to us.

-Ahmad Anvari

An old Arab man lived alone in Idaho. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, Abdul, who used to help him, was being held by the FBI for aiding and abetting terrorists. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament.

Dear Abdul, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't able to plant my potato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me. Your Dad, Mohammad.

A few days later he received a letter from his son.

Dear Dad, For heaven's sake, don't dig up that garden, that's where I buried the biological weapons. Love, Abdul.

At 4 a.m. the next morning, F.B.I. agents and local police showed up and dug up the entire area without finding any weapons. They apologized to the oldman and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.

Dear Dad, Go ahead and plant the potatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances. Love, Abdul.