What will happen?

Neda, pictured above, killed in street violence, may be the face of the opposition.  A strong young woman, determined to have her voice heard, and killed in the process.

REVOLUTION!

It’s official:  Iran is experiencing a revolution!  The developments that have happened since my last full post have proven this to me and will soon prove it to the world.  Let me explain some of the major developments, in as close to a chronological order as I can (though it is hard considering the news [...]

Post Iranian Elections – Day 6

I thought about explaining a lot of things in this post, but after reading a fantastic BBC article I decided I would simply post the link:
BBC Iran and protests of the past.
However, let me discuss some important developments:
1. Mohammad Asgari – the head of IT security for the Interior Minister and the man responsible for [...]

Graphic Video

I want to warn you this video is graphic, but it simply displays some of what is happening behind the scenes in Iran.  The cameraman here, a private citizen shows his own bloody hand in the scene, but still continues filming while running:

Protesters Find Voice on Web

A protest picture of Esfahan, Iran in the historic Naghshe Jahan Square:

Websites abound in support of Iranian protesters, here are a few:
Twitter – Helping protesters communicate and organize.  Stayed open despite desperate need to repair site.
Pirate Bay – Protesting and pirating.
BBC – The same news organization that helped the revolution succeed against the tyrant shah [...]

Dan Carlin

History, Politics and Current Affairs are the topics covered by Dan on his two podcasts.  I came across his commentaries at work.  There a multiple times a week that I have to work on a really monotonous, mind-numbing tasks that would pass slower than an Alaskan winter, if it were not for podcasts.  But, as [...]

The Beginning of a New Era

Barack Hussein Obama II is now the 44th President of the United States of America.

The Economic Metaphor

 
 
 
USA = Kids
Europe & Japan = Needy friends
China & Arabs = Parents
Rest of the World = Our roommates
Let me oversimplify this economic disaster for a little second.  I wrote a long discourse on this mess a few months ago, but now that more light has shed on the liquidity issues it is a little more [...]

Will the LHC be the end of me??

Today was special. The Large Hadron Collider fired it’s first beams this morning around 3:36 AM Central time.
That begs the questions – what the heck is the Large Hadron Collider? Which James Bond movie did they pull this idea from? How dangerous is 14 TeV? Who the F%^# cares??

Hell’s Kitchen season finale

I think I just heard a collective “Damn it!” from The Microcosm faithful at the end of the Hell’s Kitchen season four finale.
No, our boy Petrozza did not win this season. Unfortunately, he fell prey to some poor organization skills and lackluster prepping in the final episode. He still made it close with some clutch [...]