Deema, a new Saudi blogger, is celebrating her birthday. Happy birthday, Deema. Your gift in on the way to you! Well, I think it got lost in the mail or something :-)

Microsoft are trying to find a new name for RSS. It is not the first attempt to rename it. It seems that RSS is too geeky to some (most?) people. Here is a quick question: Do you know what RSS is?

Mohammed Khatami, the former Iranian president, told al-Hayat newspaper in an interview, that he is convinced that a woman could become a president in the Islamic Republic.

Why consumers order a smaller size of Coke when passing through the drive-through than when ordering indoors at the counter?

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Juan Cole has written a good post. He says: “The American Right, having created the Mujahideen and having mightily contributed to the creation of al-Qaeda, abruptly announced that there was something deeply wrong with Islam, that it kept producing terrorists.”

Jimbo Wales, creator of the Wikipedia project, says, “[t]he second thing that will be free is a complete curriculum (in all languages) from Kindergarten through the University level.” This is interesting. Health-related college students, like me, have to pay for expensive textbooks they hardly can afford. I think this is simply great.