Backpack is the most popular link on del.icio.us. I’m giving it a try.

Blo-Boz experiments drinking hot Coca-Cola. Don’t try this at home.

Two quotes from Haifaa al-Mansur’s interview:

“I think a woman must be proud of her identity.”

“If a women chose to cover her face, I respect her choice. But I also want people to respect my choice.”

Matt Haughey is not the only one to moblog the birth of his daughter. Here is an Egyptian blogger who starts a blog for his new daughter. He says he will be blogging on her own blog until she starts writing!

Wahabis will not like this: After Thomas Friedman nominating him for the Nobel Prize, Jamal Khashggi is nominating Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani for King Faisal Prize for serving Islam, the most prestigious prize of its kind.

MSNBC says Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaidan, chief justice of Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Judicial Council, has encouraged Saudis to fight in Iraq in an audio tape secretly recorded at a government mosque last October. Sheikh al-Luhaidan denies it. I’m not really sure about this. I will try to find out more, and I’ll let you know.

Full transcript of the Turki al-Dakheel’s interview with Haifaa al-Mansur.