one of the most common ways for a person to express his or herself on the internet is to go to blogspot, sign up, and thanks to the people over at blogger, instantly start blogging

unless you live in saudi arabia

what might have blacklisted all of blogspot is the site of “the religious policeman”

this is a western-educated saudi fellow who, via satellite internet (which cannot be censored), has taken the courageous step of posting his experiences, thoughts, observations, and outright criticisms of the way saudi arabia works

of course, the thought of any mode of expression which cannot be regulated is a severely distressing thought for those in power anywhere

at york university, it’s megaphones

there are ways to by-pass the censorship, however

go on google, type up “muttawa,” the first page that appears is the one in question
now clicking on the link itself will lead to the above-displayed, superbly designed “blocked!” notice, so click, instead, on the underlined “cached” under the description of the page — and enjoy

as for the blocking of blogspot itself, other services such as livejournal, though it sucks, are still available
again, a simple google search will bring out a great list of blogging and journal-keeping sites

can’t keep on censoring things forever

so what’s up with posting spam in the comments of my site?

either it’s some really stupid american typing stuff up in the box to make a buck or two or it’s someone only slightly less stupid using a script to automatically send out messages of viagra and propecia and whatnot

they should advertise viagara on yaser’s site … he’s the one who needs it

miserable failure

(for those who don’t know, go on google and type “miserable failure” — it now points to michael moore…

for those who want to keep it pointed at bush, copy and paste:

<a href=”http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html”>miserable failure</a>

ciao)

i) his first miracle was to change water into bacardi
ii) he respected martin luther king jr. but acted like malcolm x
iii) he wore baggy ‘phat kibbutz’ clothing
iv) his rap outfit: jay-c and da dirty dozen
v) he consorted with ho’s
and
vi) he was always being chased by the police

[if this offends you, remember — what would jesus do, ma nizzle?]

the most worthy thing on the web right now

i’ve added my long-time friend raymond sam as a guest author on the blog

so that he can rant away anytime he feels like it

you go ray

http://www.despair.com/loneliness.html

(got that off niall’s msn name)

also, a happy hanukkah to all the jews i know

which is none

but happy hanukkah anyway

now because i had a physics lab that day i sent aasim to get that interview with irshad manji
which he did, with fahad’s — poor chap — tape recorder (poor chap because i still have it, and he won’t get it back until school starts)
and then i transferred the bloody interview into mp3
and now i’m transcribing it into word
and it’s onerous
to transcribe it you have to keep replaying parts to make sure you don’t mistype anything
so i keep hearing the same things over and over and over again
and dear god it’s horrifying

i’d much rather go watch tv

if genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
i must be really smart

alternatively

if genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
why the hell didn’t edison just invent anti-perspirant?
better yet, air conditioning?