شاهتوت

There are some fruits that I miss from back home. شاهتوت is one of 'em. The white توت is another one. Sorry girls, zalzalak is not on the list.

Wikipeida calls شاهتوت black mulberry. Does anybody know of any orchards in the bay area or, sag khord, northern California who have شاهتوت ?

All About Weapons

I was bored out of my mind today at work; I think the economic downturn is showing up. Anyways, I started reading about weapons on Wikipedia. These are some of the links I could kill some time with:

List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces

List of martial arts weapons

Gun laws in the United States (by state)

I hope you have something to do ; )

Whiny Kids Make Conservative Adults. Really?

Sent by Nirmal on Apr 3, 2006.

There Are More Than Two Parties in the US

I hardly knew that there is a "Green Party" and lately had heard of "Libertarian". An email from a friend about "Faithless Elector", a person who casts a vote in the Electoral College, else than what they have pledged to sent me on a frenzy of clicks and hops through pages which resulted in my education about the different parties in the US today.

In an overall look, it looks that I am more inclined toward Libertarians. But I still need more education.

Dinkas of Sudan

I saw a program on the discovery channel about the Dinka of the Southern Sudan. It resulted in a frenzy of web searches. I found the above page with a lot of semi-professional videos which are pretty interesting.

It's Old But...

I just loved this piece:

من از مردن نمی ترسم
هراسم از نمردن زیر بار یوغ شیطان است
نه از جامانده های نسل بوسفیان
نه از بوجهل های حافظ قرآن
نه از افعی ضحاکان
من از تردیدهای کاوه می ترسم
من از ماندن به هر قیمت در این ویرانه می ترسم