Free Lantern

I’m not updating as I’m on holidays. I’m taking a lot of photos for my photoblog and will be back soon! Enjoy this one and guess where I am! ;))

I haven’t been updating here often lately which partly is because of the busy month I had.

I’m sure you’ve already heard about the documentary movie from Bill Maher “Religulous” which I guess is going to be a really good movie (click here to watch the trailer). I saw the interview that John Stewart did with Bill Maher on the daily show, I thought I have to share it here (First part of the interview, second part).

The reason I’m not updating my blog are two:
First reason is that I’ve been too busy with work during the last weeks, even now that is Sunday I’ve spent it at work all day!
The second and maybe the main reason is that I’ve been trying to set up everything to move my blog to WordPress. I decided to move from Movable type to wordpress because it is an OpenSource and on the other hand my webhost supports it better.
Movable Type is a great management system but unfortunately when you have the personal free version there is no support for it and also I had problems with some of the features in my host so I thought would be a good Idea to move to wordPress and move the weblog to the root of FreeLantern at the same time.
I still have to sort out some of the features here like my feed links and the tags of my previous posts and … but for the moment everything is up and running!
I’ve also started writing in Persian again here, so if you can read Persian you can also read my Persian weblog!

1- Simpson’s Avator! In the webpage of the new Simpson’s movie you can build your own Simpson’t avator! (There is a link on top of the page). It is really funny, even if you’re not a fan of Simpson’s. Here is the one that I made of myself…

2- “Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life? “ SCROOGLED is a great fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, which is published in 5 parts in Radar magazine. (for the other parts see 2, 3, 4, 5) My good friend Jadi has also translated it to Persian, you can read it here.

3- Dr. Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University is building organs in his lab. Watch this video, he gets the bladder cells from the patients and cultures them in incubator and creates a new bladder that can be transplanted back to the patients without the problem of rejection. It is a pity that his homepage in the university is very brief.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help in the greatest of all causes – goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Albert Einstein

With this quote from Einstein I start this weblog.
My name as you see is Ali! I’m Iranian, came to Germany in 2002 to do my PhD and now am working as a Post Doctoral Biochemist here. I used to write with the nick name Alius in a group Persian weblog which has been filtered inside the country probably because of the subjects it was discussing (human rights and nonviolence!).
So I decided to write about my interests and hobbies here, human rights, Nonviolence, Science and many other things. I guess if you want to know more about me you can read this weblog.
If you like you can also check out my Bookstore for my favorite books and DVD’s.
English is not my mother tongue so if I make mistakes in writing I’d be happy to receive friendly corrections.

If you happen to link to here add a comment so that I’ll add you to my list of friends.