bahais in iran

the cradle of the bahai faith - iran - has been persecuting the bahais since the inception of the faith. in the recent years there as been an increased discrimination of the bahais. on of the many act of discrimination includes expelling bahai students from the universities (and even denying them admittance) based solely upon them being bahais. other act of persecution include the destruction of grave sites, harassment and detainment of bahais, and attacks upon the bahais through the media. this is a grave issue and i hope that anyone who has the opportunity will help stop this and the many injustices which are happening to the bahais of iran.

thanks

links that are worth noting:

congressman from illinois writing about the persecution (link) - thanks to afshin for the headsup
bahai news service with the latest on the persecution (link)
bahai news service on the students (link)

new fav song

yesterday i was surfing the internets and i was alerted to the song "crank dat". i think it was pretty popular in the us this summer. but being a european we get everything a little late. so i heard the song, downloaded it within few minutes and the songs has now has become my ringtone. the sound of "yoooouuuuuuuuu" cracks me up everytime my phone rings.



and here is a link for instructions to the dance (l.i.n.k.)

now i am gonna back to doing the superman...

cassette?

i saw a link about this amazingly old school mp3 player, its pretty simple: 1. insert sd card w. music on it. 2a. plug headphones in and jam, or 2.b put it in cassette player and jam.


i would invest in one if i had a cassette player or knew someone who owned one. i might actually have to get one. you can get your cassette to play kanyes newest hits on here (link)

enjoy


thanks to formatmag for making me aware of this

great way to make graffiti

Check this:



dude does clean graffitti. pretty well done.

is the blog still alive?

after a longer hiatus i am back. i'll give a short recap of my life for those who actually read this and havent talked to me for a while. as always in bullet form with some pictures.

i managed to get around this summer. i am pretty proud of my efforts. i am also happy for every one of you that i saw.

• first i hit up norway - saw the sunnivator and her amazing family. her family is really hospitable always worth a visit, sunniva is pretty nice too. i brought my brother (alx) a long, he is a norway lover - he is probably going to study there.
  

• second was some small country (which is the whipping boy of group f in euro quals.), liechtenstein. seeing as we (dad, alx and i) drove from denland to italy, we needed to stay somewhere on the way. bettina was nice enough to show the whole country. it is a pretty cool sight, definately worth a visit. bettinas family is pretty nice too.

• i would like to make this statement: i love italy. this is despite all the obvious faults the italians have - which actually is a part of the amazing charm of this country. my italian is horrible, i understand a few words and people understand a few of my words. saw some bahais, all were late - meaning i had to stand and look pretty lost in both siena and bologna. they have nice train stations. thanks.
  
• my family and friends of the family showed up from all over the western hemisphere to celebrate my parents collective 100th birthday for a week. which was awesome.

• lastly i managed to go home to greenland and see the mountains and enjoy the rain. when it doesnt rain nuuk is one of the most amazing cities and everything comes alive. people everywhere smiling and enjoying it. i also managed to become quite proficient at playing wii golf and tennis. might have to invest in one of those...
  

i would recommend that everyone who likes rap, to listen to kanye's new cd "graduation". good cd, still trying to find a favorite song on there and decipher the lyrics. but i like "good morning", "good life" "homecoming" and "the glory". i am not keen on the song with mos def "drunk & hot girls" and "stronger" lives on the strength of the sample from daft punk (everyone who has slept on daft punk's "discovery" should listen to that cd immidiately)


in other news i am still in århus studying political science. i have heard this will be a hard semester, we have 3 courses: 2 mandatory, policy analysis and public management. and i am taking a course about cost-benefit analysis as a scientific phenomenon (we will be reading a book called "global crisis, global solutions"). the last course will be interesting, the first course is ok too. public management is not that interesting. at least i will be able to prioritize between global issues when i am done with this semester.

thats all for now.