Wikipedia Top 100

Take a look at Wikipedia's Top 100 articles viewed for the past week or so. Right now the site reads:

This tool shows the articles from the English Wikipedia that are viewed most. Statistics have been running for 6 days. This tool is still being tested. Some of the results may be false or misleading!

It going to be more realistic in a month or so but even now the results are kind of interesting. United States is number 3 followed by JonBennet Ramsey at #4...

3. United States
4. JonBenett Ramsey (Thanks to continuous efforts of CNN, MSNBC, and FOX)
5. List of big-bust models and performers
6. List of sex positions
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10. List of female porn stars
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12. Pornography
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17. Celebrity sex tape (I think people have mistaken Wikipedia with National Inquirerr!)
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32. Circumcision
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35. Nazi Germany
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41. Iran (Again thanks to continuous efforts of CNN, MSNBC, and FOX)
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83. Che Guevara (So there are some people out there who are not afraid of being called traitors)

OpenDocument Format (ODF)

Having been to several meetings lately where I have been tasked with submitting additional documentation, I have been exposed to the international Open Document Format. It is now anticipated that 50% of all governments and 20% of commercial organizations will require the format by 2010.

Here are two websites that you may want to look at:

• http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

God and the environment

Here is a question for the people who believe in God but deny global warming: how come when it comes to proving that God exists, the most common argument is that "you don't need to see something to know it exists" but when it comes to protecting the environment and stopping the global warming you are still "not sure if global warming exists"?!

I'm very tired of these so-called social conservatives and super religious people in this country. I really hope things change for better after 2008 elections.

Wallace on Ahmadinejad

Listen to what Mike Wallace says about Ahmadinejad after his interview in CBS's 60 Minutes last Sunday.

A Fly

I don't like making sterotypes but you have to admit the jokes are very funny; and in this case ironically true:

A Fly Falls in a Cup of Coffee

The English throws the coffee away, asks for an apology, then leaves the café.

The German invents a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee cups.

The French writes a cookbook on how properly to serve flies as a delicacy.

The American threateningly demands another cup of coffee.

The Russian adds vodka to his coffee and gulps it down, then asks for another cup.

The Mexican removes the fly and enjoys his coffee.

The Chinese eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

The dispossessed Palestinian drinks the coffee and eats the fly.

The Israeli:

- sells the coffee to the Americans and the fly to the Chinese
- cries that his security is endangered
- accuses the Palestinians of implanting the fly in his coffee
- pretends that Hezbollah, the Iranians and the Syrians are in the process of training terrorist fly squads
- decrees this act as an affront to the rights of man, an act of anti-Semitism, a holocaust and an act of discrimination against the people of Noah's ark
- orders immediately Mahmoud Abbas to arrest all flies and to forbid them from ever dropping into coffee cups
- reoccupies the Gaza strip, cuts water and electricity and destroys all fly habitation
- imposes on the Americans an additional much needed military assistance to fight the flies plus a few billion dollars in compensation for being subjected to the anti-Semitism of flies.

Thanks Negin.

Video: NSA is listening

Another viral email: look at this funny National Security Agency's Phone Monitoring Center cartoon.

Thanks Mondana.