News for nerds, Stuff that matters

I discovered slashdot a few month ago. It was exactly what I was looking for.

There are polls in this site like: What kind of music do you code to?. I personally listen to Rock and Metal music while coding C++.

A comment under Blogging in Iran Takes Courage reads: we're all so much freer and safer, and Iraq is a beautiful paradise! Hey, why don't you book your next vacation for Baghdad, we could use a few less blathering idiots voting in the states.

And two comments under Drinking Alcohol May Extend Your Life read: I still find it interesting that at 18 you're allowed join the military and die but you're not allowed to drink alcohol. and To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!

There is still hope

Right now I have decided not to give up. So I will try my best to:

• Remain healthy and young
• Contribute to the society
• Do my best to make myself and everybody around me happy
• Believe that finding true love,though hard, is not impossible.

Yeah

Major Depression 2

The earth is a mass grave in which 6 billion people are buried alive

Four biggest Microsoft innovations

• Blue Screen of Death
• DLL hell
• Windows registry
• Built-in APIs designed to help virus writers

Major Depression

Yes, I am falling... How much longer till I hit the ground?

--Anathema

Knowlege or money?

Which one do you prefer? well that was a popular essay topic in elementary school in Iran. Strangely I never had to write an essay about it. In fact I'm not really sure. Anyway, how much all the things you have learned from Wikipedia is worth? Please consider donating.

Why I will never have a child

I am just afraid that after s/he grows up, s/he tells me that s/he would rather not have been born into this world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease, with 100% mortality

--fortune

And they lived happily ever after

I want to be happy. But what is happiness?

Well, from Chobits happiness is defined as being with someone you love.

But who do I love? I suppose someone who loves me back. If you can understand the me, then I can understand the you. Wait a minute! What is love anyway? I guess you love someone if you are happy when you are with him/her.

Damn it, another infinite recursion...

Infinite recursion

#include <string>

// I think I can't trust my thoughts anymore.

std::string thoughts()
{
    return "Do not trust these " + thoughts();
}

Paintings by an Iranian artist

These paintings have an Iranian essence. I found them on Iman Maleki's website.

This painting titled A girl by the window reminds me of my sister.

This one titled End of examinations reminds me of childhood.

And this one called Memory of that house reminds me of my grandmother's house.

Religion

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H.L. Mencken, "Minority Report"

Iraq war

Squad leader and Staff Sgt. Lonnie Roberts stands at attention as troops from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team pay last respects to their fallen comrade, Pvt. Gregory Huxley, during a memorial for the 19-year-old in Baghdad. (Photo by David Leeson) © 2003 The Dallas Morning News

Baghdad - Mohammed Saleem, 18 months, lies in a coffin at a Sadr City morgue. Relatives said the boy and four other family members were killed in their car when U.S. forces opened fire overnight. (Photo by Karim Kadim, June 6, 2004) © 2004 Associated Press