It is, until you think about the fact that most of those cars don't have catalytic converters, anyway.
Did you see that commenters left "notes" saying "that's my car!"?
The "notes" function is under-used, in my opinion.
4: This, certainly. I'll often click a photo that would've gone un-clicked: "This photo has notes?! I must know why."
There are, literally, about five kinds of car on the road in Iran (there are smatterings of nice cars, but those five must account for something like 90% of the cars).
It kind of bothers me that the notes boxes show up at first. I'd rather they didn't show up until mouseover. It kinda ruins the first impression of the photo.
Looking at the pictures of Tehran, I was most struck by the one of the Damien Hirst exhibition at their MoCA. The idea of a Museum of Contemporary Art, especially one with an exhibit like that one, just seems so Western.
I always get upset with myself when I see something like that and am surprised by it - intellectually, I know Iran isn't the backwards country that our government wants us to believe and that a lot of the people there are really engaged with the rest of the world. So I don't know why I'm sometimes surprised to hear basic things like their capital city has a modern art museum.
6: The notes don't show up for me unless I put the cursor within the area of the photo.
7: 'Cause your exposure to Iranians is primarily ogged, maybe?
9 - Oh, believe me that before I knew Ogged, I was even more ignorant. The Iranian-American community should sponser an "adopt a clueless American" program or something. Changing minds one person at a time.
6: The notes don't show up for me unless I put the cursor within the area of the photo.
When you first load the photo, it doesn't show the note boxes?
Oh, I see what you mean. You have to click on the screen outside of the photo for the boxes to disappear. I hadn't noticed that.
Alas, my poor country. Of course there are backward rural parts, as there are anywhere, but it's the most internetical country in the mid-east (I think) and everyone and his mother has a blog.
Yes, I cringed as I posted 7. It's such an unfair rap.
11: I don't in IE.
I maintain that you're wrong. Wrong!
everyone and his mother has a blog.
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16: weird. I'd give you screen shots as proof, but this laptop doesn't have a "print screen" button (it's my roommate's).
I've also heard that internet usage (and blogging in particular) is huge in Iran.
But I found this, which seems to say otherwise.
19: That link seems to show that Iran has the highest overall internet usage, probably just because of its population, while the Gulf monarchies have the highest per capita usage. Oddly, Egypt doesn't seem to be included.
Some classifications don't include Egypt as part of the Middle East because it's geographically in Africa.
Weirder is that Turkey's not on there.
I was surprised that Jordan had a higher percentage than Iran.
20: Wasn't much worse than watching the Panthers melt down last night.
Some classifications don't include Egypt as part of the Middle East because it's geographically in Africa.
Yeah, this makes sense but culturally it's all sorts of wrong.
I was surprised that Jordan had a higher percentage than Iran.
I'm not too surprised, but that may just be because Marc Lynch is always talking about Jordanian blogs and stuff. It's not a much higher percentage, and Iran's a much bigger country.
No, but Jordan is heavily rural. That's why I was surprised. Then again, I have a friend who did Peace Corps in Jordan and she talked about seeing guys whipping it out while looking at porn in the village internet cafe.
Marc Lynch is always talking about Jordanian blogs because he's always talking about blogs in the ME, and he's spent a lot of time in Jordan.
12% internet penetration doesn't strike me as all that high even for a mainly rural country.
Oh, all of a sudden, teo's the resident penetration expert?
I've been looking at some of the other stats, and I've concluded that 12% does indeed seem unusually high for a primarily rural country. Guess those Jordanians just love them some internet.
(This comment officially renounces my claim to be the resident penetration expert.)
(This comment officially renounces my claim to be the resident penetration expert.)
Were you ever in danger of being taken for that?
Dude, I apologize if this is the most fucking obvious comment ever, but I just googled "daily dose of imagery", javanrouh, and "topleftpixel.com" site:unfogged.com, and I can't find any evidence that you know about this. I'm sure I must be wrong, but just in case not, I'd feel bad not mentioning this. This being--The. Most. Wonderful.Photoblog.Ever. Seriously, Daily Dose of Imagery is my blog cocaine and eye porn. I don't look at it every day, but when I'm sad, I go and binge.
Probably one of my favorite photos is this one of the Road to Masouleh. More. Another good Iranian one, with a neat magnifier thing--Darband Tea shop. But here are some ones of Tehran. He makes Toronto look like magic--so much so, he's raised it very high on cities I want to visit.
On a completely random note--Ogged or anyone else--do you know what my name means in Persian? Every now and then someone tells me it's also a name in Persian.
That's a nice photoblog (Daily Dose, etc) but there are others I prefer: more photojournalistic stuff. Don't have them bookmarked on this PC, unfortunately.
Quarlo is worth checking out, though.
Walter Molotov's blog is nice:
http://photoblog.jbuhler.com/index.php?showimage=621
I can't find the citation, but my recollection is not only does Iran have a disproportionate number of bloggers (relative to other industrialized countries), but a large number of people not living in Iran are blogging in Farsi.
Which doesn't even count the Oggeds of the world.
I used to firmly believe Iran was a civilized country, now that I know Ogged, I have my doubts.
Becks or whoever,
Since yesterday, when I open a comment window, it opens in a new, full-sized browser window instead of the normal, smaller-sized comment window. Have tried turning off all of my FireFox add ons, but nothing works. Any ideas?
I don't think we've changed anything here, Sam.
Thanks, Saheli. I didn't know about those sites. It does remind me that I should put up some of my photos from Iran.
(No idea what your name means in Farsi. I'll try to remember to ask someone.)
Does anyone know how to manipulate FF settings (in about:config perhaps) so that I can manually set how big new windows should be? This is really bugging me. My monitor is sorta big, so it's very awkward to read full-sized windows without margins.
32: Sahil is Arabic for "smooth" (and, by extension, "easy"); that's probably the ultimate origin.
"Sahel" is a word (Arabic?) designating the area in Africa south of the Sahara. "Saheli" would probably mean "someone from the Sahel", on the model of Iraqi, Pakastani, etc.
"Sahel" might generally mean "semi-desert" as opposed to true desert, in which case it has the same meaning as "Gobi" in Mongolian.
That's the same sahil I mentioned in 42; in this context it means "grassland" (from the flatness). It can also mean a coastal plain. The name is probably just the feminine of the adjective rather than an indication of geographic origin, since the feminine of that would be something like sahiliya. That's assuming, of course, that the suffix was added in Arabic rather than Persian or some other language.
