High and Dry

People play in an empty swimming pool in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike ! In Bangkok, Thailand

A picture is worth a thousand words

This picture was taken by a friend who lost his foot in a motorcycle accident. He was recently released from hospital.



this photo makes me think a lot .

Wild Ride

Indian army soldiers perform a stunt during the pre-celebrations of Vijay Diwas, a ceremony to celebrate the liberation of Bangladesh by the Indian Armed forces,in Kolkata, India.



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Cover

Journalists reporting on the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, keep low to the ground to avoid stray bullets.


© 2008 Time Inc. All rights reserved

To Infinity and Beyond

The Buzz Lightyear balloon makes its way through Times Square during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

Time.com

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optical illusion

If you don't like scary things or think that something scary may be
detrimental to your health, we advise you not to view this optical illusion.

Children... make sure your parents tell you that its okay
to view this optical illusion!

Click here to view the image.

you should have flash player to view that.

Balatarin stereogram

Here is the Balatarin stereogram. If you cant see try this for English users and this for persian users.

Awesome Concussion Waves

USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of nine 16"/50 and six 5"/38 guns.

Photographed by PHAN J. Alan Elliott.

This Guy is the Definition of Cool

I have never seen such a surfing.

Lunch

What a Great lunch!

balatarin wallpaper

Now I have Prepared a Wallpaper For Balatarin.com in which I used the digg's wallpaper.

Enjoy of being a member of Balatarin.com .

Click on the center of the image to open the high resolution image.

Here is a description of Balatarin :

Balatarin, which means the highest in Persian, is a community website that helps its users to find the best links on the Internet that interest Iranian Internet users around the world. Registered users can post links to interesting articles. Those links initially go to the "recently posted" page. Once a link gets enough positive votes, it is moved to the top of the front page, which provides more visibility.

Balatarin has a completely unique non-conventional credibility system built in that prevents it from running into problems that similar websites such as digg.com have run into. Each user has a credibility that increases over time based on the activities and contributions of the user to Balatarin. The amount of the credibility of each user in turns determines their level of allowed activity in each 24-hour period . This prevents overactive, inexperienced, new users from lowering the quality of Balatarin.

Balatarin is the first website in the wave of Web 2.0 websites in Persian. It is written using Ruby on Rails and uses MySQL for its database. It was launched on August 16, 2006. The website is continually being improved. There are currently 19454 registered users and so far they have posted 459317 links to Balatarin.