The Summer Games often seem like a geography lesson. People will ask each other "where’s that?" during the opening ceremony, or maybe say "I forgot about them" following an upset. So now’s as good a time as any for Google AdSense to introduce a Western Union payment option in some smallish countries.
Iran Bans Western Web Sites
Iran yesterday blocked a number of top Web sites. Among them are YouTube, Web encyclopedia, Wikipedia and Amazon.com. Other sites that are being censored are the online movie database IMBD.com, news services like the New York Times and BBC Farsi.