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March 27, 2006

Iraqi blogger 'Salam Pax' (Dear Raed) speaks in Calif.; 'Raed' in New Orleans; New Hapland game

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Spartan Daily, San Jose, Calif.
'Salam Pax,' left, the Iraqi blogger, and Mitch Berman, Director of the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University.

Baghdad blogger in U.S.: Remember Iraqi blogger "Salam Pax" and his Dear Raed blog from the first months after the invasion?

"Salam Pax" -- his pseudonym means peace in two languages, and persists to this day for security reasons -- spoke Thursday night in San Jose, Calif. The student newspaper, the Spartan Daily, offers this report by Ryan Sholin (Iraqi blogger opens window on wartime Baghdad) and the first photo I've seen of "Salam."

The Iraqi blogger known as Salam Pax stepped onto a stage at an American university for the first time Thursday at San Jose State University's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library.

Around 200 students, faculty, staff and community members filled a second floor lecture hall as Pax spoke about the experience of posting his thoughts online as coalition troops advanced on Baghdad.

"I thought that the moment the bombs would drop, that would be the last time I was blogging," Pax said....

MetroActive's Vrinda Normand interviewed 'Pax' from London before the appearance.

Related: Raed Jarrar -- Salam's friend in Jordan named in the title of his blog -- was in New Orleans recently, volunteering in the Katrina cleanup and covering his first Mardi Gras with lots of photos.


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Hapland 3
is out, the latest in this inventive series of games from 19-year-old Robin Allen (story).

Unless you have to days to spend, you may need to peek at a walkthrough.

If the word "Hapland" doesn't ring a bell, try Hapland 1 and Hapland 2 first.

Allen's also the game maker behind Escape from Rhetundo Island.

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