Bloggerheads is back, at temporary address

Tim Ireland’s blog Bloggerheads, one of the blogs taken down by Alisher Usmanov and his lawyers Schillings, is back at a temporary address: b-heads.blogspot.com.

Tim is asking people to link to the temporary site to give it greater visibility:

Bloggers who support the cause of free speech; please add this blog to your blogroll. This will ensure greater visibility in search engines while I’m kicking arse and taking names. Cheers.

Happy to oblige you, Tim.

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From The Spine:

Man causing climate change

The BBC website has a headline “Man causing climate change“.

Well obviously we need to find out who this man is, and stop him.

Akbar Ganji’s open letter

Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist and dissident. On the occasion of President Ahmadinejad’s recent trip to the USA, Ganji wrote an open letter to Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations.

I think the letter deserves the widest possible audience, so here is the text in full (via Crooked Timber):