Online activists come to the aide of Iran

This is great. A reader just wrote me to say that the PirateBay, the Web's lead download site (judging by the name, I'm guessing their prices can't be beat), has changed its masthead. There is no masthead at all, but if you move your mouse up to the top half of the page, and let your mouse sit still for a few seconds, you'll see the phrase "The Persian Bay" appear. If you click, the site links to:

http://iran.whyweprotest.net/

And the masthead: Anonymous Iran.

You may remember "Anonymous." They're the guerrilla online activists taking on the Scientologists. Anonymous, with the support of the Pirate Bay, have set up a site to help Iranians interested in using the Internet to aide their battle - and you can tell it's real because it's the same URL that Anonymous uses. This is very cool. I'm just fascinated to see online, well, I won't say anarchists, but folks who aren't per se involved in politics, suddenly take up the cause of human rights in a country half a world away.

It's just terribly terribly cool.

Maybe they can help us next.

This is Anonymous' now-famous Scientology video on YouTube.