What is going on? Why so many links this week?

• Pakistani Canadian suspect in a plan to assassinate the Danish "Mohammed" cartoonist is engaging in a battle of public images.
• A nifty profile of Bay-Area-based Fil Am women's bantam weight boxing world champ Ana Julaton. (Video of her above.)
• Campbell, CA elects a 26-year-old gay man as mayor. Evan Low is the nation's youngest As Am mayor and youngest Chi Am elected official. 
• Artist Won Park's dollar bill origami. More images.
• Hawaii's tiny Ohana Pacific Bank, catering to Korean Americans, is in trouble.
• Senate confirms Judge Jacqueline Nguyen to federal district court. She is the first Viet Am to serve in such a capacity.
• Portland now has a Korean taco truck.
• Sacramento JA plastic surgeon sentenced to nearly four years in prison for touching and photographing his female patients' genitals.
• Thanks to Bernice Yeung, we now know that Friendster is set to relaunch targeting only blind and deaf Asians with no interest in connecting to the rest of the world.
• A new book claims that Indian American wedding rituals are Bollywood influenced.
• A defunct cafe in Salinas, CA, where As Ams came together, is being turned into an Asian American cultural center with the help of federal funding and HUD.
• Tennis champs Michael Chang and Cecil Mamiit raised nearly $10k for typhoon victims in an exhibition game in Orange County.
• Cupertino, CA becomes the third city in the US with an As Am city council majority.
• An interesting editorial from Detroit claims that immigrants, especially Desis, power the US's scientific progress.
• US Gov sponsors formation of the American Pakistan Foundation, to be co-chaired by Former US secretary of state Colin Powell and ex-prime minister of Pakistan Moeen Qureshi. It's Sec'y Clinton's brainchild.
• An Iranian American Dem is running for governor of Florida. I really want to make a hanging chads joke, but can't think of one.
• NIAC head Trita Parsi wins Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order," and $200k.
• The Fox Valley, WI Hmong American Partnership is losing its federal funding due to success. Time to do that fundraising thing.
• This post is eyeing two Asian American potential candidates for the 2011 San Francisco mayoral race -- assuming Gavin Newsom will be governor by then.
• 67 years late, UC San Francisco gives interned JA students their degrees.
• A Milwaukee Hmong American woman is prosecuting her husband for allegedly raping and buying her from her parents when she was 12.
• A Long Island Pakistani Am convenience store owner spares a robber's life and gives him $40 to feed his family. Later, the robber sends him a thank you letter with $50 inside. The link also has a video of the robbery.
• 30 Asian students were targeted for physical violence at South Philadelphia High School Thursday, part of ongoing racial tensions between African and Asian American students.
• Japan considers addressing Japanese/American parental abduction issue.
• KoreAm FBI agent BJ Kang is behind big Wall Street arrests.
• Christian publishers make racist jokes, too. Fortunately, they're quicker to correct themselves.

And finally, on Ahmedinanigans Watch:

• Iran is now harrassing members of the diaspora who are criticizing the current regime on the internet, especially on social networking sites. Their families in Iran are being threatened.