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18 April 2008
The Chosen Keyboard
For a long time there have been only a few options if you wanted Hebrew on your keyboard. Your options were to spend two hours pasting stickers onto your keyboard like a 5 year old doing a bad Science Fair Project (cursing yourself repeatedly for getting every single sticker crooked), or to buy a keyboard [...]
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11 April 2008
Bibleman vs. The Jews
While I have never really heard of Christian television, aside from things like “the 700 Club,” apparently there is a whole culture of Christian television. The Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian television network with over “275 television stations in the U.S. and on thousands of other cable television systems around the world in 75 countries” [...]
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10 April 2008
MTV Releases Holocaust PSA
A few weeks ago, MTV posted some interesting new videos as part of their Think Campaign, which tries to make it so that ” you, your friends, and your favorite celebrities can get informed, get heard and take action on the issues that matter to you most.” Two of these Public Service Announcements focus on [...]
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9 April 2008
The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines
I just stumbled on a Wired article from November of 2004 which profiles Jonah Ottensoser, an engineer for the Star-K. “A retired helicopter engineer who is himself Orthodox, Ottensoser teaches Sabbath law to technical teams at companies like General Electric, Electrolux, and Viking. His job: to guide them in building electronic brains and mechanical guts [...]
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2 April 2008
What Jews Should Know About Brazil’s Entry From This Year’s Academy Awards
There was a lot of buzz around this year’s Academy Awards. One of the films that was generating a significant amount of buzz because of its unusualness was Brazil’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is titled “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation” and it is unique because the story revolves [...]
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13 February 2008
Would you let someone shoot you with a puke ray?
Sharon Weinberger has written an article for Wired’s Danger Room about her experience as the subject of a test involving a Sonic Blaster at a Jeruslaem hotel.
Sharon’s reaction when she first heard about the less-lethal weapon’s existence was “A puke ray? An honest-to-God puke ray? Right here in Jerusalem?” I have to say that my [...]
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12 February 2008
Israel vs. Google
The city of Kiryat Yam is suing Google for a description which was posted on Google Earth that portrays the history of the city in a negative light.
The following is the description at issue:
“This is one of the Palestinian localities evacuated and destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. For basic information about this locality, including [...]
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8 February 2008
Israel’s Robots Part I: Suicide Bomber Inspection
In the past few days, Annalee Newitz, editor of IO9, has come under fire for the images that she posted of what appears to be a bomb disposal robot inspecting a suicide bomber who was lying dead on the ground. The robot was looking for a possible second round of explosives.
Israel uses robots extensively to [...]
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23 December 2007
The Halachot of Festivus
Festivus is celebrated each year on December 23rd. For the uninitiated, Festivus comes from a Seinfeld episode in which George Costanza’s father creates a holiday because he is sick and tired of the commercialism of the “holiday season,” you can read more about it here. What started as a sitcom plot point is now celebrated [...]
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5 September 2007
Teaching an old keyboard new tricks
So did you hear the big announcement today? No, not the iPod announcements coming from Moscone West, the other groundreaking announcement of the day. Getting little press today, because of the SteveNote, is a small application released by Microsoft called The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator that has major impact on the Modern Orthodox Jew.
According to [...]