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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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12 February 2008
New Jet Will Get You from New York to Tel Aviv in Under 3 Hours
Imagine flying to Israel and back in a day and still being able to get in a whole day’s worth of work, play and spiritual uplifting. That could be a possibility in the next fifteen years if the A2 Hypersonic Airliner takes flight according to plan.
Dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” the A2 will fly [...]
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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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7 February 2008
The Wisdom of the Ancient World Gets Some Good Press!
An article in Slate Magazine from April 10, 1998, by Steven E. Landsburg, discusses the way in which modern economic theory backs up the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud. How I stumbled across this article about a week ago I really don’t remember, but I’ve been thinking about it constantly ever since.
I just think [...]
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31 January 2008
Israel and the Electric Car
Last week the Israeli government released a statement announcing that they would begin work on the world’s first electric car network. This bold project is intended to relieve Israel’s dependency on foreign oil as well lower the country’s carbon emissions. The Israeli government is hopeful that this initiative will be completed by 2011. Shimon Peres [...]
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20 December 2007
Jewish Geography and Social Networking
I have had the pleasure of living in many different cities in my life time. 3 countries, 2 continents, 5 Yeshivas, and as any good American I only speak English well, but as a good Jew does I can play Jewish Geography with the best of them. Someone’s uncle usually ate at my dad’s restaurant [...]
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10 October 2007
Google Leaks State Secrets
Israel has a secret in the Negev. Well, not so much a secret but rather a rumor that the Israeli government has never taken the time to confirm or deny. If Israel were ever to officially confirm this rumor it would create a significant international incident involving the United Nations and dozens of regulatory committees. [...]
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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 [...]