February 2012
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Ecologists against the Jews. By Giulio Meotti
Environmentalists launch primitive diatribe against Israel that smacks of anti-Semitism
“The desert is groaning”, declares Cornerstone magazine, the Palestinian Sabeel Theology Center’s publication. “The Israeli army and settlers have polluted the Palestinian areas,” writes Reverend Naim Ateek, who heads the notorious anti-Jewish Christian center.
Despite the fact that Israel is the only...
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“Our situation is excellent”
– Syrian President Bashar Assad’s wife Asma to Jordanian queen Rania (on the occassion of Jordan’s Queen call to express concern over violence in Syria).
Asma Assad (L) and Jordan’s Queen Rania (Photos: EPA, AFP)
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Whatever happened to that battery?
Scientists develop mobile phone battery that can be charged in just 10 seconds
By DAVID DERBYSHIRE
Last updated at 7:31 PM on 11th March 2009
A revolutionary mobile phone battery that recharges in 10 seconds instead of several hours has been created by scientists. The new device charges 100 times as fast as a conventional battery and could also be used in phones, laptops, iPods and digital...
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Idea: Add Thsrs to Twitter. By David Friedman
Back in 2008 I launched Thsrs, an online Thesaurus that only returns synonyms shorter than your search query. It was intended for Twitter users who are having trouble staying under 140 characters. It’s still used frequently by a small group of people — a typical busy day sees a few hundred lookups — and I hear from copy editors who tell me how useful it is when they’re trying to write...
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The Daily Show: the Earth Spins in the Wrong...
June 26, 2008
The Daily Show: As the World Turns
If you are in outer space above the North Pole and you look down at Earth, you see the planet spinning counter-clockwise. When a globe of Earth spins correctly, the continents move from West to East. But the globes on the Daily Show spin the wrong way. Take a look:
There are three globes in this sequence. The first one is being twisted...
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מצב האומה - עונה 4
החיים ללא טלוויזיה!
אולי עוד קיץ אנחנו ניפגש
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Oldie: the Dentist
The dentist pulls out a numbing needle to give Pauly a shot of Novocain (tm). “No way! No needles. I hate needles” the patient said. The dentist starts to hook up the nitrous oxide and Pauly objects. “I can’t do the gas thing. The thought of having the gas mask on, suffocates me!” The dentist then asks the patient if he has any objection to taking a pill. “No...
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For Americans: US Law Quiz
There is no way to know for sure if the stats below are legit. Be that as it may, the test is still fun to take.
Below is a link to a 30-question test to see how well you know US Law. Not exactly grade-school level. Give it a shot and see how well you do!
Supposedly 96% of all High School Seniors FAILED this test .. AND if that’s not bad enough, 50+% of all individuals over 50 did too!!...
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Animated Films from Oscars' Past
Madam Tutli-Putli
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Special Delivery
Father and Daughter
Tin toy
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Weird Wikipedia Article: Prostitution among... →
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WatchJon Stewart’s Take on Virginia’s Transvaginal Ultrasound Bill
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The Turkish Government's Hypocracy
Report: Turkey ‘turns blind eye’ to Syria arms shipments
Britain’s The Times reports Syria using Turkey as route to bypass sanctions, obtain material and equipment for its weapons industry. Turkish FM: Report is ‘nonsense’
The newspaper reported on Monday that while the European Union is set on tightening sanctions on Bashar Assad’s regime, weapons materials...
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Pro bono surgery. by Liron Sinay
Voluteer doctors from Eye from Zion organization bring Ethiopian girl to Israel to remove rare tumor from her eye
A delegation of Israeli doctors and volunteers from the Eye from Zion organization traveled to Ethiopia recently to perform 160 cataract surgeries in a portable operation room donated by Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. During their visit, they met Kavda Imsak, a...
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Jew-hate prevents peace. By Dan Calic?
Palestinians so consumed with Israel hate that they are willing to give up statehood dream
Has the world gone upside down? Again and again we hear US President Barack Obama and numerous other leaders call on Israel to make sacrifices to help facilitate a two-state solution with the Palestinians. But aren’t these leaders pressuring the wrong side?
Anti-Israel protest Photo: Reuters
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The Mideastern stalemate. by Yonatan Silverman
The world must recognize that Israel-Palestinian peace prospects are largely non-existent today
When a stalemate occurs in chess, the players shake hands and the game ends. But the process is different in a political stalemate. There, when neither side is prepared to compromise on the other side’s positions and proposals, the game does not end. The gist of the conflict remains on the table, the...
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A Hacker School That Helps Solve Silicon Valley's...
Tech companies can’t find enough engineers. So why not train them yourself? For free. And then make $20K a pop on recruiting fees.
The shortage of engineers is a perennial source of woe in Silicon Valley. Once they’re done combing the graduating classes at places like Stanford and MIT, tech companies start sniffing in each other’s backyards, hoping to lure over desperately...
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Rockets & Terror. By Andrew Hersh
Andrew Hersh is the president of the Israel Activism Commission, an organization dedicated to combating lies, half-truths, hypocrisy, and double standards on college campuses and social media platforms, and empowering pro-Israel advocates to confront these libels
It’s 3:00 A.M. You just finished putting your 8 month old child back to sleep for the second time that night. You’re...
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Russian El Al leaflet presents Israeli map – sans...
Leaflets carrying El Al logo in Russia include a map of Israel missing West Bank, Golan. El Al: ‘Not an official El Al leaflet’
Leaflets carrying the El Al logo, which were handed out to passengers in Russia include a map of Israel that seems to be missing the West Bank and the Golan. The leaflet that was handed out to passengers at Moscow’s airport, created a furor among many...
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How Many Calories Does Snowboarding Burn? By Ron...
A rather surprising fact I discovered while checking the Exercise & Activity Calculator: four hours of downhill moderate effort Skiing, burns only calories 1,776.00.
I thought: shame the calculator doesn’t have a snowboarding calculation section.
Then, I remembered that that’s the Internet of the 21st century - surly there’s a calculator that does include snowboarding. So,...
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Current TV shows worth seeing. By Ron Barak
The following list (in no particular order) is the list of TV shows that I think is worth the time to download to your hard drive and watch at your leisure:
House
The Daily Show
Grey’s Anatomy
The Big Bang Theory
The Simpsons
10 Oclock Live
Whitney
SherlocK
Jay Leno (monologue)
Spartacus
2 Broke Girls
White Collar
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Humour: African leopards
An authority on African leopards was giving a lecture. When he finished, he asked for questions. One man stood up and asked, “Is it true that leopards in Africa won’t bother you if you carry a lighted torch?” The speaker replied, “That depends on how fast you carry it.”
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Google tests the 'do not track' waters with a...
Well, that didn’t take long. One day after agreeing to implement a do not track button as part of a new consumer bill of rights, Google has given the people what they want… sort of. Keep My Opt-Outs is a Chrome extension, developed by the Mountain View team, that will prevent advertisers from using your browsing history against you. Presumably, this function will get built straight...
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Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object
A clay cylinder covered in Akkadian cuneiform script, damaged and broken, the Cyrus Cylinder is a powerful symbol of religious tolerance and multi-culturalism. In this enthralling talk Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, traces 2600 years of Middle Eastern history through this single object.
The writer and presenter of...
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Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s...
Screenshot via GoogleThe Google glasses will use augmented reality software to return real-time information about locations and people.
According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to...
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What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found. By David Pogue
A screenshot from ABC’s segment on Foxconn.
I wrote about the Apple/China/Foxconn controversy in this space a couple of weeks ago, but there have been some developments, some progress and some new revelations.
Apple responded by vowing to take Chinese worker safety and welfare even more seriously, and it hired the Fair Labor Association to survey 35,000 Foxconn employees about their...
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“As you may have heard, I have a new book out later this year. Very different to...”
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Chris Bliss: Comedy is translation
Every act of communication is, in some way, an act of translation. Onstage at TEDxRainier, writer Chris Bliss thinks hard about the way that great comedy can translate deep truths for a mass audience.
Chris Bliss explores the inherent challenge of communication, and how comedy opens paths to new perspectives. Full bio »
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Shlomo Benartzi: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow
It’s easy to imagine saving money next week, but how about right now? Generally, we want to spend it. Economist Shlomo Benartzi says this is one of the biggest obstacles to saving enough for retirement, and asks: How do we turn this behavioral challenge into a behavioral solution?
Shlomo Benartzi uses behavioral economics to study...
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Israel Apartheid Week
Fighting campus hatred
Israel Apartheid Week agitators could not care less about promoting Mideast peace
Dore Gold
Anti-Israel hatred on campus crests each year during an event called “Israel Apartheid Week.” With this ominous name and programs that thrive on ignorance and blind disregard for the facts, tens of thousands of college students are urged to rise up against Israel – painfully...
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WatchMiley Cyrus - Party in the USA - ASL Song
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For $2 a Star, an Online Retailer Gets 5-Star...
John Gress for The New York Times
Bing Liu, a computer science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is trying to devise mathematical models that can unmask fake product endorsements. “The incentives for faking are getting bigger,” he said. “It’s a very cheap way of marketing.”
In the brutal world of online commerce, where a competing product is just a click away, retailers need...
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