Over here I found a link to the wonderful map site mapa.co.il; of course Israel showed it to me a while ago, but for some reason I never quite recalled the URL once I sat in front of a computer, and for a long while I’ve been using the far inferior flash-based site at walla. [...]
Nir on Windows Vista (rant in Hebrew):
If the twin towers had been designed by the Vista development team, they would have been built underground, at the center of a maze, and no one would be allowed in, and those who got in by mistake would not be allowed out. The latter people whould be scanned [...]
So, I was having this late-morning dream, the kind I linger in because they’re the one place I get to meet chicks, although this was about a congruency of people (brother, uncle, Roger Moore) fighting each other as they struggled down a slope.
“Everyone has an Imaginary sibling”, my subconscious mind was moved to say, “and [...]
I should like totally have my 40th Birthday party in my parents’ basement.
Boojie has complained, justifiably, that the more current images I’ve started to use as my user pic in livejournal (instead of the old one) are a bit scary.
Sadly, I think the problem stems more from my haggard old face of recent years than from my poor arm-distance photography.
To get a cuddly-looking image, I had to [...]
Ian Hickson’s new blog post demonstrates why he’s a geeks’ geek:
One day I looked at my bank statement and it was something like:
POS Trans ZIBIBBO PALO ALTO CAUS
$76.00
POS Trans CHEESECAKE PALO ALTO CAUS
$40.00
POS Trans OUTBACK #0514 CUPERTINO CAUS
$210.00
POS Trans BROOKFIELD’S [...]
A fine rant from Peter Watts on how politicians’ disdain for science reflects the dismal disconnection from reality exhibited by policy makers:
In other words, both Law and Economics are human artifacts. They’re like Gibsonian cyberspace, a consensual hallucination that only works because everybody agrees to stay inside the playground. They’re Klingon Summer Camp, they’re Dungeons [...]
Ah, deadlines. I thrive on them, but abuse them mercilessly. Case in point:
The Israeli Animation, Comics and Caricature festival starts today. It runs Saturday to Tuesday, 25th-28th of August. My brother and his wife's short animated film, JRA is showing as part of the אסיף 2007 segment.
Looking for info using Google, I found a lot of talk about "the Comics and animation festival", but only when you [...]
The last time I took The Personality Defect Test, I scored as the Haughty Intellectual. Now I got Spiteful Loner. I went from "gentle" to "brutal" and from "arrogant" to "humble".
My explanation is that in the past two years, I stopped believing in anger management, and stopped taking pride in being so mellow and repressed. [...]
First, the links: Why Snap previews are a terrible idea and how to disable them.
The downside to the recent widespread adoption of Wordpress by Hebrew bloggers is that they've adopted on masse some of the worst eyesores of the global Wordpress community, specifically an annoying bit of blog-bling that pops up (Pop. Up. doesn't that [...]
I seem to have completely stopped posting to my blog. Two reasons I can think of for that (aside from the obvious laziness): First, recent versions of WordPress have broken the "Blog This" bookmarklet which used to make it pretty convenient to grab a link and get a new blog entry window to post it [...]
I cut my hair. Took a pair of scissors, grabbed a fistful of the hair on the right of my head, cut it, grabbed a fistful of hair on my left and cut that too. Between the right and the left, I realized I'd cut too much. This wasn't shortening the tips. My hair was [...]
Dada spam word of the day: tuberosity boudoir.
Talk about statistical improbabilities.
More then a year ago, I complained about spam-mail bounces cluttering up by inbox. But I didn't really bother doing anything about it for a long while. And in recent months, the weekend spam-bounce-storms have gotten very bad.
So this Saturday, on a whim, I added [...]
I saw Pan's Labyrinth on the Saturday evening just before national Holocaust memorial day. After seeing it, I found the timing fitting.
Pan's Labyrinth isn't about the Holocaust, but it is set during World War 2, although in the isolation of post-civil-war Spain, the one country in Europe where the fascists actually won. And it [...]