Month: January 2003

Everybody does it

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date January 26, 2003

A roundup of links that everyone’s blogged, that are all over the daypop top 40, etc. etc.

The Switch to Linux ad When you’re holding the moon for ransom, you value stability in an application…
Japanese Emoticons (smileys) are very cool, and based on the idea that you smile with your cheeks, hands and eyes, not just with your mouth, like in boring old western sideways smilies.
Oh yeah, and a judge ruled that the X-Men aren’t human. This at the request of Toybiz, who wanted their action figures to be cheaper to import (see, if they’re not human, that makes the figures toys, not dolls, which is better business, for some silly legal reason). Great Wall Street Journal story.

Portrait Gallery

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date January 26, 2003

A Portrait Gallery of historical personages, brought to you from that same University library web site that put up all those wonderful maps.

Comics

Bignose

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date January 23, 2003

The latest issue of Uncanny X-Men I got (I should drop it, I don’t really read it, but whatever) has a new Japanese artist, who draws in a “Manga” style. I think Marvel are making a big deal out of it and using it to give the comic a bit of a push. The funny thing is that he draws everyone in the comic with great big fucking noses. I mean huge honkers. And the reason he does that, I suspect, is that he’s drawing Europeans (i.e, Caucasians, non-Japanese, white folk), and that’s how westerners look like, to Japanese.

Resources

Malleus Maleficarum

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date January 23, 2003

Here’s an online version of The Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch Hammer). First published in 1486, this is the infamous “witchfinder’s handbook” which argued that disbelief in witches is heretical: Whether the Belief that there are such Beings as Witches is so Essential a Part of the Catholic Faith that Obstinacy to maintain the Opposite Opinion manifestly savours of Heresy..

Resources

latitude and longitude

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date January 23, 2003

lattitude and longitude for Hod HaSharon are 32� 09′ 03″ N , 034� 53′ 18″ E according to the NIMA site on geographic names.

I looked it up after following a link to geoURL. Not many sites in Israel – it lists one about Lebanon and one about Jordan, as well as 3 Israeli sites – a personal page of someone in Hod Hasharon who has some nice pictures and aerial photography (I could have just pinched the coordinates from his page, really), and two blogs, one by someone in Jerusalem and one about BDSM, currently on hiatus.