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Blog resumes

Due to Ori’s request, blog service is resumed. Still using Radio 7.
I was in Rome over Passover, and in New York the week after that (work), so I missed FantasyCon. In between trips, I stumbled across Michael Bernstein’s blog, which had some dramatic reports about the continuous terror attacks that took place during his visit to Israel. Of particular personal interest to me is his mention of not going to FantasyCon.

Bernstein also has this interesting link to an index of Israeli blogs (which apparently doesn’t include the vast empire of Israeli LiveJournal users – 435 according to their directory, although they don’t provide a full listing unless you register). Also, more recently, a link to a news blog by a group of Israeli web people, which tries to bring the Israeli prespective on events.

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General

I’ve got a small rubber

I’ve got a small rubber teddy bear on my desk, of the sort you put in your bath to watch it sink. Don’t ask me how it got there, my desk is a junkpile of various cat’s toys. It’s one of those rubber teddies with a hole in it’s bottom which whistles when you squeeze it. And around that hole, it says “made in China” and “Copyright 1985, Ross Laboratories“.

What on Earth are they developing in Ross Laboratories?

“Holes,” suggested Spoons, when I thrust this pointless observation at him.

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Oddities short

The Hagaddah of Vgames –

The Hagaddah of Vgames – a Hagaddah for a LAN party (Hebrew).

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General

Charlie rants about the Saudi

Charlie rants about the Saudi media.

Saudi Arabia strikes me as the most corrupt place on the planet: Capitalism + Absolute Monarchy + Islamic Fundementalism = Brrrr.

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Oddities

Mona Lisa revealed as adventurous

Mona Lisa revealed as adventurous beauty

The art world’s most famous face – Mona Lisa – may have belonged to a promiscuous courtesan who was nicknamed “the Tigress”, according to a decade of research by a leading art historian.

[ from The Guardian ]