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08/20/08
that Blackberry phones are garbage and the Verizon network has great call coverage and abhorrent Internet service. This thing has maybe 2 hours of talk-time in it before it dies, the call log is constantly erasing itself, the email parsing is worse than text-only (it’s text+illegible bullshit), the lack of multiple-item select + delete [...]
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08/19/08
I think it’s time to scrap this blog and move over to Tumblr. At least that way I can guarantee more consistent updates…
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08/15/08
Today is the one year anniversary of my resignation from Jewschool and the start of my employment at JTA.
I have a lot of thoughts to share but my laptop is in the shop and I don’t have the time to write from work. But I’ll do my best to get something together over the [...]
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05/23/08
Big-ups to Micha Ghertner for picking up on this one.
Don’t miss the comment thread.
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04/29/08
Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD, has died at 102.
Can you spot Reb Zalman in the picture above?
FYI–For those landing here after Googling “Albert Hofmann Jewish,” I regret to inform you that Dr. Hofmann was not a Jew. He was a hero to many of us, nonetheless. His presence will be [...]
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04/18/08
When I saw this video yesterday, the first thing that came to mind was making a mashup with Jay-Z’s “Dirt Off Your Shoulder.” Evidently, it was obvious to others as well, because well, here it is:
I too would’ve used Michelle Obama for “ladies is pimps too” line, but rather than showing Obama in a [...]
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04/15/08
During this season of freedom, the people of Tibet are groaning — and the world hears their cries.
Since 1950, the Chinese military has brutally occupied Tibet. Hundreds of thousands have died. Thousands have been jailed, tortured, raped. Countless monasteries have been destroyed.
And now, as the Chinese Olympic torch is met with protests around the globe, [...]
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04/08/08
Hurrah for Muxtape. I’m gonna try to do one of these a week.
Click here and click on the title of the first song.
See previously: Mobius Mixdown
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11/11/07
I’m in Tennesee at the GA. Visit Ami Eden’s blog where I’ll be guest blogging for the course of the convention.
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08/23/07
80 years to the day.
The case of Sacco and Vanzetti revealed, in its starkest terms, that the noble words inscribed above our courthouses, “Equal Justice Before the Law,” have always been a lie. Those two men, the fish peddler and the shoemaker, could not get justice in the American system, because justice is not meted [...]
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