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Craigslist Jerusalem

December 26, 2005

A mindboggling advertisement

May 19, 2003

I Before E, if Taken with Caffeine, by Jef Raskin

April 08, 2003

“The Meaning of Pluralism for Jewish Education”

March 21, 2003

What do all those abbreviations like BS"D mean?

March 16, 2003

A quick guide to your Hebrew ps–and–Qs, or Pehs–and–Qofs, as the case may be. B“H, BS”D,

FetchBook.Info

March 13, 2003

My low Purim biorhythm

March 13, 2003

A biorhythm is based on the idea that certain aspects of your life move in cycles. These being your Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, and Intuitive well being.

Applicable scholarship research

March 05, 2003

The Dignity of Difference

March 02, 2003

Rabbi Sacks is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth. This essay is adapted from his speech given for FPRI�s 7th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs on May 21, 2002

Inmate’s last meals on Andy’s blog

February 16, 2003

“There is an official listing of death row inmate’s requests for their last meals” on my friend Andrew’s site. He only has three journal entries so far, but I’m glad he’s finally blogging. If you want just the link... http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm,...

Upsherin — a three year olds’ first haircut

January 31, 2003

There is a custom among many Jews to not cut a boys hair until he is three years old. We chose to observe this custom in a Jewish Renewal–ish way.

Moondays — a typographic lunar phase calendar

January 27, 2003

The transformation from new moon (thin type) to full moon (heavy bold type) creates a new, individual texture month after month

Product Search from Google: Froogle

January 27, 2003

Froogle applies the power of Google’s search technology to a very specific task: locating (online) stores

forkinsocket blog closes

December 03, 2002

Missing Persons?

November 20, 2002

Francois fowards a fabulous link to a search engine that finds people by their achievements

Hypocracy Now!

September 09, 2002

So if Saddam is “the world’s worst leader,” how come Cheney sold him the equipment to get his dilapidated oil fields up and running so he to could afford to build weapons of mass destruction?

a) product

August 27, 2002

When Jesus Wept (mp3)

August 17, 2002

This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself

August 17, 2002

Tired of FWDs?

August 15, 2002

|That forward? I got it. I've gotten it. I do not wish to keep receiving it. I was neither moved nor inspired. It was neither clever nor funny. I was not amazed at the stupidity of that criminal, nor disgusted,...

More Process Work

July 09, 2002

Train and Ferry Schedules for Getting to Fire Island

July 09, 2002

Letter-Color Synaesthesia

July 07, 2002

I'm quite enamored of this guy Cassidy Curtis's web-work, especially his Letter-Color Synaesthesia, which is a subset of his Other Things :) section....

Warchalking

July 01, 2002

Future Forests — Redesigned

July 01, 2002

Future Forests’ ambition is to help get us all to a world where businesses, cars, planes are as benign as trees and cities are as benign as forests.

Cooper.com (redesigned) has newsletters

July 01, 2002

Cooper.com now offers some excellent articles on goal–oriented interface design.

Museum of Sex Exhibition: How NYC Transformed Sex in America

June 28, 2002

Great Flash site, very engaging (and slightly raunchy) advertising a new exhibit at the Museum of Sex: NYCSEX...

Proposal for a new World Trade Center

June 28, 2002

See a "Proposal for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center in New York to replace that which was lost in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2002 (911)"

04: Impressive Japanese Web Designer

June 18, 2002

Some free tiny fonts here, a nice portfolio, and a Japanese blog. Source: www.04.jp.org...

Plantpacks enjoyed by Witold

May 26, 2002

Another designer/blog-keeper, Witold Riedel, enjoys plantpacks.com: Looks like the web is a tiny village after all. Beautiful Gardens, ideas, all bloom. It was brought to my attention today that I have a Neighboring blog. That deals with beautiful things like...

UPDATED: Applying for International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN)

May 03, 2002

Internet Radio — loving it and saving it

May 03, 2002

A pal has been seeking out some good internet radio, and rather than share my links with him alone, they’re posted below. Internet radio is being threatened by congress, so scroll down and follow the save internet radio links...

Sharing Files Between a Mac and a PC

April 30, 2002

I don't have time to work on it now, but the article Sharing Disks and Files seems to be all I'll need in order to network an iMac and my PC. I've networked machines before — including an incredibly easy...

Entity Replacement JavaScript

April 30, 2002

Francois, web-graphics and gazingus come together, unified by the fact thatit is much easier for users to type certain special characters destined for display on a web page than it is for them to type the proper character entity equivalents...

Orsinal: Exceptional Flash

April 29, 2002

Excellent simple games, delicate, intimate design, abundant creativity: Orisinal : Morning Sunshine I especially like: Bubble Bees and Chicken Wings. Flash required....

Palm Virtual Network Computing

April 25, 2002

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from...

Unsolicited faxes? Fax back!

April 24, 2002

A rather amusing suggestion for retribution if you're the victim of unsolicited faxes....

LamRim.com — Tibetan Buddhist Internet Radio

April 23, 2002

“ and ” — my two new numeric best-friends

April 21, 2002

Aardvark's very useful (but not-so-simple) Simple Character Entity Chart lists many (if not all) ISO character identity names and numeric values. This help me to display proper “curly” quotes instead of boring old "straight" ones. This also allows Movable Type...

Feds might use Microsoft product for online ID

April 19, 2002

Forget about a national ID card. Instead, the federal government might use Microsoft's Passport technology to verify the online identity of America's citizens, federal employees and businesses, according to the White House technology czar. Source: The Seattle Times: Business &...

Circuit Bending

April 19, 2002

Some really interesting sounds on a difficult-to-decode site called TheExperiment. In the mid '90s we learned of an idea called "curcuit bending", the term of which was created by Qubais Reed Ghazala. Its the idea to take a sound making...

This is not a place of honor

April 19, 2002

Sandia National Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year marking system for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site, and estimate the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion....

Visual guide for putting on Tefillin

April 18, 2002

An illustrated guide to wrapping Tefillin for Sefardi and both Ashkenaz Beit Yosef and Sfard. .gif heavy (no HTML text, in fact)...

Fakepilot

April 17, 2002

What DOCTYPEs should we use?

April 17, 2002

The following complete DOCTYPEs are the ones we need, from A List Apart: Fixing Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE...

Diary of a Start-Up (ArsDigita)

April 17, 2002

Here's the skinny from Eve Andersson, the rise and fall of ArsDigita and lessons from the world of venture capital, and Francois has collected a lot of interesting background information....

Plantpacks.com praised

April 17, 2002

Yay! Compliments on Plantpacks.com :elegant design, easy-to-use technology, and good content. No kidding, it's a class act. From Supervert. What's Supervert, I hear you asking?Its mission is to utilize the techniques of vanguard aesthetics to research the pathology of novel...

TextArc

April 16, 2002

TextArc looks cool, but I can't tell as it doesn't work on a Mac.... a tool to aid in the discovery of patterns and concepts in arbitrary texts by leveraging a powerful and underutilized resource — human visual processing. Well,...

björk's unity video

April 02, 2002

about three weeks old (i'm slow), BG stuns me again with her beauty and honesty and poise: her latest video caccoon. so bold, honest, precise. makes me want to lock myself in a room and make music. and pay for...

The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book 1

March 27, 2002

Only through Dr. Bronner's soap labels and traclegirl's site so do I know anything about them, but I'm interested by these Essenes and their Gospel of Peace....

Sexual Repression

March 13, 2002

Andy's a funny boy, definately not sexually repressed. But don't tell his mom....

Hebrewer 3.0

March 12, 2002

Hebrewer 3.0 is a web-based lexicon generator developed at the University of Texas at Austin. This version of the Hebrewer runs as an applet from within a Java-aware browser. [...] Once a noun or verb has been selected, the user...

teamim

January 16, 2002

Teamim are a set of graphic signs that come underneath and on top of the biblical text.... Besides providing a melody for the cantillation of the verses, is to indicate the syntactical division of the verse... emphasising the meaning of the text.

Why are they called “regular expressions”?

January 16, 2002

D-R-KH

January 15, 2002

Appointments In Time

January 14, 2002

The Torah refers to the festivals of the Jewish calendar as moadim, "appointed times," and as mikra'ei kodesh, "callings of holiness." A festival is an appointment with the past, an encounter with an event and phenomenon in our history. It...

Phonemic Drift Research Begins

January 13, 2002

Grimm's law shows that the regular shifting of consonants in groups took place in the development of English and other Low German languages. ...classical voiceless stops (k,t,p) became voiceless aspirates (h,th,f�) in English and mediae (h,d,f�) in German.... ...classical unaspirated...

The White List

January 07, 2002

Q: What is the "White List"? A:Proposed government policy which will ban the possession, import, movement and cultivation of an estimated 99.75% of the Earth's species of plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms....

10 things Google has found to be true

January 02, 2002

"To fully understand Google, it's helpful to understand all the ways in which the company has helped to redefine how individuals, businesses and technologists view the Internet." 10 things Google has found to be true...

map of springfield

December 21, 2001

An obsessively detailed map of Springfield, from the epic illustrated tv show, The Simpsons....

Internet users: social and good citizens

December 06, 2001

“Contrary to what many believe, internet users are much more likely to take part in social activity and be good citizens,” —Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick

chrisr’s corporate anthems meme

December 05, 2001

Education Automation

December 03, 2001

Education Automation, Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies by Buckminster Fuller

Zeldman’s Visions Of What’s To Come

November 30, 2001

No one is in control of this space. No one can tell you how to design it, how much to design it, when to ‘dial it down.’

thenoodleincident.com

November 27, 2001

skeleton in flash

November 21, 2001

last Wheel project (finally) launches

November 21, 2001

11694, NY, NY

November 12, 2001

Screaming bowls

November 12, 2001

The screaming bowl can emit a high level sound that is extremely penetrative to the ears and brain.

chris raettig — “to use the web, is to contribute to it”

October 22, 2001

From chris raettig–about the journal: when tim berners-lee created this amazing platform he intended it to be a two–way platform. it was not designed to be a one–way read–only passive experience. to use the web, is to contribute to it....

3Design: CAIDA Internet Map Poster

October 22, 2001

The gorgeous graph core is composed of 25,000 color-indexed hairlines and 7,000 nodes. 54 major world cities are shown on the outer ring.The data represented within the graph is CAIDA’s most recent capture: July 23–August 1, 2001. Source: 3Design: CAIDA...

Follow Me Here

October 22, 2001

Some weblogs are about weblogs and weblogging; others about the web and computing; my kind is still about the world, its sharp edges. Source: Follow Me Here...

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Craigslist Jerusalem

December 26, 2005

A mindboggling advertisement

May 19, 2003

I Before E, if Taken with Caffeine, by Jef Raskin

April 08, 2003

“The Meaning of Pluralism for Jewish Education”

March 21, 2003

What do all those abbreviations like BS"D mean?

March 16, 2003

FetchBook.Info

March 13, 2003

My low Purim biorhythm

March 13, 2003

Applicable scholarship research

March 05, 2003

The Dignity of Difference

March 02, 2003

Inmate’s last meals on Andy’s blog

February 16, 2003

Upsherin — a three year olds’ first haircut

January 31, 2003

Moondays — a typographic lunar phase calendar

January 27, 2003

Product Search from Google: Froogle

January 27, 2003

forkinsocket blog closes

December 03, 2002

Missing Persons?

November 20, 2002

Hypocracy Now!

September 09, 2002

a) product

August 27, 2002

When Jesus Wept (mp3)

August 17, 2002

This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself

August 17, 2002

Tired of FWDs?

August 15, 2002

More Process Work

July 09, 2002

Train and Ferry Schedules for Getting to Fire Island

July 09, 2002

Letter-Color Synaesthesia

July 07, 2002

Warchalking

July 01, 2002

Future Forests — Redesigned

July 01, 2002

Cooper.com (redesigned) has newsletters

July 01, 2002

Museum of Sex Exhibition: How NYC Transformed Sex in America

June 28, 2002

Proposal for a new World Trade Center

June 28, 2002

04: Impressive Japanese Web Designer

June 18, 2002

Plantpacks enjoyed by Witold

May 26, 2002

UPDATED: Applying for International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN)

May 03, 2002

Internet Radio — loving it and saving it

May 03, 2002

Sharing Files Between a Mac and a PC

April 30, 2002

Entity Replacement JavaScript

April 30, 2002

Orsinal: Exceptional Flash

April 29, 2002

Palm Virtual Network Computing

April 25, 2002

Unsolicited faxes? Fax back!

April 24, 2002

LamRim.com — Tibetan Buddhist Internet Radio

April 23, 2002

“ and ” — my two new numeric best-friends