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Why There Is No Jewish Narnia > Publications > Jewish Review of Books
This is of course the plot, in a nutshell, of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and much of Lewis’s Space Trilogy too—which, for that matter, concludes with the forces of good being led not by a Christian but by the pre-Christian Merlin. Judaism is far more skittish about acknowledging the existence of powers acting apart from God, even in rebellion—which leaves a lot less room for magic.
jewish  fantasy  judaism  literature  books  religion  culture  article  history 
february 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Forth Dimensions
The Forth Interest Group's bi-monthly, hard-copy magazine with an international circulation was founded in 1978. The owner of one of Silicon Valley's most successful computer bookstores called it, "The best special-interest technical magazine ever". Forth Dimensions is no longer published.
forth  retrocomputing  magazine  archive  article  programming  reference  scans  design  layout  hobby 
june 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Street Use: Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings
I do not know the name of the inventor who first utilized discarded medical X-ray film as the base material for new record discs; however, the method became so widespread in Hungary that not only amateurs, but the Hungarian Radio made sound recordings on such recycled X-ray films.
xray  oldmedia  recording  coldwar  audio  article  diy  environment  soviet  vintage 
march 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Spring Fashion 2008 - Five New Yorkers Who Wear Only One Color Every Day -- New York Magazine
Five New Yorkers who wear only one color all day, every day (and it’s not black). nymag less horrible than I remember!
color  GREE_HEE_HEE_HEE_I'M_A_LEPRECHAUN  nyc  mental_illness  article  nymag 
february 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Science of Online Dating and Compatibility Testing - New York Times
The company estimates that its matchmaking was responsible for about 2 percent of the marriages in America last year, nearly 120 weddings a day.
romance  article  online  eharmony  athiesm  homosexuality  america  nytimes  creepy 
february 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Gen Kanai weblog: Why Apple Isn’t Japanese
How could any Japanese business excel at enterprise IT when no Japanese business builds any kind of successful enterprise software? It's no wonder enterprise IT is more widely adopted in the nations where it is developed.
blog  japan  article  it  enterprise  mobile  globalism  interesting  software 
december 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Dungeons & Dragons
the folks who were writing cartoons, were ordered to include certain "pro-social" morals in our shows. At the time, the dominant "pro-social" moral was as follows: The group is always right...the complainer is always wrong.
psychology  article  cartoon  show  cartoons  history  tv  1980S 
november 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Daylight-Saving Causes Twin Arrival Pickle :: WRAL.com
Because of Daylight Saving Time, Allison's time of birth was 1:06 a.m., which makes her 26 minutes older than her brother even though he was born first.
article  cool  funny  time  reproduction  cain_and_abel  these_times 
november 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Why every programmer should play NetHack - Litany Against Fear
"the people behind NetHack have really thought of every possible case, every possible scenario in the game, and there’s a consequence or action for it." meh
programming  game  games  article 
october 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Coworkers of the World, Unite! | The American Prospect
Dave Speers, 25, a community marketing consultant who works out of Independents Hall three days a week, likens the vibe to "Marxism -- everyone helps one another." And what are they helping one another do? Incubate their startups so that they can cash in
article  via:deusx  career  community  press  work  coworking 
october 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Crowdsourcing Customer Service
lol: Too bad Get Satisfaction can't be used for trying to get through municipal bureaucracies when applying for permits and challenging results as an example. Great idea.
crowdsourcing  marketing  web2.0  business  strategy  article  service  socialnetworking  networks  community 
september 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
jerith.za.net: Socket programming in Erlang
do_echo(Socket) -> case gen_tcp:recv(Socket, 0) of {ok, Data} -> gen_tcp:send(Socket, Data), do_echo(Socket); {error, closed} -> ok end.
article  chat  code  dev  development  erlang  example  framework  network  server  networking  sockets  socket  programming  tutorial 
september 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Peter's Blog - Lazy Function Definition Pattern
This article examines a functional-programming design pattern I’ve been calling Lazy Function Definition.
article  javascript  patterns  functional  optimization  howto  lazy  pattern  cool 
august 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Justin's Rattlesnake Bite
On July 21, 2002, just after my 13th birthday, I was bitten by a Northern Pacific rattlesnake
snakes  medicine  wtf  gross  article  health 
august 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Nerds - Dress and Apparel - Intelligence - New York Times
Nerdiness, she has concluded, is largely a matter of racially tinged behavior. People who are considered nerds tend to act in ways that are, as she puts it, “hyperwhite.”
article  black  funny  interesting  nerd  nerds  race  people  culture  language  white  stereotypes  hyperwhite  0xffffff 
august 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, because it needs to be done.
Lipes' specialty as laboratory tech was in operating a machine that registers heartbeats - an electrocardiographer. He had seen Navy doctors take out one or two appendixes and thought he could do it. Under the sea, he was given his first chance to operate
amazing  article  articles  history  medicine  news  navy  ww2  military 
july 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
JazzOasis.com - Pat Metheny on Kenny G
Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old Louis Armstrong record, the track "What a Wonderful World". With this single
music  jazz  kennyg  article 
july 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Peak Suburbia
"It is not an accident that the housing bubble coincided with the phenomenon of Peak Oil."
housing  americana  environment  suburbia  oil  architecture  urban  economics  future  peakoil  criticism  blog  articles  article  america 
july 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs « strange maps
Pakistan, for example, has a GDP that’s slightly higher than Israel’s – but Pakistan has a population of about 170 million, while Israel is only 7 million people strong.
alternative  america  amusing  article  blog  business  capitalism  maps  map  visualization  usa  geography  economics 
june 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Google: An explanation of our search results
If you recently used Google to search for the word "Jew," you may have seen results that were very disturbing.
google  politics  search  religion  jewish  via:nervousxcircuits  antisemitism  article  conspiracy  humor  internet  jews  wau 
june 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
OOPArt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OOPArt, acronym for out-of-place artifact, is a term coined by American zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for a historical, archaeological or palaeontological object found in a very unusual, or even impossible, location.
mystery  article  strange  history  wikipedia  paranormal 
june 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Damn Interesting » Lucid Decapitation
Can it be concluded that a separated head is capable of consciousness and awareness following the event? Not with any certainty.
article  articles  biology  blog  consciousness  creepy  culture  decapitation  punishment  lucid 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Royale with Cheese? « Will Work For Food
Here’s some of your McDonald’s options in countries all over the world.
article  blog  fastfood  humor  mcdonalds  interesting  list  food  travel 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Goodbye to All that by Joan Didion
all the movies I had ever seen and all the songs I had ever read about New York, informed me that it would never be quite the same again. In fact it never was.
article  culture  literature  inspiration  memory  newyork  didion  joandidion  writing  essay 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Rolling Stone : The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt
Now he would reveal what he'd always kept hidden: who killed JFK
article  articles  conspiracy  history  jfk  story  teaching  politics  cia  toread 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Wired Magazine: Drug Test Cowboys: The Secret World of Pharmaceutical Trial Subjects
"I'm thrilled to come across a notice on craigslist looking for subjects to demonstrate the impact of the club drug GHB on driving ability; I imagine myself going to raves and then speeding home, a clinician riding shotgun."
article  health  hypocrisy  interesting  medicine  science  test 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Comparative Sex-Specific Body Mass Index in the Marvel Universe and the "Real" World.
This study compares the mean and normalised distribution of the Body Mass Index of women and men in the Marvel Universe, and with women and men in the "real" world.
article  articles  book  comic  comics  fun  funny  geek  health  science  women  gender  body 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The enema within | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited
Ian Belcher took some persuading to go on a colonic irrigation holiday, even at a Thai beach resort. It is, he discovered, quite astonishing what gets flushed out in the course of a week's treatment. But did he feel the better for it?
health  enema  colonic  humor  food  thailand  travel  article  bizarre  british  coffee  gross  green  funny 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online
A sequence from Christian Marclay's 1995 film Telephones comprises a montage of actors in famous films answering the phone. Apple's "Hello" ad, which debuted during the Oscars, has a near-identical feel, though it features different footage. (The similari
copyright  plagiarism  iphone  apple  art  article  artist  film  marclay 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Daily Dish: Drugs and Toxicity
One way to measure the dangers of various drugs is to examine how toxic the drug is at various levels. Can too much kill you? And how much is too much? Here's an interesting article on what we know scientifically about the matter.
drugs  science  health  marijuana  politics  alcohol  law  article  information 
march 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
BUBBLE: Alexa error triggers crisis of confidence - Valleywag
Alexa is totally unreliable. It has long overstated the audience for the geekiest sites because the readers of those sites, who include many web marketers, are more likely to have Alexa's toolbar installed on their machines ...
article  business  interesting  internet  statistics  web  web2.0  alexa  traffic  formyjob 
march 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
TV programme reveals the REAL Frankensteins | the Daily Mail
As revealed in a National Geographic documentary to be screened later this month, the creation of the two-headed dog was the first step in an astonishing race by Cold War scientists to achieve the seemingly impossible - the first ever human head transplan
amazing  article  coldwar  history  medicine  mind  neuroscience  news  science  technology  brain  weird  interesting  russia 
january 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
CSS Expression Optimization (WebFX)
CSS expressions were introduced in Internet Explorer 5.0 and it allows you to to assign a JavaScript expression to a CSS property. NO MAX-WIDTH IN IE 6'S CSS
article  behaviour  code  ie  css  design  dev  hack  dhtml  optimization  annoyances 
december 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs - WikiHow
As long as you have your calculator, you could just press the "pi" key.
article  food  howto  fun  interesting  science  pi  math  education 
november 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Remote Scripting with IFRAME
I can't seem to serialize files using prototype + ajax.... :(
ajax  apple  alternative  articles  article  blogs  browser  code  dhtml  html  webdev  iframe 
november 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Why Microformats - Introduction to Microformats
Microformats are small and gentle syntactic touch-ups for your web pages. They have one major purpose: to make your data readable by both man and machine. They are the technical diplomats of the Web; allowing the same piece of data to be shared among many
abstract  api  architecture  article  business  books  articles  code  microformats  semantic  reference  web  xhtml  tutorial  webdev  rss 
november 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Dilbert Blog: Good News Day
It’s something exotic called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Essentially a part of the brain that controls speech just shuts down in some people, usually after you strain your voice during a bout with allergies (in my case) or some other sort of normal laryngitis.
amazing  article  articles  blogs  bodyhacking  brain  cartoon  cartoons  comic  disease  essential  fun  hack  hacking  health  interesting  irc  language  life  links  mind  neuroscience  odd  people  poem  psych  psychology  random  rap  scary  science  slashdot  sociology  strange  toread  weird  word  wtf  dilbert  speech 
october 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Feynman Online > The Mysterious 137
The last theoretically possible element in non-relativistic quantum mechanics is 137, or untriseptium, as elements with a higher atomic number would require the speed of the electrons in their 1s electron orbital to exceed the speed of light.
article  chemistry  physics  science  toread  element  137 
october 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Create a simple liquid layout - .net magazine
Basically, how to make CSS based layouts that scale with variable screen width
formyjob  article  css  design  development  howto  html  inspiration  internet  magazine  programming  tech  tips  toread  tutorial  tutorials  ui  web  web2.0  webdesign  webdev  work  layout  liquid 
october 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Google Tutor & Advisor » Blog Archive » Using Gmail as Your Universal Email Account
Having a multitude of email addresses, I thought of simplyfing my life and workflow one day. I realized I’ve been wasting too much time checking up on my email from various places.
article  articles  backup  blogs  computer  do  Email  english  environment  free  geek  gmail  gtd  guide  hack  hacks  home  howto  internet  lifehacks  mail  organization  productivity  software  space  tech  technology  tips  todo  toread  tutorial  universal  useful  utility  web  web2.0  yahoo 
september 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY

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