In his weekly opinion column on August 22, M.J. Rosenberg argues that Israel would endanger Jews living outside of Israel by attacking Iran. Furthermore, he rattles off a frightening laundry list of negative outcomes which he claims would result from such an attack: “An Israeli attack on Iran—absent an imminent threat of attack from Iran—is… Read More: FUD on Israel attacking Iran »
Do you get a lot of junk mail? I mean the kind that arrives on paper through the able ministrations of the U.S. Postal Service, not the kind that arrives via email. You know, mail-order catalogs, promotions from the phone company, requests for money from charities, that sort of thing. Do you throw most of… Read More: Fighting junk mail, one envelope at a time »
A phishing message in my spam folder caught my eye today, so I decided to take a closer look at it. It claimed to be from CapitalOne. It had a legitimate sender address, a legitimate Subject line (“Please Call Us Regarding Recent Restrictions”), and convincing-looking content that was mostly lifted straight from a real CapitalOne… Read More: Fascinating phishing attack — the links are fine, but watch… »
Sighted downtown today, a young couple holding hands, with “matching” T-shirts. Hers: “I always get what I want.” His: “It’s all about me.” This pair is surely destined for a long, happy life together.
There has been a polite little family of mice sharing our house, aside from the domesticated variety safely ensconced in their aquarium. I call them polite because they never left droppings anywhere in plain sight, and because they resisted all human food, confining their snacking to the commercial mouse food in our bathroom closet and… Read More: A present I would rather have done without »
Upon our arrival in Cleveland last Friday afternoon after a three-day drive from Boston, we hastily emptied the car before the start of the Sabbath. Imagine my dismay to discover that the duffel bag containing all of my clothes was missing! I had put my clothes for the trip in my backpack, so that I… Read More: Too clever by half, then not clever enough »
Several years ago, a Target store opened near us in Watertown, Massachusetts. Having grown up in Minneapolis, I had fond memories of Target and hoped that this meant we would finally have a tolerable department store near us. To say that I’ve been disappointed by our local Target would be a monumental understatement.
The National Jewish Democratic Council just released an awesome fact sheet on some of McCain’s biggest flip-flops. Read or link to it here: http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/07/senator-mccain.html Digg it here: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_flip_flop_fact_sheet This is powerful stuff!
I recently checked in for a flight on Continental Airlines through my PDA. It’s very cool that Continental has a way for people to do this. At the end of the check-in process, I was asked whether I wanted to pick up my boarding pass at a kiosk, have it emailed to me for printing,… Read More: Continental: $billion, multi-national corporation, doesn’t get that not everybody uses… »
Some time ago, author Galen Gruman, an Executive Editor at InfoWorld, started a petition demanding that Microsoft continue to sell Windows XP past the time when they had originally intended to stop, on the grounds that many individuals and businesses saw no need to switch to Windows Vista and shouldn’t be forced to do so.… Read More: Galen Gruman collects email addresses for InfoWorld and IDG to… »