October 2001 Archives

Some of them are things like taking the ferry instead of overcrowded, tense BART to work. And then there's things like listening to KPIG over the Internet (and if you're lucky enough to live within range, it's 107.5 in Santa Cruz ("One-Oh-Seven-OINK-Five").They show what song is playing on their website. Click, and you can see other people's opinions of the song, plus the DJs' reactions to the listeners' reactions. It can get a little contentious, as in the following choice bit of dialogue on Bob Dylan's "Summer Days".From: TSCDate: Aug 23,2001Good music coupled with a dog-shit voice. I'll pass, thank you. TSC eat some dog shit !

Blame Iraq for the anthrax attacks? Not likely, according to this.

It's not often that something written 5 1/2 years ago on the Internet is still valid today, but in this case, this information is just about timeless.Against Chain-Letter Petitions on the Internet and Designing Effective Action Alerts for the Internet

From United Jewish Communities. People can download prayers, even portions of the Talmud, to their Palms. "Even Fisher, the Conservative rabbinical student who is known among her friends as a bit of a computer geek, felt uneasy when she first saw someone daven from a Palm...She figures that any new advance in prayer technology takes some adjusting. 'The first person who davened from any sort of book probably also thought it was weird.' "

Maybe slightly alleviated by advice from the pros. Maybe it's the mind-numbingly soothing medical terminology.

Saw this on f**ckedcompany, then on Alternet.Gotta love the internet...

Behind the Burka. Nice northern alliance.And anthrax in Florida?What the hell are we doing?

Agents of Terror Leave Their Mark on Sin City. The hijackers paid for lap dances? '"Some big-man terrorist, huh?" Samantha said this week as she took a breather from the two-dozen lap dances she bestows daily upon the lonely at the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret. "He spent about $20 for a quick dance and didn't tip more." 'She stopped and bit her lip, throbbing rock music rattling the dimly lit crystal ball overhead while other "girls" in G-strings gyrated for grinning tourists. '"I'm glad he's dead with the rest of them, and I don't like feeling something like that," Samantha finally said. "But he wasn't just a bad tipper - - he killed people.'

Time capsule reveals saga of early S.F. Jewry (from the Jewish Bulletin). The time capsule was found in the cornerstone of what was once Congregation Ohabai Shalome. Maybe some of my relatives went there; apparently most of the congregation was from the Alsace-Lorraine area.Funny side note: in the 19th century, Rabbis often went by the title "Rev." No wonder this community is so assimilated!