Unhappy Hipsters is am amusing blog that comments on the modernist building to illustrate human alienation. To be sure geometric structures are not the case of loneliness. But the way buildings are photographed often lends to the feeling. People who pose in the photographs for the humans scale are often staged awkwardly, they are amatures and don’t know how to relax naturally during a photo shoot. Often perfect strangers or worse are called upon to impersonate a family, the result is sad, comical and profound.
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Chabad Wire: A previously unknown Chabad House was discovered under the rubble of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The building was completely destroyed except, miraculously, for a portrait of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rabbi Yudel Krinsky reached in the New York Lubavitch headquarters spoke about the solidarity with the people of Haiti and announced a national fund-raising drive to assist the Chabad humanitarian efforts on the island.
UPDATE: No joke, they already got an emissary in an adjacent country superimposed on Haiti ruin. That culture is beyond redemption.
I have written on Google as a psychological indicator in Learning the Truths of Life from Google. And this cold morning, Dan Ariely reminded me about it in What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google (although I am unable to replicate his results completely). Anyway, I though I might give the”Google suggest machine” some obvious tests.
This should finally put to rest the myth about the so called “wisdom of the crowds”. The vast majority of people, the millions that trigger the “suggested” lists are morons, plus some of the descriptions found in the searches in no participial order. The only question about the differences between Bush and Obama – are they an “antichrist” first and an “idiot” second or visa-versa? And there is a total agreement about both American presidents being “hitlers”.
I am starting to think that people don’t actually search on Google, but they go to Google to vent, treat it is as confessional, a private psychiatrist. So what about Comrade Putin? ►►►read more
Now that I listened to this second time, I have to admit this is funny. ►►►read more
The San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm east of White Water, California
photo via flickr.com/caveman_92223
So I get this email from Avremel that his shiksa is expecting – (Bentzion Shemtov’s first gentile grandchild) I would hate to bring it down to you Avremel, but I have it on good authority from my Druyer grandmother that Bentzi Shemtov was not a Gruziner, nor was he a Bucharsky. In fact it was a poor kept secret in Druya that Bentzi Shemtov was a pure Russian Cossack. Glad that apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree.
But here I will put my life on the line by revealing the darkest of secrets. I guess at this point everyone, even Shimmie Deutsch, knows that Mendel Schneerson had a German girlfriend in Berlin (the photos are out there). She was a great granddaughter of Yankel Frank and introduced to Mendel Schneerson by the secretive Illuminati lodge “Meopher Kumi”. Most of the members of that lodge are the descendants of the Yaakov Frank converts. The woman bore a child to Mendel Schneerson. The identity of the child is a grave secret of the “Meopher Kumi”. In fact Bentzi was sent to Europe to protect Mendel Schneerson’s family.
The paintings of Hendel Futerfas’ (aka Hendel Lieberman) later years are hidden to this day. They conceal the heiliker becher code. A person who lays an eye on the paintings puts his life in danger. According to the “Meopher Kumi” tradition the offspring of the union between the house of Schneerson and the house Frank will enter into holy matrimony with the Maggid of Druya. But it can only happen if one decodes the seal at the bottom on the 3rd painting in Hendel Futerfas’ geniza. The dew of the 13 Petalled Rose will soon flow into the becher!
Woody Allen in “Take The Money and Run” from 1969. Dedicated to Radloh, ZIY and other funny characters. ►►►read more
Zero Hedge: Full Frontal on Goldman Sachs:
“The CEO of GS knows full well that the “full market support mode” will last only so long, and once it breaks and the floor out of the 666 S&P drops, the public will again demand blood (or Trueblood for all you vampire squid fans out there). ►►►read more
There is definitely a market for people who want to plug that hole and frolic in the dirty waters. Who is to stop all “could have been” geniuses? Every Mozart needs a Salieri, someone who rages with cheap moral indignation at anyone who has the courage to take on the world.
But there is something else that you might not know about Shmarya. He is the honorary founder of the “cut and paste” school of the Jewish blogosphere. He is always busy writing but nobody ever read anything he published that doesn’t involve “cut and paste”. At least the Hareidi practitioners of this sorry craft have an excuse, they are illiterate and stealing comes to them naturally.
Stuck! Goldfish Bathplug by Slam Design (via SwissMiss)
Hi, my name is Beth Sholom Synagogue. I was designed by Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects, the pretty pictures were taken by Rien van Rijthoven & Bruce Damonte and there is a story about me at ArchDaily. Let me tell you about myself.
I live on the corner of a San Francisco Street. I have not friends on the block, I am not sure why, perhaps they don’t know that I am really beautiful on the inside. ►►►read more
Frum Parody Fumigates Anonymity
by Ben Atlas on 12.27.2009.9:22pm · 0 comments
As the noxious anonymity has completely taken over the dark matter of the frumie blogs, the toxic agents type away their own parodies:
“relatively common” morons. The followup post.