Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’

My First Publication: File Sharing in Judaism

I just recieved word that my article on file sharing and Jewish law will be published in the upcoming edition of Achshav! magazine. Even though this is a journal read only by Jewish teens affiliated with USY, it is still an international publication and it’s my first time being “published”. This article (available here in [ READ MORE ]

Last Day

Today is over. Today was my last class day. I am done high school. I have such mixed feelings about the whole affair! On one hand, I will really miss the majority of people in the halls, but I will not miss the systems and institutions controlling them. All I can say for sure is [ READ MORE ]

My Love of Gopher

Every so often, I allow myself to be pulled into gopherspace. Each time this sort of thing happens, I find myself falling in love with the refreshingly low-fi brilliance and simplicity that has been forgotten by so many. Once I make my millions, I’ll definately have to stage a gopher revival. I’ll set up a [ READ MORE ]

Hamas Agrees to Stop Making the Palestinian People Look Bad

  • May 22nd, 2005
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So there is this article that suggests that Hamas has agreed to stop it’s homocide bombing attacks. If this is real, it will do two things. One, it will prevent more people on both sides from dying. Two, the less people blow themselves up and make hate speeches, th less the world will think that [ READ MORE ]

Germanish Email Spam

After doing a little investigating on what was described to me as “possibly anti-semetic german spam”, I have come to a few links courtesy of my friends and teachers on #lugradio which give us a little bit more information than before: An entry on Andrew Oakley’s blog indicates it’s the Sober worm. More from Andrew [ READ MORE ]

LaTeX, The Sacred Cluster and Copyright of Torah

  • May 16th, 2005
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My latest find is a 1995 monograph by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of American, entitled “The Sacred Cluster: The Core Values of Conservative Judaism”. After looking around for a dead-tree version, I stumbled upon a very hard-to-read version hosted online by JTSA. This version, which seems to be the only [ READ MORE ]

Internet Filtering Hurts Education

Upon arriving in the lab today and booting my laptop, I attempted to open the bookmark to the tutorials on the wxPython Wiki, only to find that the page was being blocked by our school’s internet filtering system! The excuse given was that the site was being blocked because it was “Web Page Hosting”. Our [ READ MORE ]

Something Worth Laughing At

I’ve been wanting to do this for so very long! I might have to change my name to “Acher” but I think it’s worth it[ READ MORE ]

Dealing With Poor Editing

I sent in an article to be published in one of the school publications only to find that it was published with several spelling mistakes! I’m rather upset at myself for not following up on things but at the same time, I feel as if it is the job of the editors to error-check things [ READ MORE ]

A Triumph of the Human Intellect

  • May 6th, 2005
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I just read a fantastic essay sent to me by one of my Rabbis who thought that I might enjoy it. I read it in the presence of my good friend and teacher Ben while sitting in the lab. As we read Welcome to a New Age by Thomas A. Condon the rest of the [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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