Posted on Sunday, 6 December, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
The new D3 is roughly based on four Wordpress themes
Time for a new look.Maybe it’s because I use reading glasses these days, but gone is the fine-print sized san serif typography that used to make up the bulk of the blog’s content. I took drew3ooo offline for most of December for a redesign. Consider this post to be the liner notes.
The vivacious layout, sparse use of color and elegant typography that make up this site’s sexy, sexy design are based on the stylish themes hanami and olulipo by A. Mignolo.
Posted on Thursday, 26 April, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
The Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards has offered a number of solid websites I haven’t either heard of before or haven’t dropped in on for a while. These are worth checking out:
Posted on Thursday, 8 March, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
My friend Jacob from Oly is presently studying in Jersualem and recording his travels around Israel and Palestine at his blog. It’s well worth the read. Honest, critical and funny at times and a neat perspective on things. — Link
We watched home videos of the destruction of Palestinian property by settlers living in Hebron. Teenagers, approximately aged 14 to 19 or so, would go out in a big group, dressed like modern orthodox kids on shabbos (kippah, nice clothes, not like the “redneck” settlers I’ve seen in pictures before). they would go up to Palestinian homes, with Palestinians living in them, and attempt to break what they could. Windows, gates, doors, flowerpots, whatever. The man holding the camera, a forty year old man, was trembling with fear, while his house was being ransacked. Settler girls would interpose themselves on the path of Palestinian children walking to school with their mothers, and swing their bags at them, and kick their mothers. The videos are incredibly surreal.
These kids look like the good Yeshiva Jews that knew– acting out all the hatred, anger, and fear that they had been brought up with. I consider it to be a serious crime to raise your children as settlers in Hebron. Their humanity has been buried by the age of 16. We escaped the Holocaust so that we can actively engage in hating the people who live around us? Okay, sure, plenty of Jews in the US are scared of all the goyim around us, but hopefully it plays a relatively minor part in our lives! These children have been traumatized by being put right over the flame.
In order for the law to intervene, Palestinians must produce evidence of who has done what. Our host told a story. After a raid on his home, he took a picture of the youth with his cell phone. He went to the police office. The officer said “do you have evidence?” He showed him the picture on his phone. The police officer copied the picture off of the phone, and onto his computer. Then he deleted the picture from the phone, and from the computer. “Now you don’t have evidence. Case closed.” What respect I feel for him, that he can withstand this sort of treatment.
Posted on Friday, 2 March, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
“(Lee) Kaplan, a public figure who makes statements that can be legally, and easily, criticized, is suing a blogger of Lee Kaplan watch for doing just that. Aside from just throwing a courtroom tantrum about someone calling him on the numerous innacuracies and flat-out fabrications in his rantings, he also alleges that the blogger, Yaman Salahi, sent e-mails to Kaplan’s employer. This is the more interesting part of the lawsuit, as it will be interesting to see if Salahi did or not. If not, a juicy counter-suit and real actual misrepresentation claim could be filed. If so, the intent and content of the emails would have to be examined.”
Lee seems upset that Salahi accurately reported on an item from the Rebuilding Alliance on the investigation that resulted in a letter Lee received telling him it’s illegal to allege you are a Congressional staffer if you’re not.
Posted on Sunday, 4 February, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
“Meet Abel Hamad. A family man and a father of four. A lover of table tennis and a good joke.” Pretty innocuous so far. But the plot thickens as we read that at 1:30 a.m. he was awakened to a bunch of guns pointed at his face and has been sitting in Guantanamo ever since without a charge filed, a day in court or the ability to contact his family, scraping by in Sudan. What does the U.S. government have on this chairty aid worker? We don’t know. Neither does he. Project Hamad was set up to get this guy out.
Posted on Sunday, 4 February, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Interesting new watch group at muzzlewatch.org, and not just because they used a similar theme to the one that orscp.org uses (in a small activist world, we need more diversity in our WordPress theme editing).
From the site creators:
In its first week, it received thousands of visitors from around the world; was featured by the editors at Buzzfeed, one of the web’s top blog aggregators; and was mentioned in 2 different media stories. More importantly, we broke our first story about Joel Beinin’s talk (see post below) getting cancelled at the Harker School, which was subsequently picked up by the San Jose Mercury News, directly from our blog. In addition to emails from many readers, we’ve heard from reporters who read the blog and have requested tips in the future.
“We are not — are we? — at the mercy of our political institutions. If we created them, we are responsible for them. We have the right and the duty to overhaul them, to change them.” — James Baldwin
“We are not — are we? — at the mercy of our political institutions. If we created them, we are responsible for them. We have the right and the duty to overhaul them, to change them.”