30 ’Av 5767: Ro’sh Ḥodesh/National Creamsicle Day

Greetings.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Ben Gurion's Dream (1974)”
  
• “Emotional Rove announces 'next chapter'” (One down, two to go. Congresspeople, go forth and impeach Bush and Cheney!)
  
• “Good Fence, Lousy Neighbors” (Major rule for warfare: NEVER tell your enemies about weaknesses in their defenses! The idiot who posted the video referenced in this article pointed out what Israel needs to work on in order to keep the so-called “Palestinians” inside their penalty box. Are these terrorists so stupid as to make life harder for themselves? No wonder they are doing a horrible job fighting their jihad.)
  
• “Thousands attend West Bank rally of global Islamic movement” and “Islamic hard-liners gather in Jakarta” (Major rule of conspiracy: NEVER be public about having a conspiracy! As I have said before, these people are doing absolutely the wrong thing to make people believe that Islam is a religion of peace.)
  
• “Spanish parish stages hunger strike to back priest” (This is not religiously fallacious behavior by any means, though I am not crazy about the notion of hunger strikes. I am just impressed by how dedicated these parishioners are.)
  

Today’s weird thing is XBox Modification, which gives instructions on how to use the XBox game machine as an actual computer running Linux or Mac OS X. This is a fun way to make Microsoft very mad. The weird thing is that this is not a silly, useless hack; people have actually talked about using XBoxes for cheap parallel processing. Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron