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The Five People You Meet in Web 2.0 Hell

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · venting

38-year-old Eddie is convinced his digital life would be better upon meeting five types of people and showing them the unexpected negative impact they have on others:
The Under-Tagger – This guy would spend a week going through old video cassettes, finding the amazing CNN footage from 1983 he was looking for, but upon uploading it [...]

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IDOL GIVS BAKE

April 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · venting

This evening Israeli Channel 10 News covered Brad Pitt’s microphone malfunctioning on Fox’s Idol Gives Back and stage manager Debbie McVickers shining as she came to the rescue. Channel 10’s fluffy-issues correspondent Haim Etgar dubbed the incident ‘a huge screw-up’, right before using a caption that seemed like it was spelled by an 11 years [...]

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Oh Europe, Where Oh Where Did It All Go Wrong? - The Rise and Fall of The Eurovision Song Contest

March 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · venting

It all went to the crapper in 1999 when two rulings annihilated the core essence of the Eurovision song contest we knew and loved: the cancellation of the national language restriction and the abolishment of the mandatory live orchestra rendered an annual event of joy and pride (!) into an annual ceremony of exasperation. Where once entire [...]

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What’s Wrong With the Israeli Internet Today? – A Post Using the Israeli Screen Actors Guild

March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · venting

I have already posted an elaborate list of the top annoyances plaguing the Israeli Internet, but wherever my mouse takes me I encounter more and more prototypical examples:
Today, while preparing to reply to a recent reader’s comment in a post I wrote about Israeli actress Hadar Ratzon, I stumbled upon her private cell phone number, her [...]

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