Some pictures to accompany recent posts

Alissa posted this sign on our front door on Friday; she figured the tooth fairy would benefit from a little advance notice. The layout is kinda boustrophedonic (boustrophedental?) but it says, reading down the left column and up the right, "Dear tooth fairy, my tooth wo [=will] fall out soon."


A closeup of some text from Max's machzor. Can anyone identify the lettershapes that are neither standard Hebrew block letters nor standard Rashi script? I've never seen those lettershapes before; they seem to show up in Yiddish "stage direction" paragraphs, often in place names, I think.

Some pictures to accompany recent posts

Alissa posted this sign on our front door on Friday; she figured the tooth fairy would benefit from a little advance notice. The layout is kinda boustrophedonic (boustrophedental?) but it says, reading down the left column and up the right, "Dear tooth fairy, my tooth wo [=will] fall out soon."


A closeup of some text from Max's machzor. Can anyone identify the lettershapes that are neither standard Hebrew block letters nor standard Rashi script? I've never seen those lettershapes before; they seem to show up in Yiddish "stage direction" paragraphs, often in place names, I think.

Puzzle humor

From introverte: a puzzle lolcat.

Puzzle humor

From introverte: a puzzle lolcat.

I'd like to see....

Forget "I'm John Doe, and I approve this message." I'd love to see the campaigns be able to voluntarily submit ads to FactCheck.org, and if FactCheck determines that the ads contain no inaccuracies, then the campaign would be allowed to include an "Approved by FactCheck" symbol on screen for the duration of the ad.

Since this would be voluntary on a per-ad basis, it would not preclude a campaign from rushing a response ad on the air without the FactCheck seal of approval, nor would it prevent a campaign from indulging in a combination of intentionally misleading uncertified ads with their more responsible counterparts. But once a few ads went out with the "Approved by FactCheck" seal, I bet people would start looking for that, and would start wondering about the ads that lack it.

My username is 530nm330hz, and I approve this blog posting.

I'd like to see....

Forget "I'm John Doe, and I approve this message." I'd love to see the campaigns be able to voluntarily submit ads to FactCheck.org, and if FactCheck determines that the ads contain no inaccuracies, then the campaign would be allowed to include an "Approved by FactCheck" symbol on screen for the duration of the ad.

Since this would be voluntary on a per-ad basis, it would not preclude a campaign from rushing a response ad on the air without the FactCheck seal of approval, nor would it prevent a campaign from indulging in a combination of intentionally misleading uncertified ads with their more responsible counterparts. But once a few ads went out with the "Approved by FactCheck" seal, I bet people would start looking for that, and would start wondering about the ads that lack it.

My username is 530nm330hz, and I approve this blog posting.

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Offline until Wed. night. Happy Sukkot!

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Offline until Wed. night. Happy Sukkot!