Facebook Newlyweds T-Shirt
Israeli couple Dave Markovich and Jenny Knickerbocker met on Facebook. When they got married, Markovich’s brother in law, Arik Sofer, decided to commemorate this with a special T-shirt, or GREE-T-SHIRT as he calls it.
The front shows both Markovich’s and Knickerbocker’s separate Facebook profiles. The back shows a made-up mutual profile, followed by Facebook comments with wedding wishes from family members and friends.
The shirts were worn by some of the Markovichs’ close friends and family members, who entered the floor to the sound of the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1. Mazal Tov!
* Story originally posted on ynet (in Hebrew)
Angry Birds Egypt
The Angry Birds version of the Egyptian Revolution, by Eviathar Sarizada.
F5: How Refreshing
Nir Avigad created this webpage that refreshes itself, so you don’t have to.
Psycho Laser Shooting Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales’ creepy fund raising photo inspired Nir Avigad to create Psycho. Just click anywhere on the screen.
Ikea Unintentional Porn
Scopophobia: The Unreasonable Fear of Being Stared At
Via Doron Shem Tov.
The Best Magazine to Copy From in New York Is…
Israeli magazine Time Out Tel Aviv published on its Nov 18 issue a cover story on the best Tel Aviv neighborhood to live in . The competing Akhbar Ha’ir (literally, City Mouse) magazine claims TOTA stole the idea, which Akhbar had presented to advertisers beforehand, and is slated for the Akhbar’s Dec 16 re-launch issue.
Whoever copied from whom, both the magazines copied both the idea and the cover design from a New York Magazine cover story from April, revealed Israeli news-site Walla (Heb).
Gabby Sidibe Skin Lightening Controversy Brought to You by Skin Whitening Cream
Telegraph ad placement FAIL:
Blogger Hebrew Translation Remark
Whoever translated Blogger’s interface to Hebrew left a remark about the Hebrew wording on the page itself:
“I think יפהפיות sounds less professional. If that is not intentional then Maybe יפות or מעוצבות would sound a little better.”
Hat tip: Dor Zach.
Blogs Attacked After Exposing Identity of Secret Israeli Army Intelligence Agent
Three blogs were hacked taken down by a DoS attack today (Thursday) after exposing the secret identity of a Shabak (Israel secret internal security service) Army Intelligence Unit 504 officer.
The officer, nicknamed Captain George, was accused of raping Lebanese militia leader Mustafa Dirani, held captive in Israel as a bargaining chip to be traded for Israeli soldier gone MIA Ron Arad, but released in a 2004 prisoner swap which did not include Arad.
Richard Silverstein today exposed Captain George’s real name on his blog, Tikun Olam. The story was quoted on two left-leaning Israeli blogs, Itamar Sha’altiel’s Midron Chalaklak (literally, slippery slope) and Yossi Gurvitz’s Friends of George, both part of a small blog group called Hahem.
All three blogs were attacked and taken down today, reported Canada based Israeli blogger Dubi Kanengisser. Tikun Olam is still off the air, displaying an error message saying “If you are seeing this, either: We have been forced to temporarily block certain ranges of IP addresses due to a DOS attack So, please try later. OR If you’re still seeing this after a day, it’s because your IP has been associated with spam in the past.”
The Israeli blogs, hosted on Dreamhost, are back online. Their attacker used an IP address allocated by Israeli ISP Netvision. Gurvitz of Friends of George told me tonight: “We spoke to Dreamhost and both our blogs are back up. We’ve tightened our security, and hope it’ll last. Netvision couldn’t help us right now. If necessary, I will go to court, get a court order, find this worm and take every shekel he’s got, and every shekel he’ll have in the future.”
[Update 7/30/2010 1:19AM] Ynet reports the attack, quoting from this blog (Heb).
[Update 7/30/2010 1:35AM] Tikun Olam is back online. Silverstein reports the DoS attack: “[I]f you attempted to visit my site and got an error page ignore whatever verbiage you read there. This was a DOS attack. I’ve taken security precautions to avoid future attacks.”
[Update 7/30/2010 11:35AM] 013 Netvision’s response: “013 netvision has the duty to protect the confidentiality of information of, and relating to, our customers, and can’t give any information regarding any customer. 013 Netvision’s customers need to use the internet in a manner consistent with all applicable laws and regulations and under the terms of the company’s user policy as presented in the company web site.”
• This post in Hebrew – הפוסט הזה בעברית
