Warning:

I’ve just received an urgent email from a reliable source, advising me:

 
Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.
 
 This information arrived this morning, direct from both Microsoft  and Norton.
 
 Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet.
 
 You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled “Mail  Server Report”
 
 If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen  saying: “It is too late now, your life is no longer  beautiful…”
 
 Subsequently, you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC,
 And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your Name, e-mail and password.
 
 This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday  afternoon. AOLhas already confirmed the severity, and the anti  virus softwares are not capable of destroying it.
 
 The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself
 ‘life owner’.
 
 PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO  ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to PASS  IT ON IMMEDIATELY!
 
 THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
 
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp

 

So I’m posting it for others to see. You have been warned…!

It’s Like Google, But Kosher

And the award for the cutest story of the week goes to the creation of Koogle – a kosher version of Google!

This search engine has been developed in Israel, for use by Orthodox Jews.

‘Koogle’ is a combination of ‘kugel”, which is a Jewish pudding, and of course Google, the search engine. The brain behind Koogle is Yossi Altman. Koogle filters out  religiously objectionable material, and has gained approval from Orthodox rabbis.

“This is a kosher alternative for ultra-Orthodox Jews so that they may surf the Internet,”  Yossi Altman told Reuters, Jerusalem.

“The site was developed in part at the encouragement of rabbis who sought a solution to the needs of ultra-Orthodox Jews to browse the Web particularly for vital services,” he added.

On the Jewish Shabbat – Friday sundown until Saturday sundown – Jews are not supposed to engage in any form of work of business activity. So if anyone tries to use Koogle during the Shabbat, it crashes automatically!

Koogle. You gotta love it!

Kugel is also pretty fab…

Racism On WordPress

Let’s face it: there’s a whole lot of racism out here in cyberspace. Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing, but open to awful abuse.

Some years ago, a group calling themselves the JIDF (Jewish Internet Defence Force) decided to try and do something about it. Ever since, they’ve been working  hard to combat some of the more extreme anti Jewish sentiments being expressed online.

On Facebook, for instance, there are numerous groups which openly advocate Jihad, which praise Hitler, and which try to whip up hatred against not just Jews but also members of other religions.

The JIDF has risen to the challenge – and now they’re asking if WE are willing to do our bit! Specifically, they are asking us to:

Write to: m@wordpress.org – and explain how all of the following blogs are part of Frank Weltner’s anti semitic network.

Complain about inciting  hatred against Jews. (WordPress should be receptive to removing these since they have banned Frank twice now):

http://googlejewwatch.wordpress.com/
http://wesearchjewwatch.wordpress.com/
http://carpenter7117.wordpress.com/
http://eugenicschancellor.wordpress.com/
http://flagthescum.wordpress.com/
http://nottaslave.wordpress.com/
http://orangeladyheart.wordpress.com/
http://searchtodestroy.wordpress.com/
http://theaskwhychild.wordpress.com/
http://tonicipriani21.wordpress.com/

I’m just about to send my email – please add your voice by doing the same 🙂