Oddly though, the 1949 Armistice Agreement line appears!

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Though as it was pointed out in the comments on Ouriel’s blog, the English maps are just a matter of time. If you type in an address in English in the Hebrew map section, it will take you to the proper address. Safe to say it is just a matter of time.

Now, if they only got that damn API working so we can really maximize the usage of the maps. Again, just a matter of time I suppose.

Techcrunch announces second Israel Web Tour 2.0
It only took 16 comments before someone mentioned Apartheid.

Bush calls for an end to the occupation and states support for a Palestinian homeland.
And everyone tells me my support of Obama is misguided.

Religious Jews can’t vote in Nevada Caucus.
Giuliani is in real trouble now.

Jacob Ner-David, one of the founders, gives the skinny on why they are shutting down.

My synopsis:

Corporate Israel sucks.

The Jerusalem Municipality sucks harder.

Nir Barkat rules and when he is elected mayor (God willing) every first grader will get a blackberry.

These days there are more cafes and restaurants that have wifi than do not have wifi.

In all seriousness, Unwire Jerusalem was an ambitious project and really ahead of its time and the founders should be commended for providing this wonderful service to both Jerusalemites and tourists for many years. As someone who has an office on Ben Yehuda street I witness dozens of people every single day sitting on the pedestrian walkway with their laptops open, doing work, checking their email, etc. It always gave me a feeling that while Jerusalem is a extremely poor and decrepit city these days, there are things where we are actually ahead of the rest of the country (and in this case, most of the world!)

However, the next time my connection goes out in my Ben Yehuda street office, I will have to actually get up and go to a cafe and not rely on Unwire Jerusalem. Maybe that isn’t so bad.

UPDATE: I just realized we are going to have to update our wifi maps yet again for Jerusalemite. Sigh.

This is not an attempt to make the holy book more portable, but an exercise meant to arouse public interest in nanotechnology. It was part of an educational program developed at the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology aimed especially at young people….

The nano-Bible was produced at the Technion with a special computer program that can create any text on a tiny surface. The question of “How small can the Bible be?” is really about the larger question of how to store data in a very small space. In the future, nanotechnology experts hope to inscribe data on DNA or other bio-molecules…

They’ll be photographing it and blowing it up 10,000 times its original size and will display the nano-bible at the Technion. The original nano-bible, the size of a piece of crystal sugar will be on display next to photograph.

Source: The Jerusalem Post

Israeli internet guru Hanan Cohen has created an aggregator for Israeli blogs in English. Although I subscribe to most of the blogs listed it will indeed make my reading far more organized.

You can find it here!

Rock on Hanan!

A tip of the hat to Ms. Goldman of On the Face.

Hours of entertainment.

Anyway, just came upon this uber-awesome addon that notifies you when someone sends you an instant message on gmail. It is indeed a useful add on but not quite as useful as my Abe Vigoda status bar (which sadly I cannot use with my new mac).