Ew.

Seen in White Rose: One German start-up has created an alternative to RFID that is likely to get under consumers’ skin. Ident Technologies has dreamt up Skinplex – which could be used in all the same ways as RFID and Bluetooth – but uses a different transmitter: human skin. Yeesh.

happiness

What you do is fling yourself down, face up, on the spinning earth beneath you and gaze up to the good green sky above, and shout with no words. That is happiness.

My tallit

I got my tallit in Jerusalem, in Mea Shearim. Mea Shearim is the neighborhood where I first set foot in Jerusalem, and those of you who know Jerusalem can give a small shudder here. For those of you who don’t know the city: Mea Shearim is the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, just outside the old city. They Continue reading My tallit