When a Drop of Water Falls

Here is a cool video that shows in super slow motion what happens when a raindrop hits a puddle:

They even have some guy who explains the bouncing effect.

Our Friends at Haaretz

Our friends at Haaretz have done it again. They manage to twist the news to make it sound completely different from what actually happened while still strictly telling the truth.

Yesterday, a Jewish family moved into a house in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

Here is how Arutz 7 described the event:

“The family moved into their new home in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood, after the High Court ruled that land is owned by Jews. However, an Arab family remains in a part of the multi-unit building.”

The article goes on with:

“Police escorted the new family into their home on Tuesday even though one Arab family refuses to move out, despite the court approval for the Jewish family to take over the property. Police are at the scene to prevent a confrontation by protesting Arabs and pro-Arab groups and are trying to convince the Arab family to leave peacefully.”

Now lets look at how Haaretz presented the story.

First, lets see the headline:

Settlers force Palestinians out of East Jerusalem home

Check that out – it was the settlers who forced out the Arabs.  All of the sudden, the law doesn’t matter. It’s those settlers who did something wrong here. (Note: the article has since been changed on the web site but the main points still apply to the new article as well.)

Now let’s see how they describe in the article what happened:

“Rioting settlers forced a Palestinian family from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah out of their home on Tuesday, after the district court denied the residents' appeal to remain on the premises.”

First, it was rioting settlers. Not settlers who just wanted to finally move into their house.

Second, of course the article has to use the Arab name for the neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah – to further delegitimize the rights of any Jews to be there.

Next, the sentence sounds like the Jews had minimal right to the house as opposed to the years and years of court battles that they rightful owners had to go through to finally have the right to evict the illegal Arab squatters.

I don’t know why I get upset every time Haaretz does this, but here it is again.

Great Ad

I have received a number of comments about my lack of posting. I don’t want anyone to say that I am cut from my audience (whomever of you are left) and that I am out of touch with the common man. So, in order to get a post up I am going the easy way and posting a video.

It is in ad for Intel and it is quite funny. Interesting to see if you laugh with or about the people in the ad.

Embedding doesn't seem to work, but click here to see the ad.

And That is Bike Riding

Following up on the jump rope like you have never seen it video, here is some bike riding like you wouldn’t believe.

It starts off a little slow, but hang in there  - this guy does things on a bike that will blow your mind:

Now That’s How You Jump Rope

Growing up, jumping rope was always thought of a  kind of girlish. This assessment  changed a bit when we realized that boxers jumper rope since it was great exercise and good for your coordination as well.

But, I never knew  jumping rope can be for show as well.

Check out this video:

…And We’re Back

After enough nudging by various people (can you say shiputzim  ??), the time has come to maybe post again.

Instead of politics or anything, I have been saving this gem up.

This video has been making the rounds , and for those of you haven’t seen it, its a real classic: