Avi Solomon

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Commented on 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: Life's behind-the-scenes gallery
Here's the storyboard to scene comparison of the underwater burial sequence: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=164179956917&oid=161478049711 Disc 2 of the '20,000 Leagues' DVD is loaded with goodies....
Commented on Goldwag: Cranks, Curiosities, and the Process Church
Arthur, I'm surprised you haven't done a post on Gurdjieff yet:)...
Commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
Strauss was a careful reader of books and introduced other readers to this art. All the rest is calumny trying to make him into more than he was. It pays to read this essay by his daughter Prof. Jenny Strauss...
Commented on Eye exercise may boost creativity
This is a preliminary exercise(Kriya) in Yoga:)...
Commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
Read: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15505349/Leo-Strauss-The-Mutual-Influence-of-Theology-and-Philosophy or Listen to: http://leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu/audio/Meno_audio.mp3 Leo Strauss before judging him....
Commented on Sapolsky's outstanding Stanford lecture on "The Uniqueness of Humans"
Correct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc...
Commented on Sapolsky's outstanding Stanford lecture on "The Uniqueness of Humans"
Meeting with Sapolsky at his lab in Stanford was one of the high points of my life:) Here's a recent lecture by Sapolsky on Depression: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc:...
Commented on Mickey Mouse comics drawn by concentration camp prisoner
Here are some scans from Horst Rosenthal's original booklet: http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot/prog/image_into.asp?id=4646&lang=EN&type_id=7&addr=/IMAGE_TYPE/4646.JPG http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot/prog/image_into.asp?id=4647&lang=EN&type_id=7&addr=/IMAGE_TYPE/4647.JPG http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot/prog/image_into.asp?id=4648&lang=EN&type_id=7&addr=/IMAGE_TYPE/4648.JPG...
Commented on Book: Rules for my Unborn Son
Here's my rules for my born son, Uriel:) http://www.scribd.com/doc/3505552/Letter-to-Uriel...
Commented on Some Christians mad at R. Crumb
This is a very insightful review of Crumb's Genesis, all the more for appearing in a mainstream Jewish publication: 'In the Image of God: The Ambition of R. Crumb’s Graphic Genesis' by Paul Buhle http://www.forward.com/articles/116232/...
Commented on Some Christians mad at R. Crumb
What?! No Fatwa yet:)...
Commented on Exclusive sneak peek at Ch. 19 from The Book of Genesis Illustrated, by R. Crumb
The book of Genesis is a very, very, wise book, IMHO. Crumb's presentation is electrifying and is sure to cause lots of metanoias if people stick through it. For a deeper reading, Robert Sack's commentary on Genesis is mindblowing if...
Commented on Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down
Letter sent to Obama!: "I am writing to you with deep concern over the closing of all branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia on 2nd October, 2009 due to lack of State funding. My 4 year-old son Uriel, together...
Commented on Fresh Greens: A surprising twist for an ex-Enron-er, building houses for under $3k, presto-change-o chocolates, and goats
These earthen African homes stand in hand-sculpted testimony to a different, humane architecture: http://www.scribd.com/doc/18039729/Houses-Are-Human-Architectural-Selfimages-of-Africas-Tamberma Ianto Evans, the founder of the Cob movement in North America provides the following rationale for a return to natural building: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13790358/Ianto-Evans-Natural-Building...
Commented on Iran: Neda (warning: graphic video)
What should Obama do? At the very least, he could provide unambiguous moral support for the students. The USA (& the 'Zionists') will always be blamed for everything no matter what by the Mullah regime. A strident act of moral...
Commented on Iran: Neda (warning: graphic video)
And Obama still remains silent, giving lame excuses about "scapegoating". Even Reagan could have done better in standing up to a Tyranny....
Commented on Ultra-right wing potato sandwich launches in India
This is an authoritative recipe for making your own Vada Pav!: http://onehotstove.blogspot.com/2005/08/imbb-18-no-fear-of-frying.html...
Commented on Ultra-right wing potato sandwich launches in India
Previously on boingboing: 'Globalization of snacks: Vada Pav (TM) to kick McDonalds' ass in India' http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/17/globalization-of-sna.html...
Commented on R. Crumb's Book of Genesis excerpted in The New Yorker
Found a preview of the Crumb Genesis article here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16271328/Genesis-Crumb...
Commented on Plant identification field guide coming to iPhone and more
This is a great example of the Pareto principle at work. A startup called Aerulean is working on this too: http://www.google.com/patents?id=x0GaAAAAEBAJ A more exacting 'Tricorder' option for plant identification might be like those embodied in the following devices: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13254871/Microfabricated-bioprocessor-for-integrated-nanoliterscale-Sanger-DNA-sequencing http://www.scribd.com/doc/13254883/Development-and-evaluation-of-a-microdevice-for-amino-acid-biomarker-detection-and-analysis-on-Mars...
Commented on JJ, you popped my Star (An open letter to JJ Abrams about losing my virginity to the new Star Trek)
I believe the exact technical term for 'cling-ons' is 'dingleberry' :)...
Commented on When the Engineer Gardens
There's a great video tutorial Introducing Square Foot Gardening here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6237463360761955560 The uber-gardeneer might consider Earthboxes as a superior engineering solution to the problem of how to grow food with the least effort and trouble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uXhVvtu5Rw...
Commented on Boing Boing Nerd Merit Badge!
How about a "boinger" badge for people like me:) http://avisolo.blogspot.com/2009/02/avi-boingboing.html...
Commented on Leatherman Freestyle multitool finally to be released
The Victorinox Spirit is a good alternative:)...
Commented on Sapolsky on primate sexuality part two: required viewing for the horny
MP3s of both Sapolsky lectures: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QKD65SNY...
Commented on Stanford's Sapolsky on primate sexuality: funny, fascinating, educational
@21 here's the second part: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=210262239460023471 MP3s of both Sapolsky lectures here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QKD65SNY...
Commented on Studio portraits of Mumbai's itinerant nomads
@SRIKANTH - Hunger does not explain all of it, just my hunch based upon a personal encounter with one of these men. When you have nothing left, God is all one has, though one may wonder what kind of God....
Commented on Studio portraits of Mumbai's itinerant nomads
Seeing a "Kadak Laxmi" (lit. "Harsh Goddess") holy man whipping himself on the streets of Mumbai makes you truly appreciate the bloody power of raw religious faith: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashish/17609770/ Nana Patekar portrayed a violent bollywoodized "Kadak Laxmi" in 'Yeshwant'(1997): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydp7FoiseVQ...
Commented on Two angry camels in a car
Pack Animals are routinely tortured, slaughtered or abandoned in the Holy Land. Former British Airways hostess Lucy Fensom operates a shelter for these unfortunates in Moshav gan Yoshiyya. Safe Haven For Donkeys In The Holy Land: http://www.safehaven4donkeys.org/about_us/index.php...
Commented on Putumayo Presents India music compilation
Third Floor Music has great selections from the Bollywood repertoire: http://thirdfloormusic.blogspot.com/...

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the_headless_rabbit commented on Goldwag: Cranks, Curiosities, and the Process Church
I believe industrial band Skinny Puppy released an album in 1996 called "The Process" that was supposed to be concept album about "the process church" of course, trying to decipher Ogre's lyrics is near impossible, so the only thing that really gives away the album's theme is the title....
redhawk2007 commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
Bogus accusations of anti-Semitism are one of the principle weapons the neocons use to silence their critics. If there were no Jewish neocons, it would have been necessary to invent them. There is nothing anti-Semitic in pointing out the underlying fascism in neocon thought and behavior. There is no ideology within recent memory that matches neconservatism so well as fascism and indeed, its virulent Nazi strain. Many neocons, like Michael Ledeen, are open admirers of fascism and he has written books and articles praising it....
Antinous / Moderator commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
None of those ideologies are mutually exclusive. For instance, you do not have to be anti-Semitic to criticize Israel, but critics of Israel are often anti-Semites. I use the ban-hammer pretty regularly on anti-Semitic commenters, not because of ideological rigidity on my part, but because I check their links and find grossly anti-Semitic propaganda. There may be bogus accusations, but there are a hell of a lot more correct ones....
buccaneer commented on Exclusive sneak peek at Ch. 19 from The Book of Genesis Illustrated, by R. Crumb
I liked your mini-essay on culture, Dan. But it sounded a little like it was written from a dominant culture perspective. The notion of "basic civil rights" is culturally-constructed, just as clothing fashions are. Of course you know that, but there was that interesting bit where you spoke of stepping in to protect children from being flayed. But that's only relevant when you have the right sort of force at your disposal. Pluralism is good policy not because there is no one true set of values (although there indeed isn't), but rather because war is hell, and to stamp out...
manchv38 commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
I also encountered a number of self-described Straussians in college. Whatever delusions of grandeur some of these professors and grad students (a phenomenon probably not unique to Straussians) might find themselves under, they don't seem to be taken very seriously by many experts (political, philosophical, psychological, natural scientific, etc.) outside of their small circles, so I'm skeptical of claims that these folks pose a very serious, deep-seated threat to the broader public. I think the real substantive problems with this "school of thought" (insofar as it contains a virtually uniform take on "modernity") follow the lines of Robert Pippin's (UChicago)...

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