Entries from March 2008

March 29, 2008

Wilders film ‘Fitna’ in Nederland and Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’ play in Potsdam

A turmoil of movies, literature, theater, actors, police and religious Islamic beliefs:
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After..” dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders released a film (Fitna) criticizing Islam and its holy book the Koran on Thursday, posting it on a Web site.”…, see here, Muslims are again upset at Satanic Verses play in German, I quote,…”A forthcoming stage play in German to [...]

March 27, 2008

Phishing and the FBI, find the Differences

 Reading today (March 26, 2008) the Hebrew edition of the Israeli “Yediot Aharonot” newspaper, I found that the FBI, to trap possible pedophiles, is applying some sort of ‘phishing techniques’, here are the same news from English source.

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“FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects”

I quote the article verbatim:
“The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that [...]

March 25, 2008

Middle East Toilet Paper

 It is perhaps unusual to open an article on the credibility of  writers on Middle East topics with in the headline the words ’Toilet Paper’. But why not? And lets see why.

Yesterday (March 21, 2008) I  came across an article named ‘How to Use Toilet Paper’. I quote, …”Certain aspects of human life are simultaneously private and universal — everyone [...]

March 18, 2008

German Chancellor Merkel in Israel

 
I publish on my blog a page of comics drawings called “The DailyComics Dream“, where I tell in short graphical episodes what happens to me under the Nazi occupation of Belgium in WW2 . With this context in my mind, I see the today  visit, in Israel, of the German chancellor Merkel accompanied by seven ministers from her cabinet, as a surrealistic historical [...]

March 9, 2008

Avatar, Photoshop and Warp Tool

I used Digibody’s Caricature Maker (see here) to make this picture., opened here in Photoshop  cs2.

Open a A4 page with 120 pixel/inch and drag in. Scale to a greater size.

Select the head with the square selection tool and now use the warp tool.

I ‘warped’ to get the above result. You do the same untill you see what you [...]

March 4, 2008

Beit Lahia, Sderot, Ashkelon:’ Oh What a Curious War’

 Two Stories and an Opinion.
 
 The twins of Beit Lahia in Ashkelon.  Twins from from Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza Strip, where born a week ago in the newborn  intensive care nursery at the Barzelai hospital in Ashkelon. To remember you, Ashkelon is the Israeli town targeted by the Grad missiles launched by the Hamas. And see how [...]