lizrael update

The Google is Us.

A friend sent me Gdumb and so inspired me to play around a little bit with the Google suggestions-as-you-type feature. I explored the big three topics an Israeli Jewish blogger such as myself might feel connected to:
Image 1: Israel
I know I’m American, and I know that makes me a candidate for being dumb about geography, [...]

Google Israel celebrates election day.

Aww. Google Israel got all cute and created an election day logo for the search engine’s Israeli homepage: 

Of course, that’s nothing like how our Israeli kalpi (polling) stations actually look; we get a blue tray of paper ballots behind a giant blue oak tag (à la 8th grade science project) and cardboard blue boxes to stick [...]