Aliyah insight ...

The Lord has blessed Jews with amazing minds ... and when combined with frank humility ... the whole world benefits.

This week's audio blog by Brian Blum, for example, is stunningly refreshing (The Jerusalem Post broke the link, imagine that ... they don't want people to read their stuff).

But, I'd wager that more folks have been touched by this testimony. And a few of us who heard it were not only refreshed, but invigorated by the unmatchable power of the Holy Spirit.

If you have not read Aviad Cohen's testimony, you should probably first read one of the many pejorative articles and blogs published about him recently. That should set the tone for you to better appreciate Aviad Cohen as the underdog. You'll understand after reading or hearing his testimony how clearly he knows what the results of his belief in Jesus will be ... he knows what the results of his aliyah will be. May the Lord bless him and all of the spiritual descendants of Abraham.

Unreal numa numa-ness ...

Just in case some of you have missed this ...
It is the original numa numa lip sync that became famous on the net
before folks started editing, immitating, etc ...

Here are some more numa numa versions which are fun to watch ...

American Idol parody ...

Lego Numa Numa ...

The Sims numa numa (long and not so good ... but still amazing how folks have that kind of time)

Strongbad numa numa

Whole other collections of Numa numaness

Various goofballs, like myself, making daemon possesed numa numa fools of themselves

Beautiful Israelis with a Hebrew video numa numa ...

And yes, kimpossible, even the ...
Napoleon Dynamite Numa ...

"That's what I'm talk'n about." -- Kip from "Napoleon Dynamite"

Most of this came from the wikipedia entry on numa numa ... sigh

Black vs. white

Clay Shirky's keen and brief note on blacklists vs. whitelists:

... the blacklist/filter out strategy: "Exclude the unwanted down to a manageable S/N" -- disadvantage being frequent pruning and increasingly baroque strategies. Advantage being preservation of serendipity.

... the whitelist/filter in strategy: "Include only the obviously relevant people and tags" -- disadvantage being loss of serendipity, advantage being great stability in set up over longer time periods.