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Confessions
Knox was sweet enough to get me the new Madonna CD last night. So far, Confessions on a Dance Floor strikes me as, well, disappointing. The first track, “Hung Up”, is catchy and danceable. But the other tracks? They’re just not getting me.It pains me to admit this, since I am a big Madonna fan [...]
Palimpsest
The Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Mattapan, and West Roxbury once hosted thriving Jewish communities. The people there were mainly orthodox Jews from Eastern Europe who immigrated in the late 1800s and moved to the area from their first Boston homes in the tenements of the North End. This southward displacement criss-crossed that of earlier Jewish [...]
Polio outbreak in the US
The New York Times reports on five cases of polio in an Amish community in Minnesota.
Printing to Lexmark Z52 under Linux
Over a year ago, I got a second-hand Lexmark Z52 ink-jet printer. I set it up to work on my Linux box, using the driver that Lexmark provided for download. Unfortunately, I could not get the printer calibration program to work correctly; it would refuse to print its test files. I figured I had the [...]
Boston’s Jewish Renaissance
The Boston Globe Magazine has a cover story on the Jewish renaissance in Boston:
To be sure, Greater Boston’s Jewish community is as diverse as any and its newfound unity relative. In addition to Reform and Conservative congregations, Orthodox and Hasidic synagogues can be found in Brookline, Allston, and Brighton, where thousands of Russian and Ukrainian [...]
