I have been thinking a lot about Israeli development recently, especially in the context of our hi-tech sector, which is one of our strongest national assets. Here are some of my thoughts. rnrn* What would it take to make Israel a hi-tech center?

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When I came across Talking Heads front man David Byrne's online blog the other evening it felt like meeting up with an old friend and spending time catching up on the past few years.

I have been playing music, guitar, blues harp and pe

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Check out my boy. He's getting pretty good. This is a piece from Lamb of God, his favorite group. I am not particularly fond of this group and their name does not conjure up this type of music either! Dan insisted I end up with a shot of his Crate stack. He ended up sending the fist cabinet back because when the second one arrived it was a d

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Thirteen Reasons I Heart Huckabee!!
In no particular order… He Supports the FairTax - thats right. A candidate who actually supports the fair tax. HOW FREAKING AWESOME IS THAT?? Mike is for removing the IRS and instituting the fairtax. Something that would benefit EVERYONE and not just the super rich or super poor for once. He can rock out o

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As Tyler Westcott says in his Flickr page, only once per year do they shut down the modern electric light and switch over the the 5 kerosene lamps and frefresnel lens of the original lighthouse as it was 135 years ago. He said the fog was also incredibly heavy that particular night. He only got one shot and this was it. Incredible.

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We're pretty certain that quite a few of you have been (not so) patiently waiting for Rock Band to finally land at your doorstep for months now, but for those still wary about dropping 170 bones in one fell swoop for a video game, here's the critique you've been waiting for. ArsTechnica managed to get ahold of the beastly package and give

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Lots of funny jokes for Christmas and about Christmas.

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1. The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named "Gran Vals" by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega. The Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was changed to "Nokia Tune" around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the "Nokia Tune."

2. The wo

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Vancouver - A passenger died in Vancouver airport after police tried to calm him by using a stun gun, it was reported on Monday. He was stunned twice by an electric shock from a Taser before he passed out and died in the arrivals area shortly afterwards, Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail reported. The man, yet to be identified, had pounded on

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According to Virtual World News, Electric Sheep, the virtual world development company, has laid off approximately a third of its workforce. For those not familiar with ES, the term “virtual world development company” doesn’t mean exactly what you might think it means. They don’t build the sandboxes…they build castles inside them.

The Shee

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Many games are often said to be worth more than the sum of their parts, but where exactly does that sentiment roof out at? Apparently, for a game that offers a toy guitar and a library of hits that inevitably lead to throwing up the horns, that number is $9,100.01. Last week, an auction for Activision’s hotly in-demand Guitar Hero III: Legend

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Yahoo! Video has experienced comparatively slow growth next to YouTube and Google Videos. But that does not do justice to the millions of people who visit Yahoo Videos everyday to check out the daily funny cat video or hamster playing the guitar.

A reminder of the best of web videos of 2007 bringing a smile to the entire internet audienc

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If your goal is to really make money online you should give your hobbies a home on the internet.

I as well as all my friends have no problem spending money on hobbies. It is kind of an outlet for us and now I make money online promoting the things that I have the most interest in like fishing, travel, guitar and many others.

Take the ti

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It seems that at the end of every year we tend to look at what we consider our failures and make resolutions to do better in the New Year. We have got ourselves caught in a performance trap, we have believed a lie. “I must meet certain standards to feel good about myself”. Because of past failures to meet our expectations of ourselves, or tho

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A lot of people play guitar or piano or sing, but don't really consider recording themselves because they don't know how. The recording world is very mysterious to those who aren't in it. But it's actually pretty easy to set up your computer into a sweet recording studio. Recording stuff can be incredibly fun if you take the time to get s

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