Every fiscal year Wikimedia (the organization behind Wikipedia) produces an annual report that talks about what it has accomplished and how it spent money. This year’s report can be viewed here.

Like most reports of this type, wikimedia’s report has nice graphics and is visually appealing. However, unlike most reports of this type, wikimedia uses the Nazi flag and the Nazi swastika to help its visual appeal.

This is the where the swastika appears:

To help see it I zoomed in on this part of the image:

And here is the blue in that pic up close:

That is not the only place in which swastikas appear in Wikimedia’s report, in fact if one were to zoom in on almost any part of the last page, they would be able to find at least one representation of anti-semitism.

A fun past time of mine at the mall is to go into the Apple store, go to a few computers, open the web browsers and open myorangepc.com. Then I’ll stand outside the store with the people that I am with and watch the shopper’s reactions. It can be really funny.

So anyways, last night I was at the mall with Kevin and Nicole and we went into the mac store, I went to a computer and tried to go to myorangepc.com, however when the page loaded it was not myorangepc.com it was some type of control panel. It was very disappointing, myorangepc.com used to be a very good site.

Around passover MTV aired two very good holocaust ads. They are here and here. Both of the ads are good at making people think.

It looks some anti-semites realised this too and modified parts of the ads to talk about the “holocaust” of the palestinians and to claim that the real holocaust never happened. I won’t link to these videos but if you use the related video feature on YouTube you should find them.

This got me thinking and I searched holocaust on YouTube, I have never seen such anti-semitism in my life. It really made me think about how many people out there who would like me dead. It also made me wonder why YouTube has done nothing about this. Youtube’s terms of use like Facebook’s state that it is forbidden to upload hateful and racist content, yet both of these sites have a lot of stuff against Jews and almost nothing up to refute the hate and obvious lies. Also both of these sites do almost nothing to remove anti-semitic content and they do a lot to remove anything that might be even remotely considered to be hinting at the fact that the palestinian Arabs are wrong. It is despicable.

I really hate it when developers change something when the old system worked just as well if not better than the new one. Mozilla did it when they got rid of the lock icon if FireFox and it looks like google just did when they moved the tabs in iGoogle.

The old iGoogle had tabs at the top of the page, like almost every other website.

Old iGoogle tabs

 However the new iGoogle has moved the tabs to the side.

New iGoogle tabs

 

If you are like me and want the old tabs back then follow these 3 easy steps…

1) Go to http://www.google.co.uk/ig?hl=en

2) Click the sign in button in the top right corner and if prompted sign in

3) Enjoy the old iGoogle tabs and update any bookmarks or homepage settings

Now that google translate has Hebrew, I can’t help but feel that the other Jewish languages must feel left out. However here is a list of good resources for other Jewish languages.

Yiddish

There is a good Yiddish/English dictionary here.

There is a Yiddish wikipedia here.

Ladino

There is a good Ladino dictionary here.

Dzhidi

Unfortunately there is not a lot about Dzhidi on the Internet, however wikipedia does have an article about it here.