Women in the Israeli army

You may have seen this already, and I'm sure I've come across a few of these images, but not the whole collection.

Photographer Rachel Papo's Serial No. 3817131 is just a stunning collection of amazing photos depicting the everyday lives of women in the Israeli army. The project is named after the photographer's own ID number during her service.

Incidentally, I had to use kroxy to get to the gallery, because the photography is apparently unsafe and categorised as "weapons". Filtering, you're doing it wrong.

Serial No. 3817131 via BoingBoing

Stupid IT Measures

In the media industry, I think the notion of blocking any websites is completely ludicrous. Any source of information is arguably a crucial piece of research needed at any point of the day by the folks charged with staying abreast of current affairs.

Which is why I find the blocking of one of my favourite atheist blogs, Friendly Athesit by Hemant Mehta, totally freakin' lame.

"Cult/occult"? Would a website about Catholicism or Christianity be blocked for the same reason? A quick Google search says no.

Conveniently, I had already seen the comic that Hemant was linking to, as I have a handy dandy RSS feed of xkcd already. I don't know a great deal about how they compile a list of websites to be blocked, but it appears to be ultimately futile, infuriatingly unfair, and a breathtakingly stupid study in trundling, archaic mediocrity.

Good thing I got this out before Blogger was blocked for the reason "IWSS Security Event, Content classification: OH SNAP".