Extra, Extra

-- Ixtayul visits David Island in the Long Island Sound-- apparently it used to host anti-nuclear missles.
-- Diana Eng might have lost Project Runway, but she won the top prize at Yahoo Hack Day. Nerd!
-- Amusing pictures sent to us today: Please no Pee Pee, Penis.
-- Stuyvesant alumni are asking for federal funding to provide health care for students exposed to chemicals in the aftermath of September 11th.
-- "Jewish Conscience" is placing anti-Israel streetart around the Lower East Side.
-- Unrelated: supporters of one of the Satmar Orthodoxim factions built a $2m temple in two weeks in Williamsburg. Is that a Yu\om Kippur miracle, or just a really bad idea, the way people on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition brag about building a house in 53 hours?
-- Will Google offer free wi-fi to all of New York?
-- Metblogs: your source for stories about bums drinking anti-freeze.
-- Did you know that the average bed takes up $30,000 worth of floor space in Manhattan? We're totally Murphy-ing everything we own - even the cat!

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on October 2, 2006 6:00 PM

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Daniel

Regarding the anti-Israel street art, it's striking how a very small number of people with a very high level of contempt for public property can make their message so visible. They also spray painted their message on sidewalks in Brooklyn. One wonders how these "Jews of conscience" (i.e. vandals whose definition of "Jewish values" excludes any empathy for the situation of their fellow Jews in Israel) would feel if the vast majority of NY Jews who support Israel took to spray-painting pro-Israeli slogans all over the place.