For your consideration: Knesset member Shaul Yahalom, Jabba the Hut.

The amazing thing is that he looks even more like Jabba on TV. Maybe he lost more hair and gained more weight (probably did), but I think it's the way he moves and talks that is most Jabba-like. Troubled.

HTTP

Why? because.

I saw the "Spore" presentation movie today. It takes half an hour, but it's worth it. A while back, when I imagined how a Civilization / Cultures / Master-of-Orion game should look like, I imagined something that was about half of what they put in there. It really is amazing, I hope that's the future of gaming: easy content creation, that's just about it, plus smart algorithm to understand what the player wanted to do. Just mix it, exchange content between different players, and voila, you have the ultimate, never-ending, eternally re-playable game. I cannot wait for it to get out, that's one game worth sleeping outside a store for.

Speaking of computer game, I found out (very late, I know) that a new Sam & Max game was scheduled for release in 2004 (cool trailer), and Lucas-Games scrapped it for… well… Lego-Star-Wars, a bunch of other star wars games, and a game called Mercenaries. Even their Indiana Jones series became a Lara Croft imitation (I remember when it used to be the other way around). They claim that: "After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC." ‘Not the appropriate time’? The market is starving for it. People load ScummVM just to play the good old stuff. How is this not the appropriate time? Well, maybe some good things will come from this.

Now, That's an original excuse. Why didn't they have Feng Shui when I was in
school?

From Count Your Sheep.

The company I work for (RADVISION) is looking for SW Application Engineers:

• Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• At least 5 years experience
• C or  C++ programming
• Experience with Multi threading - an advantage 
• Experience with networking  and communication systems
• Knowledge of VoIP – an advantage

Since I don't have any friends to forward this to, I thought I might post this here. It's a decent company, with good people.

As promised: Mohammed!

A somewhat modern version. I figured a prophet has to keep with the latest
fashion. And to keep my journal form being boycotted I hid his face. And the
camel's too, just to be on the safe side.

Original picture can be found here.

Draw me a sheep Batgirl Mohammed!

Here something to really stick it. If you havent seen them already, here are the cartoons that caused all the trouble (from reddit). I say - forget that Batgirl meme. get me some Mohammed pictures. You can use this for inspiration (from last link). I'll do one myself as soon as I learn how to draw.
Or maybe not - like I care if he turns out good or not.