Seven years ago today, my cousin Alon was murdered by a suicide bomber on a bus, on his way to Nazareth. I have translated an article, from about a week after the terror attack, written by Natan Zahavi, a good friend of the family.

The Saint

Natan Zahavi says goodbye to Alon Goldenberg, his best friend’s son, who was killed in a terror attack in Wadi Ara

Natan Zahavi, 26/03/02

About a day ago, Kutiman’s team seem to have decided to dump the idea of streaming video by themselves and switched to YouTube (why haven’t they done so in the first place? that’s the only thing I don’t understand about this perfect execution).

The videos were initially uploaded to YouTube by a fast-reacting user about 3 days ago, several hours after the project went live. I’m guessing he managed to somehow capture the video stream from thru-you.com’s servers.

This was absolutely fantastic, until now. During the blackout period, this was the only source for Kutiman’s amazing videos. Minutes ago, I visited his profile, and noticed the guy placed an ad on his newly-popular channel. Personally, this makes me sick.

I actually joked about this in my redirect page from (the massively linked) “mirror” page to http://thru-you.org/.

I am constantly monitoring the Flickr API documentation pages for changes (let’s just say me and a couple of friends have been pounding the Flickr API quite a lot for the last three years or so).

About a month ago, I got a notification about two new methods about Pandas. WTF? Oh, cute panda, nice photos, maybe Yahoo emplyees have extra time on their hands.

I sent a question to Shamir Ramjan, the “Flickr guy for France” I know from Twitter:

What is flickr.panda.getPhotos? looks like an API easter-egg with pandas instead of rabbits…

His initial reply was

it’s public? this api call is linked to this mystical proj » http://spedr.com/2k791

I thought maybe Flickr is using some kind of an automated API documentation Zebra which uses reflection to produce the pages, but from what I’ve heard, Flickr’s PHP code does not even use classes (for performance reasons).