ICANN (the International organiztion which decides on domain names) suggested grouping pornography websites under a new domain (.xxx instead of .com) as a way of filtering innappropriate websites. Sadly, this approach was recently rejected by the Bush administration. Blogger Nicholas Carr presents his problems with unfiltered access to pornography sites.
In the meantime, one partial solution to this problem was created by . They have installed a "SafeSearch" feature as part of their Base database. While apparently there were some minor glitches found in Safe Search at first, my husband (here's a little plug) just wrote about the potential for Base's rapid growth (for the financial-minded among you!).
Bloggers Michael Eisenberg and Orthomom recently wrote about trying to shield their children from being exposed to revealing pictures placed in very public places. Is it possible that the more we accidentally come across innapropriate material on-line due to lack of filters or limits, we are indirectly contributing to society's growing lack of sensitivity toward keeping some things private or hidden from our children?
I am all for conserving water, but the title of this article seems a little inflammatory when in fact, only one paragraph focused on how mikvah's can contribute to this worthy cause.
A sad but inspiring article about a successful career woman putting her life on hold to move back home and help her mother care for her father who is sick with Alzheimer's, featured in the NY Times.
I just came across a midrash about Rivka and Sarah which struck me as interesting (Hebrew below) (Bereshit Rabbah 58:2):
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