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A council in Sydney is taking radical measures against car-revving youths—the calming tones of singer Barry Manilow. [...] In 1999, the Warrawong Westfield shopping mall in Wollongong played Bing Crosby hits over and over again to drive away loitering teenagers.

Unusual UCE

I just got an unusual UCE via my webpage. (The term unsolicited commercial email has largely been replaced by "spam", which originally applied just to Usenet, but I'm reticent to put this in the same bucket as your run-of-the-mill spam...)

Dear Dr. Grant,

Late in 2005, Routledge published an anthology of passages from the rabbinical literature that address the question of halakhic controversy -- machloket. As you may have an interest in this or a related subject, information about the book is attached as a PDF file, or you can read about the book at controversy-dialogue.org.

Controversy and Dialogue in the Jewish Tradition: A Reader
Hanina Ben-Menahem, Neil S. Hecht, and Shai Wosner (editors)
ISBN 0-415-34003-9

All well and good, though at $115, I ain't stumping up for it. What's even odder is that though http://www.controversy-dialogue.org/ links to their intended site, http://controversy-dialogue.org/ (owned by the same people) takes you to the Henderson Research Centre for Thrombosis and Vascular Disease. *boggle*

I'm intrigued to know where people keep turfing up my interest in Jewish learning online, because whenever I try and search for an article of mine on my own blog, Google never shows it...