The Jewish Diaspora on PEI

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

A few Jews make a go of it on Canada's Prince Edward Island
By Bram Eisenthal

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, July 30 (JTA) — Can a tiny Jewish community of no more than 50, in a Canadian province of 180,000, find happiness and Judaism during the High Holidays? If you're one of the Jews of Prince Edward Island, the answer is a definite yes.

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Which X-Man Am I?

Which X2 Character Are You?

Iceman
You're Bobby Drake, able to lower your body temperature, freeze any moisture into the ice sculpture of your choice, and act as a drinks cooler whenever anyone needs it ;)

eBay

Has anyone sold anything on eBay and has some advice for newbie sellers like myself as to how to go about doing things?

KaZaA and Estonia

From the City Paper:

Kazaa - Baltic-made

Youths from cyber-savvy Estonia write the new Napster, delivering a blow to the global entertainment industry.
By Michael Tarm

When Swedish software developer Niklas Zennström cast about for help in writing a powerful new Internet program, colleagues raised eyebrows when he chose three unheralded youths from little-known Estonia.

But jaws dropped when the file-swapping program called KaZaA that the shy twenty-somethings wrote from their spartan, two-room Tallinn office catapulted through cyberspace to become the No. 1 downloaded software on the Net—with over 200 million users to date and counting.

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