arib | Let's face it...

"OK, you're hip, but face it: Hasidic Jews are hipper. They moved to Williamsburg before you did, they were into Kabbalah before Madonna was, and—as artist Elliott Malkin's eRuv: A Street History in Semacode (dziga.com/eruv/index.php) makes elegantly clear—they were master map hackers at least a century before Google Maps opened its code and made 2005 the most happening year in cartography since, oh, 1492."

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