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Park in Israel equipping donkeys with Wi-Fi routers

So now you can don biblical garb and ride an ancient animal while looking up your location on Wikipedia.

Park in Israel equipping donkeys with Wi-Fi routers
David Silverman/Newsmakers

And this final note. An historical park in northern Israel is going high-tech. It’s strapping Wi-Fi routers onto donkeys that carry tourists through the hills around the sea of Galilee. So now you can don biblical garb and ride an ancient animal while looking up your location on Wikipedia.

But really, if you’re out in the middle of the holy land and you can’t live without a router-carrying donkey so you can tweet and update your Facebook status? What you might need is a kick in the…

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