Feb 17 2010
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No it’s not a Death Star. it is in fact one of Saturn’s moons, Mimas. Run over to Bad Astronomy to discover more.
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Google censors Aboriginal Flag.
The top picture is the original artwork by student Jessie Du. The picture on the bottom will appear today (Australia/Invasion Day) on the Google website. The flag that Google chose to remove is the Australian Aboriginal flag
Jan 23 2010
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Human running speeds of 35 to 40 mph may be biologically possible
Bugger! Guess I’ll just give up practicing …
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EMP gun to stop car chases
Eureka Aerospace have developed an electromagnetic pulse gun to help in police car chases. The pulse from the gun is supposed to disable a car’s microprocessor system … no mention of what happens to the perp’s gonads.
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Gunsights to lose Bible references
A US company that has been putting biblical references on its gun-sights has said that they will remove them.
Trijicon, a deeply religious Michigan company that sells military hardware, supplies gun-sights to the US, British, Australian and New Zealand military, has for years put encoded biblical inscriptions on its gun-sights. Now due to criticism from home and abroad their will now supply military organizations with kits to remove them.
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Amazon Opens Kindle To Third Party App Developers
Amazon will soon release a development kit for the Kindle. Applications written for the Kindle can be sold via Amazon’s online Kindle store. They will be limited to how much bandwidth they can use; applications that require a monthly subscription charge will be allowed to use more bandwidth.
In another move to fight off the yet-to-be-released Apple tablet Amazon is also increasing the royalties that will be paid to authors and publishers.
I think their worried ….
Jan 20 2010
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As Pretty As A Song
Congrats to you both!
It took me weeks before I figured out the name wasn’t as PrettyAsaASarong (which also makes sense to me), but I finally got the glasses prescription changed and saw clearly.
To one of the first people who followed me on tumbler I wish you both all the best and much happiness, no advice from this end just play it by ear; when in doubt a sarong might just do the tick.
Cheers, from down under.
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mry:
friendlyatheist:dawnowar:Non-Believers Giving Aid - Support for the Haiti Tragedy and Beyond
Donating without Deities
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How much life could you find in One Cubic Foot?
Photo by David Littschwager
Life at the ground level is not just a random mix of species, not an interspersion of fungi, bacteria, worms, ants, and all the rest. The species of each group are strictly stratified by depth. In passing from just above the surface on down, the conditions of the microenvironment change gradually but dramatically. Inch by inch there are shifts in light and temperature, the size of the cavities, the chemistry of the air, soil, or water, the kind of food available, and the species of organisms. The combination of these properties, down to a microscopic level, defines the surface ecosystem.
The goal for the Encyclopedia of Life is to create a page for each species on earth.
Jan 19 2010
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David Tryse has created a Google Earth Tour that illustrates the amount of CO2 that we humans have been putting out since the beginning of the industrial revolution and how this compares with the atmosphere; surprise how small the atmosphere is when you compress it a ball at sea level pressure.
If you have Google Earth installed on your machine click on the link to load the tour.
