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A few basic facts, collected from the Astronomical Society of Australia web site.

Eclipse Begins

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Totality Begins

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Totality Ends

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Eclipse Ends

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Applications close on August 16'th 2007.

LANdroids are autonomous mini-robots, facilitating a wireless communication network for troops in urban warfare environments, with self-healing abilities.

For more information visit the official US Federal Grants page, or view the attached PDF-document, listing the the projects specifications.

I seldom are able to walk into a bookstore and not find a book I'm willing to spend money on. An exception to this have always been my ventures into an Angus & Robertson store. Now I finally understand why this is the case.

The prime institution of organized child abuse here in Australia is taking it a step further with the introduction of pre-schools for the indoctrination of Catholic dogma. All in the Jesuit spirit of laying ones hands on a child at a time, when the childs mind is most susceptible to long lasting manipulation and distortion.

The University of Washington has a tool available, which allows you to check, if your ISP inserts ads after a page has been sent by a server.

If you're like me, and have a strong aversion towards advertising in general (unless they are cool/funny videos found on YouTube) and use Firefox, I highly recommend you install the Ad-Blocker add-on and its companion the Filterset Updater.

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Mark Twain has for long now, been one of my favourite writers. Though I was until today unaware of his short story The War Prayer. To some might seem simplistic, the people who are ingorant of their own simplicity. Those with hope for humanity and love for their kind, who have a strong belief in justice and forgiveness, they will recognize an undeniable truth. All wars are crimes against humanity. All wars ask for unjust casualties. All wars have a fascist element, an element which in delusional belief sees fit to kill another human, due to their subjective and only to a dogmatist justifiable beliefs.

The journalist Markos Kounalakis has turned this short story into a touching animation.

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09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63 ... how a "simple" number can drive geeks and nerds world wide webbed into a frenzy

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At least when it comes to the search term failure, which lists what or who as number one result?

For more information read the article on Search Engine Watch titled George W. Bush: A Failure Once Again, According To Google.

In need of some refreshing optimism? Read the responses of thinkers to The 2007 Edge question Got Optimism?

A very interesting research paper, which describes the relationship between the mentioning of the "evil" word evolution and possible correlation to public perception and understanding of the concept evolution, has been published on PLoS Biology - Evolution by Any Other Name: Antibiotic Resistance and Avoidance of the E-Word. Reminiscent of the current US administration doctoring scientific reports on climate change, it seems as if science is being undermined by politics. Both the religious and special interest kind.

Then again, what can we expect from a supposedly "secular" nation, that writes on all its money and has as its national motto "In God We Trust"? The founding fathers would be appalled! I just hate to see this form of Christian fundamentalism spreading around the western world, but it is unfortunately. It's just very rare to see the real life political effects being researched, as in the article mentioned. We need more of this, and more of it being reported in mainstream media. One can [has to] dream...

Found via Slashdot.