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Henri 2, Paw de Deax. A funny video about a cat made in the style of a French documentary.

America’s War of Ingratitude…er… Independence.

Our American colonies, having no French to fear any longer, wanted to be free from our control altogether.  They utterly refused to pay a penny of the two hundred million pounds the war had cost us; and they equally refused to maintain a garrison of British soldiers…  When our Parliament proposed in 1764 to make them pay a small fraction of the cost of the late war, they called it ‘oppression’, and prepared to rebel.”  –  Rudyard Kipling

Here is an article I wrote about a year ago but just now published on BornBinary:

http://bornbinary.com/index.php/technology/345-wolfram-alpha-answer-engine

I found this article in a folder on my netbook.  Apparently I wrote it and then forgot about it before I had a chance to clean it up and post it.

After 19 years of being a Microsoft user, I’ve decided to make the switch. I just bought my first Mac.

Band humor.  A medley of Lady GaGa songs played on bassoons.

This is interesting.  I’m curious to see exactly how my stats in the AQUA@home project suddenly jumped to over 77,000,000 points.  I know my old computer is not working THAT hard!

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

— Franklin Roosevelt

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Outdoing the likes of Ferrari and Audi, which have already installed solar panels onto the roofs of their manufacturing plants, Renault has partnered with Gestamp Solar to launch what it says is the largest solar energy project in the automotive industry. The project will see solar panels eventually covering a total area of 450,000 m2 (4,843,760 sq ft) at Renault plants in France, generating 60 MW and cutting the company’s CO2 emissions by 30,000 tons a year.

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I have been donating computer time to SETI@home since 2001. The following is an excerpt from a fundraising email that I received:

“Though the SETI@home project has been active for over ten years, we are still branching out and exploring new scientific directions. As you may know, the data that your computer analyzes comes from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. While Arecibo is an immensely powerful telescope, it cannot see the entire sky. In the coming year, we hope to be able to start collecting data at The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, allowing us to listen in on parts of the sky that, up until now, we have not been able to reach.

Furthermore, in February of 2011, NASA is slated to release data from the Kepler Mission, containing the location of several new exoplanets that could potentially be home to intelligent life. In 2011, we hope to perform a targeted search of the Kepler field, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. This search would also be done at the Green Bank Telescope.

In order to carry out these exciting new plans, we would like to ask you again for your support. SETI@home has always been a collaborative effort on a global scale; there is no other project on Earth that is quite as dependent on the help and contributions of the global public. In order to keep SETI@home up and running, as well as accomplish this year’s scientific goals, we need your help. To make a secure tax-deductible donation click here, which will take you to a page of instructions on how to donate online or through mail via check. Any amount that you are willing to donate this holiday season would be a great help. Your contribution will not only allow SETI@home to continue to run as it has for the past ten years, but also provide the opportunity to expand the search for intelligent life in exciting new directions.”

Morning meditation. This video followed by 5 minutes of mindfulness meditation.