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• RadioShack.com - Toys & Games: Hobby projects & kits: Projects, labs & kits: Electronics Learning Lab * A fun way to learn about electronics * Spring-coil connectors and breadboard provide quick, no-solder hookups * Documentation was written by best-selling author and science writer Forrest M. Mims III

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• Borromean rings - Homepage The three rings taken together are inseparable, but remove any one ring and the other two fall apart. Because of this property, they have been used in many fields as a symbol of strength in unity.

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On Christmas Day, 2006, the following intro to a fantasy story popped
into my head.  Due to procrastination, it is only now being put down in
words, er, electrons.

In the Elder Days, before the Time of Legends, we were all
brutes.  Only the Bear Clan has stories from that time and they are
ill-formed tales, possessing neither Heros nor Deeds.  They tell of a world overrun by goblins, and of a light from the heavens that drove them away.

The story that may someday follow would be a “Watership Down” sort of thing; not an animal fable (although I may adapt some fables as interstitial and/or sidebar material) but a heroic fantasy.  Of course, that means that I need a quest of some sort, which I haven’t thought of yet.  Perhaps in another dream…

The goblins, BTW, are humans, who for reasons unknown have (mostly) left the world of the story, leaving the animals to re-populate the forests and streams.

On Christmas Day, 2006, the following intro to a fantasy story popped
into my head. Due to procrastination, it is only now being put down in
words, er, electrons.

In the Elder Days, before the Time of Legends, we were all
brutes. Only the Bear Clan has stories from that time and they are
ill-formed tales, possessing neither Heros nor Deeds. They tell of a world overrun by goblins, and of a light from the heavens that drove them away.

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• Saudis May Ban Letter ‘X’ A group of Islamic clergy in Saudi Arabia has condemned the letter "X” because of its similarity to a hated banned symbol – the cross...Among the commission’s earlier edicts is the 1974 fatwa declaring that the Earth is flat.
• Saudi Arabia Bans the Letter "X" In related business news, Saudi Arabian Sesame Street loses a major sponsor."This episode brought to you by the letter ?"

• Saudi Arabia Bans the Letter "X" In related business news, Saudi Arabian Sesame Street loses a major sponsor."This episode brought to you by the letter ?"
• Idiot tries to Sell XP License on eBay but Shows it in the Picture! Lol dumbass. But hey, now if you want a working license...

• The Japan Times Online BILINGUAL - KAORI SHOJI

• A Second Pour of Good News About Substance in Red Wine - washingtonpost.com

• New data from NIH lab confirms protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice New data published in the Nov. 24 issue of Science provide further support for a protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice and new evidence that adult precursor cells from the spleen can contribute to the regeneration of beta cells.

• Red Hat: the mother of all business models The biggest problem in open source today is that few know how to monetize it. There are great developers out there who will write free (as in freedom and price) software regardless of a profit motive, but they are the minority. These generous benefactors
• Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology

• Simspons go against Iraq war He says there was little concern about alienating conservative viewers, and no interference from Fox (whose conservative corporate chairman, Rupert Murdoch, has lately been accused of drifting to the left). "They didn't have any objection to this," he says
• Star Wars Graffiti Will Pate, one of the guys from Flock posted this picture of what looks like the Millennium Falcon being attacked by Imperial Drones spray painted on a wall.