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The eight digits of pi beginning from 242,422 places after the decimal point are 42424242

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Wild story about cross border environmental impacts:

i recently posted over at the osxhints forums with a script that i hacked together to enable right- clicking on a folder in OS X and choosing “Open in Terminal” from the Automator menu.

Its pretty handy to be able to use the Finder to navigate instead of cd .. etc etc… and then to start a terminal session just where you want to be. Of course it can also added to with another do script statement to reuse an inactive terminal window to do any other script… and i also noticed that if you put a \n into the command string it will do a line break and create a sequence of commands (but it breaks if you hit the hammer button to compile the script - you have to save it without compiling if you want to do this little /n newline trick).

here is the script for reference:
on run {input, parameters}
repeat with i in input
set theWin to (quoted form of POSIX path of (i as alias))
end repeat
--set myWin to window 1
--set theWin to (quoted form of POSIX path of (target of myWin as alias))
set commandString to "cd " & theWin --& " ls -al"
------------------
tell application "System Events"
if not (exists process "Terminal") then
tell application "Terminal"
activate --start terminal if needed
end tell
end if
repeat while not (exists process "Terminal")
delay 1 --wait for terminal to be ready
end repeat
end tell --Sys Events
----------------
tell application "Terminal" -- Get a free window to run
activate
set windowCount to (count of the windows)
if windowCount is greater than 0 then
repeat with w from 1 to windowCount
if window 1 is busy then
set frontmost of window 1 to false
else
do script commandString in window 1
set frontmost of window 1 to true
return
end if
end repeat
end if
tell window 1
do script commandString
set frontmost to true
end tell
end tell
end run

note:the formatting looks nicer on the forum

101 Cookbooks - http://www.101cookbooks.com/index.rdf
About Today - http://z.about.com/6/nl/rss/todaysl.xml
Adobe Labs - http://weblogs.macromedia.com/labs/atom.xml
Adobe Labs - http://weblogs.macromedia.com/labs/index.rdf
BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition - http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/sci/tech/rss.xml
BusinessWeek Online — - http://www.businessweek.com/rss/bwdaily.rss
Cecilie’s World - http://www.herrem.com/?feed=rss2
CNN.com Recently Published/Updated - http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_latest.rss
Dictionary.com Word of the Day - http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss
Discovery News - http://dsc.discovery.com/news/topstories.xml
dyhr.com - http://dyhr.com/feed/
EarthTrends blogs - http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/index.php?q=blog/feed
Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml
Fodor’s Travel Wire - http://www.fodors.com/blog/index.rdf
Fool.com: The Motley Fool - http://www.fool.com/About/headlines/rss_headlines.asp
Forbes.com: Most popular stories - http://www.forbes.com/feeds/popstories.xml
Funny Quote of the Day - http://www.brainyquote.com/link/quotefu.rss
International Herald Tribune - http://www.iht.com/rss/frontpage.xml
lila.io - http://lila.io/blog/feed/
Nature Materials Update - http://www.nature.com/materials/rss.rdf
News at Nature - Articles published Today - http://www.nature.com/news/rss.rdf
NYT Travel - http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Travel.xml
Official Google Blog - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Pandora - http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/index.xml
PUBLICATIONS - http://feeds.feedburner.com/WRI_Publications
PureMVC Framework - http://puremvc.org/index.php?option=com_rss&feed=RSS2.0&no_html=1
Quote of the Day - http://www.brainyquote.com/link/quotebr.rss
Reuters: Oddly Enough - http://www.microsite.reuters.com/rss/oddlyEnoughNews
Rotten Tomatoes: Movies - http://i.rottentomatoes.com/syndication/rss/complete_movies.xml
SI.com - http://rss.cnn.com/rss/si_topstories.rss
Welcome to the Land of Possibilities… - http://www.romantic-ideas-for-life.com/Romantic-ideas.xml
Wired Top Stories - http://www.wired.com/news/feeds/rss2/0,2610,,00.xml

I, like _MANY_ other mac users (ex-windows users or not) am baffled that such a full featured OS as OS X could possibly not have the easy ability to merge folders, when you drag one folder into another folder that contains a folder of the same name…
Anyway, just cuz i am baffled, mystified, annoyed etc… my emotions don’t magically create OS updates that solve my problem.
So i got into some applescript. It may not be elegant, but it does something potentially useful to some of you.

It is designed to be used in an Automator workflow in a Run Applescript action box, which is directly connected to a Move to Trash action box. In finder two windows much be open, just as it should be if we were allowed to CONTROL-SHIFT drag the folders over.
There is a confirmation of the destination directory (”window 2″ which is the back window) {beware of the expandable panes and list views, this script takes the target of the window - NOT the selection}

I initiate the script by finding the destination in one finder window, then switching to the source folder and selecting and right clicking (multiple selection is fine) the folders i want to merge into the destination folder. {remember it takes the contents of the source folders}

global the_output
on run {input, parameters}
set the_output to ""
tell application "Finder"
set tgtWin to window 2
set tgtpath to (quoted form of POSIX path of (target of tgtWin as alias))
end tell
display dialog "tgt: " & tgtpath
repeat with i in input
set srcpath to (quoted form of POSIX path of (i as alias))
do shell script "rsync -au --stats " & srcpath & " " & tgtpath & " | grep 'files:'"
set the_output to the the_output & result & "\n"
end repeat
display dialog the_output & " delete src?"
return input
end run

Hmmmmm,
Scientists are one step closer, and once again i ask myself, are we doing things, just because we can? Is quantity / length of life in any way connected to quality of life? And what cost do our technological advances carry?

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
“I don’t believe that God exists.”
“Why do you say that?” asked the customer. “Well, you just have to go
out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?
If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can’t imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.”
The customer thought for a moment, but didn’t respond because he didn’t
want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.
Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long,
stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the
barber shop again and he said to the barber:
“You know what? Barbers do not exist.”
“How can you say that?” asked the surprised barber.
“I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!”
“No!” the customer exclaimed. “Barbers don’t exist because
if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed
beards, like that man outside.”
“Ah, but barbers DO exist! That’s what happens when people do not come
to me.”
“Exactly!” affirmed the customer. “That’s the point! God, too, DOES
exist!
That’s what happens when people do not go to Him and don’t look to Him
for help.
That’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.”

The wolves are in trouble - Care to Help?

i find it outlandish to call a sacred animal “game”… and i hope and trust that any human who subscribes to this language and the underlying mentality, will be subject to being hunted and / or otherwise considered as dispensable. Every organism has its own right to existence and demanding that these animals live in a small designated area is bad enough (similar to the injustice of quarantining the native indians who actually knew how to live in balance with the land) , mass slaughter is unacceptable.

Romantic ideas for life blog has a great post from last year!
Some great questions to take up for us astrologically humans…

also be sure to have a look at the main site about north node astrology and how it relates to soul satisfaction and love and romance!

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, “Speak to us of
Children.”

And he said:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you
with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that
is stable.

– Kahlil Gibran

found here

Just now i supported an initiate from http://www.defenders.org/
i added the following little words:

i urge you to help all you can with proactive internet political interventions… and any other ways that you can find to let the voice of the earth and the voice of love be heard!

from EathTrends : Offsets Alone Are Not Enough

apparently US officials say that stabilizing CO2 emissions (around 535ppm) sufficiently to prevent more than a 2 degree temperature increase could lead to a global recession: “no world leader will pursue a strategy that would lead to economic recession.”

I wonder if that is really true? i wonder if the people of this world will see that if we want the concept of economic prosperity to continue to exist, we are rather dependent on an environment that is supportive of life… we are required to find better balance with our environment. It is not an option. It is not an economic trade off. Either we decide to find a gentle balance or we will face strife and natural disasters and repercussions stemming from over consumption and over combustion… It is simple and obvious.

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070430/full/070430-11.html

even if it sounds a little funny and i am not used to snagga med kartoffel i min mouth…
i am starting some flash cards:
http://quizlet.com/set.php?id=9095

Your results:
You are Superman

Superman

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85%

Spider-Man

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80%

Green Lantern

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80%

Supergirl

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72%

Robin

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69%

Wonder Woman

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67%

The Flash

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55%

Hulk

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55%

Catwoman

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50%

Batman

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35%

Iron Man

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35%

You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.

Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…

robert and duff (among many others) have some pretty provocative opinions about the movie “The Secret” over at julian’s zaadz blog.

and they led me to have a look at seth godin’s blog

Flow also has some nice words about wizards ;-)

i have a growing interest in the state of the union…
and this neat tool tagcrowd created this image categorizing the U.S. president’s recent speech: