Today in History

Apr 30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician and astronomer
Apr 30 Queen's Birthday in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles
Apr 30 The Workers Day in Uruguay
Apr 30* Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday)
Apr 30* Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama and Mississippi (last Monday)
Apr 30 May Eve / Walpurgisnacht (witches' Sabbath) / Walpurgis Night (after St. Walpurga)
Apr 30 Koninginendag
Apr 30 Koningin Juliana (1909 - 2004)
Apr 30 Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven (1939)
Apr 30 Bonne fête aux Robert !
Apr 30 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Catherine.
Apr 30 La pluie à la saint Robert
De bon vin emplira ton verre.
Apr 30 Selbstmord Hitlers, 1945
Apr 30 Katalin, Kitti
Apr 30 День пожарной охраны
Apr 30 День памяти жертв политических репрессий
Apr 30 Consumer Protection Day (วันคุ้มครองผู้บริโภค) in Thailand
#history @History
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pix from Quinni-Con

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I met this author and got autographed copies of her books:

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Rhianna got a handmade pony thingy:

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characters abounded:

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(here's one for @Beardica )

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and vendors:

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full gallery with more pix at http://baldwinsoftware.com/images/quinnicon/

#quinnicon #ct #connecticut #anime

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Today in History

Apr 29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
Apr 29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
Apr 29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
Apr 29 Showa Day in Japan
Apr 29 "Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968
Apr 29 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Joseph-Benoît.
Apr 29 N'oubliez pas les Hugues !
Apr 29 Péter
Apr 29 День Кащея
#history @History
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Today in History

Apr 28 James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, born in Westmoreland
County, Viriginia, 1758
Apr 28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976
Apr 28 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Valérie.
Apr 28 N'oubliez pas les Louis-Marie !
Apr 28 Bonne fête aux Paul !
Apr 28 Avril pluvieux et mai venteux
Ne rendent pas le paysan disetteux.
Apr 28 Ablehnung der deutschen Kaiserkrone durch den preußischen König, 1849
Apr 28 Valéria
Apr 28 День пограничника
Apr 28 Воздвижение Креста Господня
Apr 28 Успение Пресвятой Богородицы
Apr 28 Успение Златогорки
Apr 28 Успення Пресвятої Богородиці
Apr 28* Arbor Day, USA (varies from state to state)
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Today in History

Apr 27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
Apr 27 Samuel Morse born, 1791, the inventor of the single wire telegraph
Apr 27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
Apr 27 Independence Day in Togo
Apr 27 Freedom Day in South Africa
Apr 27 Kroonprins Willem Alexander (1967)
Apr 27 N'oubliez pas les Zita !
Apr 27 Bonne fête aux Pierre !
Apr 27 Zita
Apr 27 Международный день театра
Apr 27 День внутренних войск
Apr 27 Общероссийский день библиотек
Apr 27 День молодежи
Apr 27 День кино
Apr 27 День спасателя
Apr 27 День снятия блокады города Ленинграда (1944 год)
Apr 27 Отбор жертв Перуну, русалии
Apr 27 Freedom Day in South Africa
Apr 27 Воздвиження Чесного Хреста
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Today in History

Apr 26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564, birthdate unknown
Apr 26 Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia
Apr 26 Union Day in Tanzania
Apr 26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933
Apr 26 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Alida.
Apr 26 GAU in Tschernobyl, 1986
Apr 26 Ervin
Apr 26 День памяти погибших в радиационных авариях и катастрофах
Apr 26 Всемирный день информации

#history @History
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Today in History

Apr 26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
birthdate unknown
Apr 26 Confederate Memorial Day in Florida \

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120425.html

@The Final Frontier #astronomy #space #meteor

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Today in History

Apr 25 St Mark
Apr 25 Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
Apr 25 Anzac Day, observed in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Western Samoa
Apr 25 Liberation Day in Italy
Apr 25 National Flag Day in Swaziland
Apr 25 Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925
Apr 25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
Apr 25 Anzac Day (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day (Australia)
Apr 25 Bonne fête aux Marc !
Apr 25 À la saint Marc, s'il tombe de l'eau,
Il n'y aura pas de fruits à couteau.
Apr 25 Zusammentreffen von amerikanischen und sowjetischen Truppen
bei Torgau an der Elbe, 1945
Apr 25 Márk
Apr 25 Татьянин день. Студенческий праздник
Apr 25 День таможенника
Apr 25 Коляда (сдвинутое зимнее солнцестояние)
#history @History
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Quinnipiac River, Ferry St. Bridge - Fine Art Prints

now available in fine art photo prints, framed or unframed, greeting cards and postcards, etc. here:
http://fav.me/p26720823

@Photo Shooters @New England

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Today in History

Apr 23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
Apr 23 Crowning of King Ellesar
Apr 23 St. George's Day - Patron Saint of England
Apr 23 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) released, 2009
Apr 23 N'oubliez pas les Georges !
Apr 23 Bonne fête aux Pierre !
Apr 23 À la saint Georges,
Sème ton orge,
À la saint Marc,
Il est trop tard.
Apr 23 Béla
Apr 23 День защитника Отечества
Apr 23 День победы Красной Армии над кайзеровскими войсками Германии (1918 год)
Apr 23 День разгрома советскими войсками немецко-фашистских войск в Курской битве (1943 год)
#history @History
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Five Reasons Why The Very Rich Have NOT Earned Their Money

♲ **joe braun
♲ kickaha
Five Reasons Why The Very Rich Have NOT Earned Their Money

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/16
The wealthiest Americans believe they've earned their money through hard work and innovation, and that they're the most productive members of society. For the most part they're wrong. As the facts below will show, they're not nearly as productive as middle-class workers. Yet they've taken almost all the new income over the past 30 years
#globalchange #occupy #eattherich

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Today in History

Apr 22 Kant born, 1724
Apr 22 Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, called Lenin, Russian political leader, born in Simbirsk, 1870
Apr 22 Arbor Day in Nebraska

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Today in History

Apr 21 Lyrid meteor shower
Apr 21 San Jacinto Day in Texas
Apr 21 Tiradentes in Brazil
Apr 21 Women can vote for the first time, 1921
Apr 21 Bonne fête aux Anselme !
Apr 21 Zwangsvereinigung von KPD und SPD zur SED, 1946
Apr 21 Konrád
Apr 21 День инженерных войск
Apr 21 День работников налоговых органов
Apr 21 День победы русских полков во главе с великим князем Дмитрием Донским над монголо-татарскими войсками в Куликовской битве (1380 год)
Apr 21 Рождество Пресвятой Богородицы
Apr 21* Зимнее солнцестояние
Apr 21* Летнее солнцестояние
Apr 21 День Стрибога
Apr 21 День Сварога и Семаргла
Apr 21 Різдво Пресвятої Богородиці
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Today in History

Apr 20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
Apr 20 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Odette.
Apr 20 N'oubliez pas les Agnès !
Apr 20 Tivadar
Apr 20 День работника органов безопасности
Apr 20* Весенние равноденствие
#history @History
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Stop Climate Change Now

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TclText - ticklish text editing by tony

Before I started using real hosting, with ssh access and vim on the server end, I managed my sites by writing them at home and uploading over ftp. Now, while this could be done with sftp or scp and vim, for the longest time, and sometimes now still, I will manage such tasks with TclText, my gro0vy, ticklish text editor, in tcl/tk, with a built-in ftp tool, and many other features.

Here you see me editing http://www.baldwinlinguas.com with TclText

http://tonyb.us/tcltext
#tcl #tk #editor #web

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♲ Occupy Tabs
Pot Legalization Could Save U.S. $13.7 Billion Per Year, 300 Economists Say
www.huffingtonpost.com

Your plans to celebrate 4/20 this Friday could actually make the government some money, if only such activities were legal. That’s according to a bunch of economists, and some prominent ones too.

 

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storrs

@Photo Shooters @New England

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

#uconn #ct #connecticut #photos

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approaching storm...

#newhaven #ct #connecticut @New England @Photo Shooters @Sky Photographers

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The Calyx Institute - Privacy Protecting ISP

Imagine...a telecommunications company that prioritizes privacy over profits.

Enter https://www.calyxinstitute.org/

The Calyx Institute is poised to turn this prospect into reality by launching the first not-just-for-profit telephone and Internet service as part of its research into privacy technology. Calyx's charter directs it to use all legal and technical resources available to protect the rights of its constituents and customers.

Activities include:

- Promoting 'best practices' with regard to privacy and freedom of expression within the telecommunications industry
- Conducting research into privacy technology for the Telecommunications and Internet Provider industries
- Providing a ‘test bed’ environment for the development and deployment of secure voice, data and mobile services
- Legal advocacy and defense

Calyx is seeking start-up funding and needs your support!

See relevant article no CNET

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Color Chooser

http://tonybaldwin.me/hax/doku.php?id=colorchooser

If you make websites, like I do, and you edit them in a real editor (i.e. vim), especially on a remote server over ssh, and not some atrociously convoluted, graphical "wysiwyg" monstrosity for writing web pages that creates bloated, nasty code, well, sometimes you need a hexcode for a color for your css style sheets, and stuff. What do you do?

For this purpose, I made ColorChooser, which is just a little gui tool for grabbing color codes.

Now, most of the work was really already done, tk having a color chooser tool, already. All I did was write a script to make it easy to call that tool up so you could find a color, then copy/paste the hex code to wherever you need it.

#tcl #tk #color #webdesign

@Foss Hackers @Lazy Admin

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East Shore Park, New Haven, CT

@Photo Shooters @New England

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daffodiliacs

#daffodils @Photo Shooters

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daffy

#daffodils #photo #photography @Photo Shooters

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Finland

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I am a 21 year-old student from Finland.
It makes me sad to hear how Americans are suffering.
Here, our taxes are high but we all benefit from them.
I grew up in the countryside and always had access to the same services that people in the city did.
My university is known around the world in my field and my education is not only free, but my government pays ME to go to university. Everyone has a right to this.
Everyone has a right to the best healthcare, there is no such thing as health insurance.
I am young now and able to take risks and pursue my passion because I will never have to worry about starving if I loose my job or my business fails.
I know that when I am old my state pension will be there for me so that I can enjoy my retirement.
We call this the Nordic Model, and under it we live well and our businesses are among the most competitive in the world. I am grateful to have been born a citizen of a country that cares for its people, and I hope that one day the USA will take example from us.
I am the 99%

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apple blossoms

@New England @Photo Shooters

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Brainss...

Free-Haven.org now has Ghosts vs. Zombies and Urban Dead, as well as a whole arcade full of other games (see the "Apps" menu).

#games #free-haven

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♲ Scotty OSP
♲ Manda
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NEW ELEMENT!

#Oxford University researchers have discovered the heaviest #element yet known to #science.
The new element, #Governmentium (symbol = Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy #neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an #atomic mass of 312.
These 312 #particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called #pillocks. Since Governmentium has no #electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a #reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This #hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes #Administratium (symbol = Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many #morons.

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♲ Kevin Drum
Quote of the Day: "We're Funding Both Sides of This War."
Time's Mark Thompson posted an email exchange today with Douglas Wissing, author of Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban, about his impression of the war after spending time on the ground in Afghanistan. Here's Wissing:

FM 3-24, the famous counterinsurgency manual authored by General David Petraeus that guides the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, states that partnering with a legitimate host government is an indispensable “north star” to a successful war. Instead, the U.S. is allied with an Afghan government that is largely ineffective and systemically corrupt.

....When I was embedded with U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan, the soldiers started telling me that the U.S. government is wasting tens of billions of American taxpayer dollars on scandalously mismanaged aid and logistics contracts that end up financing the Taliban.

We’d be trundling through Taliban-controlled areas in armored vehicles, dodging ambushes and hitting IEDs, and the soldiers would be saying, “We’re funding both sides of this war.” It seemed preposterous at first. But as I dug into the story, officers, diplomats, and aid officials confirmed the rough outlines of the pernicious system. One sardonic US intelligence officer told me, “It’s the perfect war. Everyone is making money.”

....I have seen courageous American soldiers get increasingly frustrated and cynical about the war. Last summer a Marine colonel in southern Afghanistan told me there was low morale among the troops. He said, “On an operational level, the soldiers are saying, ‘I’m going to go over there and try to not get my legs blown off. My nation will shut this bullshit down.’ That’s the feeling of my fellow soldiers.” The marine officer said, “The juice ain’t worth the squeeze.”

Wissing believes that the continued American presence simply isn't doing any good. His advice: "I think the U.S. officials need to accelerate the withdrawal of the troops, and prepare to assist with the inevitable humanitarian crisis that is bound to overwhelm Afghanistan when we leave. We broke it. We need to help pick up the pieces."

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♲ RT
Goldman Sachs: sex trafficker?

Global investment, securities and sex. Goldman Sachs has long been a big name on Wall Street, but an investigation tying the banking giants to a website linked with sex trafficking has left the firm scrambling to say...
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Wisonsins Lawmaker says,"If you are being beaten, just remember the things you love about your abusive husband."

If you need any further proof that we are in the midst of a full-on patriarchal biblical-religious war on women, a Wisconsin lawmaker is happy to provide it.

According to Yahoo News, Wisconsin Rep. Don Pridemore helpfully suggests that, rather than divorcing an abusive spouse, you should try to remember the things you love about the guy while he is beating you up.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/23/wisconsin-lawmaker-you-are-being-beaten-just-remember-things-you-love-about-your

#wtf

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