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  On August 1, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. There was a C3-class solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more. This extreme ultraviolet snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the sun's northern hemisphere in mid-eruption. Different colors in the image represent different gas temperatures.
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• Futureman Graphics
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• Video: Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km' | World news | guardian.co.uk
  Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km'
  As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood.
  (tags: afghanistan war usa politics UK videos)

• The Wrong Stuff : Error Message: Google Research Director Peter Norvig on Being Wrong
  (tags: innovation interviews engineering google)

• Safari Extensions — Mendeley Importer for Safari by Lucas Torri
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• Safari Extensions — Naked YouTube by Jacob Bijani A simple Safari 5…
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• bookofjoe: Geriatric Park: Where the old ones are
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“Tree” by Jane Hirshfield

It is foolish
to let a young redwood
grow next to a house.
Even in this
one lifetime
you will have to choose.
That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books-
Already the branch-tips brush at the window.
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

• Book Review – A Visit From the Goon Squad – By Jennifer Egan – NYTimes.com
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• Installing Python modules with easy_install
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• Python Package Index : discover 0.4.0
  (tags: python testing)
• Chermoula aubergine with bulgar and yoghurt recipe | Yotam Ottolenghi | Food | Life and style | The Guardian
  (tags: food recipes)
• Unittest in Python | Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store
  (tags: python testing reference)

• twig-persist – Project Hosting on Google Code
  Twig is an object persistence interface built on Google App Engine's low-level datastore which overcomes many of JDO-GAEs limitations including full support for inheritance, polymorphism and generic types. You can easily configure, modify or extend Twigs behaviour by implementing your own strategies or overriding extension points in pure Java code.
  (tags: gae md Datastore)
• Quantum Spookiness Spans the Canary Islands: Scientific American
  (tags: physics)
• The Atlantic :: Magazine :: On Being a Bad Mother
• Michael Tomasky: A little bit more on accents, American this time | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  I remember hearing on radio or the teevee many years ago that linguistic geographical ground zero of the US – the place, that is, where the accent is closest to "standard" American – is right around Steubenville. Ohio.
  (tags: usa linguistics)
• Michael Tomasky: Bush's surprising admission | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  (tags: usa politics)

• Kaleidoscope — File comparison for Mac
  (tags: osx software)

• Recipes for Health – Garlic Green Beans – NYTimes.com
  (tags: food recipes)
• No Comment… « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry