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  • Historical Anatomies on the Web: Browse Titles Historical Anatomies on the Web is a digital project designed to give Internet users access to high quality images from important anatomical atlases in the Library’s collection. The project offers selected images from NLM’s atlas collection, not the entire works. (tags: anatomy illustration)

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3828
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 0
Total 3828

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Oct 14, 2007

source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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  • Greenfeet.com – The Planet’s HomestoreEverybody leaves footprints on the environment. We ALL do it.
    We do it by just living our lives and going about our business. We all consume resources and we all leave an environmental footprint. However, the choices we make, in our behavior, in the prod(tags: green business recycled)
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Beeswax Candles


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Citation tools


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Sobering titles in Scientific American

I was checking the RSS feed I get from Scientific American and came across some titles of some disturbing articles.

  1. The North Pole is Melting “The permanent Arctic ice cap dwindled to a record low this week, presaging a future of a summertime Northwest Passage and obscuring fog.” … [2030] “It’s going to be a different world,” Serreze notes. “The observed rates of change have far outstripped what we projected.”
  2. China’s Cyber Attacks Signal New Battlefield Is Online.“The uproar over claims that the People’s Republic of China launched a series of network-based cyber attacks earlier this month against the U.K., France, Germany, and the U.S. has died down. But few expect China to back off efforts to gain the upper hand in the battle of bits and bytes. China’s own stated military goals include improving the country’s ability to wage information warfare.”
  3. World’s Top 10 Most Polluted Places “Russia, China and India contain the most areas where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects.” All this: drasticaly shortened life expectancies, brain damage, and birth defectslives, for the sake of cheaper manufacturing.

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3794
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 3
Total 3797

DoD Confirmation List Latest Coalition Fatality: Sep 22, 2007

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

2007 09 22 ernie Commentary Comments (0) Permalink

Getting to two decimal places with Java

A student wrote in today asking about using Math.round() and getting results to two decimal places. Two links that describe the old multiply by 100 and then divide by 100 method are

And here is one that describes displaying a result to two decimal places, rounded or not, http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=390114

2007 09 18 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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A Place to Bury Strangers – recent publicity


A Place to Bury Strangers has received a lot of well-deserved complementary publicity lately.

It started on August 31, 2007 with the piece in Pitchfork reviewing their first album “A Place to Bury Strangers.”

The Village Voice published a piece last night “A Place to Bury Strangers: Effects-Pedal Memory Games,” that seems from here to put the band more into the main stream.

You can buy the album at Brainwashed, and they’ve put together a good compendium of the talk on the Net.

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