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There is a monthly magazine concerning birds and all
wildlife, with his name, Audubon. Very fine.
Very old rumor that J J Audubon was the long lost
Dauphin of France. Persisted for years. Still hangs
around in certain places.
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Oh my gosh, you can play today's! Run your cursor over the strings!  Google
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Oh my gosh, you can play today's! Run your cursor over the strings! Google and did you notice the record button? (may be just for USians)
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I had some fun this morning playing that halfbaked child toy guitar. It's fun to struggle for a tune.
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Oh my gosh, you can play today's! Run your cursor over the strings! Google This story even made the evening news on NBC.
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Does anybody here have perfect pitch, by any chance? eta? I'm wondering if the bottom string on the left is an A.
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I accidently got stuck with iGoogle which has no logo and I can't get rid of it and go back to google.com.
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I use iGoogle by choice, but you can easily get to the logo by clicking on the sprocket(?) in the upper right corner, which is labelled Options - one of which is Classic Home.
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I don't have perfect pitch, but it's a B.
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Wow that was fun...it not only records my composition, but I can play it back. How clever is that  Google says that the doodle was made using a mixture of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas, CSS, Flash and other tools like Google Font API, goo.gl and App Engine. Its impressive, so much work and such a shame its will last only one day!
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Does anybody here have perfect pitch, by any chance? eta? I'm wondering if the bottom string on the left is an A. Tromb's got your back. :¬ )
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Its impressive, so much work and such a shame its will last only one day!
Eventually it should be moved here: http://www.google.com/logos/
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It's very distracting if you're on to some serious business.
Like trying to harvest more nilas definitions. ;-)
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Thanks Fiend for the site where they store them. Nifty.
And it is time to get a daffy into Bran.
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a "daffynition" for the round of Hogwash that Bran is hosting.
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Yes Mr. Trom. Try one. A definition for the word nilas, a very bendable word with possibilities in all directions. Send your def. daf. or daffy to me by PM before the end of coming Sunday and you'll shine in the gallery of honor.... tja, something like that. ( no dictionaries allowed in any way and if you know the word you are kindly asked to pretend you don't and make up something memorable.) Publication and voting will be from Monday, no pictures or other fancies included this time as I still work from a page with an error warning on it.
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a "daffynition" for the round of Hogwash that Bran is hosting.
Ah! Of course, I knew that, but I interpreted it from Luke's sentence to be a sort of ice-cream-on-a-stick that Bran obviously needed. I'll see if I have time and inspiration – I missed the start, time is short, and I have a busy weekend. End of Sunday in whose time zone?
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Nothing more confusing than interpretations but.... Your time zone is fine, gives you at least seven extra hours.
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Ah! Of course, I knew that, but I interpreted it from Luke's sentence to be a sort of ice-cream-on-a-stick that Bran obviously needed.
Sorry for the confusion Trom.
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Not your fault, just the direction my brain alleged brain took it.
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Ice-cream-on-a-stick sounds good right about now.
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Me too...I'm off to get one now LOL
The people of google left the guitar up for a second day, because it was so popular.
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Can you guess today's google reference?  Peas...yes, but peas with meaning. Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) is the "father of modern genetics". Today celebrating 189th anniversary of his birth.
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I thought it was going to be my lunch salad.
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Lucky that Gregor Mendel had more on his mind than food.
Though I bet even he would be surprised where his experiments have taken genetics these days.
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_on_Plant_Hybridization"In 1936, the statistician R.A. Fisher used a chi-square test to analyze Mendel's data and concluded that Mendel's results with the predicted ratios were far too perfect, indicating that adjustments (intentional or unconscious) had been made to the data to make the observations fit the hypothesis" Of course this does not diminish the importance of his work. Here's his paper translated to English: http://www.mendelweb.org/Mendel.html(By chance this is on my reading list to finish before the end of the year.) It's worth noting that Darwin's Origin of Species was published in 1859, prior to Mendel's work. From http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1228/pg1228.txt"The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why the same peculiarity in different individuals of the same species, and in individuals of different species, is sometimes inherited and sometimes not so; why the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather or grandmother or other much more remote ancestor; why a peculiarity is often transmitted from one sex to both sexes or to one sex alone, more commonly but not exclusively to the like sex."
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Heard a story yesterday that some town, neighborhood or some
such are making owners of dogs get DNA testing, so everyone
will know whose dog leaves droppings on their lawns.
The extent our science takes us is so utterly amazing.
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PCRing our way to GATTACA?
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And today is Alexander Calder's birthday. Go. Give it a spin.
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I don't know him 
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Give it a spin. Can't. I don't have a laptop. I'm thinking that's what I'll get when this one goes, though: it just looks so big and clunky now!
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It did spin for me....but I had no control over it, it was just random.
Calder.....ah, artist, boiler-man, seaman and engineer and circus follower! I know him now. Great article, thanks Luke.
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if you use the Google browser [Chrome], you can give the individual arms a spin.
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Google's done it again. Mouse over to get the text.
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Yip....thanks, I see it
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I've been working at it for 3-4 minutes, and nothing happens.
Oh well, Google Chrome is OK sometimes.
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