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Oops! So I tried this out and yep there's a swastika in there. You can find it by changing your font to Bookshelf Symbol 7 in any of the Office 2003 products and typing in the tilde(~) character. The conspiracist in me finds it odd that it would appear under one of the least frequently used characters.

Yahoo! News - Microsoft to Remove Swastikas from Software Fonts

I work with a few hard core math geeks and I thought this would interest them. I must admit that it is pretty amazing that a number measuring 6,320,430 digits in length could be prime.

In the case of Shafer's discovery, it was 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1.

geeks... :-)

Yahoo! News - Student Finds Largest Known Prime Number

This one is a tough call. I certainly wouldn't want to see a law stating that parents can't teach their beliefs to their own children, but this is an interesting case.

The easy answer to this would've been for the state to not allow visitation rights.

firstamendmentcenter.org: news

Something doesn't sit well with me about this idea. Wouldn't it be better to try and break the CO2 down into Carbon and O2? I'm not sure how that process would work be it seems to be better than stuffing CO2 into the air our ground.

The other thing that I find amazing are the TONS of CO2 that they're talking about.

But the equipment needed to enable a power plant to bury carbon dioxide remains costly. To bury a ton of carbon dioxide costs more than $100, estimates Ken Humphreys of Battelle laboratories. For a medium-sized power plant, that amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.

That means a medium sized power plant emits about 1000 tons (tons folks) of CO2 a day. That is insane! What does a ton of CO2 look like? What kind of container does it fit in? Thinking of gases in terms of tons just baffles me. But I'm just a caveman.

Yahoo! News - Administration eyes burying carbon dioxide

I little development satire.

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