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Greetings.

Jewish date:  22 ’Av 5770 (Parashath Re’eh).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Emancipation Day/August Festival (British Virgin Islands), Emancipation Day/August Monday (Anguilla, the Bahamas), International Dadaism Month, Anniversary of Official Signing of the Declaration of Independence (USA).

Worthy causes of the day:  “Ask Your Reps to Support the National Alzheimer's Project Act - The Petition Site”, “Support Clean Energy Jobs - Take Action Today @ The Rainforest Site”, and “Tell the FDA to Come Clean About Gulf Seafood - The Petition Site”.  Also along the lines of something worthy to do:  Save the oak trees.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “A Solar Salamander”
• “Exclusive: I Used BlindType, Virtual Keyboard of the Future”
• “Genes from Ebola Virus Family Found in Human Genome”:  I really could not make something like this up.
• “$20 Wikipedia Reader Uses 8-Bit Computing Power”
• “NASA identifies Top Ten space junk missions”
• “Car Thieves Picky About Color”:  Also titled “Love Pink? Car Thieves Don’t”.
• “They Are Making Battleship Into a Movie. No Seriously, They Are Making Battleship Into a Movie.”:  Submitted by Barry.

Today’s weird thing is “8-Bit Trip: 1500 Hours of Lego Stop-Motion in Four Awesome Minutes”.

Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron