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For those interested in donating blood, dominoes, fire trucks, or Shriners, especially in the Austin area, read on. You can donate blood and see all the rest on September 6th. A Day of Caring & Sharing - Save a Life Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008 Ben Hur Shrine Center 7811 Rockwood Dr , Austin 512-480-0812 Activities Presented by: The Ben Hur Shriners The Blood Center of Central Texas Texas Fire Marshal’s Fire Safety House Austin Fire Department Fire Truck The Ben Hur Shrine Clowns Benefitting: - Shriners’ Hospitals for Children Burn Hospital in Galveston, TX - Austin Children and Adults as they learn Fire Safety Skills Please read or post: Join the Ben Hur Shriners, The Blood Center and the Texas Fire Marshal, Saturday, September 6. 2008 at the Ben Hur Shrine Center located at 7811 Rockwood Drive, Austin for a Day of Caring and Sharing – Save a Life. From 10-2 PM The Blood Center will be in the ...

Updated March 26, 2008 12:37 PM CMT I'm coming up to speed on the new Google Visualization APIs this week like a lot of other people. As I'm working through my new application that uses this API and Google Docs spreadsheets, I'm running into some issues that aren't covered in the online documentation for the API . I'll post those issues along with their resolution here, so if you run into problems, this is a good place to look. If you run into problems that aren't covered, please add them to the comments section. Of course, the first place to look if you run into issues is on the Google Visualization API Group . Column labels don't work like you might think they should Throughout the Query Language Reference the examples use the labels from the following table: name string dept string lunchTime timeofday salary number hireDate date age number isSenior boolean seniorityStartTime datetime John Eng 12:00:00 1000 2005-03-19 35 true 2007-12-02 15:56:...

No More Interruptions By The Record Label Execs! : Those of you who read " More Cowbell " article about embedding new Google forms in web pages may have noticed the line: " To keep your web page from redirecting to the google success message and requiring your users to press the 'back' button, simply add: target="_blank" to the form tag prior to the action attribute. " at the bottom of the article. It has also been noted in the Google Docs user forums that the forms would be more useful for multi-entry data input if they didn't redirect when the user hit the submit button. Even using the _blank suggestion mentioned above, you'll quickly wind up with an annoyingly large number of 'Thank You' tabs or windows depending on you browser. Well, it turns out, there's an answer to this problem! Immediately before the form tag, insert the following line of html: &lt iframe name="catcher" height="0"&gt&l...

With more pictures coming in from the Mars rover missions that 'look like something', it seems that believers are becoming ever more hopeful while skeptics are becoming ever more skeptical. In the interest of promoting open-mindedness in scientific investigations, the following Earth-bound, Mars and Mercury rocks are presented for your consideration. From Just a Rock More Than A Rock ??? Earth Camel Rock near Tesuque Pueble, NM Image credit The Treasury: Petra, Jordan Mars Actually, this is a special rock. The rock in the lower right foreground is thought to be an iron meteor. Image credit Maritian meteor containing fossilized bacteria? Image credit Lady on Mars Image credit Earth Bear in a Rock: Pecos River Valley, NM Image credit Mars Skull Rock Image credit Mercury Spider scar: Mercury Image credit Not a rock! Also, not from Mercury. Image credit

While I've been reporting on the analysis of Ministry of Defence UFO sighting data for the last decade, UFO sightings continue to occur: read more | digg story Reporter Unemployed Amidst Stephenville UFO Controversy read more | digg story UFO spotted in skies above Grantham? read more | digg story New UFO Sighting in Sthephenville, TX Today, the year by year analysis of the data begins. In 2007 Shrewsbury reported 3 sightings while there were 8 other cities that reported two UFO sightings each. The map and data follow. View Larger Map City # Date Sigthed or Reported Details Shrewsbury 3 12-Nov-07 S A series of lights in a circle that had an inner circle. There were fifteen extra lights on the outside of the outer circle. They were moving clockwise, then anti-clockwise through the sky and then back again. 24-Sep-07 R Four orange lights were seen crossing the sky. There was a gap, and then...

Part I Part II Part III Part IV As my track coach used to say: "It's all about consistency!" Shown below are the top ten cities in the UK with the most consistent UFO sightings, year after year. Row Labels 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Grand Total Years With Sitings Leeds 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 10 8 Brighton 3 1 2 1 1 1 9 6 Cardiff 1 2 1 1 2 2 9 6 Glasgow 1 1 1 2 3 1 9 6 Hull 2 7 1 3 1 1 15 6 Liverpool 1 1 1 4 2 2 11 6 Newport/Gwent 1 2 1 1 1 1 7 6 Birmingham 1 2 2 1 1 7 5 Blairgowrie 1 1 1 1 1 5 5 ...