The answer is yes… minus 8 points.
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Hello H2K2 (CC), from the popular Hello Robot series by Joseph Senior
Can you listen to it all? For those who are not patient enough and just want to skip ahead in the video, there’s a few interesting things hidden throughout the clip:
Click on:
Also, the double rainbow at 5:17 made me laugh. Enjoy!
His identity erased. His past stolen. His whereabouts unknown.
About 20,000 light years from the Sun, right near the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, sits V838 Monocerotis, a red variable star. Does it remind you of something? Of course it does: it resembles one of the world’s most famous Internet browser: FireFox.
This shot was taken by the Hubble space telescope on February 8, 2004, just a few weeks after the FireFox logo we all came to know and love was originally designed. So the question remains: Is the resemblance purely fortuitous or are there deeper mysteries inside the famous red panda logo?
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Sweden’s Pirate Party has failed to repeat its success in last year’s European elections in this month’s poll for Sweden’s own parliament. Its vote collapsed to roughly a sixth of its total last year, prompting debate on what caused the apparent huge drop in support.
Last summer the party — which campaigns for reforms of online freedom laws and intellectual property issues — picked up 225,915 votes in elections to the European Parliament. That was 7.13% of the total, enough to pick up one seat. (Both the Swedish and European parliaments use electoral systems where parties with a big enough share of the vote can earn a seat without having to win in a specific location.)
Had the party achieved the same percentage of the vote this time round, it would have won around a dozen seats in the Swedish Parliament. In reality it achieved 38,941 votes which, with a higher turnout, worked out at 0.65% and earning no representation.
There seem to be several reasons why the campaign lost steam: