Monthly Archives: May 2007

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Volcano and Aurora in Iceland

A Photo of Volcano and Aurora in Iceland.
In Iceland in 1991, the volcano Hekla erupted at the same time that auroras were visible overhead. Hekla, one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, has erupted at least 20 times over the past millennium, sometimes causing great destruction. The last eruption occurred only six years [...]

Dalai Lama on Theory of Emptiness

Taken from Dalai Lama’s book The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality.
One of the most important philosophical insights in Buddhism comes from what is known as the theory of emptiness. At its heart is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, [...]

Korean-English-Korean Dictionary

A Korean-English and English-Korean dictionary website! Looks great for learning Korean words!

Elephant herds found on isolated south Sudan island

From Reuters.
International wildlife experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of war.
“We flew out of a cloud, and there they were. It was like something out of Jurassic Park,” said Tom Catterson, working on [...]

Palm oil puts squeeze on Asia’s endangered orangutan

From Yahoo.
PALANGKARAYA, Central Kalimantan (Reuters) - Bound hand and foot, disheveled orangutans caught raiding Borneo’s oil palm crops silently await their fate as a small crowd of plantation workers gather to watch.
Thousands have strayed into the path of international commerce as Indonesia and Malaysia, their last remaining habitats, race to convert their forests to profitable [...]

Stringtemplate With Dict Data

There seems to be a bug if the dict has a value of an empty string.

def test_templateEmpStr():
import stringtemplate
st = stringtemplate.StringTemplate(”empty:$s$ok”)
st['s'] = ” #None,” ok
print str(st)
st = stringtemplate.StringTemplate(”empty:$m.s$ok”)
st['m'] = {’s’: ”}
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