The Show Notes

Nativity scene "St. Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the first nativity scene in 1223 at Greccio, Italy, in an attempt to place the emphasis of Christmas upon the worship of Christ rather than upon secular materialism and gift giving." "Matthew's narrative tells of "wise men" (grk.μαγοι magoi) who follow a star to the house where Jesus dwelt, and indicates that the Magi found Jesus some time later, less than two years after his birth, rather than on the exact day." "A donkey (or ass) and an ox typically appear in nativity scenes. The Gospels do not mention an ox and donkey." "The account does not mention the number of people "they" or "the Magi" refers to, the three gifts has led to the widespread assumption that there were three men."

Vegetarianism "is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat – red meat, poultry, seafood and the flesh of any other animal; it may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter" Shumway  "is an experimental web-native runtime implementation of the SWF file format. It is developed as a free and open source project sponsored by Mozilla Research." " Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android " - article on Andy Rubin Liquor Laws by State Lagers and ales "Lagers are fermented and conditioned at low temperatures. The rise of lager was entwined with the development of refrigeration, as refrigeration made it possible to brew lager year-round." "Lager brewing displaced ale brewing in Bohemia in the period from 1860 to 1870." "Ale is brewed using a warm fermentation"

Cantonese Vs. Mandarin  (video), check about 3:50 to see the differences in written Cantonese/Mandarin. Wilson v. State  "was a Georgia court case brought about to appeal the aggravated child molestation conviction of Genarlow Wilson […]. Wilson was convicted of aggravated child molestation in 2005, after, at the age of 17, he had engaged in oral sex with a 15-year-old at a New Year's Eve party, an offense carrying a mandatory penalty of 10 years' imprisonment. […] On October 26, 2007, the Georgia State Supreme Court, while not overturning the conviction itself, ruled that Wilson's sentence was disproportionate. He was released later that day, after serving over 2 years of his 10-year prison sentence" MythTV  "is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital

Video Interoperability on the Web Gets a Boost From Cisco’s H.264 Codec : "Cisco has announced today that they are going to release a gratis, high quality, open source H.264 implementation — along with gratis binary modules compiled from that source and hosted by Cisco for download. This move enables any open source project to incorporate Cisco’s H.264 module without paying MPEG LA license fees." EFF article: Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C :  "By approving this idea, the W3C has ceded control of the "user agent" (the term for a Web browser in W3C parlance) to a third-party, the content distributor. That breaks a—perhaps until now unspoken—assurance about who has the final say in your Web experience, and indeed who has ultimate control over your computing device." " Rodéo mortel: un ami des chauffards témoigne ": je n'ai pas accès à un meilleur article du Temps sur ce sujet. Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) –