I’ve gotten requests for custom Nintendo Mii cross stitch patterns before, and I finally got around to putting a listing on our Etsy shop.

You can be the proud owner of your very own Nintendo Mii cross stitch pattern! You know you want to!

Tonight, while reading up on this whole O’Donnell “Separation of Church and State” thing I came across the Wikipedia entry for the Treaty of Tripoli. This was one of several treaties the United States made in the late 1700′s with the nations of the Barbary Coast and is “cited as historical evidence in the modern day controversy over whether there was religious intent by the founders of the United States government. Article 11 of the first treaty has been interpreted as an official denial of a Christian basis for the U.S. government.”

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext, arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Read that first sentence again, keeping in mind that this document was ratified by the US Senate and signed by President John Adams just shy of 21 years after independence was declared.

Yeah. It seems like the country may have lost its way in the subsequent 213 years.

“Never in the field of human conflict has so much poo been produced by so little a baby” – Evie Churchill

but I was busy gestating a human baby. I’m sure you understand.

Her name is Evie Tesla Greco. She was born September 11, 2010. We like her a lot.

Four (!) days ago we were contacted by Kohta Awano about using our Augmented Reality video in a television segment about AR in Japan.

Below is the report. Now to get to work translating.

Thanks Kohta!