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Submission + - Indy 500 Penguin crashes on lap 37

Submitted by

strredwolf

on Sunday May 27, 2007 @01:50PM

strredwolf writes: "The Linux sponsored #77 Indy car crashed on lap 37 in the Indianapolis 500. The driver has walked alway seemingly fine after smacking the SAFER-equipped wall at around 218 MPH at 30th place. It's a terrible way to end the Tux 500 project."

Submission + - How to moderate an underlying story

Submitted by

cprael

on Sunday May 27, 2007 @01:40PM

cprael writes: "So, it's rather obvious how to moderate comments that are good or bad, crap or interesting. But how does one do same to the underlying article? I'm not suggesting on a regular basis, but every once in a while, some of the top-level story stuff that gets posted just cries out to be moderated. Man bites dog journalism, slow news day... it's still crap. And deserves to mod'd accordingly."

Free Ads Can Be Really Expensive 141

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 27, 2007 @05:15AM from the inverse-kinematics dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Companies are finding that this 'Web 2.0' user participation thing sometimes isn't all its cracked up to be. The New York Times reports on the efforts of big companies to harness consumer enthusiasm for assistance with advertising. Heinz, for example, is running a campaign asking users to submit videos using their product in inventive ways. The problem, of course, is that most of the submissions are utterly terrible. The result is a headache in terms of quality control and making use of the turned in submissions. 'Heinz hopes to show more than five of them, if there are enough that convey a positive, appealing message about Heinz ketchup, he said. But advertising executives who have seen some of the entries say that Heinz may be hard pressed to find any that it is proud to run on television in September. "These are just so bad," said Linda Kaplan Thaler, chief executive of the Kaplan Thaler Group, an advertising agency in New York that is not involved with Heinz's contest. One of the most viewed Heinz videos -- seen, at last count, more than 12,800 times -- ends with a close-up of a mouth with crooked, yellowed teeth. When Ms. Kaplan Thaler saw it, she wondered, "Were his teeth the result of, maybe, too much Heinz?"'"

Submission + - Good note-taking software

Submitted by on Sunday May 27, 2007 @03:13AM

An anonymous reader writes: I've noticed that I do a lot of brainstorming on paper, and I wondered why I don't use my computer more. I realized that one of the things I like about writing on paper is the ability to arbitrarily position my text. Is there good software for OS X that lets me put the cursor anywhere I want and begin typing immediately? As for PCs, I think OneNote allows this — is there anything else? What about software that also lets me drag and drop entire blocks of text any way I want to organize them?

Submission + - Man commits suicide online

Submitted by TehDuffman on Sunday May 27, 2007 @02:30AM

TehDuffman writes: Kevin Whitrick logged on to an internet chat room and announced that he was going to commit suicide. He then switched on his webcam, stood on a chair, smashed through his ceiling to expose a joist, tied a rope around his neck and hanged himself.

"Get on with it, said net audience as man hanged himself on webcam"

Today the BBC reported that no charges would be filed against those in the room.

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