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Submission + - Oddest Book Titles of 2010 announced (nytimes.com)

egghat writes: The Bookseller (www.thebookseller.com is already down) has announced the 2010 prizes for their yearly Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year.

The IMHO very well deserved prize goes to “Crocheting Adventures With Hyperbolic Planes” by Dr. Daina Taimina which combines non-gaussian mathematics and crocheting (who would have thought that this would be possible?).

Second place went to “What Kind of Bean Is This Chihuahua?” by Tara Jansen-Meyer. And“Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter” by David Crompton and “The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease” by Ellen Scherl and Marla Dubinsky aren't bad either ...

Google

Submission + - Interesting data from the YouTube outage (techworld.com)

superapecommando writes: YouTube continues to fascinate people, even when nobody is able to watch it.
A revealing data nugget has turned up from the Internet department of Arbor Networks on the effect (or lack of it) of yesterday’s well-publicised YouTube ‘outage’.
The interruption was relatively brief — perhaps an hour and a half — which turns out to correspond to a measurable drop in Google Internet traffic seen by the company across a random sample of 50 small and mid-size ISPs spread across the world.

Spam

Submission + - Spam Filters Force Magazine Name Change (bbc.co.uk)

krou writes: After 90 years of publication, a Canadian history journal is being forced to change its name because of spam filters. The Beaver, which chose its name because of Canada's iconic dam-building creatures, has been forced to change its name to Canada's History, because 'attempts to reach a new online audience kept falling foul of spam filters — particularly in schools — because beaver is also a slang term for female genitalia.' They 'also noticed that most of the 30,000 or so visitors to their website per month stayed for less than 10 seconds', and they probably correctly suspected that those visitors were not interested in 'learning about the trade in beaver fur which built Canada's early economic fortunes'.

Comment Re:N1 vs Iphone (Score 1) 189

4GB vs 16GB or 32GB storage

by the time you add more storage to the N1 it's more expensive. and it pretty much locked down to T-Mo since it can't use AT&T's 3G frequencies. and T-Mo sucks. and with all the corporate/work related apps in the app store Google's limit on the number of apps is dumb.

GUI

IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193

An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"

Comment Re:Do not want. (Score 1) 155

I object to this for a different reason: I consider the concept of an organization with world jurisdiction intrinsically dangerous and unacceptable. It's like a monopoly: if you don't like their rules, where else are you going to go?

What do you sugest then? And no, i'm not trying to flame. and no, I am also not talking about piracy?

Cyber crime in my book.
- Web sites are taken off line due to denial of service attacks.
- identifies are stolen and sold. Costing people their credit and sometimes their homes, their lives

Something has to be done, and at least this(as bad as it is) is a united(least it sounds like it) front. All countries need to be part of the solution for us to win this, which no matter how you look at it. Will be a solution like is described here.

Again, not trying to flame. Just trying to point out the stakes involved require a solution like this.

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