perhaps the only anecdotal evidence is that in humans when the older kids are scared they make the younger ones go first.

1. yeah, because having an internet connection is obviously a signal that one's household is an indicator of the people in that household either being productive or being on the brink of becoming productive... So now that these poor black folk have an internet connection they are going to become 'bankable (get bank accounts), good jobs and better education(al opportunities). I find it relatively stupid that people think signing up for broadband is supposed to bridge some 'digital divide'. Why don't we start focusing on the 'paycheck divide' which is probably a much more reliable indicator of opportunity being converted into economic reality... So let's applaud google's "get out the broadband effort" and forget about how Lilliputian of a distance that step gets one across the 'digital divide'... 2. I was just about to post the same article.

I hope they include SpaceChem - it's a fantastic puzzle game that many people have thought to liken to teaching chemistry, industrial manufacturing and programming.

Irony outed. Didn't know that you could post the word nigger on slashdot. and thanks for the google books search. righteous.

Accidentally replacing nookd with kindled (or verse visa) is hilarious.

But...

When you intentionally mar a national treasure due to current political correctness:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/06/1555251/the-continued-censorship-of-huckleberry-finn/ - where they searched and replaced "ni99a" with "slave" from Huckleberry Finn...

Well that's just arrogant (demonstrates a belief in the superiority of current social mores over historical realities) spineless (so our genteel sexting children don't have to face the fact that some Americans enslaved and legislated the inferiority of a whole race) and impoverishing (robs people of the opportunity for a real authentic discussion of the troubled history of race in this country).

i heard Microsoft signed a lease with the oil companies to build these new datacenters on the icecaps to accelerate global warming . . .