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orangepeel writes:
The Washington Post is featuring an interesting article about human behavior. From the article: "When Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal read a news story that said Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, had hurled a chair across the room on hearing an employee was going to work for rival Google, the scientist immediately made a connection with his own research: 'When I see such behavior, I think of a chimpanzee.'"
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pHatidic writes:
Many Slashdotters are fans of John Taylor Gatto, author of The Six Lesson Schoolteacher and The Underground History of American Education. Gatto has been working with award-winning film director, Roland Legiardi-Laura, on designing a three part documentary on how compulsory education is dumbing us down and curtailing our freedoms. The website hasn't been updated in a couple years, but I talked to the director recently and he confirmed they are still very much working on production and fundraising. Since these are issues that we as a community have traditionally cared about, perhaps some Slashdotters would be interested in learning more about the project and hopefully then contributing.
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nnkx00 writes:
DesktopLinux.com is running a story about why Linus hates the GNOME Desktop Environment. And while the bulk of the story is spent telling of Linus' complaints, the real story is about how to make a good out-of-the-box desktop environment that works for people just sitting down at a machine, and yet is customizable.
