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Submission + - Garbage Dump named after John Cleese

Submitted by heretic108 on Sunday May 20, 2007 @10:25PM

heretic108 writes: New Zealanders have long memories. So one year after Monty Python comedian John Cleese took a low swipe at the town of Palmerston North, the locals saw fit to get even, with the town council officially naming the local garbage dump after him.

Submission + - Microsoft, Sue Me First

Submitted by corigo on Sunday May 20, 2007 @10:22PM

corigo writes: Supporters of Free Open Source, Oasis Open Document, and other Free and Open Source solutions have asked Microsoft to throw down the guantlet. Sue Me First says Christian Einfeldt of Digital Tipping Point and he's not alone. More and more people are signing up and challenging Microsoft to put there lawyers where there mouth is. It sounds to me like the open source community is far from running scared. Will Microsoft have the cajones to step up to the plate, or is Microsoft just continuing to use a scare campaign with no real faith in their ability to leverage the patent control they claim the open source is infringing on?

Submission + - An Inconvenient Truth Becoming Required Viewing

Submitted by

theodp

on Sunday May 20, 2007 @10:12PM

theodp writes: "First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers. If you have children in junior or high school, there is a good chance they have been shown An Inconvenient Truth in school — or they will be soon — as the film works its way into the curriculum."

Submission + - RIAA hires DJ's, then sends in the SWAT team

Submitted by

cancan

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:37PM

cancan writes: "The NY times is carrying an article about how the RIAA is hiring hip hop artists to make mix tapes, and then helping the police raid their studios. In the case of DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon (myspace warning), they were raided by SWAT teams with their guns drawn. The local police chief said later that they were "prepared for the worst." Men in RIAA jackets helped cart away "evidence"."

Submission + - World's largest tropical glacier is vanishing.

Submitted by Socguy on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:20PM

Socguy writes: "Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and a team of scientists said they have found evidence the Qori Kalis glacier of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes could lose half its mass in 12 months and could be gone five years from now."
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/16/scie nce-glacier.html

Submission + - Orson Scott Card explains his vote this year

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05, 2006 @11:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Orson Scott Card, who normally votes Democratic, explains the choices the country faces and his vote this year:
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2006-10-29-1 .html

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