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Submission + - Github used to track tree disease (guardian.co.uk)

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Simon Brooke

on Friday December 14, 2012 @09:26AM

Simon Brooke writes: "Github is being used by academics in the UK to encourage crowd-sourced analysis of the spread of an aggressive disease of ash trees in Europe.

Separately, there's also a smartphone app which allows members of the public to tag suspect trees."

Submission + - Raspberry Pi launches, sells out in 90 minutes (raspberrypi.org)

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Simon Brooke

on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @04:26AM

Simon Brooke writes: "Raspberry Pi launched at 6:00 UTC this morning; I didn't manage to get onto the site at all, but clearly other people did because by 7:00 Farnell.com were sold out and now the other supplier, RS Components are sold out too."

Submission + - Electronic vote counting fails in Scotland

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Simon Brooke

on Friday May 04, 2007 @04:16AM

Simon Brooke writes: "Scotland is in electoral chaos this morning after a complex failure of an election count. Human factors account for some of the problem — two different voting systems were in use for national and local council seats, and voter confusion seems to have contributed to 100,000 spoilt papers. However, the electronic counting system has also failed, and in seven areas of the country the counting has had to be suspended, and in at least one the electronic counting system has been abandoned in favour of manual counting .

PS: Filed under 'power' because there's no 'elections' or 'politics' section!"

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