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Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day 407

Posted by timothy on Friday January 23, 2009 @09:08AM from the why-mess-with-success dept.

theodp writes "Using Yahoo's free e-mail service to conduct government business was good enough for Sarah Palin. And now the Washington Times reports that Obama staffers turned to Gmail on Inauguration Day to conduct their business. Those wishing to contact members of the incoming Obama administration were instructed to contact staffers at wh.LASTNAME@gmail.com until official White House e-mail addresses became available."

Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App 461

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @04:31PM from the pull-up-your-kill-list dept.

An anonymous Coward writes "Knights Armament Corp. who supply sniper rifles to the US military have developed a iPod Touch mounting system and software for the US Army M110 sniper rifle system. The use of off the shelf hardware no doubt cut costs and allowed rapid development of this system." If it automatically played a theme song after every head shot, this would be the coolest rifle accessory ever.

Comment Re:Oh good. (Score 1) 215

by drauh on Monday January 12, 2009 @08:51PM (#26425671) Attached to: The Evolution of Python 3

uh, no. whitespace block indentation means blocks have no delimiters. using "END IF" etc means you're adding a closing delimiter. python says: you don't need it.

really, though, this stuff is minor. any good editor will handle all this for you, whether with braces or without. the other language i like is LISP, which is diametrically opposite python in its use of ()s everywhere.

New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again? 227

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @08:52PM from the matters-of-deep-significance dept.

theodp writes "Last June, Google rolled out a new favicon, the small branding icon that graces your URL bar when you visit Google. Which, as it turned out, bore a striking similarity to Garth Brooks' Circle-G logo. Well, Google went back to the drawing board and has come back with a new favicon, which it says was inspired by — not copied from, mind you — its users' submitted ideas. Some are also seeing inspiration elsewhere for the new favicon, which consists of white 'g' on a background of four color swatches. Take the AVG antivirus icon, for instance. Or everybody's favorite memory toy, Simon. Or — in perhaps the unkindest cut of all — the four-color Microsoft Windows logo, shown here with a superimposed white '7'. Anything else come to mind?" What comes to mind for me is just how obsessed many people are with the Google favicon.

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