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Submission + - Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes

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NickFitz

on Saturday April 14, 2007 @01:54PM

NickFitz writes: "Students at UCSC have recreated the first level of Donkey Kong using 6,400 Post-it notes stuck to the windows of the E2 building. It took a team of about 10 people five hours to complete the work, which will remain in place until May 1. There's a time-lapse video of the construction process."

Submission + - Pegasus mail client discontinued after seven years

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bbc

on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @11:50AM

bbc writes: "David Harris announced today that both development and distribution of Pegasus Mail will be discontinued starting immediately. Hardly any good e-mail clients exist, but Pegasus has consistently belonged to that club for 17 years. Its worst offenses are its quirkyness, and the strange preference of its developer to work on expanding HTML support instead of working on real features. For the past 9 years I have been able to live with that. It's been awhile since I lamented the death of a computer program."

Submission + - When celebrities speak on science

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Timberwolf0122

on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @11:24AM

Timberwolf0122 writes: "Sense About Science has urged stars not to dip their toes into tricky scientific issues without checking their facts first. In the article on BBC News some examples are put forward of the dubious science uttered by celebrities — together with the views of its experts."

Submission + - Gooogle's answer to the Slashdot article

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Ludwik

on Monday December 04, 2006 @08:25AM

Ludwik writes: "Matt Cutts of Google answers to the Slashdott's article about Google de-indexing hacked site.
(...) This site was hacked and stuffed with a bunch of hidden spammy porn words and links. Google detected the spam in less than 10 days; that's faster than the site owner noticed it. We temporarily removed the site from our index so that users wouldn't get the spammy porn back in response to queries. We made it possible for the webmaster to verify that their site was penalized. Then we emailed the site, with the exact page and the exact text that was causing problems. We provided a link to the correct place for the site owner to request reinclusion. We also made the penalty for a relatively short time (60 days), so that if the webmaster fixed the issue but didn't contact Google, they would still be fine after a few weeks. (...)
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