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Feed Film Reveals Moore's Tactics (wired.com)

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Manufacturing Dissent, a documentary about Michael Moore premiers at SXSW. Made by Moore fans, it shows the filmmaker's clay feet as he stone walls the filmmakers. By the Associated Press.


Submission + - What Programming Languages Should You Know?

Submitted by nitsudima
nitsudima writes: David Chisnall posits that the more programming languages you know, the better. The point is not to stuff your head with language rules. Rather, he explains how being able to read multiple languages, even if you never code in them, can help you to select the best possible tool for each coding need — and understand the limitations of the tools you're using.
Communications

Submission + - Own more than one cell phone? Are you a terrorist?

Submitted by PLaXman
PLaXman writes: According to a blog written by Andrew Lim, Cnet UK's mobile phone editor, UK police are warning people to look out for anyone that owns more than one cell phone. "Terrorists need communication. Anonymous, pay-as-you-go and stolen mobiles are typical. Have you seen someone with large quantities of mobile phones? Has it made you suspicious?" The problem, as Andrew points out, is that almost everyone these days owns more than a few cell phones, so how do you aptly distinguish between a law abiding gadget fan and a potential terrorist? The other issue that's highlighted is what to do with the growing number of old cell phones that are accumulating in our homes. With wireless carriers making it easier and easier to upgrade our handsets, how do we responsibly deal with this mountain of electronic waste that we leave behind us every time we get a new phone?
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Submission + - Distributed Proofreaders + /. = 10,000 eBooks

Submitted by Jagged
Jagged writes: This week Distributed Proofreaders commemorated their digital transcription of 10,000 written works. Back on November 8, 2002, Slashdot posted an article on Distributed Proofreaders. That initial Slashdotting smashed records, wore out the DP admins, and started changes in the way the volunteers worked that made Distributed Proofreaders what it is today.

Distributed Proofreaders, a wholly volunteer organization, was established in 2000 for the purpose of producing quality transcriptions of machine-readable texts from public domain sources. The resulting texts are published on Project Gutenberg.

True to its international nature, Distributed Proofreaders, while respecting U.S. copyright laws, does not limit itself to preserving solely English language content. Nearly 15% of completed titles, to date, represent over 20 languages beyond English. A look to DPs 10,000th title set reveals the diversity of world cultural content in the public domain. Among this commemorative collection are a French translation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; the chronicle of Portuguese explorer Serpa Pinto's African expeditions; a pair of illustrated children stories from Germany; the first part of 'Species Plantarum', a 17th century Latin botanical reference work and a translation of a 17th century Guatemalan Maya manuscript.

The fifteen titles released today are not a cheer towards the past accomplishments of Distributed Proofreaders, nor are they pat on the back for deeds fulfilled on this day. What these titles so clearly represent, of their own merits, is the future and what awaits within the world's public domain yet to be rescued from obscurity and re-presented to an audience hungry to rediscover the cultural treasures of previous ages.

Comment Re:How to clean up flying wasabi (Score 1) 164

by vomviersen (#18225756) Attached to: Astronaut Has 'Wasabi Spill' in Space

So if we're fed ersatz-wasabi on the ground, what was really in that fateful tube of NASA wasabi is most likely not known outside NASA's human experimentation department.

After reading the news article, I'm still not clear as to whether this was a special NASA tube o' wasabi, or else one of the "wasabi toothpaste tubes" you can buy at almost any Asian grocery:

http://www.sbfoods.co.jp/eng/herb.html

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