mattatwork - Slashdot User

Comment Are they really gone for good? (Score 1) 1

by mattatwork on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @02:27PM (#20145061) Attached to: Weekly World News Eaten by Bat Boy!

Couldn't they just migrate to the internet as an online publication an dsave on publishing costs...maybe pick up advertisers? I always enjoyed covers showing prominent political leaders meeting with aliens in secret locations or ones showing a boy killing the largest bee ever....

Submission + - Interview with "Chocolate Rain" Tay Zonday (feastoffools.net)

Submitted by

feastoffools

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @02:14PM

feastoffools writes: "Feast of Fools podcast talks to musician and YouTube overnight celebrity Tay Zonday, who in recent weeks has landed himself in the middle of a media deluge over his homemade music video "Chocolate Rain."

Since the video was posted three months ago it's received over three point seven million views and catapulted Zunday from an ordinary life as a American Studies grad student to one of the most recognized YouTube video personalities and inspired thousands of other responses and parodies. Why?

Tay Zonday's video caught on because it's a great blank canvass for people to superimpose themselves. If the song was directly addressing race it wouldn't be so much fun to make your own version.

Also, the mismatch of Tay's voice with his face, his obliqueness and outsider feel adds to the appeal. Like the Mona Lisa, Tay Zonday's knowing yet emotionally unavailable gaze draws us in further.

Tay Zonday (in this interview):

"Consumerism has reduced participation in our democracy to where we feel obligated to say 'I love this' or 'I hate this' and there isn't any more sophisticated public discourse in that binary."

My suspicions is that Tay creates these videos as therapy for himself, as a roundabout way to express himself to those he can't speak to directly. Tay Zonday: "the anonymous medium [of posting a video on YouTube] allows people to say the things they want to say to their employer or spouse..."

Join us as we ask Tay Zonday about why he made this video in the first place, his reactions to the publics response and why is it so hard for mainstream journalists to embrace ambiguity. Visit Feast of Fools dot net to listen to the full interview."

Submission + - Win Free Seat to ChicagoCon 2007 (ethicalhacker.net)

Submitted by

ddonzal

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @02:13PM

ddonzal writes: "Ethical Hacking, Expert Pen Testing, Web App Hacking, Cisco, Forensics, CISSP, Linux+ and more. ChicagoCon is a pro. security conference, certification training and a hacker con rolled into a single, unique event from Sept 17 — 23. Keynotes include John C. Dvorak, Steve Hunt, Lance Spitzner, DoD & Symantec. Hacking Presentations and prizes, too. http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/151/8/"

Submission + - Andrew Morton calls for more kernel testing (linux.com)

Submitted by

Ant

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @02:07PM

Ant writes: "Linux.com reports that during the opening keynote at this week's LinuxWorld Expo, kernel developer Andrew Morton called for more assistance in testing the Linux kernel from users, and predicted that virtualization would be the big thing for the next few years of kernel development..."

Submission + - Rich-Client app performance, Pt 2: Plugging Leaks (ibm.com)

Submitted by

BlueVoodoo

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @02:05PM

BlueVoodoo writes: "Part 1 of this two-part article on Eclipse rich-client performance covers the basics of measuring an application's performance, applying instrumentation techniques, keeping the UI responsive, and using Jobs to avoid threading mistakes. This second part takes a look at memory usage and how to chase down memory leaks."

Submission + - What tech feeds do you subscribe to?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: I am curious as to what other tech sites all the other Slahdot users read on a very regular basis. I for one read Slahdot, Endgadget and a number of others but am curious as to what everyone else reads when they are looking for their daily fill of tech news. Any suggestions?

Submission + - Apple introduces new iMacs (macnn.com)

Submitted by Rebelgecko on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:55PM

Rebelgecko writes: This morning, Steve Jobs introduced new iMacs. They come in 20 or 24 inch sizes and are constructed from plastic, aluminum, and glass. They will ship with a new Bluetooth keyboard which will look similar to this developmental prototype. Steve Jobs has also shown iLife '08 with features like iPhoto "events" and direct uploading of movies to Youtube.

Submission + - NVIDIA Premiers Animated Short "The Plush Lif (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:55PM

MojoKid writes: "Showcasing the advanced rendering features of NVIDIA's Gelato GPU-accelerated rendering software, this week at SIGGRAPH, Timothy Heath and his team from the NVIDIA Digital Film Group put together a short film dubbed "The Plush Life". The film features Lundo and Flint, two plush characters with a penchant for joyriding in their 1969 Buick Electra. The Plush Life is the first release in a planned series of animated short films created with Gelato using some of its more advanced features like subsurface scattering, depth-of-shadows, and a new shader technology used to create the velvety appearance of the "Flint" character. HotHardware has more information regarding the short film and an array of impressive screenshots that were taken from the film which was created using Maya with the help of NVIDIA Gelato."

Submission + - Virgin America offers Linux to passengers (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

Earl Shannon

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:52PM

Earl Shannon writes: "The New York Times is reporting that Virgin America is provide a computer network on some planes and is using Linux to run them. While Internet access isn't there yet passengers can order food, text each other, and watch pay per view movies."

Submission + - Megavideo - New Contendter for YouTube (megavideo.com)

Submitted by

ilikenwf

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:51PM

ilikenwf writes: "Megavideo, by the same people who are behind Megaupload, is an alternative to YouTube that blatantly says it "Beats YouTube." There are lots of features that are very appealing, including the ability to make money and earn premium points through your videos. Besides that, the service will import all of your YouTube videos to make the changeover super easy! See the 10 Reasons page for more information. I know I am going to make the switch."

Submission + - AOL Ditches Kaspersky for McAfee (cybernetnews.com)

Submitted by jjean on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:49PM

jjean writes: Users who were skeptical about using AOL's Kaspersky-powered antivirus before will be even more weary now. AOL has teamed up with McAfee to offer a free security suite (antivirus, antispyware, and firewall) to anyone with an AOL.com email address. While the lack of fees attached to the suite may sound appealing, keep in mind that McAfee is not exactly known to be a resource-friendly application.

Submission + - Internet campaign '08 may lag the hype (cioinsight.com)

Submitted by

heels

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:47PM

heels writes: "The first real Internet campaign may be upon us, but campaigns still have a long way to go. "Nobody is sure precisely how social networks translate into votes. Getting candidates and senior staffers to buy fully into an Internet strategy can be a challenge, and some of the basic plumbing needed to integrate applications and share information across organizations is still in development...'It's still an open question whether any campaign will run a truly well-organized Internet campaign on Feb. 5,'the early primary date shared by big states." Web video is well established, but social networks and mobile tech have yet to prove themselves."

Submission + - Weekly World News Eaten by Bat Boy! 1

Submitted by

Dekortage

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:47PM

Dekortage writes: "While not exactly a primary source of technology news, the Weekly World News was always popular among engineers, programmers, and other geeks when I was in college. So there's something sad about hearing that the August 27 issue will be its last. Where else are we going to hear about FBI conspiracies, alien probes, bizarre technological experiments, and right-wing nutjobs? (I mean, besides on Slashdot, of course!)"

Submission + - Israeli researchers generate time machine model

Submitted by neuralfire on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:35PM

neuralfire writes: Scientists at the Technion University in Haifa, Israel claim they have developed a theoretical model of a time machine that, in the distant future, and with a little spacetime curvature, could enable future generations to travel into the past.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/rss/showArticle.j html?articleID=201203157&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_semiR SS

Submission + - Brad Stone Ruins a Near Perfect Blog

Submitted by mattatwork on Sunday August 05, 2007 @07:24PM

mattatwork writes: NY Times writer Brad Stone figured out the real identity of Fake Steve Jobs. With classic nick names like 'freetards' and 'beastmaster' Fake Steve captured an audience of 700,000 visitors to the site and around 50 emails a day. There is no definite plan for the future of FSJ, according to Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine who maintained the blod himself....

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