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Hands-on Spore 1

Submitted by Dr. Eggman on Thursday August 23 2007, @01:08AM

Dr. Eggman writes "1up.com has the exciting news, Spore is content finalized and moving into to tweak and polish phase! What's more, they were able to give a hands-on preview; the first of its kind outside of EA. Sam Kennedy was allowed to evolve his cellular creature up into the top of the ocean before finally flopping onto land. From there, he continued to evolve his creature to the point of simple communication, before his time was up."

Web users too trusting of search engine results 0

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Wednesday August 22 2007, @05:57PM

Stony Stevenson writes "An eye-tracking experiment published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication revealed that, when college student web users selected a link from Google's result pages, their decisions were strongly biased towards higher ranking links. However, this bias was found to persist even if the more highly-placed content was less relevant to the search query than entries at the bottom of the list.

This has important long-term implications for search engine results, according to the researchers, as this type of use affects future rankings. "The way that college students conduct online searches promotes a 'rich-get-richer' phenomenon where popular sites get more hits regardless of relevance," they explained."

Comment: just use solar collectors. (Score 1) 334

by Karoshi on Friday April 13 2007, @05:33AM (#18715787) Attached to: New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light

Even a home built solar collector with something like 2x2 meters will provide enough hot water for a whole family.

Long-Term Wikipedia Vandalism Exposed 313

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 06 2006, @03:39AM
from the pseudoscience-and-self-promotion dept.

Daveydweeb writes, "The accuracy of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, came into question again when a long-standing article on 'NPA personality theory' was confirmed to be a hoax. Not only had the article survived at Wikipedia for the better part of a year, but it had even been listed as a 'Good Article,' supposedly placing it in the top 0.2-0.3% of all Wikipedia articles — despite being almost entirely written by the creator of the theory himself."