For me, the quality of slashdot has been declining, for years really. It still presents a lot of great stuff, but more and more I find myself annoyed by

• non-tech articles
• articles that no one here cares about but that get posted over and over anyway because someone at slashdot has a vested interest (bitcoin)
• politics being inserted into articles
• poorly reviewed articles that either purposefully sensationalize the headline or get the summary completely wrong
• and now infomercials

I really enjoy slashdot because there are a lot of intelligent, well-spoken people here, but I'm so close to being done with it. Makes me a little sad.

Just to be clear, the original plant that started the cloning process was not 200,000 years old. According to TFA it was between 12,000 and 200,000.

Honestly /., if you are going to use questionable scientific articles from the Telegraph, can you at least not make it more sensationalist by purposefully misquoting the age of the plant?

I developed Audiotorium Notes a couple of years ago for my niece who was just starting college. Since then it has been featured by Apple a number of times in their back-to-school apps lineup. Note taking + audio recording + dropbox syncing goodness. http://itunes.com/apps/audiotorium