squidfood - Slashdot User

+ - Best space opera earth empire 0

Submitted by squidfood on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @07:59PM

squidfood writes "Best space opera empire
United Federation of Planets
The Foundation
Known Space
The Culture
American/Chinese Alliance
Buck Godot's humanspace

Cowboy Neil's Black Helicopters"

+ - Big words make your work look dumber 1

Submitted by squidfood on Thursday April 03, 2008 @03:50PM

squidfood writes ""A majority of undergraduates admit to deliberately increasing the complexity of their vocabulary so as to give the impression of intelligence." writes Daniel Oppenheimer in this fascinating experiment. Experiment 3 consisted on grabbing dissertation abstracts and replacing words by their shortest synonym in the thesaurus. The simplified abstracts were perceived as written by more intelligent people and got higher rating. So now you know, no fancy editing required. Just run a thesaurus check and replace for shorter words. You'll sound smarter and get higher ratings..."

+ - Amazon to offer DRM-free music downloads

Submitted by squidfood on Thursday May 17, 2007 @05:28AM

squidfood writes "The Guardian is announcing that Amazon.com will begin offering music downloads DRM-free in MP3 format, including the EMI catalog, according to their press release. I'm liking Bezos a little more than Jobs today... a welcome competition- bringing DRM-free entry with such substantial clout and infrastructure."