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Submission + - The Woz + Kathy Griffin = Hitched (bestweekever.tv)

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gr8gatzby
gr8gatzby writes: "Well we can probably guess their kids names: Clarus for the boy and Lisa for the girl. It appears that Kathy Griffin has a thing for geeks, as her last hubby(infamous for laundering money from her) was as well.

From The Best Week Ever: "...things are looking up for Kath. She's found a new man. A successful man. Sadly, it's not her absolutely adorable assistant Tom (what chemistry those kids have!), rather... a much bigger, richer man. Co-founder of Apple Computers Steve Wozniak to be exact. The two met after Steve saw Kathy perform. Now, we know Steve might not be the handsomest man around, but fans of Kathy know that looks really aren't that important to her. And looks aside... could you really ask for a better catch than the co-founder of Apple F**king Computers? Wethinks not. And, as a side note, from what we've seen on her reality show, Kathy is an Apple girl through and through... which is adorable!"

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/08/17/off-the-mark et-kathy-griffin-finds-a-new-man/"
NASA

Submission + - Gunman and Hostage killed at Johnson Space Center

Submitted by coaxial
coaxial writes: CNN among others are reporting the end of a hostage standoff at Building 44 of Johnson Space Center. The unidentified gunman took two hostages, and after a standoff with police on the second floor of the building apparently shot both of the hostages and himself. One of the hostages died at the scene and the other was rushed to a nearby hospital.

No doubt this one of several copycat incidents we can expect in the coming weeks.
The Internet

Submission + - Porn is now less popular on the Internet

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Ant
Ant writes: "Digg shares a short Economist.com story about how in America, the proportion of site visits that are pornographic is falling and people are flocking to sites categorized "net communities and chat" — chiefly social-networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook. Traffic to such sites is poised to overtake traffic to sex sites in America any day now..."
Links

Submission + - Clouded Leopard Declared new Species

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Scientists have discovered that the clouded leopard found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra is an entirely new species of cat. The secretive rainforest animal was originally thought to be the same species as the one found in mainland Southeast Asia. Read More"
Slashdot.org

Submission + - Flash put to good use. User created content.

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An anonymous reader writes: We're finally seeing Flash — now in its 9th version — being put to some good use. Meta driven it becomes what it promised years ago. This A List A Part article http://alistapart.com/articles/semanticflash shows one aspect of it, enabling Joe User and his gardener too, to make their sites W2.0 savvy. I seriously like the idea behind http://www.purposegames.com/ where users upload images to create their own knowledge games with a pretty simple flash module. All in all a good time for us who stand with one leg in the designer arena, and the other on the developer scene.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Novell humor: Linux video shot at "Get a Mac&#

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "This is great. Novell takes on the Get a Mac ads with a Linux video ad of its own. Here you'll see the usual suspects, PC and Mac kind of trading insults but they are interrupted by a pretty woman — Linux is her name and their destruction is her game. Or something like that. In addition here's a bonus Get a Mac ad that's a pretty funny shot at Microsoft's Vista security. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1272 3"
KDE

Journal Journal: KDE 4.0 Release Schedule Finalised

Journal by Joe Snipe

The KDE Community and the release team have put together a release plan for the long anticipated version 4.0, which is planned to be released in October 2007. KDE 4.0 will be a major milestone for the Free Desktop, as it offers a new foundation and set of frameworks that will shape the desktop user experience for years to come. Users will benefit from improved speed through Qt 4, integration of hardware through Solid, multimedia performance via Phonon, usability enhancements by close collabor
Media

Submission + - Scientists Question Global Temperature

Submitted by Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval writes: Global temperature, a widely cited measure of global warming, is being challenged by Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from University of Guelph, Canada. According to http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/07031 5101129.htm, the professors challenge the metric as

thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility
I've also noticed that the wikipedia has no free standing, detailed definition or justification of the global temperature metric. Given that this is such a hot topic, I wondered if Slashdotters could elaborate on the physical basis for relating this particular metric to global warming.
Windows

UK Schools At Risk of Microsoft Lock-In 162

Posted by kdawson from the apple-for-the-teacher dept.
Robert writes "UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's academic licensing programs face the significant potential of being locked in to the company's software, according to an interim review by Becta, the UK government agency responsible for technology in education. The report also states that most establishments surveyed do not believe that Microsoft's licensing agreements provide value for money." In a separate report, Becta offered the opinion that schools should avoid Vista for at least another year, since neither Vista nor Office 2007 offers any compelling reasons for schools to upgrade.

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