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Submission + - Goodbye, freshmeat, we're going to miss you (devx.com)

Submitted by Roblimo
Roblimo writes: Geek.net, the parent company of SourceForge.net, Slashdot.org, ThinkGeek.com, Geek.com, freshmeat.net, and ohloh.net, has told employees that it will be closing freshmeat.net and ohloh.net. This information has not yet been released to the public, but we've heard it from more than one Geek.net employee. The company also reportedly laid off 25% of its staff this week. After the story was posted at devx.com, a Geek.net Vice President emailed this response to its author: 'If you're asking whether or not the sites are for sale, the answer is no. However, we are looking to create better ways for our community to interact with the information on these sites, likely through SourceForge.'

Submission + - New Futurama Clip & Conversation with Billy We (discovermagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Robot-human intermarriage. The Harlem Globetrotters performing mathematical wizardry. Hearing, “Good news, everyone!” when bad news is on the way. It means one thing: Futurama is back. The interstellar travels of the Planet Express crew—canceled by Fox in 2003 but kept alive by syndication, straight-to-DVD movies, and the unstoppable force of geek fandom—return with 26 fresh episodes on Comedy Central, starting with a full hour on June 24 at 10PM eastern. Here’s our conversation with voice actor Billy West. The voice behind Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, and Zapp Brannigan on Futurama (not to mention Stimpy on Ren & Stimpy and Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in Space Jam) talks of the origin of the professor’s vocabulary, why Richard Nixon is the President of 31st century Earth, and whether it’s weird to talk to yourself so much.
Microsoft

Submission + - Infoworld author likens MS/Linux to truck/oxen (infoworld.com) 1

Submitted by EStrat
EStrat writes: A judge in Quebec ruled that the government was required under an existing law to investigate alternatives to a Windows/Office upgrade. The article's author had this to say. "For example, if the public works department needed to upgrade its pickup trucks, should it look at only new pickup trucks from different vehicle makers — or extend the RFP for consideration of installing a small railroad for hauling items via steam engine? Perhaps look at installing waterways and boats, à la Venice? There's also the option of investing in horses or oxen and wagons." Though he admits to the hyperbole, is this going a bit far as a metaphor for replacing Microsoft software with open source??
Censorship

Submission + - China Explains Internet Situation in Whitepaper (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: In a new whitepaper, China has declared the Internet to be 'the crystallization of human wisdom' and officially issued what appears to be a a defense of its policies on web censorship while at the same time making contradicting statements like "Chinese citizens fully enjoy freedom of speech on the Internet" and (in the same paper) "Laws and regulations clearly prohibit the spread of information that contains content subverting state power, undermining national unity [or] infringing upon national honour and interests." The paper also claims some interesting — if not humorous — superlatives like "China is one of the countries suffering most from hacking." On the positive side, this thirty one page document might be offered as an operating guide for businesses like Google looking to understand exactly what the law is surrounding the Internet in China. Clearly contradictions arise when one reads this text but it's a rare glimpse of transparency in China's regulations.

Submission + - Visual VFX guru behind 2001 and Alien insists fake (shadowlocked.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In an interview, visual effects master Brian Johnson, who brought us the screen magic of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and Space:1999 insists that you need only check out one shot of NASA's footage to establish that the moon landing could not have been faked: "You only have to look at where the foot is hitting the dust and the dust comes off. There's no way on God's Earth that could be done on Earth under any circumstances"

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