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Submission + - Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator

Submitted by GrepNut on Friday March 30, 2007 @02:40PM

GrepNut writes: CERN is reporting that the giant magnets that steer the particle beam in the new and highly anticipated Large Hadron Collider have just failed catastrophically in a stress test, apparently due to a design oversight. It doesn't help that the magnets were designed and built by CERN's US competitor Fermilab. News is still breaking, but blogs are starting here and here.

Feed Free Geek Vancouver helps the needy get nerdy (slashdot.org)

From feed by lcfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @02:12PM

Free Geek is a nonprofit society in Portland, Ore., dedicated to recycling computing equipment and distributing computers loaded with free software to organizations or individuals in need. Since its founding in February 2000, the group has seen...

Journal Journal: [Python] What's with all the semicolons? 1

Journal by dthable on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:57PM

I'm looking at the /. journal extraction script written in Python and I keep seeing lots of lines that end in semicolons. Example:

Submission + - Replace smileys with your face

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:53PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "According to Technology Review in "The New Face of Emoticons," computer scientists from U.S. and Taiwan have found a new way to personalize your messages. You just need a picture of you — preferably with a neutral expression — and their software will show your mood to your correspondent and tell them if you're happy, sad, or angry. The real innovation is that you will not have to transmit the whole image each time. Instead, your original picture will already have been stored on the recipient's device, and the desired expression will be automatically reconstructed when opening your message. Clever idea, which mixes emoticons and avatars, but will it work? Read more for additional references and pictures showing how your face will be modified to reflect your mood."

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