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Google Makes Apps Script Available To All 61

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 14, 2010 @10:49AM from the come-one-come-all dept.

theodp writes "Formerly only available to Apps Users, Google has made Apps Script available to everyone (sample script), including you Google Docs low-lifers. Apps Script lets you automate actions across spreadsheets, sites, calendars, and other Google services. No spamming, kids!"

Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic 807

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @02:01AM from the so-many-notes-mister-mozart dept.

DJRumpy writes "The Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg won fame and fans by arguing that many of the alarms sounded by environmental activists and scientists — that species are going extinct at a dangerous rate, that forests are disappearing, that climate change could be catastrophic — are bogus. A big reason Lomborg was taken seriously is that both of his books, The Skeptical Environmentalist (in 2001) and Cool It (in 2007), have extensive references, giving a seemingly authoritative source for every one of his controversial assertions. So in a display of altruistic masochism that we should all be grateful for (just as we're grateful that some people are willing to be dairy farmers), author Howard Friel has checked every single citation in Cool It. The result is The Lomborg Deception, which is being published by Yale University Press next month. It reveals that Lomborg's work is 'a mirage,' writes biologist Thomas Lovejoy in the foreword. '[I]t is a house of cards. Friel has used real scholarship to reveal the flimsy nature' of Lomborg's work."

xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 22, 2010 @12:39PM from the a-different-breed dept.

xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.

The Mathletes and the Miley Photoshop 555

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 06, 2009 @11:25AM from the look-what-i-can-do dept.

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton's essay this week is about "A Tennessee man is arrested for possessing a picture of Miley Cyrus's face superimposed on a nude woman's body. In a survey that I posted on the Web, a majority of respondents said the man violated the law -- except for respondents who say they were good at math in school, who as a group answered the survey differently from everyone else." Continue on to see how.

Comment The game that most affected me was on the BBC B (Score 2, Interesting) 1557

by Crus57 on Monday May 05, 2003 @12:38AM (#5878838) Attached to: What Games Have Actually Affected You?

Exile on the BBC B affected me the most. Scary AI, stunning graphics and impressively realistic physics. At the time it wowed and scared me trying to avoid the billion different ways to die, but now it gives inspiration when coding. Afterall, if they could do *that* in just 32k...

Oh and Elite on the B too, although I think the best I got to was Dangerous.

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