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Presidential Youth Debate Answers and Details Now Online 74

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 30, 2008 @06:43PM from the sometimes-you-have-to-take-the-bad-with-the-bad dept.

Last month, Slashdot readers contributed their own inquiries to the pool of questions for the Walden University Presidential Youth Debate. Two of those questions made the cut, and you can watch either the individual video responses to each of the questions presented to John McCain and Barack Obama (by scrolling down the just-linked debate home page), or the whole debate straight through. For something meatier, if you are weary of predictably slippery campaign-style answers, Ethan Rowe of End Point has a very interesting blog post about the technology background of the debate.

XKCD Invited To New Yorker "Cartoon-Off" 231

Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 18, 2008 @02:35PM from the no-raptors dept.

UnknowingFool writes "Farley Katz, who draws for New Yorker magazine, ran into xkcd.com's Randall Munroe in a grocery store. He challenged Munroe to a cartoon-off — each cartoonist to produce drawings about the Internet as envisioned by the elderly, String Theory, 1999, and one's favorite animal eating one's favorite food. In the ensuing short interview, Munroe describes XKCD as 'a webcomic about stick figures who do math, play with staple guns, mess around on the Internet, and have lots of sex. It's about three-fourths autobiographical.'"

Fossett's Plane Found 356

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 02, 2008 @02:54PM from the last-word dept.

otter42 writes "Sadly, it looks as if all those crazies claiming Steve Fossett was still alive were wrong after all. The NY Times has the confirmation that wreckage of Fossett's Bellanca Citabria was found. Now it's up to the NTSB to tell us why this happened, although, statistically, dollars to donuts it was engine/fuel-related."

Comment Re:Best Way to an A (Score 1) 284

by Trimen1000 on Tuesday October 03, 2006 @04:36AM (#16288953) Attached to: Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent?

All my essays through high school consisted of the teacher reading the essay making comments through out, then picking what grade he thinks you deserve according to how good he thought it was. He would grade according to the essay's structure (from paragraphs down to the clauses) and how clear and valid your thoughts were(for the most part, some other stuff like his general feeling about the paper with no specific reasons took and gave a few points here and there). So you couldn't just go and write what would get you points...

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