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@Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday 121

Posted by Soulskill from the for-the-birds dept.
CWmike writes "In another milestone, the White House will hold its first Twitter town hall forum on Wednesday. President Barack Obama, known for using technology and Web 2.0 tools since his presidential campaign, will answer Twitter users' questions (submit them here) in a live webcast about the U.S. economy and jobs at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. Twitter co-founder and Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey will moderate a conversation between Obama and Twitterers across the country. Twitter users can submit questions using the hashtag #AskObama. Some questions will be taken up in advance and others will be grabbed real-time during the event, Twitter said. In a blog post, Twitter executives said a conversation about the U.S. economy will fit right in with regular Twitter activity."
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Ask Slashdot: Advice On a DIY Neutron Beam? 117

Posted by Soulskill from the preferably-something-tsunami-proof dept.
Max Littlemore writes "I have been breeding at home using lots of old smoke detectors with a view toward generating my own and getting off the grid. The only thing stopping me is a reliable neutron beam. Given that all the equipment I'm using is re-purposed kitchen equipment, concerns about safety mean I'm to build a uranium reactor to supply neutrons to the thorium one. So I'm putting the question out there: do any Slashdotters know of a way to make a powerful neutron beam out of things I might find around the house?" It would be helpful to include images and diagrams of your own personal neutron beam .
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Genetically Altering Trees To Sequester More Carbon 279

Posted by Soulskill from the increasing-the-world's-suv-capacity dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year and so help ameliorate global warming, according to estimates published in the October issue of BioScience. The study, by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, outlines a variety of strategies (PDF) for augmenting the processes that plants use to sequester carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into long-lived forms of carbon, first in vegetation and ultimately in soil."
Image

Websites That Don't Need to Be Made Anymore 161

Posted by samzenpus from the do-not-want dept.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is a finite number of social networking or selling websites that the world needs. Here is a collection of the eight kinds of websites that absolutely don't need to be made anymore. I'd add dating sites and anybody who uses pop-up ads myself, but I think that would eliminate half the Web.

Comment Copyrighted "works" now banned from my life. (Score 1) 705

by Xanavi (#30334240) Attached to: Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy
This is like the day I banned anyone under 21 from my apartment. Your liabilities, assorted legal conditions, and risks involved can gtfo of my life. I wonder if I can rob a bank by throwing in a "twilight grenade", some freakish multifaceted ball that projects the movie into the camera fields, thereby making taping illegal and inadmissible in court.

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