Thank you very much for the nice quote from Thomas Jefferson. Just google it and it's probably "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson_7.html

Pick a copy of Presentationzen by Garr and study about it. Also read some presentations about technical topic on TED to learn how people present them

If you have an android tablet, would recommend you give RepliGo Reader a look.

1kg refers to a unit of mass, not weight. In everyday conversation it could be fine, but not a slashdot article on physics

Surely. He is not stupid enough to hold it with the "left" way

As Bill has left for long time and Ballmer is becoming so "important" in the /., why don't we change the icon about MS stories with Ballmer?

I totally agree with what you are saying. When students are caught taking drug, the president of the university has to come and apologize in front of the press; when a guy committed in mass killing, his parents has to deal with this also.

In Gentoo it is already in the official portage (and marked stable), so that you won't need a third party overlay.