46977969 comment Comment also Boris Strugatsky, last year (Score 1) 83 by farangfrog on Thursday May 30, 2013 @12:56PM (#43862429) Attached to: Writer Jack Vance Dead At 96 Another recently disappeared non-English speaking sci-fi classic authors. His brother Arkady had passed away in 1991.
45805901 comment Comment not on dialup, so must be in space? (Score 1) 558 by farangfrog on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @10:49AM (#43536559) Attached to: Average latency to Slashdot.org? 280 ms. From Central Africa.
9840332 story 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.
2503951 comment Comment Re:Oldest (Score 5, Informative) 392 by farangfrog on Wednesday February 01, 2006 @02:01AM (#14613823) Attached to: Remains of First African Slaves Found There is a record of an African slave in Hispaniola as early as 1502, brought by the Sevillian trader Juan de Córdoba.