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Submission + - Matt Groening Final Boss in Simpsons EA Game (filefront.com) 1

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Announced at E3, Mr. Groening will be the final boss in the Simpsons game. Mr. Groening commented on the game: "They did a send-up of videogames. It's a videogame about videogames; and I'm in the videogame. I'm a boss that you have to fight at the end of the game. It was really fun recording a million ways of dying, going 'UGGH, ARGGH, EUURGH!'""
The Courts

Submission + - MediaDefender denies entrapment accusations (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Ortega-Starfire
Ortega-Starfire writes: On slashdot we saw a previous mention of MediaDefender setting up a site to catch movie pirates. Arstechnica covers the response from MediaDefender, which basically states the entire thing was a mistake and was only an internal site they forgot to password protect, and that they were not using this with the **AA. On a side note, if anyone here still has a copy of the download, the Ars team has expressed an interest in looking at it! Send it to them if you can!
Science

Half-Squid, Half-Octopus Discovered Off of Hawaii 170

Posted by Zonk from the half-squid-half-octopus-all-disco-lover dept.
Otter writes "A unique creature that's been dubbed an 'octosquid' with eight arms and a squid-like mantle, was discovered off Hawaii. The creature, of a previously unknown species, was trapped in the net covering a 3,000 foot-deep intake tube for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. From the article: 'The octosquid was pulled to the surface, along with three rattail fish and half a dozen satellite jellyfish, and stayed alive for three days. According to War, the lab usually checks its filters once a month, but this time, it put a plankton net in one of the filters and checked it two weeks later. The pitch-black conditions at 3,000 feet below sea level are unfamiliar to most but riveting to scientists who have had the opportunity to submerge. The sea floor is full of loose sediment, big boulders and rocks, and a lot of mucuslike things floating in the water, which are usually specimens that died at the surface and drifted to the bottom.'"
Programming

Submission + - Are 80 columns enough? 1

Submitted by ThinkGeek
ThinkGeek writes: Dating back to the venerable DEC VT100, the 80 column terminal has served us well for over 25 years. Even now, many open source projects and common conventions require lines of code and documentation to fit on that terminal. I am not alone, judging by code I've seen in and out of the open source world, in finding that number insufficient for coding, much less more verbose writing. Given that modern graphical displays (and all popular editors) are capable of far more, is it time we came up with a new standard-sized terminal? If so, what should the new standard be?

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