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Comment Re:Ah, the wonderful, screaming world of retail. (Score 0, Offtopic) 445

by me24 on Thursday May 22, 2008 @08:20PM (#23513020) Attached to: Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube

Fear the power of Twitter users. I saw a rather scary keynote at Microsoft's REMIX conf. this week - with a Twitter using describing the ability of Twitterer's to pool their collective twitterings to bring bad PR for companies/people they don't like. The speaker called it "Instant Karma". Like forums, but faster.

The Secret History of Star Wars 569

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 22, 2008 @12:48AM from the george-shot-first dept.

lennier writes "How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good? Did he really have a masterplan for six, nine, or even twelve episodes, and why did the official Lucasfilm position keep changing? And just how big an influence were the films of Akira Kurosawa on the whole saga? Michael Kaminski's The Secret History of Star Wars, Third Edition is a free, thoroughly unauthorized, e-book that brings together a huge amount of literary detective work to sort fact from legend and reveal how the story really evolved. Download it or have your nerd credentials revoked."

Dutch Voting Machines De-Certified 152

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 16, 2008 @03:01PM from the going-the-wrong-way dept.

Peer writes "The Dutch government has officially decided that it will no longer use voting machines (Babel Fish Translation) for elections. So it's pencil and paper from now on. Activists have been campaigning against the use of voting machines for some time."

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