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Comment Sorcerer & Koyaanisqatsi (Score 1) 893

"Sorcerer" was William Friedkin's follow up to The Exorcist and was a remake of "Wages of Fear". Soundtrack and music by Tangerine Dream - their first, certainly not their last. "Koyaanisqatsi" has no plot, no actors, no spoken words. Just a miasma of stunning images and arguably Philip Glass's finest music as the soundtrack.

Comment Re:Deluded ... (Score 3, Insightful) 376

Justice William O. Douglas had a pithy observation about this:

"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."

Comment Re:What can you do? (Score 2) 229

I am aware of an organization you may want to check out for this kind of thing:

The Tanzania Development Support Organization...
http://tdsnfp.org

I have been thinking of volunteering for a couple years now, but haven't gotten it together.
Apparently there's a need for teaching computer skills, and getting older [donated] machines
up and running in classrooms.

Unix

Submission + - Inventors of Unix, C, win prestigious Japan Prize (networkworld.com)

jbrodkin writes: The inventors of Unix and the C programming language, one of whom also created the first master-level chess-playing machine, have been awarded the prestigious Japan Prize for their work in building the Unix operating system in 1969. Ken Thompson, who is now a distinguished engineer at Google, and Dennis Ritchie, who is retired, were researchers at Bell Labs four decades ago when they "developed the Unix operating system which has significantly advanced computer software, hardware and networks over the past four decades, and facilitated the realization of the Internet," the Japan Prize Foundation said Tuesday in awarding them the 2011 prize. The pair join previous winners such as Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee. In addition to developing Unix, Thompson also played a key role in building Belle, the first chess-playing computer to achieve a master-level rating and five-time winner of the now-defunct North American Computer Chess Championship in the 1970s and 1980s. Ritchie and Thompson have also been credited with developing the C programming language, a process that occurred in conjunction with the development of Unix.
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"Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way 142

astroengine writes "Assuming you had an interstellar spaceship, how would you navigate around the galaxy? For starters, you'd probably need a map. But there's billions of stars out there — how complex would that map need to be? Actually, Samuel Arbesman, a research fellow from Harvard, has come up with a fun solution. He created the 'Milky Way Transit Authority (MWTA),' a simple transit system in the style of the iconic London Underground 'Tube Map.' (Travel Tip: Don't spend too much time loitering around the station at Carina, there's some demolition work underway.)"

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