rookworm - Slashdot User

Comment chimpburger (Score 1) 313

by rookworm on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @07:53PM (#27512385) Attached to: Chimpanzees Exchange Meat For Sex

MMM.... I love chimp meat.... definitely fuck someone for that!

Comment Math Contests (Score 0) 630

by rookworm on Sunday February 08, 2009 @10:18PM (#26779161) Attached to: Mathematics Reading List For High School Students?

Get them doing and preparing for math contests and olympiads. There is a very strong culture worldwide around math contests. And IMHO, problem solving is a much better way to get a grip on what math is like than passive reading could be.

Comment Re:Gotta hand it to the article's author (Score 1) 77

by rookworm on Saturday November 22, 2008 @07:52PM (#25861245) Attached to: Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition

Pragmatic Theory -- two French-Canadian guys in Montreal

Residents of the province of Quebec in Canada are ineligible to participate.

looks like these guys are SOL :(

Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net 569

Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 15, 2008 @05:51PM from the inconvenient-truth dept.

Stephan Schulz writes "A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service. Wikimedia Germany displays a page explaining the situation, and has announced that it will file an objection to get the injunction lifted. The German Wikipedia has more than 800,000 pages, and is hosted, like all Wikimedia projects, by the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, and hence beyond the effective reach of at least German politicians and judges."

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