GreenWorld Contest
Check out the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival?s GreenWorld Contest for online video shorts. They're looking for green-themed topics from fiction, suspense, drama and romantic comedy to investigative reports or thoughtful essays to animation and experimental expression ? anything goes! Deadline: April 22 Prize: $1,000 and round- ... (Read on Source)
Sun calls for merger of ODF and Chinese office format
The best thing about standards is that there are so many from which to choose. As Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format and ISO/OASIS's OpenDocument Format (ODF) battle for industry supremacy, a third contender has emerged from China.
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MY LLAMA COULD BEAT UP YOUR LLAMA
- FROM THE ARCHIVE - Inspired by: Cavalcanti, S.M.C. and Knowlton F.F., 1998. Evaluation of physical and behavioral traits of llamas associated with aggressiveness toward sheep-threatening canids. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 61(2): 143-158 Franklin, W.L. and Powell, K., 1993. Guard llamas. Iowa State University?University Extension ... (Read on Source)
Prototype Moon Rovers Tested in the Arctic
The question of whether humans or robots should explore space has been decided by NASA: it'll be both. In the future, NASA anticipates that humans will work with robotic explorers to gather and analyze data more efficiently than either could do alone. This will be the eventual scenario when humans set foot on the Moon [...] (Read on Source)
VIDEO S&WFF: Dream People of the Amazon
In the early 1990s the Amazonian Achuar tribe of southeastern Ecuador learned about the outside world?s desire for the oil under their territory. The elders of the tribe had been having similar, telling dreams and the interpretation was stunning: if the Achuar people were to defend themselves and the land from oil operations, they would need ... (Read on Source)
Linux Foundation to begin third annual desktop Linux survey
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, will announce its third annual desktop Linux survey on Oct. 17. This survey is not designed to measure how popular the Linux desktop is or how popular one desktop distribution is over another, although it will also measure some of that kind of information. What the survey is really designed to do is to pinpoint areas of user need in order to focus development efforts and accelerate the global adoption of Linux desktops and clients.
Albert Einstein College Wins $1.5M ENCODE Grant to Study Epigenetics
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Dwight Schrute gets a 'Second Life,' still needs a first one
Two characters in Thursday night's episode of 'The Office' banter about the Linden Labs virtual world.
From wireless pioneer, memories of a milestone cell phone call
Marty Cooper, who placed what is widely believed to have been the first public call from a mobile cellular phone, checks in on the 35th anniversary of that occasion.
Brownback: China Orders Hotels to Spy on Olympic Guests
Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of "severe retaliation" if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday.
Manufacturing activity flat in July: ISM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. factory activity held up to stand unchanged in July from June, managing to defy forecasts of a contraction and showing inflation pressures moderating, according to a report released on Friday.
USB Memory Sticks: How They Are Useful for Students and Teachers
High school and college students often work on different computers daily to complete assignments. And high school teachers and college professors are demanding more and more professional presentations...
Russia recognizes breakaway Georgian regions
Russia formally recognized the breakaway Georgian territories at the heart of its war with Georgia on Tuesday, drawing immediate ...
Metabolife Case Dismissed For Failure To File Proof Of Claim
NEW YORK - Ephedra multidistrict litigation Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Nov. 6 granted a motion to dismiss a personal injury case against Metabolife International Inc. because the plaintiff failed to file a proof of claim in the bankruptcy proceedings (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 M.D. 1598 [JSR]; David H. Fox v. M.I.I. Liquidation, et al., No. 06-cv-6609). Full story on lexis.com
Drinking Water: The Need For Constant Innovation
Most western countries' drinking water is of excellent quality, but there is no room for complacency. The challenges are growing: undesirable contaminants are found in rivers, lakes and groundwater. Climate change is also warming waterbodies, with implications for water quality, and in developing countries more and more people are reliant on groundwater containing natural contaminants. In industrialized countries water utilities are aging and need to be renewed.
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At What Price Will Oracle Start Sniffing Around Red Hat Again?
The Open Road: "At what point -- or, rather, at what price -- does Oracle give up its Quixotic Unbreakable Linux quest and simply buy the real thing?"
Federal Charges Filed Against Alleged Cyber Peeping Tom
A college student who allegedly rigged a woman's laptop to snap nude photos through her webcam faces federal charges this week, and tops Threat Level's roundup of cybercrime in the federal courts. Wired.com (Read on Source)
MySpace gives little guys online ad muscle (AFP)
AFP - MySpace on Monday unleashed a tool to let small operators with tight budgets easily target online advertising to preferred demographics on the world's leading social networking website.
Strong 6.2 earthquake rocks Papua New Guineau
AFP - A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guineau on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or tsunami. (Read on Source)
Pats-Jets Grudge Match for First Place This Time - Sports Network
 Sports-Odds.com | Pats-Jets Grudge Match for First Place This Time Sports Network - (Sports Network) - The residue of the Spygate controversy and the simmering bad blood between head coaches Bill Belichick and Eric Mangini will have to take a back seat on Thursday night. You make the call: Does bad weather help the Jets against the Pats ... It may be now or never for Favre, Jets in Week 11 rematch with Pats |
SEW Experts: Offline and Online Conversions Tracking: Increase Your ROI
The accountability of online marketing is only as good as the analytics an advertiser employs. In today's vertical search column, " Offline and Online Conversions Tracking: Increase Your ROI ," local search expert Gregg Stewart explains that tracking conversions -- both online and offline -- can be tricky, but it is an important part of any ... (Read on Source)
Chief® Introduces World's Thinnest Universal Tilt Wall Mount
The latest addition to the Thinstall™ Mount Series is Chief's LTTU™ Universal Tilt Wall Mount that collapses to only 0.75'' deep. (PRWeb Nov 18, 2008)
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China Stepping Up to Halt Internet WIldlife Trade
Getty Images While the Internet does a lot for improving the environment ? from providing ways to reduce energy, reduce consumption of physical goods, telecommuting capabilities and so on ? it also creates the ability to do incredible harm to ecosystems. With the ability to offer ways to quickly, conveniently and anonymously trade exotic ... (Read on Source)
Acquisition Dance Between Facebook And Twitter Over For Now?
It's not the first time we've heard rumors about Facebook looking to acquire Twitter or about an impending deal breaking down. But this time, Kara Swisher over at BoomTown offers a bit of insight about the deal size. According to Kara (and her sources), Facebook was offering $500 million of its stock at the infamous (and ridiculous) $15 billion ... (Read on Source)
The Online Search Party
. This is a bit of an oddity. Way back in April, Microsoft launched a thing called 'SearchTogether' which is a way that people can collaborate using a resource that looks remarkably like MSN Messenger (which already has a shared... (Read on Source)
Wikis with students: what I've learned about managing files and folders
It's funny but even though I work with data on a regular basis, I can't always predict the best way to manage data until I have my own data to manage. My classroom wiki site is no exception. Now, that I've been seriously using a wiki with my class, I've found that I should have set a few things up a bit differently. Technorati Tags: 'teaching , ... (Read on Source)
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