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Dance Dance Revolution remix teaches fundamentals of genetics (Jan 31 2006 07:58 GMT) - Cory Doctorow: Matt Haughey visited San Diego's Scripps aquarium and documented their remix of the popular video/dance game Dance Dance Revolution: In a wing devoted to explaining gene expression they had some stuff about DNA and the coolest thing was this video game that taught you about building blocks of life, then proceeded to a real DDR game where you have to step to the DNA parts being shown on screen. The best part was when one of the 20 amino acids were built, it would say the name. So you'd see A T T G C and so on... |
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Duck, Duck ... (Jan 31 2006 07:52 GMT) - Goose! I wasnt sure if this had enough DOF to qualify for the contest. Is there a limit on # of entries? Maybe I will take some photos tomorrow for the contest. |
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Thanks IMAX (Jan 31 2006 07:48 GMT) - IMAX has apparently made a stunning film about the Mars rover, and you might think that with all the people around SoCal who worked on the project or know people who did it might get released here first. Think again: the closest showing of Roving Mars is in the Bay... |
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So THAT'S where it went... (Jan 31 2006 07:45 GMT) - Unclaimed Baggage Center is where lost luggage goes to die...and then live again. This huge warehouse buys the stuff we leave behind by the truckload, unpacks it, and then sells it to the public in an ongoing junk sale. Items range from the mundane to the merely puzzling to the somewhat disturbing (this was found ON AN AIRPLANE, for Chrissakes.) The online store cannot compare to shopping there in person. |
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Vince Neil goes mad? (Jan 31 2006 07:44 GMT) - Vince Neil was described as "puffy" as he tried to perform the other night at a South Beach benefit hosted by uber-lawyer Roy Black - defender of Rush Limbaugh and artist Peter Max - and his wife, Lea, for Baypoint... |
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Who Knew? (Jan 31 2006 07:41 GMT) - Who Knew? Teams entering the Super Bowl with the better season record won 24 times and lost eight times. Teams have entered with identical records seven times. (Seattle, at 13-3, has the better record in this year's Super Bowl).... |
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Black sf writers and white sf (Jan 31 2006 07:41 GMT) - Cory Doctorow: My friend Pam Noles has written an wonderful essay for The Infinite Matrix about the way that black people have been left out of science fiction. Science fiction characters -- and writers -- are overwhelmingly white (this is likely self-reinforcing; white writers write white characters and attract white readers, some of whom grow up to be white writers, and it begins anew), and to make matters worse, the occasional black cast of characters, like those in LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea books, are magically changed into white people when they're adapted for the big screen. Pam's a talented science fiction writer in her own right, and her discussion of her journey from being a black kid watching an all-white science fiction universe on her TV, to discovering Earthsea, to her career as a writer, to the betrayal she felt at the adaptation of Earthsea is moving and eloquent. |
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Halle Berry's man is popular with ladies (Jan 31 2006 07:40 GMT) - The women of South Beach have two words for Halle Berry: Watch out! Berry's new man, Versace model Gabriel Aubry, is so popular with the opposite sex, said our source, "he makes [Berry's ex] Eric Benet look tame." Benet is... |
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Nicole Kidman star request (Jan 31 2006 07:39 GMT) - Big movie stars usually get what they want - but some requests simply can't be satisfied. Take Nicole Kidman. The "Bewitched" star was shopping in Henri Bendel on Fifth Avenue with a friend last week when they came upon the... |
freshmeat.net announcements (Global)
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System Configuration Collector 1.6.37 (Stable branch) (Jan 31 2006 07:37 GMT) - System Configuration Collector (SCC) is yet another configuration collector. It consists of a client and a server part. The client collects configuration data in a structured snapshot, compares the new snapshot with the previous one, and adds differences to a logbook. Then the snapshot and the logbook are converted to HTML for local inspection. Optionally, the data can be sent to a system running the server software. |
Download5000.com New Shareware Freeware Additions
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GOGO Photo To Movie Converter (Jan 31 2006 07:35 GMT) - by Gogowishs Software photo movie,image video, avi, divx, xvid, mpeg, wmv, rmvb, swf, effect, transition. Page Views: 4 Downloads: 0 |
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Chinese New Year gala (Jan 31 2006 07:35 GMT) - At the Chinese New Year gala Richard Turley threw for Yue-Sai Kan at P.M. lounge, the dashing Earl of Albemarle arrived with his lifelong friend, grande dame writer Heather Cohane. The earl, an industrial designer usually introduced as Rufus, was... |
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SLAX 5.0.7b (Default branch) (Jan 31 2006 07:35 GMT) - SLAX is a 180 MB Linux live CD. Version 5 and later has a Webconfig feature that allows you to save your SLAX configuration in a Web-based online repository and restore it on request. This means that settings and changes made while using the distribution don't have to be saved to an external medium such as a floppy disk. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: |
Usability tagged news
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Best Joel Quote Evar (Jan 31 2006 07:34 GMT) - "Every time I read Jakob Nielsen," I wrote in 2000, "I get this feeling that he really doesn't appreciate that usability is not the most important thing on earth. Sure, usability is important (I wrote a whole book about it). ... |
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Wiz Solitaire 1.6 (Default branch) (Jan 31 2006 07:34 GMT) - Wiz Solitaire is a collection of card games with the ability to use beautiful custom decks. It supports different deck formats, allowing you to choose between thousands of available card sets. You can also easily create your own decks with the included Deck Editor. It includes more than 20 games including Klondike, Free Cell, Spider, Pyramid, Eagle Wing, Baker's Dozen, Seahaven, Rouge et Noir, Scorpion, La Belle Lucie, Golf, and Yukon. License: |
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DaiFujita (Jan 31 2006 07:30 GMT) - Name: Dai Fujita Email: fujita-0g30@jp. nomuraSTOPSPAM. com Company Name: |
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Creationist humorists. (Jan 31 2006 07:28 GMT) - Creationist humorists. Funny, but probably not in the way they intended. Dan Nuckols is no Jack Chick, but he tries. These cartoonists have a beef with public education, Darwin (another), skepticism , 9/11, fat kids, non-existant cards, cryptozoology, and astronomers. |
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