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Is Your Forum Boring?

The code has been put in place, the topics carefully thought out and the first posts carefully written. So why isn’t your forum getting more action from your traffic? At some point, it’s a problem every site creator must face and a question that must be answered: is your forum boring?

HP Releases Hackable ARM-Based Calculator

mikeselectricstuff writes "HP's 20b business consultant calculator isn't the sort of thing that would normally interest the average Slashdotter, but HP has released a Devkit for it, including schematics and source for a sample application, and they appear to be actively encouraging people to re-purpose it. Maybe the engineers thought a business calculator was just too boring for their hardware? The calculator is based on an Atmel ARM chip, and it has a bootloader and JTAG interface to allow user applications to be written and downloaded, turning a boring calculator into anything you can do within the constraints of the hardware."

Boring old science course? DU students, think again

Plunging cut-off marks, vacant seats...Waking up to warning signals that students may be losing interest in science courses, Delhi University (DU) is planning to update the syllabus and become more tech savvy.

Boring old science course? DU students, think again

Plunging cut-off marks, vacant seats...Waking up to warning signals that students may be losing interest in science courses, Delhi University (DU) is planning to update the syllabus and become more tech savvy.

Play Calls Playstation Home Boring

The magazine had summer access to Sony's PlayStation Home virtual world, but found the experience less than thrilling.

Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet

Sugar-frosting isn’t just for livening up boring bran flakes; it can also preserve important therapeutic proteins. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a fast, inexpensive and effective method for evaluating the sugars pharmaceutical companies use to stabilize protein-drugs for storage at room temperature. The group presented their findings at the 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition.

Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet

Sugar-frosting isn’t just for livening up boring bran flakes; it can also preserve important therapeutic proteins. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a fast, inexpensive and effective method for evaluating the sugars pharmaceutical companies use to stabilize protein-drugs for storage at room temperature. The group presented their findings* at the 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition.

Wielding Microbe Against Microbe, Beetle Defends Its Food Source

As the southern pine beetle moves through the forest boring tunnels inside the bark of trees, it brings with it both a helper and a competitor. The helper is a fungus that the insect plants inside the tunnels as food for its young. But also riding along is a tiny, hitchhiking mite, which likewise carries a fungus for feeding its own larvae.

Top Indie Games You Wouldn't Mind Paying For

Alan Skorkin writes "If you are sick of the boring and overpriced commercial games, then have a look at this list. These are some of the best indie games out there — innovative, immersive, great gameplay and very reasonably priced (some are even free). You would never feel cheated after buying and playing these games. In fact, you would feel like you got the better end of the deal, and that is a lot more than can be said for the vast majority of commercial games out there."

Wielding Microbe Against Microbe, Beetle Defends its Food Source

As the southern pine beetle moves through the forest boring tunnels inside the bark of trees, it brings with it both a helper and a competitor. The helper is a fungus that the insect plants inside the tunnels as food for its young. But also riding along is a tiny, hitchhiking mite, which likewise, carries a fungus for feeding its own larvae. Full Story

Painting a picture of the modern politician

Last Saturday I pointed out that British Prime Minister Gordon ‘Boring’ Brown’s excellent speech at the Labour Party Conference has plenty of lessons for Uganda’s politicians. What I didn’t say was that in matters of this nature– a politician and party under pressure, bad poll ratings and decent possibility of losing the next election– the speaker has little or nothing to do with the speech.

Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet

(Nanowerk News) Sugar-frosting isn’t just for livening up boring bran flakes; it can also preserve important therapeutic proteins. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a fast, inexpensive and effective method for evaluating the sugars pharmaceutical companies use to stabilize protein-drugs for storage at room temperature. The group presented their findings* at the 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition.

Waterproof MP3 players on test

Man has gone to great lengths to make exercise less mind-numbingly boring. Visitors to gyms have it pretty good – TV screens show music channels, while rowers and runners can compete in virtual races via built-in computers. And outdoors, joggers have the ubiquitous iPod.

Wave machines: waterproof MP3 players on test

Man has gone to great lengths to make exercise less mind-numbingly boring. Visitors to gyms have it pretty good – TV screens show music channels, while rowers and runners can compete in virtual races via built-in computers. And outdoors, joggers have the ubiquitous iPod.

New Mexico History Museum Grand Opening, Memorial Day Weekend 2009

SANTA FE, N.M., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- If you think history is boring, the New Mexico History Museum, opening in historic downtown Santa Fe on Memorial Day Weekend 2009, will have you shelving that notion right alongside the dust-covered history textbooks banished to the attic. On Sunday, May 24, 2009, the 96,000-square-foot, world-class cultural institution will open its doors to the public to unveil a state-of-the-art, immersive interactive exhibition set to cast new light on how history can be learned, and redefine the modern history museum.

New Mexico History Museum Grand Opening, Memorial Day Weekend 2009

SANTA FE, N.M., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- If you think history is boring, the New Mexico History Museum, opening in historic downtown Santa Fe on Memorial Day Weekend 2009, will have you shelving that notion right alongside the dust-covered history textbooks banished to the attic. On Sunday, May 24, 2009, the 96,000-square-foot, world-class cultural institution will open its doors to the public to unveil a state-of-the-art, immersive interactive exhibition set to cast new light on how history can be learned, and redefine the modern history museum.

Top iTunes downloads get their own radio show

Like many iTunes Store customers, we often find ourselves tired of the same boring Top 40 played over and over on mainstream radio. Hell, you don't even have to turn to the iTunes Store for relief—there are tons of Internet radio stations out there to cater to every taste. Premiere Radio Networks thinks it can combine the two, however, to create a master race of Internet radio: the iTunes Download show.

Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition

Hugh Pickens writes "For a long time, humans were pretty dumb, doing little but make 'the same very boring stone tools for almost 2 million years,' says Philipp Khaitovich of the Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai. Then, 150,000 years ago, our big brains suddenly got smart. We started innovating. We tried different materials. We started creating art and maybe even religion. To understand what caused the cognitive spurt, researchers examined chemical brain processes known to have changed in the past 200,000 years. Comparing apes and humans, they found the most robust differences were for processes involved in energy metabolism. The finding suggests that increased access to calories spurred our cognitive advances, although definitive claims of causation are premature.

The Plica: better than an iPhone

Ah, the concept. A notion that would be awesome and captures the imagination before being watered down by boring manufacturing limitations and appearing as something altogether different.

Review: Riflemind at Trafalgar Studios

Who could have imagined that a play about sex and drugs and rock and roll would prove as punishingly boring as this? asks Charles Spencer

Hellboy: Science of Evil (PlayStation 3)

The combat in Hellboy gets repetitive before the first level ends and never presents a challenge. This is a boring, bland game.

A surefire way to make science dull

SCIENCE teachers have called for a national curriculum that focuses on the doing of science, rather than learning facts, to avoid boring students.

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