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Best Guild Application - Ever

WoW Insider: "I've only ever written two guild applications, but I used to pride myself on writing a damn good one, the sort of application you might see written by the manager of a successful hedge fund, or possibly Mother Teresa. So I had my doubts when tipster Roflharris wrote in to tell us that a friend of his, MsFahrenheit of Sylvanas-EU, had submitted what was possibly the best guild application of all time to Anointed, but it's completely true. You'd have to try pretty hard to top this fully-animated, written and visual joke-infested riot. I just about died when he hit the part about how he got class leader and what attempts on Kalecgos were like."

One of the most complex and demanding OLTP applications in the world is written in Lisp. That's right -- Lisp.

One of the most complex and demanding OLTP applications in the world is written in Lisp. That's right -- Lisp.

Gustav...a running update (The Barrel oil blog)

We're going to liveblog some of the highlights of Platts' Gustav coverage here at The Barrel over the next few days. (All times are eastern daylight). The system shows that they were written by John Kingston, but many Platts' staff members have actually written for the blog, and dozens have gathered the information on the state of the industry leading up to Gustav's arrival, and its coming aftermath.

Norman Lear, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman

The television producer Norman Lear and the author Maya Angelou will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity. They are to accept their honors, each with an accompanying $100,000 honorarium, at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia on Nov. 17. Angelou, 80, has written more than a dozen best sellers including "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," as well as three Grammy-winning spoken-word albums, poetry, plays and children's books. She has also written for television and film. Lear, 76, was creator, producer and writer for television series that became cultural landmarks including "All in the Family," "Sanford and Son," "The Jeffersons" and "Maude."

Trading the Markets With FOSS Software?

Robert writes "Along with many other techies, I share an interest in the world of finance (bubble-era stock options pulled me in). Unfortunately, as someone with a strong preference for GNU/Linux as my operating system of choice, I have found that software in this area seems quite sparse. For awhile I have made do with Python, R, Gnumeric, Gnucash and a telephone, along with some small utilities I have written myself. What I would like to know is: what FOSS software do you use for financial analysis, trading, system development, and testing in a Un*x environment? Are there programs you would like to see written or ported? Do any brokerages, data providers, or other services provide good support for we the few? And finally, what commercial entities do you know of that are using FOSS software in their operation?"

Unknown score written by Mozart found in France

NANTES, France (Reuters) - A French municipal library has discovered a musical score handwritten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in its archives, the Nantes town hall said on Thursday.

Dead Space Written by Iron Man's Warren Ellis

Prolific comic book author Warren Ellis has revealed that he played a significant role in writing EA Redwood Shore's upcoming sci-fi survival horror title Dead Space.

Silverlight Flickr Client Written in IronRuby

Just read about the Silverlight Flickr client (see above) that Microsoft’s Jimmy Schementi build for a talk to .NET developers there. The interesting thing is that he used IronRuby (his language of choice) instead of the C# or VB that we normally associate with the .NET Framework.

Illustrated book about cats written by Amazon Mechanical Turk

Bjoern sez, "'Amazing but True Cat Stories' is a collection of stories about feline antics, illustrated in vivid 8-bit color by true mspaint artists.

Tactile street maps, a computer mouse to learn Braille and a mobile phone that reads written text are a few of the latest innovations for the blind on show in Geneva.

The exhibition of new technology for the blind and visually impaired is being held this week at the General Assembly of the World Blind Union, opened on Monday by Swiss President Pascal Couchepin.

How Big Should My Swap Partition Be?

Journal written by theheadlessrabbit (1022587) and posted by timothy on Wednesday October 01, @06:39PM

Feedback: What is Missing in Open Source Software Development

IconHaving written open source software myself, and being a subscriber to mailing lists, etc, there is a realization that the number one thing missing from smaller open source projects is feedback from users.

MUSICALS & OPERA REVIEW: A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE

ORIGINALLY written by Richard Demarcy as a comment on Parisian politics in the 1980s, this musical version by Talegate Theatre updates the inherent metaphor in relation to current media furores about foreign nationals as a potential threat.

Users, Enterprises Pay for Poor Privacy Policies, Study Says

Poorly written and complicated privacy policies are driving users to make bad decisions online and could eventually threaten the practice of self-regulation of privacy on the Internet, according to a new research report.

A-Z of the Edinburgh Fringe

Compelling monologue, written and performed by Owen O’Neill, about how a child abused by an Irish Catholic priest came to exact his gruesome revenge years on. While packed with outlandish descriptions of violence, Absolution never feels gratuitous and asks powerful questions about the acceptable limits of justified retribution. DC

The Blitheness of the Art World

I've written about Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World a couple of times, so I feel I ought to mention what I thought of the book as a whole. Your mileage might vary: by sheerest coincidence the book overlaps quite a lot with my own personal experience. One chapter concerns an auction I attended; another is about a biennial I also went to. In a third, the central event of the chapter is the sale of a painting, 727-727, by Takashi Murakami, which I have declared a masterpiece. (It turns out that Stevie Cohen bought it at Art Basel for $1.2 million.)

Exposing The Patent Troll Playbook... And How To (Almost) Beat It

We've written about patent hoarding firm RTI before, back when it sued Google. At the time, we pointed to Rich Tehrani's fantastic article about the company and how it was basically one guy who claimed his rather narrow patents covered pretty much everything having to do with VoIP. Pretty much any company of any substantial size that had anything to do with VoIP had been on the receiving end of threats and/or lawsuits from RTI.

Bloggers beat MSM to Toronto blast? Maybe not

We're written before about bloggers being among the first on the scene of big news stories, and the Toronto propane explosion is no exception.

Choosing the right XML security appliance

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

Choosing the right XML security appliance

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

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Most blogs written by aid organizations aren’t all that interesting, writes Reuters AlertNet on its blog. They’re too formal, having been edited to death by the headquarters’ office. They’re often filled with jargon.

Just How Late Is Nokia with HSUPA devices?

I've written before about the slow arrival of HSUPA and the dearth of HSUPA-supporting devices in the market. Yes, there's a bunch of dongles & laptop modules and the like, but it really hasn't percolated down to phones that much at all. It's much slower than HSDPA was.

Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics

Many readers have written to tell us that researchers are examining the possibility of using Brownian ratchets to help combat the problem of heat dissipation in miniaturized electronics. "Currently, devices are engineered to operate near thermal equilibrium, in accordance with the Second Law of Thermodynamics which states that heat tends to transfer from a hotter unit to a cooler one. However, using the concept of Brownian ratchets, which are systems that convert non-equilibrium energy to do useful work, the researchers hope to allow computers to operate at low power levels, and harness power dissipated by other functions. 'The main quest we have is to see if by departing from near-equilibrium operation, we can perform computation more efficiently,' Ghosh told iTnews.

SAMS Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX 2004 in 24 Hours

Adam Bell has written a review of the new SAMS book, Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash in 24 Hours. Bell recommends the book highly for newbies who are trying to learn the basic features of Flash MX 2004. For more advanced users, he recommends Philip Kerman's new book on Creating RIA's via Flash Remoting (published by New Riders).

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