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Open Source Software certification begins Western Cape pilot

Gadgets & Tech – The current South African development phase is being carried out by Inkululeko Technologies, which has been sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation to roll out the open source educational package tuXlabs in South African schools. In this current testing phase, INGOTs is being packaged with tuXlabs...

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Guest Blog: Open source expert speaks out on GPLv3

Gadgets & Tech – This guest blog will summarize the legal issues in the draft and some of the open issues. I have been involved in the process since the beginning because I am the chair of Committee C, the Users Committee, and I serve as outside general counsel on a pro bono basis for the Open Source Initiative.

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Shoots to Twill: The Sartorialist in the New York Post

Art & Design – From the article: "Scott Schuman used to run a fashion showroom, but he never got to be part of the runway glitz. To his throngs of international fans, he's just The Sartorialist, a roving cameraman with an uncanny eye for spotting Gotham street style. For the past year-and-a-half, Schuman has been snapping photos of stylish folk and posting them with pithy commentary at thesartorialist.blogspot.com, which recently hit a million monthly page views."

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`Second Life' to charge for names

Gadgets & Tech – The online fantasy world "Second Life" will soon introduce the virtual equivalent of vanity plates, allowing residents to customize their characters' first and last names.

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Man Tries Living Underwater

News – A man is going to try living in a sealed box underwater for two weeks, using algae to eat and to produce enough air for him to breathe.

View Story Discuss (0) (treehugger.com) 475 days ago by MattSparkes

Submitted and Voted for on April 04, 2007 10:22am

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video of penguin working out

Humor – Hilarious video of penguin working out.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 04, 2007 05:59am

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Ten-Metre-High Tsunami hits Solomon Islands

News – At least 12 people are dead.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 02, 2007 07:16am

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Marilyn Monroe or Einstein? Amazing Optical Illusion

Humor – Look at this image close up and you will see Albert Einstein, step a few feet away and you will see Marilyn Monroe!

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Submitted and Voted for on April 02, 2007 06:34am

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Pointless Machines

Gadgets & Tech – Teams will be frantically competing today in an engineering challenge that awards prizes for the clunkiest, most complicated machines that perform simple tasks.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 02, 2007 06:00am

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Pentagon wants Space Weapons

Politics – The MDA wants $10 million to investigate space weapons.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 30, 2007 11:17am

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Is this chimp human?

News – A judge is Vienna is to rule over whether a chimp should get human rights.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 28, 2007 09:10am

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Gmail is down

Gadgets & Tech – Currently Gmail is down for users across the US. There's no official word from Google yet on either the cause or an expected resolve. [originally seen on Digg.com]

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