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• Has Google Killed RSS?
  Has Google Killed RSS?: from Social Media Today - The world’s best thinkers on social media by Mike Allton Industry observers have been saying for years that RSS is dead or dying. And yet, strangely, we still use RSS to disseminate and aggregate content today. The problem, what has everyone on Twitter and Google+ flummoxed, is that Google Reader, the undispu […]
• Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts
  Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts: from Slashdot by samzenpus McGruber writes “The Chronicle of Higher Education has the news that Herbert Richardson, founder of Edwin Mellen Press is suing McMaster University and University Librarian Dale Askey for $3 Million over Mr. Askey’s posts on a personal blog. In 2010 Mr. Askey wrote a […]
• Scientists Claim They've Built a Computer That Never Crashes
  Scientists Claim They've Built a Computer That Never Crashes: from Gizmodo by Jamie Condliffe A crashing computer is at best annoying and at worst catastrophic. But now a team of scientists has developed a new type of computer that never crashes—and it relies on chaos and randomness to achieve the feat. More »
• Inhibiendo la democracia
  Inhibiendo la democracia: from El Blog de Enrique Dans by Enrique Dans Esta mañana tuvo lugar la comparecencia de Mario Draghi en el Congreso de los Diputados (El Mundo, El País, 20Minutos). El presidente del Banco Central Europeo comparecía a puerta cerrada, cuestión que algunos diputados, cargados de razón, consideraron completamente inaceptable.
• Take me with you!
  Take me with you!
• kurobaralice: Maniac. It has been a while since I did a propper...
  kurobaralice: Maniac. It has been a while since I did a propper digital illustration, so I wanted to see how rusty I am… Wanted to do something colorful with a 80’s feeling since I’m kind of hung into “Maniac” from Flash dance
• Swedish School Makes Minecraft Lessons Compulsory
  Swedish School Makes Minecraft Lessons Compulsory: from Slashdot by samzenpus SchrodingerZ writes “The Viktor Rydberg school in Stockholm, Sweden, has announced that they have included Minecraft into the curriculum for their 13-year-old students. The program is not meant to teach children about math or language, but rather as a tool to inspire creativity in […]
• Castlevania Fan Film Is 146 Minutes Long. Oh, And It's Made Of LEGO.
  Castlevania Fan Film Is 146 Minutes Long. Oh, And It's Made Of LEGO.: from Kotaku by Luke Plunkett It’s taken seven years of work, but three brothers from Finland have finally completed what must surely be their life’s work: KastleVania 4, an epic feature-length film based on Konami’s Castlevania series. More »
• Anonymous Attacks Department Of Justice Website and Threatens Worse Over Aaron Swartz's Suicide
  Anonymous Attacks Department Of Justice Website and Threatens Worse Over Aaron Swartz's Suicide: from Gizmodo by Eric Limer Since Aaron Swartz’s suicide two weeks ago—an incident largely blamed on the charges being levied against him—the ‘net has been grieving. And Anonymous has been doing that in its own special way: tearing shit up. In the latest of s […]
• Aaron Swartz Case: Deja Vu All Over Again For MIT
  Aaron Swartz Case: Deja Vu All Over Again For MIT: from Slashdot by timothy theodp writes “On Saturday, questions for MIT’s Aaron Swartz investigation were posted on Slashdot with the hope that MIT’ers might repost some to the MIT Swartz Review site. So it’s good to see that MIT’s Hal Abelson, who is leading the analysis of MIT’s involvement in the matter, i […]