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Links 0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/02/08/cash.smart.ap/index.html Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/0213249 [0]droopus writes "So, what does Dan Castelleneta look like? (He's a kinda weasly looking bald guy.) See Dan, Hank, Harry, Yeardley, Julie, Nancy and the rest of the Simpsons cast this Sunday at 8PM (EST) on Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo. According to the [1] website: "In anticipation of the landmark 300th episode of The Simpsons, James Lipton sat down with the series' accomplished ensemble to meet the actors behind the voices in order to discover how they have managed to create such a wealth of believable and beloved characters." I saw a quick preview, and seeing that thin, weasly bald guy go "Aggggggh, donut" was alsolutely hilarious. Watching [2]Nancy Cartwright morph effortlessly from Bart, to Nelson, to Ralph is waaaaay cool. My TiVo is set for this one. One hitch: it's on at the same time as the usual new Sunday Simpsons episode, so Bravo has thoughtfully repeated the show at midnight so fans can record both." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.bravotv.com/actorsstudio/archives/simpsons.php 2. http://www.thenancyshow.com/performer.html Pyromaniac Cosplay http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1743236 [0]mani writes "This is truly taking [1]cosplay to the next level. Not only are they dressing and acting out characters from [2]SNK/Playmore's [3]King of Fighters series, but [4]using actual fire to truly simulate the 2d fighting experience. Pictures and video included. Warning: site is most definately not in english." Links 0. http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~mghase 1. http://www.cosplay.com/ 2. http://www.playmore.co.jp/ 3. http://www.snkneogeo.co.jp/official/kof2002/english/e_kof2002_top.html 4. http://www.tanteifile.com/baka/2003/01/28_01_yamaki3_03/index.html UK Parliament Domain Without Registrar http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/203208 asobala writes "According to [0]this story at The Register, the UK parliament is using the domain [1]www.parliament.uk. It's a top-level domain because it was registered before August 1996, before Nominet handled .uk domains. But since there is no registrar, they can't prove that they own it." Links 0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29241.html 1. http://www.parliament.uk/ California Considering More Internet Taxes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/2127250 dcg writes "[0]San Francisco Chronicle is [1]reporting on how web taxes could help the states, especially California, with its budget woes. One particularly disconcerting comment is from California's Controller Steve Westly. 'In addition to sales taxes, Westly said he is considering a tax on Internet access like those that appear on telephone bills. He also is looking at a tax on software downloads.' Would this affect only purchased software, or could sourceforge.net become a source of revenue for the state..." Links 0. http://sfgate.com/ 1. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/08/MN185385.DTL Circuit Court Okays Vote Swapping Site http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1931255 [0]scubacuda writes "[1]C|net reports that the [2]9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court has ruled in favor of [3]Alan Porter's website, Voteexchange2000.com, a site enabling Gore and Nader voters to swap their Gore votes in states where Bush was likely to win anyway for the Green party candidate Nader. In response to the court's decision, Mark Rosenbaum, legal director of the [4]ACLU's Southern California office, said, "We're pleased that the court's ruling permits us to challenge the legality of the secretary of state's partisan attempt to silence political speech on the Internet during the 2000 election." (For a look at some of the legal issues behind "vote swapping," [5]visit Gigalaw)" Links 0. http://.moc.emani. .ta. .aducabucs. 1. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983718.html 2. http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/ 3. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/5533.html 4. http://www.aclu.org/ 5. http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001-all/morris-2001-01-all.html Hardware and Software Art http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/2011233 Lupulack writes "Worried about where your discarded obsolete technology ends up ? If it's lucky it might be at [0]electronic-ouroborus.com/, where broken - down electronics are transformed into eye pleasing sculpture. Recycling can be art." And [1]yaxu writes "The [2]runme software art repository is now open. Share your favourite piece of software art; whether it be an algorithm, an irc bot, a software app misappropriation, a virus or sendmail exploit..." Links 0. http://www.electronic-ouroborus.com/ 1. http://slab.org 2. http://runme.org/ Open Watcom 1.0 Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/196239 [0]JoshRendlesham writes "The [1]Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 1.0 compilers have been officially released. The [2]source, and binaries for [3]Win32 and [4]OS/2 systems, are available. This release also means that outside developers can join and contribute to the project." Or if you prefer, gcc is up to [5]3.2.2. Links 0. http://www.rendlesham.tk 1. http://www.openwatcom.org/ 2. http://www.openwatcom.org/download/down_source.html 3. http://www.openwatcom.org/download/down_win_installer.html 4. http://www.openwatcom.org/download/down_os2_installer.html 5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/changes.html Humans Hold Off the Machines... For Now http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1731219 Murr writes "The six game [0]match between Gary Kasparov and the Deep Junior program ended in a draw today. Kasparov won game 1 and lost game 3 to a blunder, while the other 4 games were drawn. While the quality of play was not outstanding, after the recent matches of Kramnik and Kasparov against commercial programs running on (high end) commodity hardware, it's becoming apparent that chess programs are getting quite competitive with top human players." Links 0. http://www.kasparovchess.ru/ PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2217253 [0]Buck Mulligan writes "The Center for Public Integrity [1]reports that it has obtained a copy of PATRIOT II -- a huge law enforcement power grab that is intended to build on the USA PATRIOT Act. It's called the 'Domestic Security Enhancement Act.' CPI says it would increase domestic intelligence gathering and surveillance while reducing judicial review and public access to information. For more on the first PATRIOT Act, see the EPIC [2]page." Links 0. http://choof.org 1. http://publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/home.asp 2. http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
