Cody Taylor

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A British snowboarder plunged 100ft down a mountain in the French Alps. James Pell, along with three friends, had wandered into a dangerous off-limits area in the resort of Tignes on Sunday.

Think you can develop the mightiest empire in the medieval ages?This is a pretty awesome flash game.

Yahoo reported a net loss of 3 million for the quarter on a number of one-time charges and sales were slightly down as more marketers pulled back on spending.

Social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie. Social media, in essence, is bumping up against its own ceiling, no longer able to serve the needs of those living within its walls; and for these reasons, social media as we know it is changing course.

schneecrash writes “Submitting bug reports — and waiting for responses etc — seems to be SOP for developers and users alike, these days. Every project has some sort of bug-tracker — bugzilla, trac, mailing list, etc. E.g., we currently track 200+ external bugs across ~40 OSS projects. Half the bugs depend on something else getting fixed, first. Every bug has its own email thread, etc. Management asks ‘How we doin’ overall?,’ and suddenly everyone involved gets to work removing dried gum from the bottom of their shoe. What do Slashdotters use/recommend for centrally keeping track of all the bugs you track across all those different bugtrackers? In particular, managing communications and dependencies across bugs? So far, the best method I’ve managed to use is bunches of PostIt-notes stuck to the screen of an out-of-commission 32″ TV (glossy, non-matte screen, of course!).”

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patentpundit writes “BioArts International announced today that they have delivered the world’s first commercially cloned dog, a 10-week old Labrador named Lancey, to Florida residents Edgar and Nina Otto. According to the press release issued by the company, ‘BioArts International is a biotech company focused on unique, untapped markets in the global companion animal, stem cell and human genomics industries. The Best Friends Again programis a collaboration between BioArts and the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in South Korea, home to the best and most experienced dog cloning team in the world.’ The technology that makes this animal cloning possible stems from the cloning patents developed at the Roslin Institute for the cloning of the now famous, or infamous depending on your view, Dolly the sheep.”

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