paulproteus writes “Most computer science students never see a bug tracker, and very few learn about version control. Classes often don’t teach the skills needed for participation. So I organized a weekend workshop at the University of Pennsylvania. Total newbies enthusiastically spent the day on IRC, learned git, built a project from source, and read bugs in real projects. I learned that there’s no shortage of students that want to get involved.”

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Forbes magazine puts Bill Gates in the ranks of 40 people most influential in the world. While in the IT field, Gates held in…

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In the Mission district, gang-bangers high-fived investment bankers; soccer moms hugged the homeless—sons gleamed high on the shoulders of their fathers in jubilant celebration of baseball prowess and city pride.

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They are unique in a fashion that no other sport can replicate, and every year we hold out hope that we’ll be privy to another such moment. Here are 9 such moments, recent and distant.

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this guide will make fishing a funnier thing to do.

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September 17, 2010 Allen Moll
Many American fans tout thelegendary Michael Jordan, Dr J Julius Erving, or even Vince Carter as the best all-time NBA dunk artists. But one international streetball legend named Kadour Ziani has been doing some spectacular dunks for nearly 20 years world-wide, that would make even the legendary MJ or Dominique proud. Hes only 510 but has an incredible 56 inch vertical leap, proven by regularly leaping over automobiles (more…)

EvilAlphonso notes news of a “Texas” IP holding company suing 36 actual companies for violating its claimed patent on spam filtering. Techdirt deconstructs the patent itself, No. 6,018,761, which seems to amount to little more than a database lookup. It was filed in 1996 and issued in 2000 (despite the lawyers’ press release claiming that it “was awarded… nearly 15 years ago”). Among the companies being sued are 3Com, Apple, Google, AOL, Yahoo, (more…)

Attention Second Lifers: Are you afraid, even in your fantasy worlds, of new experiences? Your avatar might be a candidate, then, for a psychotropic drug called, Virta-Flaneurazine, designed to treat Wanderlust Deficit Disorder — in other words, Internet addiction.

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Statisticians and data freaks are already doing the World Cup number crunching – possibly the most interesting piece of statistical information that has surfaced from the torrent of World Cup data feeds comes from a study that recently carried out an analysis of the economic value of the players from some of the World Cup’s most successful teams.

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Fifa boss Sepp Blatter rejects criticism of the 2010 World Cup which has centred on the quality of football on offer and too many empty seats.

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