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links for 2008-04-17

April 17th, 2008 by timelady

• German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures: paper
  A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.
  (tags: nasa science apophis asteroid)
• Slashdot | The Return of Ada
  oh please oh please oh please!!! besides basic which doesn’t really count, ada was my first real language. it is verbose, and not for everyone, but i would KILL (sort of, ok, maim) to be doing things with it again. just not in defece industry not my bag.
  (tags: language programming ada)
• Citrix goes storage light with XenDesktop | The Register
  As Citrix tells it, however, the company is more serious about desktop virtualization than ever and will use a new product called XenDesktop to help it ship full-on client rapture down to PCs and thin clients.
  (tags: citrix xen virtualization desktop)
• IN DEPTH: Official Eee PC with XP
  Asus now offers Eee PC buyers a choice between Linux and Windows. So just how good (or how bad) is the little laptop when it comes pre-loaded with XP? My baby, he stays linux!!!
  (tags: articles eee eeepc windows xp linux asus microsoft)
• Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation
  At LugRadio Live yesterday in San Francisco, Google developer and Linux kernel contributor Robert Love gave a presentation about the open source Android mobile phone operating system and software development kit.
  (tags: android linux opensource google mobile platform sdk)
• Topless Robot - A 20-Point Letter of Protest Regarding the New 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons (from a Gnome and a Half-Orc)
  Recently, a trove of legal proceedings and assorted arcana was unearthed regarding demi-human protests to the upcoming 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons release.
  (tags: d&d dungeons dragons roleplaying cool geek)

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