Van Gogh Museum to help Wikipedia
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- Van Gogh Museum to help Wikipedia
- Dr. J.’s Commentary: Vick and Dick
- Computational engine aims to challenge Wikipedia
- Sexting in Church and School
- Judge-Turned-Journalist Files Wikipedia Defamation Complaint in …
- World War II ship to become massive coral reef
- Wikipedia Drops GNU in Favor of Creative Commons License
Van Gogh Museum to help Wikipedia
Nieuws uit Amsterdam
The photos will be made available to the general public on the basis of a creative commons license as well. It had already been announced that the Tropenmuseum the Netherlands Institute for Media Art and the Jewish Historical Museum participate in. nieuwsuitamsterdam.
Dr. J.’s Commentary: Vick and Dick
BuzzFlash
” He could run pass and kick. Well offensive backs no longer kick in either the college or the pro game but Michael Vick could both run and pass. A fine passer (quoting here from Wikipedia) “Vick owns several NFL records including the most rushing yards by a quarterback in a single season (1039 in 2006) highest average per carry in a single season (8. 45 in 2006) 100-yard career rushing games by a quarterback (eight) best two-game rushing total (225 in 2004) and rushing yards in a single game (173 in 2002). ” In the pro sport where the league goes out of its way to try to protect its quarterbacks from physical contact except when it’s absolutely essential here’s a quarterback who when he ran went out of his way to make it. And generally stayed healthy. And oh yes he happens to be an African-American.
Computational engine aims to challenge Wikipedia
Drexel University The Triangle nline
substring(0 thispageresult. While it is not the first project that attempts to understand user questions it is one of the most recent and is heavily hyped. Should Google Yahoo and others be afraid?Wolfram Research is the same company behind the Mathematica software a computer algebra program similar to Maplesoft’s Maple. As quoted from the Wolfram|Alpha Web site the search engine’s goal is to make “all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. ” The engine focuses more on objective data that can be quantified and manipulated.
Sexting in Church and School
Florida Times-Union
The use or misuse of digital communication devices is obvious but the use of them in an inappropriate environment and the use of inappropriate language in songs and lyrics is growing in our society. Adults must set the example correct behaviors that our children exhibit and make sure adults are not the culprits. Defining Sexting: Wikipedia; sexting is defined as” the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically primarily between cell phones” (.
Judge-Turned-Journalist Files Wikipedia Defamation Complaint in …
ABA Journal
The complaint filed in Dallas County Court claims the anonymous writer cut and pasted a Dallas Morning News story about a disbarred lawyer arrested for shoplifting into Crier’s Wikipedia page substituting Crier’s name for that of the ex-lawyer Catherine Shelton. The Tex Parte Blog and the Dallas bserver both carried the news. “n the Wikipedia website John Doe stated that Ms. Crier was a murder suspect committed shoplifting was jailed and had been disbarred.
World War II ship to become massive coral reef
The Tech Herald
More pointedly a huge ship with service experience amassed during World War II is to be officially decommissioned and sunk to become one of the globe’s biggest manmade coral reefs. \n\nLast used by the U. Air Force in the 1960s to track airborne ordnance the hulking Gen. Vandenberg is to be sunk some seven miles off the coast of Key West Florida this coming Wednesday after which time the 17000 tonne 523-foot-long beast will become a home for ocean life in 140 feet of water.
Related from Managementmonster: Better coral reef management is urged
Wikipedia Drops GNU in Favor of Creative Commons License
PC World
The decision was approved by Wikimedia’s Board of Trustees. Previously Wikimedia had held a vote in which 88 percent of about 17000 of its members favored the change. The current license the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) will continue to be supported in certain cases but all Wikimedia sites including Wikipedia will make the CC-BY-SA license their primary one for content.
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