They must be a new type of shark given that the land has been relatively dry for the last five days or so. Either that, or Slashdot is posting things days after they occur... Nah - new type of shark is bound to be the explanation!

So... is this just Super Paper Mario but with an additional dimension?

My first reaction when I saw this news was that it was delayed specifically for the Ubuntu LTS release. Probably just a coincidence though, but everybody likes a good conspiracy theory.

Well, we can have lateral symmetry of three....
( . )( . )( . )
Symmetrical on the middle nipple.
What makes it more likely to see 4 or 6 is that other mammals already do.

I do not think that anyone has pointed out that even with samples sizes that big, we can only figure out the genetic architecture of complex disease to an extent that makes it no better than family history for predicting disease. In fact, I hazard it will still be an order of magnitude worse. Obviously, the researchers did not point that out to the health insurance companies paying for it because I am sure that they will still find many interesting things.

We do not know enough (or anything for the sceptics...) about the actual genes that control these traits, so I doubt this test is any more efficient than just examining the parents phenotype and predicting based on that. In fact, given they are stupid enough to think they can predict better, they probably are doing worse...

Look for GNotes. It is Tomboy ported to C++. That has annoyed to Tomboy developers....

Well, yes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta

Yeah, these guys are heroes. The MPAA should organise a movie to be made about them.

There is PDFCreator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Where is the music player that beats Amarok?

Unfortunately neither Banshee nor Rhythmbox can beat this one. Hopefully, competition will push them to become better!

Exaile? Maybe not now Amarok2 is out.

Look at the top searches I noticed this:
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=vicki+iseman&date=2008-12-31&sa=X

vicki iseman
Hotness: Medium

Saved me having to do an image search...