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The Rocky Road To Wind Power 281

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times has an interesting story on the logistical problems involved in transporting disassembled towers that will reach more than 250 feet in height from ports or factories to the remote, windy destinations where the turbines are erected. In Idaho trucks laden with tall turbine parts have slammed into interstate overpasses requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs. In Texas the constant truck traffic is tearing up small roads in the western part of the state where the turbines are being rapidly erected. And in Maine a truck carrying a big piece of turbine got stuck for hours while trying to round a corner near Searsport."

Comment How's that for timing? (Score 1) 367

How's that for timing? PALGN just interviewed Eric Kaltman, cataloger at the Stanford University library about his role in cataloging game-related material and the challenges that DRM and MMOs present. Stanford's part of the "preserving virtual worlds" project, along with the University of Illinois mentioned in the article. He's also the guy who writes on the How They Got Game blog, where he documents his findings.

It's an interesting field. Far more challenging than I would have thought.

Censorship

Submission + - Software companies sues popular Australian forum (whirlpool.net.au) 3

Pugzly writes: In a recent announcement on the Whirlpool front page, it appears that accounting software maker 2clix is sueing the founder of the forums as the founder "allowed statements 'relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious' to be published on the Whirlpool forums."
Hopefully sanity will prevail, but it is the legal system...

Classic Games (Games)

Submission + - Sega to Discontinue GDroms - Death of Dreamcast

Croakyvoice writes: The Dreamcast games Last Hope , Karous and Trigger Heart Exelica will the last officially licensed Sega games for the Dreamcast because from february Sega Japan are to stop production of GDRoms, the death of GDroms will mean no more Dreamcast or Naomi Arcade games. The Dreamcast Community have sent emails to Sega Japan to ask for a rethink on this issue.

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