Friday, January 16, 2009

Dropping out of Online Learning: Reason? Linux

The surprising part of this story was not that the student had to dropout due to a mistake requesting Ubuntu as the OS on her new laptop, but the heat she got from the Ubuntu community for being "too dumb" and "unworthy of a degree" for not navigating her way through living with Ubuntu:

First the breaking story:


The reaction:



Thursday, January 15, 2009

Geeky Timeout: JJ's Star Trek

There is nothing better than spicing up Star Trek, JJ Abrams style. From the trailer and JJ Abram's previous work (Fringe) the new Star trek will surpass the glory of all the new Star Wars movies put together. Here is the trailer: