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Donald Knuth On NPR

Posted by Hemos on from the got-your-ears-on dept.

StratoFlyer writes "This morning, NPR is running an interview with Donald Knuth titled Donald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer Science. The persistence of this man is extraordinary, if not heroic. RealPlayer and MediaPlayer feeds will be available at 10am EST, according to the NPR.org site." Indeed they are.

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  1. Re:NPR by aventius · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Speaking of political media... did anyone watch the ABC show, Boston Legal? It was about how a principal banned the Fox News station from airing within his school. A student was sueing the school because he wanted access to the "most fair and balanced" news media (crock o' shit). The main argument the school had was that the liberal media does not promote intolerance. They also cited excerpts from the documentary Outfoxed where first hand accounts of former employees stated how they were instructed to not report the news, but put the Republican agenda. Now I'm not taking sides on this issue (don't need a slashdot flamewar), I bring it up because I'm impressed how bold the show's producers were to do a show about this.

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  2. Re:What I found interesting. by kk49 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In general theists aren't stupid, they are just crazy. Creationist and/or fundementalist on the otherhand, are stupid.

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  3. Knuth is rather profoundly "red state"-ish. by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I want to hear a good old "Proud to be American" conservative commentator screaming at me and telling me how to think!

    Sorry to burst your bubble:

    Yes, this is how God
     ____loved the world:
     _He Gave his
     ____Only Child;
     ____So that all
     ____People with faith in him
     can Escape destruction and
     ____Live a full life;
     now and forever.