Slashback: Cameos, Sculpture, Brimstone

Slashback this evening provides updates on recent Slashdot stories about BBC podcasting, the impact of GPL'd fonts on documents and programs which make use of them, Moore's Law, the much-anticipated "Hitchhiker's" movie, and more -- read on below for the details.

What if my ship is under the GPL, and it crosses the International Dateline? innocent_white_lamb writes "A participant on the Scribus mailing list has posted a reply that he received from the FSF regarding the recent GPL font-licensing discussion, i.e. when does your document become subject to the GPL if you use GPL licensed fonts."

In short, it's less of a worry than some people made it out to be in the earlier Slashdot discussion, but it's not a merely imaginary issue.

They should offer MP3 players shaped like tiny fish. ProsperoDGC writes "The BBC is offering more shows as podcasts. While only non-music programs will be available (due to potential copyright problems with music-based shows), the variety of content is representative of BBC radio's output, including news, interviews, documentaries, and sport."

Every year, the artist has to double the bottom-most layer. Qbertino writes "The online version of the German news-magazine Der Spiegel has a short photo-bulletin on a sculpture in the Heinz-Nixdorf-Museumsforum of Paderborn. The sculpture represents Moores Law, formulated 40 years ago by Intel co-founder Gorden Moore. It states that the amount of transistors on a chip doubles every 24 months while at the same time the size of the chip halves. The law still applies to this very day. Bulletin and thumbnail here (text in German) and a larger picture here. An impressive visualization."

Look very carefully for that fellow from 'The Office.' jangobongo writes "In an interview with SciFi Wire, Garth Jennings, director of 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy', reveals some hidden in-jokes and homages in the movie. Among them: Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in the original TV series, can be seen and heard briefly as a Magrathean announcer - in 3D (get out your red & green 3D glasses!); the original Marvin robot can be seen in a queue of volunteers lining up to save Trillian; and in several places, head shots of Douglas Adams can be seen. Look for one, as the characters are flying through the planet factory, where Douglas' whole head is a giant planet. "It's quite lovely," says Jennings."

Popping trial balloons as they slink up the flagpole. bonch writes "Sony is now backpedaling on a recent CEO's slip of the tongue about a recently reported iTunes-like movie-download service. Steve Banfield, vice president of Sony Connect, says Sony is digitizing its movies and will allow some video clips to be used royalty-free for video 'mash' projects, but that Sony is not planning to to create an 'iTunes for Hollywood.'"

Dino alive, kicking, and annoying. Last May, we posted a story about the dino-shaped cam surviving under harsh conditions on New Zealand's volcanic White Island.

fraygos writes "Counting on the sulphur and high acid environment to deal to the creature has yielded little as Dino refuses to die. It's been almost a year and our darling dinosaur shows little erosion."

Comments

Why is this in hardware?

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't it just be in regular old Slashdot? I suppose I should be grateful it's not in IT.

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[Anonymous Coward]

second post heheeheheheh

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for all you podcasters

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want to podcast outside tomorrow here is your weather forecast courtesy of noaa:

FORECAST FORECAST
FRI....APR 22 SAT....APR 23
CITY WEA LO/HI WEA LO/HI
ALBANY NY PTCLDY 30/62 RAIN 44/58
ANCHORAGE RAIN 41/47 RAIN 39/45
ATLANTA TSTRMS 60/77 PTCLDY 56/60
BILLINGS PTCLDY 33/57 PTCLDY 35/67
BOISE PTCLDY 44/71 PTCLDY 48/76
BOSTON SUNNY 39/63 RAIN 44/61
CHICAGO SHWRS 41/47 MOCLDY 33/44
COLUMBUS OH TSTRMS 47/67 SHWRS 44/45
DALLAS FT WORTH PTCLDY 63/81 SUNNY 50/70
DENVER PTCLDY 31/55 PTCLDY 34/65
DETROIT RAIN 38/55 RNSNOW 36/40
HONOLULU PTCLDY 72/85 SUNNY 71/84
KANSAS CITY MOCLDY 51/59 SUNNY 37/59
LAS VEGAS SUNNY 55/83 PTCLDY 62/77
LOS ANGELES PTCLDY 55/73 SHWRS 55/66
LOUISVILLE TSTRMS 59/74 MOCLDY 44/51
MEMPHIS PTCLDY 65/80 PTCLDY 49/60
MIAMI BEACH PTCLDY 66/82 PTCLDY 68/85
MPLS ST PAUL PTCLDY 42/52 PTCLDY 30/49
NEW ORLEANS PTCLDY 66/83 PTCLDY 62/76
OKLAHOMA CITY PTCLDY 52/73 SUNNY 45/66
PHOENIX PTCLDY 60/89 PTCLDY 65/88
RALEIGH DURHAM PTCLDY 54/75 TSTRMS 58/69
RAPID CITY PTCLDY 32/54 PTCLDY 29/63
SAN ANTONIO MOCLDY 67/86 PTCLDY 60/78
SAN FRANCISCO PTCLDY 49/67 MOCLDY 52/64
SEATTLE PTCLDY 49/71 PTCLDY 51/65
TAMPA ST PTRSBG PTCLDY 61/81 PTCLDY 65/79
WASHINGTON DC MOCLDY 47/61 TSTRMS 52/65