Okay, so the news is a day old, but Android 2.1 SDK is out.
Today, we are releasing the SDK component for Android 2.1, so that developers can take advantage of the new features introduced in Android 2.1. Please read the Android 2.1 release notes for more details. You can download the Android 2.1 component through the SDK Manager.
Her Majesty might consider revocation of his OBE. Can she do that? Of course she can. Otherwise, why be a sovereign?
Sir Richard Doll, the celebrated epidemiologist who established that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical company and now better known for its GM crops business.
via Renowned cancer scientist was paid by chemical firm for 20 years | Science | The Guardian.
Not a huge surprise. What’s odd is that there is an employee who is spilling the beans on this. Maybe they have an axe to grind — passed up for promotion or something burned by a supervisor.
Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less. It was pretty fantastic.
via Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net.
This will be a really noble gesture if it actually happens.
This rad.
John Kricfalusi sent this response to an aspiring animator who sent him some fan mail.
It’s nice to see people who can handle success.
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