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If you have a fund with a socially responsible investment company, take this opportunity to give them a call or send them a letter to tell them you'd like to see FLOSS issues on the criteria list.

Built by Evan Prodromou, creator of the wonderful site WikiTravel, Identi.ca offers a number of features that Twitter users will find of interest. We learned about the launch on the CreativeCommons blog; Identi.ca supports CC licenses for all the content that flows through it.

On Wednesday, the University of Toronto sent him an e-mail giving him 10 days to get off the premises.

Dans le débat autour de l’accueil de nouveaux migrants, le chiffre à prendre en compte n’est pas celui des nouveaux arrivés, mais celui du « solde migratoire » : les entrants moins les sortants. On l’estime à 100 000, car il y a environ 100 000 sorties. Ce solde est parmi les plus faibles d’Europe, en pourcentage : 1,7 pour mille. Même en le mettant à 2 pour mille (pour aller au devant des critiques des sceptiques qui prétendent que l’on minimise ce chiffre), on reste très en dessous de tous nos voisins : Espagne 14 pour mille ; Italie 10 ; UK 4 ; Zone euro 5,1 ; UE 4. Europe du Sud 10,3. Seul le chiffre de l’Allemagne est proche du nôtre (2), mais ce pays était à 10 il y a peu.

Earning around ¥220,000 a month — significantly less than the ¥350,000 salary of regular employees — and struggling with debt, he was anxious about his employers' plans to lay off most of its temporary staff in June.

I've been studying software projects for a while now. Not the programming, but the people

Nearly 80% of businesses have Macs in-house, nearly double the percentage that said they had users running Mac OS X two years ago, a research firm said today.

Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 1]

Google Map Maker, a new product that allows users to contribute and edit Maps data for regions around the world.

The security, trust, information quality and privacy issues arising from the vision of the Semantic Web as a global information integration infrastructure are mainly unsolved.

The High Court in South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people. It made the order so that ethnic Chinese can benefit from government policies aimed at ending white domination in the private sector.

Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe and their dwellings are seen during a flight over the Brazilian state of Acre along the border with Peru in these May, 2008 photos distributed by Survival International. Survival International estimates that there are over 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, and says that uncontacted tribes in the region are under increasing threat from illegal logging over the border in Peru.

Your cellphone and laptop leave an invisible trail. Collecting this data is know as Reality Mining. A formal definition of Reality Mining is "the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior".

What we consider to be good technical writing often reflects an American cultural perspective. One facet of this cultural orientation is that technical writing tends to use a low-context style.

Universities call it “rikei banare,” or “flight from science.” The decline is growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns intended to make engineering look sexy and cool, and companies are slowly starting to import foreign workers, or sending jobs to where the engineers are, in Vietnam and India.

In hindsight, though, he now thinks that oversight was a brilliant mistake. The fact that no one controlled sudoku’s intellectual property rights let the game’s popularity grow unfettered, Mr. Kaji says. Nikoli does not plan to trademark other new games, either, in hopes this will also help them take off. “This openness is more in keeping with Nikoli’s open culture,” said Mr. Kaji, who sat on a sofa in his Tokyo office among pillows adorned with printed faces of racehorses. “We’re prolific because we do it for the love of games, not for the money.”

The G-Econ research project is devoted to developing a geophysically based data set on economic activity for the world.