Crazy contests fill short Finnish summers (Reuters)

Grok Headline matches for Crazy contests fill short Finnish summers (Reuters)

Finnish Company Cuts Heavenly Mobile
Link (Reuters)

Finnish Company Cuts Heavenly Mobile
Link (Reuters) 01/16/2004 11:32 AM
Reuters - A service promising to answer people's prayers with a text message apparently sent by Jesus has been shut down after complaints by Finland's mobile services watchdog.

Finnish engineering students protest
high numbers (Reuters)

Finnish engineering students protest
high numbers (Reuters) 04/14/2005 06:50 AM
Reuters - Finland's 40,000 engineering students walked out of their classes Wednesday to put pressure on the government to reduce the number of engineering places.

Nudes Fill Museum for Unusual Exhibit
(Reuters)

Nudes Fill Museum for Unusual Exhibit
(Reuters) 04/07/2005 12:58 PM
Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women between the ages of 18 and 65 displayed their bodies in a Berlin art gallery Thursday to prepare for a one-day exhibit Friday.

Al Qaeda Members Appear to Fill Power
Vacuum -NYT (Reuters)

Al Qaeda Members Appear to Fill Power
Vacuum -NYT (Reuters) 08/09/2004 11:57 PM
Reuters - A new generation of al Qaeda operatives appears to be filling a vacuum created when leaders were killed or captured, the New York Times said on Tuesday, citing interviews with two senior intelligence officials.

Berlusconi rubs salt in Finnish wound at
food body (Reuters)

Berlusconi rubs salt in Finnish wound at
food body (Reuters) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Reuters - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi repeated one of his most famous diplomatic gaffes on Tuesday by insulting the cuisine of Finland which Italy beat to host the new European Food Safety Authority.

German nudes fill museum for unusual
exhibit (Reuters)

German nudes fill museum for unusual
exhibit (Reuters) 04/07/2005 12:58 PM
Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women between the ages of 18 and 65 have displayed their bodies in a Berlin art gallery to prepare for a one-day exhibit on Friday.

Sega's Crazy Taxi patent suit against EA
is crazy

Sega's Crazy Taxi patent suit against EA
is crazy 12/06/2003 07:51 PM
Avi Bar Zeev, former Imagineer who invented a Crazy Taxi video game while at Disney, weighs in on a patent dispute between Sega (which hired a Disney exec who'd seen Avi's idea and which quickly produced and patented a Crazy Taxi game) and EA (which has its own Crazy Taxi game). Here's a case where none of the litigants in the patent dispute is the inventor of the patented material. Nice work, USPTO. L ink

Crazy goal spree rebounds on clubs
(Reuters)

Crazy goal spree rebounds on clubs
(Reuters) 02/18/2004 05:25 AM
Reuters - Two Indian soccer teams who scored a combined total of 116 goals in their final games of the season in a bid to win promotion have been suspended, along with the two teams who let them do it.

Thais go condom crazy over AIDS meeting
(Reuters)

Thais go condom crazy over AIDS meeting
(Reuters) 07/10/2004 04:37 AM
Reuters - Waiters wearing condoms on their heads greet diners at the 'Cabbages and Condoms' restaurant in Bangkok and volunteers hand out condoms of all shapes, colours and sizes at cash machines, metro stations and the airport.

The Case Against Lawrence Summers

The Case Against Lawrence Summers 03/14/2005 04:33 PM
Updated with fascinating information from another study. Jump to new material. Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank…

Good movie for Larry Summers

Good movie for Larry Summers 03/17/2005 03:24 AM

Six of us T'd down to the New England Aquarium's IMAX theater (not the distorted curved Omnimax of the Science Museum) last night and watched Aliens of the Deep (3D), in which James Cameron, director of the movie Titanic, goes 3000' to 10,000' down into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to film the unusual forms of life living next to thermal vents.  Precious few details are offered about the animals in question.  Much time is spent on computer-generated speculation about a mission to the oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa, which has a 16-mile covering of ice and below that, some intelligent big-eyed snails who've built themselves an underwater brightly lit Indian casino.

Larry Summers should see this movie because nearly all of the scientists shown are women.  In fact they are nearly all young buff women of color (or with Hispanic surnames anyway).  Maybe this is why we are able to hire scientists for $35,000/year.  Sadly for Science, it seems that in a world where all scientists are women no math is done and you never learn anything about the phenomenon studied except "this is really cool" or "this is really beautiful".

We were all disappointed that Celine Dion was not featured on the soundtrack.

Climate Model Predicts More Long Hot
Summers

Climate Model Predicts More Long Hot
Summers 01/12/2004 01:53 AM

Larry Summers, women, and jobs in math
and science

Larry Summers, women, and jobs in math
and science 02/01/2005 09:38 PM

To judge from the latest nytimes.com it seems that Larry Summers, the president of Harvard, is still getting beaten up for saying that women might not be genetically adapted as well as men for careers in math and science.  None of the news articles go into the question of whether these are good enough careers that anyone should care about the racial or sexual composition of people in them.  More than half of medical students are women.  Every graduating MD will get a job and the average salaries in the career range from $150,000 to $300,000+ depending on specialty.  A new math or science PhD will compete with 700 other applicants for one job, usually paying less than $50,000 per year.  Most of them could have made far more money and had far more job security if they'd gotten a bachelor's in education at the state teacher's college and, at age 22, taken a job as a schoolteacher in a public school.

A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep tropical fish as pets (98 percent of the attendees at the American Cichlid Association convention that I last attended were male).  Should we be surprised that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of landing a $35,000/year post-doc job?

IBM Profit Up But Services Fall Short
(Reuters)

IBM Profit Up But Services Fall Short
(Reuters) 04/15/2004 06:18 PM
Reuters - IBM posted its fifth quarter of rising net profit on Thursday as corporations increased their spending on computer systems, but the stock fell 3 percent due to weakness in its services and chips businesses.

Short Skirt Ban Stirs Controversy
(Reuters)

Short Skirt Ban Stirs Controversy
(Reuters) 06/04/2004 10:45 AM
Reuters - A Russian regional government has told its women employees to stop wearing short skirts and tone down their make-up because they were arousing their male colleagues' "animal instincts."

World's longest snake comes up short
(Reuters)

World's longest snake comes up short
(Reuters) 01/07/2004 03:05 PM
Reuters - It's still a big snake, just not a record-breaker.

Outlaw Laid Low by Short Fuse (Reuters)

Outlaw Laid Low by Short Fuse (Reuters) 04/11/2005 07:53 AM
Reuters - Albania's most wanted man fought off special police and eluded capture for years only to blow himself up while fishing with dynamite, police and newspapers said Friday.

Sex Enhancement Pills Fall Short?
(Reuters)

Sex Enhancement Pills Fall Short?
(Reuters) 09/23/2004 07:00 AM
Reuters - Pro-Erex. Big Daddy. Suregasm. There is little doubt what these supplements are promising, but the evidence that they actually can enlarge a man's penis or enhance sexual performance falls short, consumer advocates said on Wednesday.

World's 'Longest Snake' Comes Up Short
(Reuters)

World's 'Longest Snake' Comes Up Short
(Reuters) 01/07/2004 03:04 PM
Reuters - It's still a big snake, just not a record-breaker.

Tall Californians come up short in
airline lawsuit (Reuters)

Tall Californians come up short in
airline lawsuit (Reuters) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
Reuters - Tall people will have to go on feeling a bit cramped while riding on airplanes.

Microsoft Says Xbox Consoles in Short
Supply (Reuters)

Microsoft Says Xbox Consoles in Short
Supply (Reuters) 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
Reuters - Xbox consoles were in short supply at several major retail outlets recently due to unexpectedly high demand for the video game machines, Microsoft Corp. said on Monday.

Short skirts stir "animal instincts"
(Reuters)

Short skirts stir "animal instincts"
(Reuters) 06/04/2004 07:03 AM
Reuters - A Russian regional government has told its women employees to stop wearing short skirts and tone down their make-up because they were arousing their male colleagues' "animal instincts".

Hewlett-Packard Earnings Fall Short
(Reuters)

Hewlett-Packard Earnings Fall Short
(Reuters) 08/12/2004 08:03 AM
Reuters - Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ.N) on Thursday posted disappointing quarterly earnings due to weak results in servers and storage products, and warned that profit in the current quarter would also fall short of Wall Street expectations.

Five Short-Range Wireless Standards Seen
Combining (Reuters)

Five Short-Range Wireless Standards Seen
Combining (Reuters) 06/11/2004 08:09 AM
Reuters - Five short-range wireless connection technologies are fighting for the industry limelight, but sector specialists said on Friday that companies would eventually combine the five to make life easier.

Report: Bush Fell Short of Military
Obligation (Reuters)

Report: Bush Fell Short of Military
Obligation (Reuters) 09/08/2004 11:04 AM
Reuters - President Bush fell short of meeting his military obligations during the Vietnam War and was not disciplined despite irregular attendance at required training drills, The Boston Globe said on Wednesday.

Sprint, SBC in Short-Range Wireless
Roaming Deal (Reuters)

Sprint, SBC in Short-Range Wireless
Roaming Deal (Reuters) 08/27/2004 05:12 PM
Reuters - Sprint Corp. (FON.N) said on Friday it made a deal that will let it nearly double the number of places it offers short-range wireless Internet connections.

FDA Panel: Inamed Implants Safe Short
Term (Reuters)

FDA Panel: Inamed Implants Safe Short
Term (Reuters) 04/12/2005 04:04 PM
Reuters - Most members of a U.S. advisory panel debating the future of silicone breast implants said on Tuesday they felt confident the devices made by Inamed Corp. were safe over the short term.

Army National Guard Recruiting Falling
Short (Reuters)

Army National Guard Recruiting Falling
Short (Reuters) 07/26/2004 05:48 PM
Reuters - The U.S. Army is lagging about 12 percent behind its recruiting goal for the Army National Guard amid the Pentagon's heavy reliance on such troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, officials said on Monday.

Rumsfeld Stops Short of Direct Apology
Over Abuses (Reuters)

Rumsfeld Stops Short of Direct Apology
Over Abuses (Reuters) 05/05/2004 06:49 AM
Reuters - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday "any American" felt apologetic for abuses of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers but stopped short of offering a direct apology himself.

Bush Unveils Intel Plan, Falls Short of
9/11 Panel (Reuters)

Bush Unveils Intel Plan, Falls Short of
9/11 Panel (Reuters) 09/16/2004 09:01 PM
Reuters - President Bush submitted a plan to the U.S. Congress on Thursday that gives a new national intelligence director authority over much of the intelligence community, but not the full powers sought by the Sept. 11 commission and key lawmakers, documents show.

PHP Programming Contests

PHP Programming Contests 03/14/2003 01:08 PM
PHP-Editors.com released their first 'PHP Programming Contests' on 10th March. Contest 1A is aimed at PHP Beginners and Contest 1B to more profession programmers. This is your chance to show the world your PHP skills and win some cool prizes into the bargain. Sponsors providing prizes include Zend Technologies, Nusphere, Macromedia, PHP|Arch, ThinkGeek and vBulletin. Entries due in by midnight 7th April 2003 (GMT).

Contests Abound

Contests Abound 01/22/2004 02:29 AM

Participatory creativity is hot, hot. The Lollapoola Mash-Up Contest. Our Own GET CREATIVE! Moving Images Contest (winners to be announced next month). MoveOn.org's Bush in 30 Seconds advertisement contest. And now even the New Yorker has anno unced the winner of its own analog-version of an open-source creativity contest, which was more interactive than contests past. (Devoted New Yorker fans will want to watch the great slide show explaining the judging process.)

I don't remember the New Yorker's ever explaining the copyright policy for this. Who gets to keep the rights to the final cartoon? Can we re-use those little screwdriver or dog cut-outs for other purposes? And given that it's cut-outs we're talking about, how does first sale doctrine tie in to all this?

Clearly the average New Yorker reader -- or editor -- isn't as persnickety about their IP as some of us. Maybe next year they'll go CC.

Speaking of contests...

Speaking of contests... 12/10/2003 11:24 PM

The Creative Commons Moving Images Contest deadline is three weeks from today, and there are lots of great prizes. You can use Flash or video to illustrate how Creative Commons works (here's a sample of how we describe it to musicians), no more than two minutes in length.

To be honest, we haven't had a ton of entries yet, so get cracking creative types!

Favorite Programming Contests?

Favorite Programming Contests? 06/22/2005 02:52 AM
Slashdot Jun 21 2005 9:34PM GMT

Architosh announces design contests

Architosh announces design contests 06/30/2004 04:02 PM
Architosh, a Web site dedicated to Mac-based CAD/3D and AEC professionals, has announced two new contests for Mac developers, as noted at MacSurfer...

New York to Revive Subway Beauty
Contests (AP)

New York to Revive Subway Beauty
Contests (AP) 06/23/2004 09:28 AM
AP - For 35 years, the words "miss subways" had nothing to do with being late for work or nostalgia among expatriate New Yorkers. The words referred to the eager young women who hoped their photos on subway placards would be tickets to modeling careers or even Hollywood.

"Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests |
Are you Worthy™ | contes..."

"Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests |
Are you Worthy™ | contes..." 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

IBM Grants, Contests Invest in Eclipse's
Future

IBM Grants, Contests Invest in Eclipse's
Future 04/23/2004 04:23 PM
The company aims to tap young developers in college and expose them to Eclipse early on, engaging them in the Java development community.

"Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests |
Are you Worthy™ | contest"

"Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests |
Are you Worthy™ | contest" 05/31/2004 09:53 PM

Grok Description matches for Crazy contests fill short Finnish summers (Reuters)
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Crazy contests fill short Finnish summers (Reuters)

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