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When a student wanted to show other children in his class the power of linux, he got rewarded by his teacher. Well… When I say rewarded, I actually meant reprimanded, his disks confiscated and detention. In addition, the teacher emailed the manager of the distribution (in this case the HeliOS project).

A choice part of the teacher’s original email: ” At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.”

His response was informed, intelligent and to the point. He’s also had a chat with the Austin Independent School District Superintendant and called a meeting with him and the teacher involved. Should be fun to see the result

An excellent example of Motion Tracking. Boujou/Syntheyes for the rich folks, Icarus is free for non-commercial use and is a plugin for After Effects.

Grats to Mark on the first outing of the Northern Fight League: Prologue. Sold out, and well sponsored. It can only get bigger!

Photos courtesy of Chris Mason. Reproduced with permission (thanks Mark)

A good action shot from the night:

…and here’s the video on YouTube

Classic quote from the comments:

That looks fucking horrible. And I like Brussel sprouts…

An oldie but a goodie. Star Wars examined from the point of view of Saltzer and Schroeder’s classic ‘The Protection of Information in Computer Systems‘, courtesy of Emergent Chaos.