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Intel's Skulltrail Strikes Back Before the CES

The motherboard sports six SATA connectors and a single IDE port, with headers for additional USB and Firewire ports. The legacy connectors (LPT, COM and PS/2) have been stripped down and replaced with six USB 2.0 ports and two eSATA connectors. The rear panel also features a single FireWire port and Gigabit Ethernet jacks, along with analog and digital HD audio inputs/outputs. These are the first rock-solid details to emerge about Intel's Skulltrail platform. More goodies are expected to follow the Consumer Electronics Show, that will take place in Las Vegas starting January the 7th. .

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Richard Roberts: God said to resign

Richard Roberts told Oral Roberts University students Wednesday that God spoke to him last Thursday — and told him to resign.

Students cheered and cried as Roberts spoke for a few minutes at the school's chapel service Wednesday, five days after he resigned as the school's president.

Roberts said that God told him to step down.

He said he initially resisted the instructions, but God told him that if he would resign, the school would be blessed ‘‘supernaturally.''

Roberts resigned Friday. On Tuesday, Yukon businessman Mart Green promised the school up to $70 million, more than enough to erase the school's debt.

Roberts was under pressure to step down after three former professors sued ORU and alleged excessive spending on the part of the Roberts family.

Sony DCR-DVD100 Handycam DVD camcorder

The Sony DCR-DVD100 Handycam ($900) makes sharing home movies with friends and family easier because it records them on disks that can be played on most DVD devices. No more forcing friends and families to sit through marathon screenings in your home–now you can give them their very own copy of Deedee's First Dance Recital: The Director's Cut.

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Creating rich Internet applications on Linux with WebKit

Development on the GTK WebKit port is progressing at a very impressive pace. We have previously looked at several noteworthy experiments related to the port, including a GStreamer-based HTML5 video element implementation, and WebKit backend support for web browsers on Maemo, Epiphany, and OLPC. These tests demonstrate the increasing efficacy of the GTK WebKit port in the context of a conventional browser, but there are also many other fascinating experiments that reveal additional contexts in which the GTK WebKit port has value.

GTK WebKit developer Alp Toker published slides last week from his presentation at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM). The presentation discusses prospects for developing hybrid desktop/web applications with WebKit and GTK.

How many nonbelievers?

The 2006 study from the University of Minnesota does not examine the question of how many non- believers there are but rather makes clear the troubling depth of Americans' distrust of them. Asked whether they would disapprove of a child's wish to marry an atheist, 47.6% of the 2,000 randomly selected people interviewed said yes. When asked the same question about Muslims and African Americans, the respondents' "yes" responses fell to 33.5% and 27.2%, respectively, and the responses dealing with Asian Americans, Latinos and other groups were lower.

When asked which groups did not share their vision of society, 39.5% of those interviewed mentioned atheists -- again, a level of distrust far in excess of that shown to other groups. Sociologist Penny Edgell, the study's lead researcher, called the results "a glaring exception to the rule of increasing tolerance over the last 30 years."

The recent study by the Pew Forum reports on the religious affiliations of Americans.