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...basic idea is that while most software is produced by the aforementioned People in the Room, open-source software is offered to the entire world as a collaborative project. Somebody posts a piece of software on the Internet and then throws the joint wide open. It's like American Idol for software. In the open-source model, innovation comes from hundreds of thousands of people, not just a handful of engineers and a six-pack of Code Red. One open-source program, the truly excellent Web browser Firefox, has been downloaded 150 million times. SourceForge.net a website that coordinates open...
...proctors and young freshmen, and provided an invaluable link between the Yard and the Houses. In addition, the program managed a series of Yard-wide, late-night, alcohol-free activities designed to give freshmen something fun to do. In December 2003, the prefect program hosted “Harvard Idol,” which attracted more than 500 sober freshmen at midnight on three consecutive Saturdays. These aspects of the program were successful precisely because they were student-driven. The program was not beholden to the bulging bureaucracy of University Hall. Returning prefects, not College administrators, selected and supported...
...talking, of course, about Barry Bonds. And if you cringed when you saw him donning a blonde wig for an insipid American Idol spoof, wait until you read about him gulping 20 pills at one time. That?s just one of the explosive new revelations contained in ?Game of Shadows,? the book by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams excerpted in this week?s issue of Sports Illustrated, which provides the most detailed, damning account to date of Bonds? steroid use. We already knew he took designer steroids ?the Cream? and ?the Clear?-America, say hello...
Raghda is cute, and she's also ambitious. "I'd like my designs to represent my country and my culture in the wider world and to show we're not just rich kids who don't do anything," she says. Her idol is Gwen Stefani. "I love her! She's kashka. That's the Emirati word for cool...
...strategic game is changing too, as networks leapfrog directly to new media with original shows. NBC could never compete on the air with Fox's American Idol, but this summer on its website, NBC is trying a talent search called StarTomorrow, produced by record exec Tommy Mottola (a.k.a. Mariah Carey's ex). Also this summer, Fox's animated hit Family Guy--resurrected on TV after huge DVD sales--will find its third (but probably not its last) life online with new episodes...