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Is Earth’s Atmosphere an Import?
December 11th, 2009
garg0yle writes "One of the questions about the formation of our planet is: where did the atmosphere come from? One theory is that the oxygen, nitrogen, and other gases were part of the coalescing ball, and 'seeped out' during the final stages of the planet's formation. However, a new article at Wired says isotopic analysis of krypton and xenon indicates that they (and the rest of our atmosphere) may be of extraterrestrial origin, either arriving via comets or being swept up from gas clouds."
Myspace/Imeem Deal Leaves Thousands of Artists Unpaid
December 11th, 2009
Independent artists won't see a dime for songs sold through their Snocap storefronts on MySpace.
Wired.com Readers’ Favorite iPhone Apps of 2009
December 11th, 2009
Your votes are in. Here are Wired.com readers' favorite iPhone apps of 2009.
Slashdot Turns 100,000
December 11th, 2009
This entry represents the 100,000th story posted on Slashdot. Technically this is a bit late since we're missing the first few months of stories from the DB, but there are now 100k items in the story database and I thought that milestone was worthy of sharing with the universe. We've come a long way in the last 12 years, and while the site isn't always exactly what I want it to be, I'm very proud of the work done by our thousands of submitters and to the editors our readers have "affectionately" referred to as "The Slashdot Janitors" for so many years. Special grats to timothy who is just short of his 17,000th story and is far and away the most prolific person here. The hall of fame has a few other bits of trivia.
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Video: Takahashi-Meijin’s Button-Mashing Secrets Revealed
December 11th, 2009
"The Famous Takahashi" shares uncanny tips and techniques for squeezing an amazing 16 shots per second out of a videogame controller.
