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Gene expression trends and protein features effectively comple-ment each other in gene function prediction.

- 6 hours and 30 minutes ago

Publication Date: 2008 Dec 2 PMID: 19050035br/Authors: Wabnik, K. - Hvidsten, T. R. - Kedzierska, A. - Van Leene, J. - De Jaeger, G. - Beemster, G. T. - Komorowski, J. - Kuiper, M. T.br/Journal: Bioinformaticsbr/br/MOTIVATION: Genome-scale 'omics' data constitutes a potentially rich source of information about biological systems and their function. There is a plethora of tools and methods available to mine omics data. However, the diversity and complexity of different omics data types is a stumbling block for multi-data integration, hence there is a dire need for additional methods to exploit potential synergy from integrated orthogonal data. Rough Sets provide an efficient means to use complex information in classification approaches. Here, we set out to explore the possibilities of Rough Sets to incorporate diverse information sources in a functional classification of unknown genes. RESULTS: We explored the use of Rough Sets for a novel data integration strategy where gene expression data, protein features, and GO annotations were combined to describe general and biologically relevant patterns represented by If-Then rules. The descriptive rules were used to predict the function of unknown genes in Arabidopsis thaliana and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The If-Then rule models showed success rates of up to 0.89 (discriminative and predictive power for both modeled organisms) whereas models built solely of one data type (protein features or gene expression data) yielded success rates varying from 0.68 to 0.78. Our models were applied to generate classifications for many unknown genes, of which a sizeable number were confirmed either by PubMed literature reports or electronically interfered annotations. Finally, we studied cell cycle protein-protein interactions derived from both tandem affinity purification (TAP) experiments and in silico experiments in the BioGRID interactome database and found strong experimental evidence for the predictions generated by our models. The results show that our approach can be used to build very robust models that create synergy from integrating gene expression data and protein fea-tures. AVAILABILITY: The Rough Set-based method is implemented in the Rosetta toolkit kernel version 1.0.1 available at: http://rosetta.lcb.uu.se/ CONTACT: kuiper@nt.ntnu.no; krwab@psb.ugent.be SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19050035title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a

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Command Conquer: Red Alert 3 v1.05 Patch

Interview with Dev Team Member

iPod touch Fans forum

- 17 hours and 34 minutes ago

An interview with a Dev team member has been released a hungarian website and I managed to find an english version of it.

Its not planetbeing or any other main ones but its still cool to get an insight of what these guys are doing cos they normally never do interviews.
Anyways, here is it,

First of all congrats for the job you did so far, but I think you already know that half of the world is supporting you!
Thanks! Me and my wife read your blog, and after you wrote about the Dev Team, we thought it would be a good idea to find you. Your blog is the first hungarian language blog or newsportal we communicate to directly.
Special thanks for that. Let’s start with who the members of the Dev Team (no names of course) are, and how you organize your work since you are living in different countries, continents.
Members of the Dev Team are software, electronics and cryptographics professionals from all over the world. The members of the team - or much more, the core - are from Hungary, France, Belgium, England, Russia, Israel, Ukraine and the USA. We work in a way, that we distribute our work files among us, and with team work, we put the ideas together. The average age is about 30 years old. Most of us don’t know each others name and never met each other.

How many are you?
Everyone has a full time job - and of course this has influence on the Dev Team’s work, but usually there are 15 active members working on the job at the same time.

How do you organize, where does the idea come from to hack the iPhone, and why did you set it up?
We are high tech enthusiasts and hackersÃ‚Â… hackers in a good way. We like to crack things and see how they work. Most of us have worked with UNIX and OS X for a long time. Few of us knew the others from there, and other professionals have joined later, those whose work we appreciate a lot.

Do you get any threats or ”feedbackÃ‚Â” from Apple? Did you have any contact with the company?
Apple never made contact with us. We make sure we never break the law when we release a new software. PwnageTool and QuickPwn are very complicated, because these softwares remove the necessary parts from Apple’s firmware. We NEVER release pirated softwares.

How much time do you spend on the crack, and other iPhone-related works?
We are working on it 24 hours a day. While one of us are working on it, others are sleeping, and we continually switch. IRC is running in the background all the time, even when we are working onour private jobs, so we have worked on the iPhone thousands of hours. I have to mention, that we spend a lot of money on special hardware and reverse engineering softwares, also from our own money.

Do you get any donation, do you make any profit out of the huge work you made anyway?
We finance everything with our own money. Most of the team has a good job that pays good money in the IT field. The Dev Team is our hobby and although it is very time consuming, yet it still is a hobby. We didn’t take money from anyone!

How many people cracked their iPhones with your program? Do you have any idea how much iPhone users freed their phones?
We have more than hundred thousand recurrent PwnageTool and QuickPwn users. It is hard to estimate how many exactly, but a lot.

Why it is so hard to unlock the iPhone 3G? What is the main difference between 2G and 3G that has prevented the unlock so far?
Apple and Infineon made a very serious work and made almost impossible to unlock the iPhone 3G. They learned from what we did with 2G and made the 3G much more safer.

How far are you from suceeding with the unlock?
This is secret of course.

How deep was the 2.2 baseband update? If you want to make a sim-unlock on this as well, do you have to start the job from scratch? So, if someone accidently updated the baseband, does he have to give up, or does he still have a chance to unlock his phone?
At the moment the exploits we used to run our codes on 2.1 and older basebands has been removed from 2.2. 2.2 closed the security breach we used to control the baseband as we wanted and at the moment 2.2 baseband is bad.

What do you mean ”badÃ‚Â”?
In 2.2 baseband there is no such an exploit we can use, so it is bad :-).

What do you think about the sofware and hardware of the iPhone 3G compared to other smartphones?
The iPhone OS is very advanced technology. It is years ahead of everything you can buy on the market at the moment. And yes, I am an Apple fan, but nobody can deny that iPhone is almost futuristic. T-Mobile’s G1 is the second best device after iPhone, but it is still behind 18 months at least I think.

Why do these two devices have advantage over others?
The iPhone OS is based on UNIX/Mach operating system, and both UNIX and Mach is a result of many years of developement. G1 is using Linux, which has a similar story. Fortunately nowadays mobile processors are powerful enough to use UNIX.

What kind of deficiency does the iPhone OS have, and in which direction would you develop it, if it depended on you?
It would need to be more open.

Why and for who do you do your work?
First of all for myself, for us, and for the people who prefer an unlocked phone. We bought a flat in Budapest with my wife, and the agent does not come to our home every week to check if we had painted the walls red, does he? The situation is similar with the IPhone and other devices we buy as well.

What do you do on week days?
We work and play. We have a very special Hungarian Vizsla (deerhound), he keeps us busy all the time.

Why did you choose a pineapple as your logo?
Apple/Pinapple, Pwn/Own, PwnApple (Pwning Apple)

The link to the Hungarian version of it:Appleblog

The english version was got from here: AllTechRelated

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Ethical living: How eco is a Christmas tree? asks Leo Hickman

Guardian Unlimited

- 20 hours and 37 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/24710?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+Oh+Christmas+tree%2C+oh+Christmas+treech=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Ethical+living+%28Environment%29%2CGreen+Christmas+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CChristmas+%28Life+and+style%29%2CLife+and+stylec5=Not+commercially+useful%2CEthical+Living%2CChristmasc6=Leo+Hickmanc7=2008_12_04c8=1128849c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=blogc13=c14=Ethical+Living+blogh2=GU%2FEnvironment%2Fblog%2FEthical+Living+blog" width="1" height="1" //divpIt's at this point each December where I begin to feel as if I'm being haunted by the ghost of Christmas dilemmas past. Every year most of us go through the ritual of worrying about which Christmas tree to buy, or indeed whether to buy one at all./ppAren't they just a colossal waste of money? Can such a decadent waste of resources be justified in our (supposedly) eco-aware times? (Such cries have been heard for centuries â€“ Oliver Cromwell banged on about the "heathen tradition" of decorated trees, but he had his own all-together-different reasons.)/ppAnd then we buckle and relent as the children at our feet whimper and plead with us to get one. So what are the options for those of us who still want to follow this once-pagan yuletide tradition?/ph2Buy a real tree/h2pThis is still considered the only true option by most tradition-loving followers of Proper Christmas. There's something magical, they say, about the aroma of those pine needles and the presence of a just-felled, real tree in their home. Christmas just wouldn't be the same without one. /ppThe reality is a little less romantic: the vast majority of the trees we buy from garden centres and garage forecourts are intensively farmed on an industrial scale, sometimes beyond these shores. /ppAs with most monocrops, Christmas trees are typically sprayed with potent fertilisers and herbicides such as Monsanto's Roundup (glyphosate). Just how much Christmas cheer does that spread to local biodiversity and the a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1594/is_6_16/ai_n15895166"seasonal workers hired to harvest the trees/a? Erase from your head any idyllic notion that these trees are carefully scythed from a snow-laden forest floor ready for your home. /ppIn many ways, though, this is a positive. If Christmas trees were gathered this way they would be responsible for deforestation on an epic scale considering that we get through millions of things each year. They also offer some farmers a profitable harvest for otherwise unproductive fields positioned on steep hills./ppThere are some basic things to look out for, though, when sourcing a real tree. The a href="http://www.soilassociation.org/christmas"Soil Association/a has details of retailers selling organic Christmas trees. And the a href="http://www.fsc-uk.org/"Forest Stewardship Council/a has a list showing you how to get hold of an FSC-approved tree. Between them, these standards offer a guarantee that your tree has been farmed sustainably. /ppAnd try to find a tree that's been grown as close to your home as possible â€“ for anyone living outside a large conurbation this usually isn't too tricky as it's usually easy to find a local farmer who sells Christmas trees. Whether they are grown sustainably or not is another matter that only your questioning will uncover./ppIt is also worth considering getting a potted tree, rather than one that has been felled, so that you can use it again, following a wee trim, in subsequent years. The problem, of course, is storage. Not everyone can host a living Christmas tree at home throughout the year even if they are blessed with some outside space. /ppIf you do have to buy a cut tree it is worth finding out first from your local authority whether it offers a Christmas tree collection service whereby it chips up all the trees into mulch. Many local authorities still do not offer such a service which could leave you with the headache of working out what to do with the tree come the twelfth day. Streets strewn with naked trees in early January is usually a good sign you do not live within a progressive local authority./ph2Buy a plastic tree/h2pThis option is often presented as the eco alternative to buying a real tree, but such claims fail to stack up in my view. First, there's the canard that a plastic tree is "for life", whereas most plastic trees are used little more than a handful of years before being discarded. /ppThere's also the claim that a plastic tree prevents a real tree from being cut down, whereas, as has already been mentioned above, Christmas trees are no different from any other farmed crop and are only planted with harvesting in mind./ppAnd do we really want to encourage the production of yet another piece of plastic tat being produced thousands of miles away and shipped around the planet for our seasonal gratification?/ph2Decorate an existing tree/plant/h2pYou may well get a nasty neighbour shouting "Scrooge!" at you through your front window, but some families just decorate a large house plant instead of buying in a cut conifer, as tradition dictates. Decorating a tree in the garden is also an option, although this could leave the presents underneath a tad soggy./ph2Do nothing/h2pHow about just foregoing the whole tradition altogether? (Granted, this is probably a little easier to pull off in child-free homes.) Some charities try to exploit â€“ in the nicest sense â€“ the fact that some of us just don't like to suffer the guilt of excess that comes with Christmas. The Woodland Trust, for example, offers its a href="http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/christmas/plantatree/"Plant a Tree for Christmas/a gift. For £25, the price of a modest Christmas tree, you will be able to dedicate three trees in a wood of your choice./ppAnd if you want a valid excuse to supply to exasperated family members that explains to them why you have not bought a Christmas tree this year, show them this frankly quite scary clip of a a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J-mpQRJD5wU"Christmas tree fire/a:/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicalliving"Ethical living/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/greenchristmas"Green Christmas/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/christmas"Christmas/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/FNEn8kHD6WgPQoIXfHJh0VB-0pY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/FNEn8kHD6WgPQoIXfHJh0VB-0pY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Reading Classics - Mere Christianity (I)

Challies Dot Com

- 20 hours and 59 minutes ago

pHere we are, at the beginning of another round of Reading Classics Together. In the past months we've read four great Christian classics--emHoliness/em by J.C. Ryle, emOvercoming Sin and Temptation/em by John Owen, emThe Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross/em by A.W. Pink and emThe Religious Affections/em by Jonathan Edwards. And now we add to the list emMere Christianity/em by C.S. Lewis. I trust that this will be a slightly easier read than Edwards, whose great work we finished just a few weeks ago./p pIf you are interested in joining in this effort, please feel free to do so. Simply buy, borrow or download a copy of emMere Christianity/em and start reading. Our assigned reading for this week was nothing more than the Preface and Foreword, so you will not be far behind. Every week we will read a portion of the book and then return here on Thursdays to enjoy a little bit of discussion. It's a good, easy way of making your way through some of the classics of the Christian faith./p h2Discussion/h2 pThis week's reading was, by design, very simple. To help set the stage for the book, we read just the Preface and Foreword. Essentially, we learned a little bit about the book's genesis and Lewis' rationale for writing it. And, of course, we learned what he meant by the term "Mere Christianity."/p pLewis wastes no time discussing the book's origins. "The contents of this book were first given on the air, and then published in three separate parts as emBroadcast Talks/em (1942), emChristian Behaviour/em (1943) and emBeyond Personality/em (1944)." The book has been adapted slightly to fit the print medium, but is otherwise consistent with what he taught over the radio. In the Foreword, Kathleen Norris provides further context by setting these messages in the midst of the Second World War, in a day when people were asking questions about the nature and existence of God. Lewis "gave talks to men in the Royal Air Force, who knew that after just thirteen bombing missions, most of them would be declared dead or missing. Their situation prompted Lewis to speak about the problems of suffering, pain, and evil, work that resulted in his being invited by the BBC to give a series of wartime broadcasts on Christian faith." This is not a work of academic philosophy but a work of oral literature, delivered to people at war./p pIn the Preface, Lewis addresses the inevitable question of "what is mere Christianity?". He says it is "the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times." While he does not hide his own Anglicanism, he says that he will not be arguing for one particular denomination. Nor will he concern himself with issues of secondary importance since, as he says, these tend to fracture rather than divide and are not very useful for purposes of apologetics. "I am not writing to expound something I would call 'my religion,' but to expound 'mere' Christianity, which is what it is and what it was long before I was born and whether I like it or not." /p pNorris writes this: "The 'mere' Christianity of C.S. Lewis is not a philosophy or even a theology that may be considered, argued, and put away in a book on a shelf. It is a way of life, one that challenges us always to remember, as Lewis once stated, that 'there are no ordinary people' and that 'it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit.' Once we tune ourselves to this reality, Lewis believes, we open ourselves to imaginatively transform our lives in such a way that evil diminishes and good prevails. It is what Christ asked of us in taking on our humanity, sanctifying our flesh, and asking us in turn to reveal God to one another."/p pAnd so mere Christianity is the essence of the Christian faith--those beliefs that have been held in common by all true Christians through all of the church's history. And on that basis, I think we are ready to move forward, knowing what it is that Lewis hopes to accomplish through the book./p h2Next Week/h2 pFor next week, let's read Book I. It's not as bad as it sounds. There are five short chapters that together come in at less than 30 pages (which together are probably easier to read than 5 pages of Edwards or Owen!). I think this section is best read as a unit so we'll treat it in that fashion. So read those pages and come back here next Thursday!/p h2Your Turn/h2 pThe purpose of this program is to read these classics emtogether/em. So if there is something you'd like to share about what you read, please feel free to do so. You can leave a comment or a link to your blog and we'll make this a collaborative effort./pbr /strongSponsor:/strongbr /a href="http://www.rpmissions.com"img src="http://www.adgrab.org/www/images/RPMissions.jpg" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=1B1NO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=1B1NO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=3lvbo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=3lvbo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=nyqlo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=nyqlo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/challies/XhEt/~4/474692906" height="1" width="1"/

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Inference of haplotypic phase and missing genotypes in polyploid organisms and variable copy number genomic regions.

BMC Bioinformatics

- 1 days and 6 hours ago

Publication Date: 2008 Dec 1 PMID: 19046436br/Authors: Su, S. Y. - White, J. - Balding, D. J. - Coin, L. J.br/Journal: BMC Bioinformaticsbr/br/ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The power of haplotype-based methods for association studies, identification of regions under selection, and ancestral inference, is well-established for diploid organisms. For polyploids, however, the difficulty of determining phase has limited such approaches. Polyploidy is common in plants and is also observed in animals. Partial polyploidy is sometimes observed in humans (e.g. trisomy 21; Down's syndrome), and it arises more frequently in some human tissues. Local changes in ploidy, known as copy number variations (CNV), arise throughout the genome. Here we present a method, implemented in the software polyHap, for the inference of haplotype phase and missing observations from polyploid genotypes. RESULTS: PolyHap allows each individual to have a different ploidy, but ploidy cannot vary over the genomic region analysed. It employs a hidden Markov model (HMM) and a sampling algorithm to infer haplotypes jointly in multiple individuals and to obtain a measure of uncertainty in its inferences. In the simulation study, we combine real haplotype data to create artificial diploid, triploid, and tetraploid genotypes, and use these to demonstrate that polyHap performs well, in terms of both switch error rate in recovering phase and imputation error rate for missing genotypes. To our knowledge, there is no comparable software for phasing a large, densely genotyped region of chromosome from triploids and tetraploids, while for diploids we found polyHap to be more accurate than fastPhase. We also compare the results of polyHap to SATlotyper on an experimentally haplotyped tetraploid dataset of 12 SNPs, and show polyHap is more accurate. With the availability of large SNP data in polyploids and CNV regions, CONCLUSIONS: We believe that polyHap, our proposed method for inferring haplotypic phase from genotype data, will be useful in enabling researchers analysing such data to exploit the power of haplotype-based analyses.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19046436title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a

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Mr. Know-It-All: Call-Center Etiquette, Offensive Podcasts, Awkward Transactions

Wired Top Stories

- 1 days and 7 hours ago

!-- pageType= magazinesmall slug= st_kia section= techbiz subsection= people headline= Mr. Know-It-All: Call-Center Etiquette, Offensive Podcasts, Awkward Transactions authorName= Brendan I. Koerner creditType= illustration credit= Christoph Niemann -- p strong Dear Mr. Know-It-All, is it cool to ask call-center operators what country they're in? I'm not a bigot or opposed to outsourcing, but I like to know who I'm dealing with./strong /p pFire away with the geolocation query, but be wary of how you broach the topic. Call-center operators deal with countless xenophobic jerks, who typically follow the "Where are you located?" question with a stream of invective. An operator may thus turn defensive in anticipation of the same treatment from youmdash;unless you're careful with your tone and timing. "If the very first thing out of your mouth is, 'Hey, what country are you in,' I think that's rude," says a href="http://www.kathleenpeterson.com/"Kathleen Peterson/a, founder of PowerHouse Consulting, which advises call-center operations. Resolve your business first, then feel free to ask about location when there's a natural lull in the conversation. At that point, make sure your voice exudes affability, as if you were simply inquiring about the weather in Omaha./p pAnd, should you learn you're on the horn with someone on the planet's flip side, go easy on the inane chitchat. "A call-center agent has a job to do and probably doesn't want to answer questions about the population of Bangalore," says a href="http://www.globaltelesourcing.com/exper-colton.htm"Bill Colton/a, president of Global Telesourcing, a call-center service provider./p pThe operator may decline to answer your question or try to convince you that he's in Kansas even though his accent screams Ukraine. Such deception indicates that a company either wants to hide the fact that it's outsourcing or doesn't think too highly of its customersmdash;make a mental note of it./p pstrongI've been helping my nongeek friend build a Flash-intensive Web site. It's gotten to the point where I'm spending a dozen hours a week on it. How should I ask for compensation?/strong/p pYour pal surely didn't intend to exploit you. Odds are he doesn't know how much work goes into codingmdash;an impression you encouraged by not demanding dough up front./p pAssuming you want this relationship to survive, bring up the problem without making your friend feel like a total heel. a href="http://www.negotiatingwithgiants.com/introduction.html"Peter D. Johnston/a, the author of emNegotiating with Giants/em, recommends telling him that a sudden influx of paying gigs precludes you from doing more work, but you'd be happy to point him to a replacement. "That approach can get the issue of time and payment out on the table in a nonthreatening way," Johnston says. Presuming he's hesitant to switch horses midstream, your pal should offer to make his project worth your while./p pRefrain from pressing for back pay, however, or you're likely to look like a greedy ass. Those hours you've already spent slaving away in the digital mines? Consider them a lesson in the veracity of an age-old maxim: "Never mix business with pleasure."/p p div id="embed" div id="pic"img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/st_kia2_f.jpg" alt="" / div id="caption"emIllustration: Christoph Niemann/em/div /div /div strongEveryone in my office has sharing enabled on iTunes. One of my coworker's libraries contains several podcasts of sermons I find highly offensivemdash;they contain lots of antigay blather. Should I confront her?/strong/p pIt depends on how you gleaned those sermons' content. If you couldn't help noticing incendiary titles along the lines of "Fags Go to Hell," then a little indirect confrontation is in ordermdash;tell a manager, pronto./p pBut if the titles were innocuous, and you thus had to listen to the podcasts in order to be offended, pause a moment before taking action. You may have a valid case, but you'll have to decide whether this fight can ever yield anything more than a Pyrrhic victory./p pIt would be one thing if your colleague was blasting these sermons through her speakers for all to hearmdash;or, for that matter, telling everyone around the watercooler about the Lord's contempt for sodomites. But a shared iTunes environment such as yours is strictly opt-inmdash;you can easily avoid listening to the offensive content./p pThe best meatspace parallel is a coworker who keeps a small stack of religious pamphlets in plain view, which you can just ignore. True, there have been cases in which employers have been successfully sued for writing Bible verses on paychecks or broadcasting prayers over public address systems. But those situations were a lot more in-your-face than what's going on heremdash;in part because they involved bosses rather than colleagues, but also because the employees couldn't escape the proselytizing./p pAn aggressive lawyer could still argue that the mere presence of those tracks on the network creates a hostile workplace. But that strikes Mr. Know-It-All as making a sermon on the mount out of a sermon on a molehill, especially considering that the suit could very well be a losermdash;you might be hard-pressed to prove that the screeds, tucked away in an iTunes library, are severe or pervasive enough to constitute harassment./p pAs odious as you might find your coworker's views, it's probably best to give her a pass. Look on the bright sidemdash;now you know who to avoid at the office holiday party./p pemNeed help navigating life in the 21st century? 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Atari picking up Brash's 'The Tale of Despereaux'

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ds/" rel="tag"Nintendo DS/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps2/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 2/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/wii/" rel="tag"Nintendo Wii/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/12/brashs-tale-of.html"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/tod_poster-490px.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Unlike everybody else watching the a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/brash-goes-out-with-a-fascinating-bang/"spectacular demise/a of film-to-game flop factory a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/brash"Brash/a, we've been vaguely curious as to what fates would befall the company's leftover licenses. According to Variety's a href="http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/12/brashs-tale-of.html"Cut Scene/a blog, we can count "The Tale of Despereaux" among the survivors, as Atari has purchased the North American publishing rights for the PC, PS2 and Wii versions of the game. In addition, Atari will be distributing the DS version, which is being produced by Universal itself.br /br /For those unfamiliar with the source material -- that is, the book that the film is based on -- emDespereaux/em follows the heroic exploits of a mouse with huge ears and an even bigger sense of chivalry. It probably says just that on the movie poster. br /p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/03/atari-picking-up-brashs-the-tale-of-despereaux/"Atari picking up Brash's 'The Tale of Despereaux'/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/12/brashs-tale-of.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/03/atari-picking-up-brashs-the-tale-of-despereaux/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1390140/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/03/atari-picking-up-brashs-the-tale-of-despereaux/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/mG97TMoS2Dp95PYZ_aae2r5G97k/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/mG97TMoS2Dp95PYZ_aae2r5G97k/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=k5q10BLe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=k5q10BLe" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=DwdZrXTQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=DwdZrXTQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/WSHbuV34uo8" height="1" width="1"/