Special Edition: 15th Anniversary Round-up

Editor's Note: Thanks for helping us celebrate our 15th anniversary! Between all the parties and the great logo submissions (vote for your favorite), you made sure we marked our 15th year in style. Here's a special Slashback that rounds up the best of our birthday features, including views on what the next 15 years of tech will bring. Enjoy! Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Richard Dawkins: Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting Dawkins Discusses the Chilling Effect of Fundamentalism Steve Wozniak Answers Your Questions Linus Torvalds on Cool Code, the Kernel and Copyrights Greatest Battle of the PC Revolution Lies Ahead Making a Slashdot Omelet Jonathan Coulton Re-records 'Code Monkey' for Us A Day in Your Life, 15 Years from Now Meet the Slashdot Mobile Experience: Clean, Modern, and Fast Richard Dawkins: Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting In part 2 of this video interview (with transcript), Dr. Richard Dawkins talks about his website, which aims to serve as a model for other free-thinking, atheist, skeptical sites. He also explains that his appearance of being disrespectful is greatly exaggerated by the presumption that religion is owed respect.  Read More>> Dawkins Discusses the Chilling Effect of Fundamentalism Dr. Richard Dawkins discusses religious exceptionalism with regard to the teaching of evolution, and the chilling effect of fundamentalism on the production of scientists and engineers. He also addresses Rep. Paul Broun's recent comments about evolution and the Big Bang theory, and the "Innocence of Muslims" video that led to unrest in various parts of the world. Read More>> Steve Wozniak Answers Your Questions He co-founded Apple Computer, he's a programmer and engineer who invented the Apple I and Apple II, he's one of our most influential readers, he is known simply as Woz. To kick-off our 15th anniversary month, Woz answered a few of your submitted questions. Read More>> Linus Torvalds on Cool Code, the Kernel and Copyrights You had questions for Linus Torvalds and he had answers. At least for to the dozen we sent him. Find out what he has to say about computers, programming, books, copyrights and what he would have done differently with Linux if he had to do it all over again. Read More>> Greatest Battle of the PC Revolution Lies Ahead As tablets and computer-phones flood the market, the headlines read: "The Personal Computer is Dying." But they are only half true: an artifact of the PC is dying, but the essence of the PC revolution is closer to realization than ever before, while also being closer to loss than ever before. Read More>> Making a Slashdot Omelet It's been said that the mix of stories on Slashdot is like an omelet: Linux and tech, mixed with science and Legos, and a few reviews and sci-fi folded in. It's not just the stories that are a good mix, however, it's the people behind them. We take a look back at the unusual cast of characters that have been responsible for keeping the site up and running for the past 15 years. Read More>> Jonathan Coulton Re-records 'Code Monkey' for Us Back in 2006, we discussed Jonathan Coulton's "Code Monkey," a song about the plight of under-appreciated developers. In the years since, Coulton's efforts to produce geek-oriented songs have propelled him to a successful music career. To mark Slashdot's 15th anniversary, he was kind enough to do a brand new recording of "Code Monkey" for us. Read More>> A Day in Your Life, 15 Years from Now Since we turned 15 this month, we've been wondering what the next 15 years will bring. Soulskill paints a picture of what he imagines would be a typical day in the future, where your Computing ID (CID) card will be the key to everything you want and need. What would the future look like to you?   Read More>> Meet the Slashdot Mobile Experience: Clean, Modern, and Fast On our 15th anniversary, we unveiled a brand new mobile experience. The new mobile interface was shaped by the feedback received from hundreds of alpha users from the ranks of Slashdot users. So, you know it's got to be good. Read More>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.