Published: Monday, July 16, 2012, 12:01 a.m.
Boss silenced
Boss silenced
What's wrong with that? Plenty: Officials in London pulled the plug on a Bruce Springsteen concert Saturday night, shortly after The Boss welcomed Paul McCartney to the stage for a few songs at the end of his three-hour-plus show.
The official reason was a noise curfew in Hyde Park, but concert organizers reportedly also expressed concern that McCartney was about to launch into "Silly Love Songs."
Picky, picky: More than 1,000 Wikipedia enthusiasts gathered over the weekend at a convention in Washington, and some Wikipedians expressed dismay at changes in the online encyclopedia's community of editors. "On Wikipedia, it's more 'you have to get it right' instead of 'it's OK if you get it wrong,' " one editor lamented.
Others countered, however, that the nation's high school and college students deserve accurate material to copy and paste verbatim without attribution into their writing assignments.
Blue light special: Do you take your smartphone or tablet to bed? The blue light produced by the screen may be interfering with your sleep, doctors say.
Dr. Buzz's solution: Put down the gadget and pick up a copy of the collected speeches of Adlai Stevenson, which you'll find lying on your chest in the morning. You're welcome.
-- Mark Carlson, Herald staff
What's wrong with that? Plenty: Officials in London pulled the plug on a Bruce Springsteen concert Saturday night, shortly after The Boss welcomed Paul McCartney to the stage for a few songs at the end of his three-hour-plus show.
The official reason was a noise curfew in Hyde Park, but concert organizers reportedly also expressed concern that McCartney was about to launch into "Silly Love Songs."
Picky, picky: More than 1,000 Wikipedia enthusiasts gathered over the weekend at a convention in Washington, and some Wikipedians expressed dismay at changes in the online encyclopedia's community of editors. "On Wikipedia, it's more 'you have to get it right' instead of 'it's OK if you get it wrong,' " one editor lamented.
Others countered, however, that the nation's high school and college students deserve accurate material to copy and paste verbatim without attribution into their writing assignments.
Blue light special: Do you take your smartphone or tablet to bed? The blue light produced by the screen may be interfering with your sleep, doctors say.
Dr. Buzz's solution: Put down the gadget and pick up a copy of the collected speeches of Adlai Stevenson, which you'll find lying on your chest in the morning. You're welcome.
-- Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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