News Bits: SXSW 2008, Asperger's Syndrome & The Physics of Starving Nations

- Browse and contribute to the 2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker.
- Lifehacker: Mozilla preps Firefox Campus Edition, which is pre-bundled with student-centric extensions like Zotero, FoxyTunes and StumbleUpon. What extensions would you give to our young academics?
- The Department of Justice wants to come up with an official list of every porn star in America - and slap stiff penalties on producers who don't cooperate.
- What has better sound: vinyl, or a CD? Any record industry junkie will tell you, it's vinyl all the way. The wall of sound is unmatched, and apparently other casual fans are realizing this truth.
- Tim Page at the New Yorker recounts his personal history as a child with Asperger's Syndrome.
- A Malaysian villager who took a second wife has been ordered by a court to compensate his first wife and their children with a buffalo and a pig, an official said Wednesday.
- Physics may explain why some countries are rich while others are poor.
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