A slashdot reader writes: “KDE continues to grow. Early screenshots, mockups, and developer blogs show that the new Plasma Project (KDE 4.x branch) will bring innovative approaches to desktop computing. On the other hand, the very first screenshots of SimpleKDE, an unofficial fork of KDE, were meant to be a response to those who criticise KDE as being overbloated.”

* Slashdot | KDE’s future: Plasma & SimpleKDE

Yay! This is too great! Screw FOX for cancelling and mistreating this gold egg! I can’t wait to buy this movie, although it could turn out pretty bad, because it’s simply too long — Personally I’d rather have another season (hint hint!!). But I guess the prospect of having another Bender moment is just too funking cool!

An anonymous slashdot.org reader writes “In a recent video blog Billy West mentions that a Futurama movie is in production!“ From the video: “Good news everyone…there’s gonna be a Futurama movie, coming out on DVD, I think we’re gonna start doing it soon. There were talks and I guess they’re really happy about moving forward with it cuz the DVDs of Futurama sold really well, and then with a possibility of a second one.” Already mentioned as a possibility here on Slashdot. He also talks extensively of his new puppet-based project ‘Billy Bastard’, which will be based on his drunken shenanigans as a band member when he was younger.

* Slashdot | Direct to DVD Futurama Movie

* UPDATE (19th March 2006): Return of Futurama!!?

/. heeeraldo writes “Is there another format war on the horizon? This wiki compares the two, and finds that even though RSS has far greater deployment (and mindshare), Atom 1.0 solves a lot of the problems associated with it.”

* Slashdot | Atom 1.0 vs RSS 2.0