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Thanks ubuntu-geek for this very neat new feature!
When starting a thread, there is now this new dialog:

Clicking in the text box to write the message will have the system look for similar threads and link them on screen:

Cool! This will help users find answers before posting and hopefully reduce duplicate threads.

If so, the gnome-power-manager programming team and jasonspiro need your feedback:
Do you ever carry your laptop around with the lid open?:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=488027
A “don’t suspend laptop for. X min on close” option. Good idea? Bad?:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=488028
I think it is an extremely interesting and unusual request from a dev, please contribute. The very large ubuntuforums community should consider this […]

Following up on a previous article.
On certain keyboards, there is no right Windows key to set up a “compose” key.
In /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst, you can find the default keys that can be defined as “compose”:
Compose key Compose key position
compose:ralt […]

This is very impressive:
http://ubuntustats.com/.
You can follow in real time a representative chunk of the Ubuntu community activity, all in one web page. You can personalize the way data is shown.
Congratulations to Martin Albisetti and Felipe Lerena :)

Links
http://beuno.com.ar/archives/28
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2972211

I’m used to aptitude. On a daily basis.
I use it to udate/upgrade my system, and to look for infos on packages, mainly to help out people on ubuntuforums.
Searching the web for something else, I’ve found apt-cache madison. Woaw! One more tool I’m going to be using a lot…
From man apt-cache:

madison /[ pkg(s) ]
apt-cache’s madison command […]

A new mailing list has been set up for the “Ubuntu For All” project:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-for-all
The project currently aggregates: Ubuntu Accessibility, Ubuntu LGBT, Ubuntu Youth and Ubuntu Women.