[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- The Hole Thing: Lunar Topographic Map Provides Rich Record of Impacts on the Moon
- [Scientific American]
- Paladino: No Mosque or Islamic Center Where Dust Cloud Was and Use Eminent Domain to Seize Site
- [Crooks and Liars - Heather]
I thought these "Tea Party" candidates were supposed to be against "big government".
- dw_dev: Code Tour: 9-9 to 15-9
- [Most of these changes will not be live until the next code push, but I love these sneak previews! -L]
I'm so excited to have an actually-functional edit profile page! YAY!…
So you know the awesome expand-a-cut arrow that shows up next to cut tags on your rlist? Well, this patch makes there be a close-a-cut tag at the bottom of the cut text area for easy collapsing of that 4,334 word fic you opened on accident. See? AWESOMESAUCE.
…There were some extra shifts in places where shifts don't belong. In the course of clean-up, Kar removed the extra shifts and donated them to the Home for the Shiftless Shifts, where they will get lessons in how to be in the proper places.
…So you know how you can hit the "Random Icon" button on entries and it will pick, um, a random icon for you? This patch adds that feature to comments too!
…VOODOO CODE NEEDS MORE PINS.
- The Mind of America, Part 2 | Mother Jones
- This is, of course, a simple factual question with a simple factual answer: Obama has lowered taxes for virtually all Americans. Unfortunately, hardly anyone knows it.
In other news, people hate Democrats but hate Republicans even more…
Oh, and they're going to kick Democrats out of office this November anyway.
- TPM’s Top Ten Quotes From Christine O’Donnell, The Woman Who’s Against Everything | TPMMuckraker
- 1. O'Donnell on AIDS.
In 1997, O'Donnell took to C-SPAN to complain that the government was spending too much money combating AIDS. She voiced concerns that a drag queen ball "celebrates the type of lifestyle which leads to the disease." She also objected to calling those with AIDS "victims" and said the disease was a consequence of a certain "lifestyle."
- Meg Whitman: Biggest. Self-Financer. Ever. | TPMDC
- Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for governor of California, has …crossed a historic threshold: As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, she has just put in another $15 million of her own money into the campaign…
Whitman's $119 million puts her past the previous record-holder, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I)…
- dw_news: Weekly Update: 15 September
- …tax time is coming, and we've got a lot of things planned that will help a lot if we have the ability to add more servers on a permanent basis, not just when traffic is high. I know times are tough for a lot of people, but if you've been considering supporting Dreamwidth with a paid account, please give us your support…
(…renames will be available with the next code push! …
…[in the future] we'll be implementing Diaspora crossposting — we have bugs open to add a lot more sites to our crosspost option, including Facebook, Wordpress, Movable Type/TypePad, Posterous, Tumblr, and a bunch of other, non-LJ-code sites — and, just like the existing crosspost option, it will be totally under your control and your choice whether to crosspost anything from your journal.)
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