[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- 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.)
- Diaspora: Developer Release
- Today [15 Sept] we are releasing the source code for Diaspora. This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control…
We began the summer a list of technologies, and a few bold claims and the goal to make an intrinsically more private social network.
- Useful cheat sheets for WordPress development
- [ForTheLose.org - Liss]
- Children as young as four can understand irony
- [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins]
Anybody hoping to sneak some withering sarcasm past an unsuspecting little brat is going to be sorely disappointed. Even the littlest of children can understand irony. Turns out children really aren't so different from us after all.
- A hurricane as seen from space
- [io9 - Charlie Jane Anders]
It's a planetary disturbance so massive, it looks like the whole atmosphere is churning. This is Hurricane Danielle, photographed by astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock aboard the International Space Station. And click through for his picture of Hurricane Igor.
- The scariest video you have ever watched in the name of science [Holy Crap Wtf]
- [io9 - Annalee Newitz]
This video contains no special effects, and no fancy stunts. But it will scare the crap out of you. That's because you're watching from a head-mounted camera as an engineer scales an antenna tower over 1,000 feet high.
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- Whooping cough data from state show babies hardest hit, epidemic worst since 1955
- [L.A. Times - California]
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- Apply Now for Women 2.0′s Pitch Startup Competition
- [ReadWriteWeb - Audrey Watters]
- Biden Scolds Dem Voters for Enthusiasm Gap; Tells Progressives to “Get in Gear”
- [Firedoglake - Gregg Levine]
Joe Biden is not saying Democrats need an excited progressive base to win in November, and here is what the administration is going to do to excite them; Biden is saying Dems need an excited base—so the progressive base damn well better get excited. Period.
…and Biden’s performance reminds me of some of my worst clients… These guys (and gals) would sit behind the two-way mirror watching focus groups, and they would deride the respondents and curse about how their stupid target consumers were wrong—wrong!–about their product…
Those were not successful brands. And without a change in their point of view, they didn’t become successful brands.
- Yahoo computers smash pi record
- [BBC News]
The 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of the mathematical constant pi has been found in a striking display of parallel computing power.
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