[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Find out how much money your doctor took from the pharmaceutical industry
- [io9 - Annalee Newitz]
Pharmaceutical companies pay doctors to promote their products all the time, but until now there's been no way for you to find out who is paying your doctor. Recently a group of investigative journalists created Dollars to Docs, a website where you can plug in your doctor's name and find out…
- Work Some WordPress CMS Magic with the Ultimate Post Type Manager : Pressography
- The Ultimate Post Type Manager allows you to create and manage highly-customized post types so that you can use your WordPress CMS to create content in any form you imagine. This plugin pairs with the Ultimate Taxonomy Manager, which allows you to easily manage taxonomies and their custom fields. It even allows you to add image files to your taxonomies. For example, if you create a “Company” taxonomy, you’ll be able to add a logo.
Using these two plugins in combination will bring your WordPress site to a new level of CMS capabilities. It’s one of those tools that simply cannot be without if you’re running WordPress 3.0.
- Republican House Candidate Calls For Violent Government Overthrow If GOP Loses Election
- [Think Progress - George Zornick]
Stephen Broden, a “constitutionalist pastor” from Texas who won the Republican nomination for Texas’ 30th Congressional District, made a vaguely threatening statement at a Tea Party event last year. He described the federal government as “tyrannical” and said that “we have a constitutional remedy. And the Framers say if that don’t work, revolution.”
Yesterday, a political reporter for WFAA in Dallas-Fort Worth asked Broden to explain whether he was actually calling for violence against the federal government. After a “prolonged back-and-forth,” Broden said a violent overthrow is “on the table”…
Broden’s comments were chastised by local Republican officials, but they continue to endorse his run for office.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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