- Daily Intel
State Senate’s Hothead-in-Chief Guilty of Misdemeanor - Vulture
The Borgias Trailer: Or, When the Pope Was a Gangster - The Cut
Tomorrow’s Events and Sales: Leifsdottir Sample Sale; Discounts at Natori - Grub Street New York
Ivy Stark: ‘I Am Not Opening a Restaurant in Brooklyn’ - Vulture
Watch the Full-Length Trailer for I Am Number Four - Vulture
Someone May Let Lee Daniels Adapt a Fellini Movie - Vulture
Watch a Very Pregnant Christina Applegate Do Some Pole Dancing - The Cut
Men in Fancy Pants, or None at All - Vulture
Party Lines Slideshow: Samm Levine, Samuel L. Jackson, Howard Stern, and More at the Roast of Quentin Tarantino - The Sports Section
Day Two of Winter Meetings: Yankees Ink Jeter, Mets Set Sights on Paulino - Grub Street New York
First Look at Beauty & Essex, Opening This Weekend - Vulture
Watch Tracy Morgan Explain, Sort of Reenact Star Wars - The Cut
Serena Williams Decorated Her Injured Foot With Crystals - Daily Intel
Please Enjoy This Moment With Donald Trump’s Hair - Vulture
Nick Cave on Grinderman and Why He’s a Feminist - Grub Street New York
Liquor Authority Says It Was a Very Good Year - The Cut
Get Balmain for $2,000 Instead of $7,000 on the Outnet Today - Vulture
Who Wants to Ghostwrite a Book for Randy and Evi Quaid? - Vulture
Relive the Moment Justin Bieber Met John Waters - Daily Intel
Texas GOP Leader Not Sure Jew Can Really Be a Good House Speaker - Vulture
The Nine Worst Moms of Oscar Season - The Cut
Glam Up for the Holidays With Our Latest Shop-A-Matic - Grub Street New York
Motorino Man Becomes Bowery Boy - Daily Intel
Susanne Bartsch and David Barton Split - Vulture
See Gorillaz’ New Video, Starring Snoop Dogg in a Naval Uniform
Let me apologize in advance for the long wind-up on this one, but I want to justify being a bit of a glib asshole about our political system here.
I have a friend who says he knows Nate Silver from back in the day. According to him (I’m sure Nate Silver would deny this and I’m sure I’m getting details wrong too), Silver was playing a lot of online poker and making money at it, then the other players got good so he quit to do something where the people around him would be dumber, so he could make more of an impact. Sports statistics was a natural choice. Then all these smart people (Voros McCracken, etc.) started doing sports stats too, so he looked for a new backwater, and found political statistics, where he dominated and revolutionized many things.
I have some other friends who are in business that involves managing large groups of peoples. I’ve asked them what the most important thing is and they say it’s hiring capable people. I ask if there’s anything else and they say, yes, making sure the most capable people get promoted as high as possible. And that’s it, there’s really nothing else you can do, they say. It’s obvious stuff, they admit, but they say it’s harder to do than I would think and that it’s not done well in a lot of cases.
The politicos on tv don’t impress me. Ed Rollins and James Carville, don’t seem like idiots but they also don’t seem like people who would rise to the top of very many fields. Actual elected officials are more of a mixed bag, with more outright morons (James Inhofe, Sarah Palin) and also more genuinely impressive people (Bill Clinton, Obama). If I had to break it down by party, I’d say that the Republican political consultants seem slightly sharper than their Democratic counterparts (especially among the older ones) while the Democratic elected officials seem a good deal sharper than their Republican counterparts.
But all in all, it’s just not an impressive group of people.
The same is true of the pundits on tv. Other than Paul Krugman (who of course didn’t come from a journalistic background) and maybe Ron Brownstein, they just don’t come across as people’s whose opinions I’d be interested in on any topic. They don’t know anything about anything, they don’t speak especially well, and their insights are all either stale conventional wisdom or something I read on a blog months ago.
Maybe it’s time to admit that the people at the top of our political/media heap just aren’t very bright. Politics and media are both areas where there isn’t a lot of good accreditation and review of people (the way there is to some extent in law or medicine or academia), nor is there much opportunity for constructive entrepreneurship (you have to be at some large organization to get anywhere) nor is there anyway to get to the top by just beating other people, as there might be in something like sports (I realize there are elections to win, but they are mostly rigged via gerrymandering etc.). Most of it doesn’t pay very well at the beginning, with all these unpaid internships and so on.
It seems like a system that would discourage ambitious young people from joining and then promote the people who do join in a capricious way.
Maybe it’s pointless to speculate this, but I do think that it’s part of why our national political system is just a disaster: it’s run by losers. Don’t get me wrong, these people could be corrupt and self-dealing and all that, but that doesn’t mean they’re not also incompetent.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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- Daily Intel
State Senate’s Hothead-in-Chief Guilty of Misdemeanor - Vulture
The Borgias Trailer: Or, When the Pope Was a Gangster - The Cut
Tomorrow’s Events and Sales: Leifsdottir Sample Sale; Discounts at Natori - Grub Street New York
Ivy Stark: ‘I Am Not Opening a Restaurant in Brooklyn’ - Vulture
Watch the Full-Length Trailer for I Am Number Four - Vulture
Someone May Let Lee Daniels Adapt a Fellini Movie - Vulture
Watch a Very Pregnant Christina Applegate Do Some Pole Dancing - The Cut
Men in Fancy Pants, or None at All - Vulture
Party Lines Slideshow: Samm Levine, Samuel L. Jackson, Howard Stern, and More at the Roast of Quentin Tarantino - The Sports Section
Day Two of Winter Meetings: Yankees Ink Jeter, Mets Set Sights on Paulino - Grub Street New York
First Look at Beauty & Essex, Opening This Weekend - Vulture
Watch Tracy Morgan Explain, Sort of Reenact Star Wars - The Cut
Serena Williams Decorated Her Injured Foot With Crystals - Daily Intel
Please Enjoy This Moment With Donald Trump’s Hair - Vulture
Nick Cave on Grinderman and Why He’s a Feminist - Grub Street New York
Liquor Authority Says It Was a Very Good Year - The Cut
Get Balmain for $2,000 Instead of $7,000 on the Outnet Today - Vulture
Who Wants to Ghostwrite a Book for Randy and Evi Quaid? - Vulture
Relive the Moment Justin Bieber Met John Waters - Daily Intel
Texas GOP Leader Not Sure Jew Can Really Be a Good House Speaker - Vulture
The Nine Worst Moms of Oscar Season - The Cut
Glam Up for the Holidays With Our Latest Shop-A-Matic - Grub Street New York
Motorino Man Becomes Bowery Boy - Daily Intel
Susanne Bartsch and David Barton Split - Vulture
See Gorillaz’ New Video, Starring Snoop Dogg in a Naval Uniform
Let me apologize in advance for the long wind-up on this one, but I want to justify being a bit of a glib asshole about our political system here.
I have a friend who says he knows Nate Silver from back in the day. According to him (I’m sure Nate Silver would deny this and I’m sure I’m getting details wrong too), Silver was playing a lot of online poker and making money at it, then the other players got good so he quit to do something where the people around him would be dumber, so he could make more of an impact. Sports statistics was a natural choice. Then all these smart people (Voros McCracken, etc.) started doing sports stats too, so he looked for a new backwater, and found political statistics, where he dominated and revolutionized many things.
I have some other friends who are in business that involves managing large groups of peoples. I’ve asked them what the most important thing is and they say it’s hiring capable people. I ask if there’s anything else and they say, yes, making sure the most capable people get promoted as high as possible. And that’s it, there’s really nothing else you can do, they say. It’s obvious stuff, they admit, but they say it’s harder to do than I would think and that it’s not done well in a lot of cases.
The politicos on tv don’t impress me. Ed Rollins and James Carville, don’t seem like idiots but they also don’t seem like people who would rise to the top of very many fields. Actual elected officials are more of a mixed bag, with more outright morons (James Inhofe, Sarah Palin) and also more genuinely impressive people (Bill Clinton, Obama). If I had to break it down by party, I’d say that the Republican political consultants seem slightly sharper than their Democratic counterparts (especially among the older ones) while the Democratic elected officials seem a good deal sharper than their Republican counterparts.
But all in all, it’s just not an impressive group of people.
The same is true of the pundits on tv. Other than Paul Krugman (who of course didn’t come from a journalistic background) and maybe Ron Brownstein, they just don’t come across as people’s whose opinions I’d be interested in on any topic. They don’t know anything about anything, they don’t speak especially well, and their insights are all either stale conventional wisdom or something I read on a blog months ago.
Maybe it’s time to admit that the people at the top of our political/media heap just aren’t very bright. Politics and media are both areas where there isn’t a lot of good accreditation and review of people (the way there is to some extent in law or medicine or academia), nor is there much opportunity for constructive entrepreneurship (you have to be at some large organization to get anywhere) nor is there anyway to get to the top by just beating other people, as there might be in something like sports (I realize there are elections to win, but they are mostly rigged via gerrymandering etc.). Most of it doesn’t pay very well at the beginning, with all these unpaid internships and so on.
It seems like a system that would discourage ambitious young people from joining and then promote the people who do join in a capricious way.
Maybe it’s pointless to speculate this, but I do think that it’s part of why our national political system is just a disaster: it’s run by losers. Don’t get me wrong, these people could be corrupt and self-dealing and all that, but that doesn’t mean they’re not also incompetent.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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- Daily Intel
State Senate’s Hothead-in-Chief Guilty of Misdemeanor - Vulture
The Borgias Trailer: Or, When the Pope Was a Gangster - The Cut
Tomorrow’s Events and Sales: Leifsdottir Sample Sale; Discounts at Natori - Grub Street New York
Ivy Stark: ‘I Am Not Opening a Restaurant in Brooklyn’ - Vulture
Watch the Full-Length Trailer for I Am Number Four - Vulture
Someone May Let Lee Daniels Adapt a Fellini Movie - Vulture
Watch a Very Pregnant Christina Applegate Do Some Pole Dancing - The Cut
Men in Fancy Pants, or None at All - Vulture
Party Lines Slideshow: Samm Levine, Samuel L. Jackson, Howard Stern, and More at the Roast of Quentin Tarantino - The Sports Section
Day Two of Winter Meetings: Yankees Ink Jeter, Mets Set Sights on Paulino - Grub Street New York
First Look at Beauty & Essex, Opening This Weekend - Vulture
Watch Tracy Morgan Explain, Sort of Reenact Star Wars - The Cut
Serena Williams Decorated Her Injured Foot With Crystals - Daily Intel
Please Enjoy This Moment With Donald Trump’s Hair - Vulture
Nick Cave on Grinderman and Why He’s a Feminist - Grub Street New York
Liquor Authority Says It Was a Very Good Year - The Cut
Get Balmain for $2,000 Instead of $7,000 on the Outnet Today - Vulture
Who Wants to Ghostwrite a Book for Randy and Evi Quaid? - Vulture
Relive the Moment Justin Bieber Met John Waters - Daily Intel
Texas GOP Leader Not Sure Jew Can Really Be a Good House Speaker - Vulture
The Nine Worst Moms of Oscar Season - The Cut
Glam Up for the Holidays With Our Latest Shop-A-Matic - Grub Street New York
Motorino Man Becomes Bowery Boy - Daily Intel
Susanne Bartsch and David Barton Split - Vulture
See Gorillaz’ New Video, Starring Snoop Dogg in a Naval Uniform
Let me apologize in advance for the long wind-up on this one, but I want to justify being a bit of a glib asshole about our political system here.
I have a friend who says he knows Nate Silver from back in the day. According to him (I’m sure Nate Silver would deny this and I’m sure I’m getting details wrong too), Silver was playing a lot of online poker and making money at it, then the other players got good so he quit to do something where the people around him would be dumber, so he could make more of an impact. Sports statistics was a natural choice. Then all these smart people (Voros McCracken, etc.) started doing sports stats too, so he looked for a new backwater, and found political statistics, where he dominated and revolutionized many things.
I have some other friends who are in business that involves managing large groups of peoples. I’ve asked them what the most important thing is and they say it’s hiring capable people. I ask if there’s anything else and they say, yes, making sure the most capable people get promoted as high as possible. And that’s it, there’s really nothing else you can do, they say. It’s obvious stuff, they admit, but they say it’s harder to do than I would think and that it’s not done well in a lot of cases.
The politicos on tv don’t impress me. Ed Rollins and James Carville, don’t seem like idiots but they also don’t seem like people who would rise to the top of very many fields. Actual elected officials are more of a mixed bag, with more outright morons (James Inhofe, Sarah Palin) and also more genuinely impressive people (Bill Clinton, Obama). If I had to break it down by party, I’d say that the Republican political consultants seem slightly sharper than their Democratic counterparts (especially among the older ones) while the Democratic elected officials seem a good deal sharper than their Republican counterparts.
But all in all, it’s just not an impressive group of people.
The same is true of the pundits on tv. Other than Paul Krugman (who of course didn’t come from a journalistic background) and maybe Ron Brownstein, they just don’t come across as people’s whose opinions I’d be interested in on any topic. They don’t know anything about anything, they don’t speak especially well, and their insights are all either stale conventional wisdom or something I read on a blog months ago.
Maybe it’s time to admit that the people at the top of our political/media heap just aren’t very bright. Politics and media are both areas where there isn’t a lot of good accreditation and review of people (the way there is to some extent in law or medicine or academia), nor is there much opportunity for constructive entrepreneurship (you have to be at some large organization to get anywhere) nor is there anyway to get to the top by just beating other people, as there might be in something like sports (I realize there are elections to win, but they are mostly rigged via gerrymandering etc.). Most of it doesn’t pay very well at the beginning, with all these unpaid internships and so on.
It seems like a system that would discourage ambitious young people from joining and then promote the people who do join in a capricious way.
Maybe it’s pointless to speculate this, but I do think that it’s part of why our national political system is just a disaster: it’s run by losers. Don’t get me wrong, these people could be corrupt and self-dealing and all that, but that doesn’t mean they’re not also incompetent.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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Scripting <b>News</b>: My JSON River of <b>News</b>
My JSON River of News. By Dave Winer on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 9:45 PM. First a few preambles... Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. I'm a big believer in the River of News style of feed reader. Reverse-chronologic. ...
Breaking <b>News</b>: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Small Business Samba
From the slow dance Republicans and Democrats have been doing in Washington the last few weeks over tax cuts and jobless benefit extensions approved earlier.
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