- WordPress Publisher Blog: A complete publishing system on WordPress
The Bangor Daily News managed to turn WordPress and Google Docs into an entire newspaper publishing system, by using a bunch of plugins to create an editorial workflow. Having written a lot of code to perform this very task, I'm really impressed by this. Better still, it all integrates with InDesign, and all of the plugins are open sourced. Bravo! - Joel Stein: How Jewish is Hollywood?
TL;DR: Very. - Washington Post: Congressional Budget Office warns of debt explosion
The CBO reports that threre's a simple solution to our budget problem: let the Bush tax cuts expire. - New Scientist: Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity
In just 60 days, yeast cells became multicellular, dividing labor between cells. Apparently this isn't nearly as complicated or unlikely as some evolutionary theorists believed. - Texas Tribune: Counting Confusion Keeps Texas Cowboy Confined
I've become a real fan of the Texas Tribune, the new nonprofit news outfit in Austin, and this story is a good example of why. It's a pleasure to read, with some nice turns of phrase, and some great quotes from the subject of the article. I came across this in the New York Times, which has started to syndicate the Tribune's stories.
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Regarding the yeast thing — as the article notes, yeast were probably multicellular sometime in their evolutionary history, so they almost certainly already had much of the necessary machinery handy in their genome.
Regarding the debt issue: How would Obama square the “not one dime more in taxes” if you make under 250K, if he were to allow the cuts to expire and let the ATM “hit millions of additional households”?
I suppose he could do so (thinking about “doing the right thing”), and then try and wiggle out of his “read my lips” moment, but I can’t see how he could do so politically. (That’s leaving aside the fact that taxes may have already gone up for under 250Kers: cigarette tax.)
The whole thing is a mess. I have a feeling we’re in for quite a rude awakening when the bill collectors come.