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Hosting WordPress with Hiawatha
On Tuesday March 17 2015, @05:25PM
As of this writing, WordPress is the most ubiquitous CMS and/or blogging...
The Legal Technicality That Benefits Silicon Valley
On Wednesday March 18 2015, @03:00PM
Natalie Kitroeff writes at Bloomberg that a new study says the secret to...
Is Google now an arm of the U.S. State Department?
On Wednesday March 18 2015, @09:22PM
This morning (3/18/15) we received a note from Google Adsense informing us...
Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting in US
On Thursday March 19 2015, @03:27PM
CNN reports that when asked how to offset the influence of big money in...
Solar Eclipse: Safety First
On Thursday March 19 2015, @09:05PM
In 1490, Leonardo da Vinci described in writing, an ancient technique by which...
Manhattan Elementary School Redefines Homework
On Friday March 20 2015, @02:17AM
Here's a recent rejected submission that I thought this was weekend-worthy,...
Social Media and One Boy's Foreskin
On Friday March 20 2015, @02:22AM
Here's another rejected submission, which in retrospect shows the submitter's...
A Nice Journal
On Friday March 20 2015, @07:18AM
Hello, fellow Soylentils! Please come into my journal, as we prepare to...
Foggy/overcast 88.8% eclipse: not much (or any) difference
On Friday March 20 2015, @10:30AM
Title says it all really but I found it surprising that there wasn't much...
Bug fixing, one hack at a time (Rehash porting progress)
On Friday March 20 2015, @02:56PM
Squished an annoying bug in rehash that prevented formkeys working due to...
Are printed books' days numbered?
On Friday March 20 2015, @09:53PM
In his 1951 short story The Fun They Had, Isaac Asimov has a boy who finds...
SoylentNews IRC comments feed dispatch filters
On Saturday March 21 2015, @11:23PM
Our IRC () has a #comments channel that you can join to see an hourly feed of...
We've been spelling it wrong for over a quarter century
On Monday March 23 2015, @11:52AM
I'm surprised that this hasn't been addressed by the academic communities....
An Aberrant Sense of Right and Wrong
On Wednesday March 25 2015, @02:56AM
The Mighty Gewg has noted I am someone with an aberrant sense of right and...
LTTE: Britain's Defence Capability. Or, Lack Thereof.
On Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:13PM
It seems that the Daily Mail (yes, I know), among other mainstream outlets...
Commitment
On Thursday March 26 2015, @04:23PM
I'm trying to commit more to SN again. Recently I drifted away, the endless...
Apple May Start Accepting Android Phones As Trade-Ins
On Thursday March 26 2015, @05:03PM
Bloomberg reports that according to a person with knowledge of the matter,...
How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California’s Drought
On Thursday March 26 2015, @05:04PM
Bill Davidow And Michael S. Malone write in the WSJ that recent rains have...
Deep Time and the Oldest Living Things in the World
On Thursday March 26 2015, @05:05PM
Rachel Sussman has an interesting article at Nautilus about her nine year quest...
How to Make a Hydrogen Bomb
On Thursday March 26 2015, @05:05PM
The atom bomb — leveler of Hiroshima and instant killer of some 80,000 people —...
Shape Shifting Frog Poses Problems for Taxonomists
On Thursday March 26 2015, @05:06PM
Carrie Arnold reports at National Geographic that on a nighttime walk through...
Passphrases You Can Memorize That Even The NSA Can’t Guess
On Thursday March 26 2015, @05:28PM
Micah Lee writes at The Intercept that coming up with a good passphrase by just...
Typing game update: Typerise 0.92
On Friday March 27 2015, @12:58PM
I made some small improvements to my typing-testing and training game:...
After 911 Cockpits Are Harder to Invade But Easier to Lock
On Friday March 27 2015, @06:34PM
Jad Mouawad And Christopher Drew write in the NYT that although airplane...
Newspapers Use Special HTML Tags to Suppress Ads During Trag
On Saturday March 28 2015, @07:48PM
Lily Hay Newman reports that when big news stories evolve into tragedies and...
Russia to Build New Space Station With NASA After ISS
On Saturday March 28 2015, @08:03PM
Discovery Magazine reports that in a landmark decision Russia has announced...
IPv6 is fun (More rehash(ed) work)
On Sunday March 29 2015, @05:33AM
Finally got the first set of code committed to rehash to allow use of IPv6...
When a Hashtag Becomes a Bashtag
On Sunday March 29 2015, @05:30PM
Alison Griswold writes that in an effort to improve its tanking image, SeaWorld...
UTF-8 Regression Testing
On Sunday March 29 2015, @05:37PM
This is just a place to hang some UTF-8 character regression tests.
Secret Service Plans Full Scale White House Replica
On Monday March 30 2015, @12:46PM
The NYT reports that the Secret Service is recruiting some of its best athletes...
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