Alexei Karpenko does a near-space high-altitude balloon launch with a camera payload. This is an awe-inspiring display of amateur science. [link]
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Does this really surprise us? [link]
I mean, I’m not trying to pick on Hillary Clinton here. In one sense, seeing large influxes of political donations from discrete sources helps to reveal the true constituencies behind a campaign. And, in the case of the Clintonistas, it’s one we already knew about: we already knew that [...]

From Reddit: [link]
Apparently, if you’re a commonly-spidered site, (or, with the help of RSS and ping-notification) you can hit Google in as little as 6 minutes.
So, I’ll repeat the experiment here: astroturf-snowglobe.
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The objective of this game is to keep the cat on the board. [link]
And thus, we see that it is as difficult to herd a cat in a game as it is in real life.
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There’s a non-profit running a fun game online that donates 10 grains of rice per correct answer on a vocabulary test. [link]
I’ve been playing it here-and-there throughout the day today, and I’ve racked up about 1,200 grains thus far.
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I’m pleased to announce that my long gestating book on adapting Joomla to business needs will be publishing on October 25th, 2007. “Joomla! Cash” will give the reader a quick read on how to rapidly establish a money-making Joomla! website, and how to adapt this powerful CMS to a variety of other business uses. [pre-order]
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ArsTechnica has a great write-up of the aftermath of Google’s acquisition of Urchin, which made log-analytics software for the ISP/HSP/ASP industries. [link]
Speaking as someone who has used both the older, standalone version of Urchin and the Google Analytics it was forcibly evolved into, I can safely say that I strongly prefer the older version, because [...]

I certainly don’t want to act like attacking the crooks themselves is the whole solution to the problem, but I do want to take a moment to offer a brief thumbs-up to all the national law enforcement services that took part in this international crack-down on fraudulent checks used in online scams. [link]
We all need [...]

Well, my Joomla! presentation at Ohio Linux Fest went off as planned, with some minor technical glitches arising from my unfamiliarity with my fiancee’s laptop. (I’ve never owned a laptop, and plan to avoid owning one as long as I can!)
In total, 141 people attended my presentation. I had a drawing, as planned, to give [...]