Yostivanich

“Jus­tice Ruth Bader Gins­burg was hos­pi­tal­ized Thurs­day after becom­ing ill in her office at the Supreme Court.”

“After spend­ing about a day and a half in test­ing I am forced to con­clude that the HTML5 drag and drop mod­ule is not just a dis­as­ter, it’s a fuck­ing disaster.”

“The interim gov­ern­ment of Hon­duras and ousted Pres­i­dent Manuel Zelaya have begun infor­mal talks in a bid to end the cur­rent polit­i­cal crisis.”

“More on that governor’s race in Vir­ginia: Bob McDon­nell, the GOP can­di­date and the for­mer state attor­ney gen­eral, is run­ning an ad that’s meant to bathe his “com­pre­hen­sive trans­porta­tion plan” in a warm glow. Iron­i­cally, though, the ad’s only ref­er­ence for its claims is an edi­to­r­ial from the Wash­ing­ton Post in July that devotes far more space to crit­i­ciz­ing McDonnell’s plan than to prais­ing it.”

“Now the start-up appears to have chalked up another achieve­ment. Twit­ter, which has no dis­cernible rev­enue, is set to raise about $100 mil­lion of new fund­ing that would value the com­pany at around $1 bil­lion, a per­son briefed on the company’s plans said Thursday.”

“Right now, that com­pany could be Philips, the Dutch elec­tron­ics giant. The com­pany announced on Thurs­day that it had sub­mit­ted the first entry for the L Prize, an Energy Depart­ment con­test that will award up to $10 mil­lion to the first per­son or group to cre­ate a new energy-sipping ver­sion of the most pop­u­lar type of light bulb used in Amer­ica. The L Prize has gar­nered sig­nif­i­cant atten­tion in the light­ing indus­try because 60-watt incan­des­cent lamps rep­re­sent 50 per­cent of all the light­ing in the United States, with 425 mil­lion sold each year. The Energy Depart­ment says that if all those lamps were LED equiv­a­lents, enough power would be saved to light 17.4 mil­lion Amer­i­can house­holds and cut car­bon emis­sions by 5.6 mil­lion met­ric tons annually.”

Lots of data pro­vided from scrap­ing the web.