A news search engine I'd like to see. Only index sites I can get to with an ad blocker on, without hitting a paywall. #
I’m reading Carl Sagan’s Cosmos — great book but quite dated. We must know a lot more now. What’s a good scientific history of what we’ve learned in exploring the universe in the last 40 years or so.#
If you're going to Newsgeist in June, virtually. Is this something you'd like to discuss? #
If Dems were great at politics, they would seize on the new threat to abortion and make it loudly clear to the electorate that the only way back from the hole the Repubs put us in is to elect supermajorities in both houses, or else poof there goes abortion. #
I was invited to Newsgeist this year, and accepted. #
It's a virtual conference, so no travel is involved.#
The conference is split in two parts, Ignite and Discussion. Each set of sessions is split into four groups, for various time zones around the world. #
The official calendar is hard to figure out because they don't translate all the times into my home timezone which is Eastern Time in the US. So I did a little table with the times in my timezone. You can easily translate to yours, I hope. #
You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you're about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won't do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that wouldn't last long if I did rude stuff like that. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It's got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we'll get in there. People really love it. I wish I had done it sooner. And every email has an unsub link so if you want to get out, you can, easily -- no questions asked, and no follow-ups. Go ahead and do it, you won't be sorry! :-)
