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👓 Introducing Six New Business-Oriented Themes | The WordPress.com Blog
Elevate your business website with one of our six new free themes! Calm, sophisticated, friendly, professional, elegant, modern — find the style that’s just right for you.
👓 College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street | Bloomberg
Instead of taking out loans, students can agree to hand over part of their future earnings in return for investment.
👓 Geneticist Sydney Brenner, who made tiny worm a scientific legend, dies | Nature
Nobel-prizewinning biologist pioneered use of C. elegans as an animal model.
👓 She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it | CNN
Oregon medical students were shocked and surprised when they opened the cadaver of Rose Marie Bentley.
👓 Republicans Are Trashing the Law to Keep Trump’s Taxes Secret | Intelligencer | NYMag
Congress has a clear legal right to examine Trump’s taxes. Republicans could not care less what the law says.
When a bad Democrat comes to power, the Republican party will have lost any moral authority for calling for ousters… We can’t have two sets of rules for our politicians. Either they follow the rules and mores or they don’t and Trump is wreaking a horrible precedent.
👓 Twitter’s Jack Dorsey paid $1.40 in 2018 | Reuters
Twitter Inc said on Monday it paid its Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey $1.40...
Surely I won’t be the first to have said it, but a penny per character in a tweet almost seems fitting if not overpaying. But they need to amend his contract to match the new 280 character limit.
👓 This simple tipping trick could save you over $400 a year | CNBC
Changing this one thing about the way you pay can save you money without being unfair to servers.
Clickbait for cheap people. I’m surprised he didn’t suggest not tipping at all in the states where employers provide minimum wage to cover missed tips…
👓 The Death of an Adjunct | The Atlantic
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
👓 4+1 Interview: Kate Owens | Robert Talbert
Kate Owens of the College of Charleston talks about mastery grading, innovative teaching in a historic institution, and more.
👓 Trump is removing US Secret Service director | CNN
United States Secret Service director Randolph "Tex" Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.
👓 Push notifications with Indigenous | realize.be
swentel (realize.be)Indigenous for Android has a new home. To celebrate, a new release is out which allows you to receive and send Push notifications! #indieweb https://realize.be/blog/push-notifications-indigenous
This is awesome!
👓 Logos in Slide Decks and WordCamp Videos | Make WordPress Communities
A while ago, there was a discussion about the use of logos in slide decks and WordCamp videos. A consensus was reached as to what the permitted guidelines should be, but this was never documented i…
I did notice few presentations at Camp this weekend that were overly busy and had too much corporate logo splayed all over them. I can definitely be a bit too much.
👓 Right Here, in Santa Clarita | WordCamp Santa Clarita
Thank You. You’ll never realize how much April 5 and April 6 meant to our fledgling WordPress Community here in Santa Clarita. Imagine, having your best friends AND the WordPress world descending on our north Los Angeles County valley, sharing twenty-four informative and entertaining sessions, gre...
Thank you Joe!
👓 In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash | New York Times
In a city swollen by the wealth of the tech industry, the rich and poor live very separate lives. But sometimes they connect through the garbage.