What's that about glass houses?

TN Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser: The Tennessee Republican Party should be ashamed of the way they have run amok in recent months, drawing unwanted attention to the state of Tennessee. You mean like this?

Links for Tue 20 May 2008

Deseret News | Oracle plans Utah facility - Looks like Oracle is going to be building a data center in Utah. Tags: datacenter oracle utah Prevent SSH timeouts: disable keepalive < Andy Skelton - No promise that this work, just one more thing to try if you are having problems keeping ssh connections ...

Comments on blogs and at newspaper sites

An interesting discussion going on over at KnoxViews.

Knoxville's unique blogs

Knoxify has the list.

New breed of American emerges in need of food

Average enrollment in the food stamps program has surpassed the record set in 1994, and the numbers continue to climb.

Timber Inspiration - 20 Top-Notch Wooden Web Designs

Design is very subjective, isn’t it? I mean, you only have to work with a few clients before you realise that what you thought was glaringly beautiful, isn’t to the satisfaction of the customer. Of course, your initial nigh perfect design, tends to spiral downwards from there, in accordance ...

WordPress Community News #3

Win An All-Inclusive Premium News Theme Developer’s Package Adii has been kind enough to sponsor a mini contest over here at WPCandy. All you gotta do is purchase one of the Premium News Themes, leave a comment on this post and on Adii’s post saying you’ve purchased a theme, and you’ll ...

Ribbon Rules Generator

Create alternating colored horizontal rules quickly with this new Web 2.0 tool.

The False Consciousness Falsehood

American intellectual life has a large number of ways of responding to an argument without actually addressing its substance -- namecalling in other words. You can say that someone is "blaming the victim" or spinning a "conspiracy theory" or "assuming people are stupid" or that they're subject to "false ...

Best Young Journalists Aren’t Wired

The Society of Professional Journalists honored the top college journalists with its Mark of Excellence Awards on May 19. “I encourage media executives who are looking for the next wave of high-quality journalists to pay attention to the winners of SPJ’s Mark of Excellence Awards.” said Neil Ralston, ...

Interesting and motivating stuff

I’m involved in two days of an exciting Meld project and as part of that I am showing ( or may mention) a number of bits of technology and services. I needed a place to put the links to access them and thought I would share them here. It’s all stuff that has made me go ‘wow’ ...

Northwest Knoxville bank robbed

Knoxville police this afternoon were searching for a man who robbed a SunTrust bank branch on Merchants Drive.

Free 278 Page PDF eBook - The Photoshop Anthology

The folks over at Sitepoint and the book’s sponsor 99designs are giving away a free download of an extensive e-book for designers for a limited time only! The book is called The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques (By Author Corrie Haffly) and it is the ultimate Photoshop ...

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-18

@marcnorris what are the errors the XMLRPC errors that you are seeing in WordPress? # @fortee2 what sort of problems did you have with the WordPress upgrade? I recommend using Subversion checkouts for install/upgrades # Powered by Twitter Tools.

The Future of Media forum

Media journalists will discuss how the Internet is shaking up traditional media on June 4 in NYC, at a forum hosted by IWantMedia.com. … [visit site to read more]

Scripps shares clips with YouTube

Scripps Networks is beginning to distribute video of some of its most popular shows under a partnership with YouTube (take a look at HGTV’s section here). Similar to the CBS revenue-share deal, Scripps can sell its own ads on YouTube.

35 (New) WordPress Plugins for an Effective Blogging Experience

Today i wanted to highlight some of the latest WordPress Plugins that you might find very interesting. Some of these Plugins are for managing posts, some are comment related and some are just to enhance the way admin can manage his blog. In any case, you will hopefully find some useful for your WordPress ...

Ask The Best And Brightest: Yaris or Prius?

From TTAC commentator kawaii: New to this forum and found it interesting, however, confusing since I am a “mature” female on the waiting list for an ‘08 Prius. Husband just got a huge Tundra last December. I drive an ‘05 Subaru Outback getting 22 mpg. Now that I’m waiting ...

He said what?

And John McCain's gettting a free ride while the Democrats duke it out, right?

Headline of the weekend

Urban Voters, Suburban Voters, And Now, Bourbon Voters