13 millionth comment on DKos posted Saturday
And the lucky winner is... jillian with what appears to be a tip jar. Congratulations! You don't actually win anything, except a minor footnote in Daily Kos history and I'll give you a gold star if I...
View ArticleThe Only 9/11 ct Diary You'll Ever Need
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I can assure you, however, that in this diary I will provide that extraordinary evidence to back up the claims I will make after the jump.
View ArticleSPIKE!
Because really, what else is there left to do?Some insane Democrats have just pointedly voted for a pointy bill to pointedly approve THREATENING long sharp things, which is pointedly similar in enough...
View Article14 millionth comment on DKos posted on Tuesday
Congratulations, Bill Prendergast, for posting the 14,000,000th comment Daily Kos (as a Scoop site - I don't know how many comments the MT version had) on Tuesday, October 9th. I just realized that it...
View ArticleNew code changes on Daily Kos
In the interest of preserving civil discourse and honesty in diaries on Daily Kos, the following filters are going to be added to comments and diaries posted on the site. If the filter detects that you...
View ArticleComment #15,000,000
Comment #15,000,000, she is posted. Congratulations, Seattle Liberal, on your achievement, such as it is.Figuring out comment #15 million was easier than similar comments in the past, since as part of...
View ArticleThe Primary Prophecy: Nostradamus Speaks
Everyone wishes they could read tea leaves or goat entrails and foresee the outcome of the primary. Fortunately for those of us who can't, Nostradamus himself wrote about the primary battles of the...
View ArticleYou Haven't Been Hacked, I Screwed Up.
I was making some more improvements to DailyKos this evening while I was putting my daughter to bed, and one of the things I did was fix the caching stuff with a function that returns a UID from the...
View ArticleMojo Revamp & a Bonus Goodie
As I've stated elsewhere on the site recently, I had to adjust the archived age of diaries and comments recently to keep the site running in tip top shape. Unfortunately, those weren't the only things...
View Article#16,000,000
It seems like only yesterday this site only had 15,000,000 comments, but really it was about a month and a half ago. Yesterday, though, this site grew up just a little more and the 16 millionth comment...
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The Origins of Super Bowl Sunday
The Germans, after a month has passed since the winter solstice, celebrate a most curious custom. They gather at each others' homes, and at the temples, and the fields, and eat, and drink, and make...
View ArticleIn the Comment 17,000,000
Chicken Suit was Beginning.Congratulations 417els. Amazingly, the 17 millionth comment was neither about a candidate, a picture of someone's cat, nor consisted solely of the word "heh".In a shocking...
View ArticleThe New Technology of Daily Kos
Or, a look at what I've been working on for the site.It's been three months or so in the making, but today I've finally finished moving the site to its new hardware. Many of the major and minor things...
View Article18 Million Comments: In ihren Eltern bleiben Keller die Blogger
Bloggerheim ist ihr Land.I was battling with zlib last week, so I wasn't on the ball and missed this. In a development that will likely change the course of the primaries and give the Obama campaign a...
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New Tallest Mountain Found
Scientists announced earlier this week that a new tallest mountain in the world has been discovered, dwarfing the height of the previous record holder, Mt. Everest, by almost 100,000 feet.Rising...
View ArticleBREAKING: CNN Footage of Clinton Campaign HQ
CNN aired some footage of Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters from tonight after getting the news from Indiana. It remains to be seen what the Clinton campaign's actions in the coming days will be...
View ArticleAt Long Last, 19 Million Comments
Earlier today, the 19 millionth comment posted on Daily Kos was posted by SunWolf78, discussing reasons that Hillary Clinton should not be nominated to be the Vice Presidential candidate.It took from...
View ArticleNetroots Nation Scholarships - Now One More Day to Apply
As diaried previously, there are a limited number of scholarships to send people who would otherwise be unable to make it to Netroots Nation this summer available. Building on kid oakland's heroic...
View ArticleA Way to Scale Your Blog
Warning: This article is not for the faint of heart. It is a technical discussion of webserver optimization and setup, so if you are not already familiar with the subject, most if it will not make...
View ArticleDing Ding Ding! We have Comment #20,000,000
And the lucky winner is...lineatus with a picture of a bird! This time, it took just a hair under 5 weeks to add another million comments.I'm afraid I'm not feeling super creative today, so this diary...
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