Minst 19 personer dödades och 17 skadades när en passagerarbuss och en lastbil krockade i Sudan på lördagen enligt statliga medier.

Turkisk polis satte under lördagen in tårgas och gummikulor för att skingra hundratals demonstranter som samlats på Taksim-torget för att protestera mot regeringen.

En man i 30-årsåldern drunknade i samband med med en triathlontävling vid Holmsjö i östra Blekinge på lördagen, uppger polisen i Blekinge.

Back in June, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued an import ban on the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 3G due to patent violations. Now, the White House has exercised its privilege to overrule the ban. In his letter to the ITC (PDF), Ambassador Michael Froman said 'he was not making a decision about the merits of Samsung's case, or its right to seek compensation. Rather, he emphasized that because the patent in question was now a widely held technology standard, banning the products in question would be too disruptive to consumers and the economy.' This is the first time an ITC decision has been overruled since 1987.

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Spanish football giants stage "training camps for peace" for Israeli and Palestinian children.

Minst sex syriska flyktingar dödades och nio sårades av ett luftangrepp då de var på väg över Syriska gränsen och in i Libanon.

En man hittades på lördagskvällen drunknad vid Björknäsbadet i Upplands-Bro, norr om Stockholm.

Opposition fighters raid ammunition depot north of Damascus, seizing French-made anti-tank weapons and Russian missiles.

bogaboga writes "You might be wondering why the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service doesn't have a compelling Android footprint. I was wondering too; until they provided the answer. They say, 'Simply put, it’s too complicated for us to even consider an Android app for the first version; we’ll continue to support those viewers with mobile web. ... As we’re focused on the tablet for this project, we’re only designing for the larger screen sizes. But even there, there are a wide range of sizes and aspect ratios. It’s possible to build flexible sizing for these screen layouts, just as we do for the range of desktop web screen sizes. But the flip side to these wide variations is that in a touch experience, ergonomics plays an important role in the design. Navigational elements need to be within easy reach of the edges of the screens since people often are holding their tablets. If the experience is not fine-tuned to each variation the experience would suffer.' They also cite fragmentation. I'm left wondering whether they didn't find support for various screen sizes on Android developer website. Their budget is undoubtedly limited; are their concerns legit? What companies and organizations have developed Android applications that are good to work with on various screen sizes?"

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Perl extension for collecting information about the machine

common tests to check syntax of your modules

bindings to the potrace library

My friend Rex Hammock from Nashville was in town this weekend and we went for a couple of bike rides. It's all good. Last summer I visited Rex and his wife Ann in their home town, and we did bike rides there too.

Rex is a publisher. He does magazines and turns them into blogs. He's parked in an interesting place and has been for quite a few years. He's smart, but keeps it simple. And he reads my blog, and I his. ;-)

A couple of pieces caught his attention last week. One about scripting in Fargo, and the other about ignoring what you don't understand. Rex has a funny sense of humor so I can't always tell when he's serious. But he says in a self-deprecating way that there's a lot of stuff he doesn't understand, but he asks questions, and I usually try to answer them when I can.

So he wanted to know about scripting in Fargo this morning. I tabled the discussion because I was enjoying Brooklyn Diner corned beef hash with poached eggs. We went on to other topics, and I realized later that I forgot to answer his question! Ouch.

Better late than never. Here's the deal on scripting in Fargo.

• 1. It means you can customize the app. Probably not a big deal for Rex, because he's not an every-day user of Fargo. But for people who are, the ability to add just the command you've been wanting, without waiting for the developer to add it, could turn out to be important.
• 2. You can build systems with editors that work on the net, are hooked into a CMS, and understand structure, as outliners inherently do. It's funny because in all the writing I've done about scripting in Fargo, I've missed this one. Building systems means having a way for an administrative person add to a database that is incorporated into your web presence, without content management in their way. We were on the cusp of it with Frontier, but for some reason we never encouraged people to look at the product that way. I guess by that point we weren't focused on scripting anymore.

It occurred to me that given what Rex does, #2 might actually turn out to be important.

At least 19 people died in a wave of violent incidents, including an assault on a top military commander's convoy.

Micro blogging website's UK manager apologises to women attacked by "trolls" on twitter, saying abuse is unacceptable.