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Minst tio människor dödades och 25 skadades när en buss körde in i ett berg i sydöstra Peru i dag.

Nästan varannan dag mellan 2007-2009 begick en fransk bonde självmord.

En ovärderlig bronsstaty stals från en innergård på Fysicum i Lund i helgen.

Minst fem ungdomar har rånats på mobiler och kontanter i Sollentuna under kvällen.

Finns inte med på EU-lista – trots topplats i provval.

”Jag kunde inte tro det.”

The intro for yesterday's video interview with Don Marti started out by saying, "Don Marti," says Wikipedia, "is a writer and advocate for free and open source software, writing for LinuxWorld and Linux Today." As we noted, Don has moved on since that description was written. In today's interview he starts by talking about some things venture capitalist Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has said, notably that people only spend 6% of their media-intake time with print, but advertisers spend 23% of their budgets on print ads. To find out why this is, you might want to read a piece Don wrote titled Targeted Advertising Considered Harmful. Or you can just watch today's video -- and if you didn't catch Part One of our video conversation yesterday, you might want to check it out before watching Part 2.

See also: The guy at the gas station.

I'd like a super-simple way to write JavaScript code that runs on a server.

Let's say I want to write a simple web service that takes a chunk of text and returns a Markdown-formatted version of that text.

This is just an example.

I'd like a little editor, preferably an outliner, that has a simple File menu.

When I create a new script, I give it a name. Say markdowner.

It gets its parameters as a single JSON structure.

Suppose the service is deployed at hello.org. I would call the handler this way:

["http://hello.org/"].markdowner (s)

It would return in its body the markdown-processed version of the single string parameter.

When I make a change to the edited script, it changes the functionality of the handler. The whole thing is live.

I can include other bits of code by calling a loader routine, like this.

function markdowner (s) {

var md = system.load ("http://static.hello.org/pagedown.js");
return (md (s))
}

The loader keeps a cache, obviously. ;-)

The server-side runtime library is very important. It should be simple, even minimal. But please support all the basic string, time and math routines supported by JS in the browser.

It would be great if I had persistent globals that were around every time my code was invoked. Not limited to strings as with localStorage. Big JSON structures. Let me plug in a nice editor for those structures, so I can browse around at runtime.

Must have a good debugger, like the one running in the browser.

There must be something like this? I hope so.

Former president and warlord to serve out his 50-year war crimes sentence in British prison, UK government says.

Detroits vanärade före detta borgmästare Kwame Kilpatrick dömdes i dag till 28 års fängelse för korruption och utpressning.

En lastbil och en personbil kolliderade på länsväg 348 utanför Örnsköldsvik strax före 20-tiden.

waderoush writes "Is the digital age sending the old therapist's couch the way of the reference librarian, the CD, and the travel agent? Could be: several recent studies have found that therapy via the Internet is just as effective as face-to-face treatment. But it's taken online therapy startup Breakthrough about four years to convince venture investors and insurance companies that online therapy can remove many of the road blocks to mental health care, including the high cost, the social stigma, and the difficulty of access. So far, Breakthrough has partnered with 100 licensed psychiatrists and psychologists in Texas, California, Virginia, and Maryland; every provider on the site has a profile and a welcome video that allows potential clients to evaluate them before they even talk online. 'Now we have greater research supporting telemedicine, and people are more comfortable digitally,' says co-founder and CEO Mark Goldenson. 'I think the market is ready for it.'"