Kvinnliga politiker blir porträtterade som "Politikens prinsessor" i Svensk Damtidnings serie, med galaklänningar och smycken. Åtta politiker deltar. –  Jag tror aldrig att Svensk Damtidning kommer att göra ”Politikens prinsar”, säger Rosanna Dinamarca (V).

wabrandsma writes with this story from NewScientist: "Google may be a master at data wrangling, but one of its products has been making bogus data-driven predictions. A study of Google's much-hyped flu tracker has consistently overestimated flu cases in the US for years. It's a failure that highlights the danger of relying on big data technologies. Evan Selinger, a technology ethicist at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, says Google Flu's failures hint at a larger problem with the algorithmic approach taken by technology companies to deliver services we all want to use. The problem is with the assumption that either the data that is gathered about us, or the algorithms used to process it, are neutral. Google Flu Trends has been discussed at slashdot before: When Google Got Flu Wrong."

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9000 fler platser på Lärarutbildningen. Så ska Sveriges lärarförsörjning säkerställas i framtiden, meddelade Jan Björklund (FP) under onsdagen. Men tyvärr lär det inte bli så enkelt att få fart på lärartillförseln.

cartechboy writes "The presidential limo is known as "The Beast," and it's getting to be about that time where it's replaced. Currently The Beast is a General Motors creation with a Cadillac badge, but what if the next presidential limo was a Tesla? Stick with me here. The Beast is a massive vehicle, which means there would be plenty of room in the structure to have a long battery pack a la Model S. Plus, it could use the upcoming Model X's all-wheel-drive system. Tesla's air suspension would keep it from encountering high-centering issues. There could even be a charging port on both the front and back so a battery truck could hook up while driving, like in-flight refueling. Obviously the battery pack would need to have extra protection so it wouldn't have any issues with road debris, but that's a minor issue. Tesla is an American company, and that's a requirement for The Beast. So is it that far fetched to think the next presidential limo could be a Tesla?"

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The new Scripting News, coming soon (I promise!) is heavily influenced by the Scripting News of 2001.

I like the way this blog used to work -- before Google Reader and Twitter. It was a mix of both kinds of blog posts -- 1. Short snippets with a couple of links, or 2. An essay, like the one you're reading right now.

Things got confusing for a while (years, actually) and it wasn't clear what role blogs were supposed to play in a "real-time" world defined by Twitter and Facebook and to a lesser extent Google Reader (probably due to their lack of enthusiasm for blogging, had they loved it I think GR would have been equal to either of the other two, after all it was the FriendFeed guys who blazed the trail for Facebook, as they iterated over new ideas for RSS apps).

All I ask you to do today is go back to 2001 -- a big moment in the history of blogging. The archive page is in reverse-chronologic order, so you might want to start at the bottom and scroll up.

http://scripting.com/2001/09.html

That's the kind of flow I am going to have again. I've been blogging in this form, off on the side, since March 2. To me it isn't theoretical that it will work, I already know it will.

And it's a modern approach, using JavaScript and CSS, and eventually will have a node.js server component to connect systems together in new ways -- the kinds of places Google would have gone if (again) they had loved Reader.

Tomorrow may be the day the switch flips. Or perhaps the day after.

Still diggin!

Dagens nyhet om det försvunna planet MH370 var att planet fortsatte flyga i fyra timmer efter det försvunnit på radarn. Men malaysiska myndigheter förnekar uppgifterna, skriver Aftonbladet. – Det är inte sant. Motorerna har inte sänt någon sådan data, säger Hishammuddin Hussein, transportminister, under torsdagens presskonferens.

Sentence comes weeks after the African Union adjourns talks it was brokering between the rebels and Sudan's government.