Our FTB Overlords had to do some tweaking on the server over the last few hours, in case you didn’t notice. It will probably be a lightish day. In the meantime, here’s some news tidbits.
- Grats to the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, started by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, which awarded a $500,000 grant to the Wikipedia keeping a critical part of the information infrastructure ad free.
- Qadaffi’s son and one-time heir apparent is captured while Syria teeters toward civil war: for some reason Middle East diktats think they’ll be the ones to prevail in another Arab Spring moment. They won’t, and neither will the GOP orchestrated campaign against the US version, aka Occupy Wall Street.
- Deja vu all over again: Scientists at CERN repeat fast neutrino experiment and get super-luminal results a second time.
I’d been getting an old version of the site from last Saturday all week. Google home page was showing new stories, but when I went to them I just got the basic 404 page. And yet new stories were showing up on my mobile, and my wife could see them. I suspect there was a caching problem at Akamai or whoever your provider uses for load balancing. Anyway it’s finally working now. I hope it lasts…
Yeah it’s been frustrating.