Skinner's Journal - Democratic Underground http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:42:16 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:42:16 "Each day that goes by, the dog makes such a difference in my life. It’s easy to hit rock bottom..." "...but having the dog helps. Not just in what he will do for me, but in the companionship that touches me in the heart."

[i]:sp: :sp: -Quote from a U.S. Army veteran who was caught in an IED explosion during his second tour of duty in Iraq, losing his left arm and left leg.[/i]

http://www.dem... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/337 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:39:14 Free health care and dental care for Americans who need it. The Senate Health Care Bill? No... http://www.ramusa.org/images1/RAM-Logo-2.jpg

It's the [B]REMOTE AREA MEDICAL FOUNDATION[/B].

[i]The Remote Area Medical® (RAM) Volunteer Corps is a non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary service... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/336 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:38:06 Donate to DU today, and 10% of your donation goes to help foster children http://www.democraticunderground.com/images/logowhite-150.gif

As you probably know, this week is Democratic Underground's Fourth Quarter 2009 fund drive. This is a completely independent website, and we depend on the generous contributions of our visitors to help cover our costs. We receive no fu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/335 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:15:15 "You have GOT to be kidding me . . ." (A conservative view of the DU fund drive) I just recevied this email about 45 minutes ago. Had to share...

[div class="excerpt"]From: Cynthia <Last name and email removed by DU admin>
To: skinner@democraticunderground.com
Date: Nov 16, 2009 2:48 PM

Subject: You have GOT to be kidding me . . .

These aren't 'charities' by any defi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/334 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:27:31 Donate to DU during this week's fund drive, and we'll give 10% to Charity! (Final List of Charities) [b]In the Spirit of Thanksgiving, DU is giving 10% to Charity![/b]

This week is Democratic Underground's Fourth Quarter 2009 Fund Drive. If you [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/donate.html|donate to DU] this week, we will give 10% of your donation to charity. Each day of the fund drive ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/333 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:10:51 Should we pick large national charities or smaller, more targeted charities? (DU Fund Drive) As I explained in two [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6979569&mesg_id=6979569|earlier] [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6998431&mesg_id=6998431|posts], next week is Democratic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/332 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:11:43 DU Thanksgiving Fund Drive: Donate to DU and 10% goes to Charity (With list of suggested charities!) On Tuesday I posted a request for DUers to suggest charities. For those of you who missed it, here is the text of [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6979569|my post]:

[div class="excerpt"]As you may know, next week is the Democratic Underground ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/331 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:11:47 Democratic Underground has New Moderators! As usual, we had a good response to our call for moderators, and it was extremely difficult to narrow the field down. We had to turn down a number of very qualified people. We hope that everyone who applied to serve as a moderator this turn will consider applying again next term.

A moderator swit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/330 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:20:55 We need your help to prepare for next week's DU Fund Drive -- Nominate your favorite charity! As you may know, next week is the Democratic Underground fourth quarter 2009 fund drive. With Thanksgiving coming up soon, we have decided to do something different for the DU fund drive this year -- in the spirit of giving thanks and giving back.

During next week's fund drive Democratic Undergro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/329 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:21:48 Elad and EarlG put together a new function based on recs/unrecs: The Top Tens Page When we unveiled the unrecommend function a few months back, the primary goal was to change the content of the Greatest Page. But many DUers suggested that it would be cool to be able to crunch the numbers to get different lists of discussion threads on DU. With that in mind, EarlG and Elad have put... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/328 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:02:03 OK, DUers, it's crunch time. Less than a day left to reach our goal. Fund drive ends TONIGHT! We have less than 75 donations to go to reach 1000. We can make it, but we need to [i]pull out all the stops![/i]

You've been thinking about donating... You've been putting it off all week... The time has come to [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/donate.html|donate to DU]! The fund drive... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/327 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:48:44 Build Your Own Bikini! Don't Pay For White Teeth! Coupons Schmoopons! Free $$ from the Government! Tired of all those annoying ads on Democratic Underground? Did you know that you can make them go away? Just [link:www.democraticunderground.com/donate.html|Donate to Democratic Underground] and almost all of the ads will disappear. (Make sure you are logged in to your DU account when you donate.) Y... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/326 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:04:14 On Free Republic, their quarterly fund drives last for two months. I'm not kidding. There are only 12 months in a year, and Free Republic spends eight of them asking for money. Their current fund drive [link:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283396/posts|started on July 1]. It's still going on today -- six and a half weeks later -- and they are 20% below th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/325 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:46:34 Democratic Underground Has New Moderators! As usual, we had a good response to our call for moderators, and it was extremely difficult to narrow the field down. We had to turn down a number of very qualified people. We hope that everyone who applied to serve as a moderator this turn will consider applying again next term.

A moderator swit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/324 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:03:22 We are going to keep the unrecommend feature. By now, I think most of you have probably heard that we upgraded the DU Recommend function to allow people to "Unrecommend" as well. For those of you who missed it, [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6021143&mesg_id=6021143|here is my threa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/323 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:37:37 We are introducing a new DU feature that people have been requesting for a long time. (EDITED) We have finally upgraded the DU Recommend function to allow people to "Unrecommend" as well.

[b]Why Are We Adding This Functionality?[/b]

If you have spent any time on DU, you have probably noticed that under our old system -- which only permitted positive recommendations -- there was a tenden... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/322 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:35:47 We have been having some problems with our firewall, which are causing connectivity problems for DU. As you are probably aware, we have had intermittent problems this week where the site has not been accessible for minutes or hours at a time. It appears that we are experiencing some sort of hardware problem with our firewall, in which it unexpectedly resets. We have been able to bring the site back... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/321 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:46:25 THE LAST TWO WINNERS, REVEALED! The winners of the Acer Netbook and "The Audacity of Hope" are... The winner of the Acer Netbook Computer is:

[b][font size="5"]shraby[/font][/b]

And the winner of the signed copy of "The Audacity of Hope" is"

[b][font size="5"]AwakeAtLast[/font][/b]

[i][b]Please post in this thread to congratulate them![/b][/i]

In case you missed our previous annou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/320 Mon, 18 May 2009 13:33:54 LAST CHANCE TO WIN!!! We're giving away a SIGNED copy of "The Audacity Of Hope" by Barack Obama! This is the last contest of this week's fund drive. Last Monday, our first giveaway was a signed copy of "Dreams From My Father," by Barack Obama. Now, for our final contest, we're going to give you another shot...

Donate to Democratic Underground before 10pm ET (7pm PT) Sunday, May 17, and you w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/318 Sat, 16 May 2009 22:00:03 WE HAVE A WINNER! The winner of Thursday's $250 Progressive Non-Profit Contest is... [font size="5"][b]clear eye![/b][/font]

At her instruction, Democratic Underground has made a $250 donation to:

[font size="5"][b][link:http://www.1payer.net|Health Justice!][/b][/font]

Health Justice is a single-payer health-care advocacy group which runs the Single Payer Action Site: http... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/316 Fri, 15 May 2009 13:46:45 WE'RE GIVING AWAY A COMPUTER!!! One DUer will win a 2-Pound, Ultra-Portable Acer Netbook Computer! Have you been putting off donating all week? DONATE NOW... [b][i]This is the prize you've been waiting for.[/i][/b]

Democratic Underground is giving away an [i]Acer Aspire One[/i] netbook computer. Take it with you anywhere. If you've got Wi-Fi... [i]You've got DU![/i]

http://upload.democratic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/315 Thu, 14 May 2009 22:00:10 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! The winner of Wednesday's Signed Hillary Clinton Books Giveaway is... [font size="5"][b]Hissyspit![/b][/font]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/contest/clinton-small.gif

He wins a signed copy of "Living History" and a signed copy of "It Takes A Village" by Hillary Rodham Clinton!

[i][b]Everyone, please congratulate Hissyspit in this thread![/b] And rememb... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/313 Thu, 14 May 2009 16:23:15 DU is going to donate $250 to a progressive non-profit. ONE LUCKY DUER WILL CHOOSE THE CHARITY! http://upload.democraticunderground.com/contest/ribbons.jpg

Don't want an iPod or an autographed book? Here's your chance to [i]do some good[/i] instead of getting some stuff!

Democratic Underground is going to donate $250 to a progressive non-profit. [b][i]And one lucky DUer will decide who g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/312 Wed, 13 May 2009 22:00:45 MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE... The winner of Tuesday's iPod Nano Contest is... [font size="5"][b]mimitabby![/b][/font]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/contest/ipod-small.gif

She wins an iPod Nano and a $25 iTunes Gift Card! What color will she pick?

[i][b]Please post to congratulate mimitabby in this thread![/b] And remember to rec this thread so more people will... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/311 Wed, 13 May 2009 19:33:18 Donate to DU and you'll be entered to win *TWO SIGNED BOOKS* by Hillary Rodham Clinton! These contests just keep getting better and better!

Donate to Democratic Underground before 10pm ET (7pm PT) Wednesday, May 13, and you will be automatically entered to win TWO BOOKS: A [i][b]SIGNED[/b][/i] paperback copy of "Living History", by Hillary Rodham Clinton, plus a [i][b]SIGNED[/b][/i]... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/310 Tue, 12 May 2009 22:00:13