A great piece in the New York Times today: How do you parent without a future, knowing that you will lose your child, bit by bit?

Amazon is hiring designers and using WordPress to do so. Update: Site is down, anyone know what happened? I wonder if it wasn’t meant to be public. Update 2: Now it’s back.

Theme Code Matters, Too on Themeshaper.

Seth Godin: The warning signs of defending the status quo. Hat tip: Andrew Spittle.

Over on WordPress.org we’ve released the raw data behind the survey.

6 of the 10 Republican presidential candidates are using WordPress, the other 4 are on Drupal, which means all 10 are on an Open Source CMS.

Dale Harvey on working remotely, some great tips for getting started and how to rock it. As always, Automattic is hiring great people regardless of location.

Rob Paterson writes Why do corporation die so soon and cities don’t? Corporations are Machines and Cities are Networks. Along the way he brings it back to WordPress and the Wikipedia.

In Baring Train Crash Facts, Blogs Erode China Censorship in the NY Times.

Microsoft’s MS-DOS is 30 today. Type “dir” in your Linux terminal in memory.

Snake oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements.

Istanbul Not Constantinople Will Confuse Your Users by Ipstenu.

Alexia Tsotsis writes on how Technology Is The New Smoking.

Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents on This American Life. Props to Chris Sacca for speaking on the record about everything.

Keret House / Centrala, a house built in the found face between two buildings.

The Trouble with Nathan Myhrvold’s Pro-Patent Arguments by Paul Kedrosky.

The Karma of Bug Killing. “We’re all pretty quick with the fly swatter and the folded newspapers.”

The Software is Wrong, Not the People by Joe Flood about the DC meetup the other day.