Time Is Tight

No official word yet, but Wordpress 2.5 appears to be on the verge of full release. The version number has dropped the “release candidate” qualification.
Get it from the Release Archives page.

Wordpress 2.42.5 is getting closer: they’ve bumped the Alpha to Beta.

Well-worth-reading summation of the GiveWell astroturfing controversy on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s website.
Meanwhile, the GiveWell, or Give ‘em Hell? thread rages on on MetaTalk.

GiveWell or Give ‘em Hell: The 26-year-old founder of GiveWell, a sort of charity 2.0 startup, is caught astroturfing AskMetaFilter and other weblogs. On AskMetaFilter, he created two accounts to ask and then answer a question on end-of-year donations, recommending his own organization and maligning hits competitors. He didn’t reveal his involvement until caught [...]