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Top Comments: Triple Play Edition

You remember how I noted last night that back-to-back-to-back wasn't physically possible. It's true, you know, if you're talking about the entire back of a human body against the entire back of each of...

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Top Comments: DK4 Beta Edition

It's right over here: the DK4 beta is now open and ready to be used by everyone. In fact, this very diary here on Classic Kos should show up at the beta site within 15 minutes of being posted here....

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Top Comments: DK4 Beta Edition, Part II

The beta testing continues: the DK4 beta that opened yesterday continues to need users to kick the tires and report any flats that result. Once again, this very diary here on Classic Kos should show up...

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Top Comments: DK4 Beta Edition, Part III

It's been ten days since my second of two back-to-back diaries on the DK4 beta (the beta site is here, and this diary will be there within fifteen minutes of it being posted on Classic Kos).  In Part...

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Top Comments: DK4 Beta Edition, Part IV: Exploring

My last couple of Top Comments diaries on the DK4 Beta have been "how to find" diaries:In Part III, I went down the DK3 Menu at the right side of the Daily Kos pages, telling you where everything could...

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Top Comments: Beta Testing Edition

I have been writing about the DK4 Beta in my last four of Top Comments diaries. What I haven't talked much about is what I've been doing there: testing.While DK4 is there for folks to kick the tires...

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Top Comments: Rollback Edition

It's inevitable, when developing a new software application, that things will go wrong. Errors will be made, bugs will be found. When dealing with the web, problems can be anywhere: configuration...

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NPR lying about Daily Kos

On Talk of the Nation, in the "Political Junkie" segment earlier this hour, host Neal Conan, with the assistance of Ken Rudin (said political junkie), lied about Daily Kos.They stated that a "Daily Kos...

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Top Comments: DK4 Beta Edition, Part V

Inviting someone to preview a beta is a bit like inviting them to a building shortly before its formal opening, when there are still details to be finished, and a few items are backordered. You have...

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Top Comments: Get Your Account Ready for DK4!

Why should you have to do anything to get your Daily Kos account ready for the switchover from DK3 to DK4, now a mere eleven days away?The answer is, of course: you don't have to. Everything will keep...

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Top Comments: DK4 FAQ Forum: One week to go!

With only one week remaining before Daily Kos switches from the current software to the new DK4 software, time is running out before our beloved home gets replaced by a new, higher-tech residence.There...

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Top Comments: DK4 FAQ Forum: Four More Days

The countdown before launch is at T minus four days and counting before Daily Kos vanishes for approximately a day to switch from the current software to the new DK4 software.To find out about how DK4...

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Top Comments: DK4 FAQ Forum, Countdown Reset Edition

On Monday, we were at launch countdown T minus four days; today we're at T minus seven days (and an undetermined number of hours) and counting before Daily Kos vanishes for approximately a day to...

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Top Comments: Got DK4 Questions? We Got Answers!

It being at the last minute on Super Sunday, and me just home from a concert and no diarist scheduled, I'm doing something quick 'n' dirtythat I think I can handle that I hope proves useful. Instead of...

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Top Comments: Post and Run Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Ultimate Pre-Launch Edition

The timers are steadily counting down to the end of an era: Daily Kos version 3 will be no more, to be seen again only in screen captures and at the Internet Archive. It joins version 2, the first...

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Top Comments: Bicentennial Post-Launch Edition

We're in a new era. Daily Kos launched a little while ago, and Top Comments has made it safely into the harbor. Much has changed, much remains the same, and the day has been busy and lively.One thing...

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Group Publishing: If "Publish Now" Fails

Back in the DK4 Beta, there was a problem with using Publish Now, if you were trying to publish to a group. Basically, if you were publishing or republishing diaries by anyone other than yourself—a new...

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Top Comments: Sneezy Coughy Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: DK4 FAQ Forum

DK4 has been the software of record for Daily Kos for over three weeks now, and it's been getting more stable and friendlier by the week. There have been fewer reasons to visit the bug report form....

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Top Comments: Lingering Cough Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: DK4 FAQ Forum: Advanced Search

Of all the features of the new DK4 software, Search has received the least love. It wasn't quite ready when the software was released: there were still date range bugs and other issues. For that...

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Top Comments: DK4 FAQ Forum: Basic Search

Search is still not the robust feature we all wish for on DK4. As noted in the last FAQ Forum, it wasn't quite ready when the software was released, and there are still issues with it.In backwards...

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Top Comments: Decomposer Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Sunday Stretch Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Mostly Comments Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: May Day Comments Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Early Music Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Late Night Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Glazed Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: AC Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: August Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Obsolescence Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Wet Day Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Unexpected Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Hole Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Friday Scheduling Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: September Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Duplicate Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: What To Do Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: Sleepy Edition

We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...

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Top Comments: All Power Corrupts, But We Need Electricity

Note: the text below was originally started nearly a week ago, when it looked like we'd need a substitute diarist, but brillig managed a miracle and it wasn't needed. It may still not be needed, but...

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Top Comments: Winter Flowers Edition

Normally, by this point in the winter, I have at least a couple of amaryllis going crazy next to my computer, and a couple of trios of paperwhites standing tall and displaying dozens of little flowers....

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Top Comments: Today's Edition

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Top Comments: Spent Edition

Tags: Top Comments, communityWe have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos.  Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain.  We Kossacks have strong voices and...

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Top Comments: Lingering Cough Redux Edition

I'm getting a little tired of being semi-sick. I was at a similar stage last year on March 10: being over two weeks into a virus that, while the fever and runny nose was a thing of the past, left me...

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Top Comments: Glazed and Confused Edition

I haven't been getting quite enough sleep lately.I'm not quite sure why: my body just decides to wake up earlier than usual, and I can't get back to sleep. Five or six hours seems to be it, and it's...

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Top Comments: Howzabout That DKos Anniversary Edition

Four days late. That's not too many, is it?I've not been on the site much of late, so I managed to miss the hullabaloo over the big Daily Kos double-digit anniversary. Shame on me.Daily Kos has been a...

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Top Comments: Last Minute Prolific Edition

Forty minutes. That's not too many, is it?I only get email on my desktop, where my primary browser's been flaky for a little while, so I wasn't at my keyboard when brillig's friendly reminder arrived,...

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Top Comments: Best Laid Plans Edition

A good friend is in town from Europe for a few days, but I didn't think I'd get to see him: it's a business trip, and he was booked solid.A little while ago, I got a call: he's suddenly free for...

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