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RT @akuchling This evening: #Python user group meeting in #Maryland, at the NASA Goddard Visitor Centre

I'm designing a photo filter app from start to finish at CocoaHeads in Durham this Thursday. You should come!

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Yahoo Internet Life magazine is a hilariously awesome relic of the dot com era

Apple says it has a "what you see is what you get" approach to its taxes, but Congress disagrees, believing it sought the "holy grail of tax avoidance." Apple's Tim Cook testifies today.

Kate Hudson has joined the cast of Zach Braff’s Kickstarter-funded film, “Wish I Was Here”, and not everyone is happy about it. The Kickstarter campaign, which surpassed its $2 million goal in three days, was a highly controversial move on Braff’s part and was the talk of Twitter for a while as moviegoers wondered why they should give up their hard-earned cash to a millionaire actor. Still, he’s continuing to get backers on the crowd-sourcing site, so there are people who want to see this movie get made. According to Kickstarter, the campaign will end on Friday. Braff, who wrote the script with his brother, will direct and star as a 30-something husband and father who is struggling to find his identity. Also announced in the cast lineup are Josh Gad and Mandy Patinkin.

Yahoo yesterday announced that it's bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion to communicate to millennials cool, hip, relevant, and that it understands what GIFs are. But back in the early ages of the dot com-era, the company was saying that through a monthly publication called Yahoo Internet Life Magazine.Read more...

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky Before either Apple CEO Tim Cook or Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer took the stand to testify on behalf of Apple to defend their tax practices, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky lashed out on Senator John McCain and Senator Carl Levin for the “spectacle of dragging in here executives from Apple using the brute force of government to bully a great success story.” Senator Paul, a notable Tea Party leader and son of Representative Ron Paul, is often outspoken on issues of tax reform and made no effort to align for his Republican colleague Senator John McCain. Chairman Levin didn’t hesitate to bring the narrative against Apple and its tax practices back to the center stage soon after Senator Paul’s comments. “Apple has done more to enrich people’s lives than politicians will ever do,” Senator Paul voiced on Twitter after his monologue. “If there is anyone to blame here it is not Apple, it is Congress and the tax code it created.” Tim Cook and Peter Oppenheimer are both positioned to testify on behalf of Apple shortly, but you can read their prepared remarks that they published prior to today’s appearance. We don’t expect Apple will offer much deviation from its prepared remarks unless any unexpected questions prompt a notable response. Follow along with C-SPAN’s coverage of Apple’s testimony here.

Tim Cook and Peter Oppenheimer will testify today against accusations that Apple has funneled billions of dollars through overseas entities in order to avoid paying US taxes.