The League

A League App for iPhone and Android?

by Erik Kain · November 7, 2011

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.

Tod Kelly says:

November 7, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Dude, I have only recently figured out how to make italics.Report
DensityDuck says:

November 7, 2011 at 2:26 pm

How would an app be different from just visiting the site?Report
- E.D. Kain in reply to DensityDuck says:
  
  November 7, 2011 at 2:28 pm
  
  Do you visit the site from a phone ever? Phones do lots of things PC’s don’t do, like go dark after a minute or so. Commenting is tricky. The interface requires lots of zooming and un-zooming. Apps make the touch-screen, mobile/tablet experience much more robust and useful.Report
  - Patrick Cahalan in reply to E.D. Kain says:
    
    November 7, 2011 at 2:44 pm
    
    Well, we’re using the wordpress engine, so there should be a pretty easily mungible phone client out there already somewhere.Report
Ryan Bonneville says:

November 7, 2011 at 2:37 pm

I’m asking around, but I do not generally travel in the right circles for this kind of thing.Report
Chris says:

November 7, 2011 at 2:50 pm

Does this help: http://www.appsgeyser.com/blog/2011/08/03/how-to-create-an-app-for-a-wordpress-blog-using-the-new-plugin-%E2%80%93-step-by-step/ If you google “How to make an app for your wordpress blog,” you will find a bunch of potentially relevant info.Report
wardsmith says:

November 7, 2011 at 2:53 pm

How about this app? Seems like it’s ready to go, but I don’t have an iphone and never update my own wordpress anymore. 🙁Report
Petar Subotic says:

November 7, 2011 at 4:03 pm

I dwell in the shadows and just watch you all, waiting for the right moment to strike, and it would appear as if that moment has come.

There is a misconception about mobile applications. They are not for everyone. If you are a content based web site and are trying to optimize your experience to convenient mobile visitors you are looking at ways to convert your layout to a cross-platform friendly “responsive” one, rather than developing an application.

More on responsive layouts: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/

Good news is that this requires significantly less work; and anyone familiar with CSS3 Media Queries should be able to lend a helping hand.

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- Tod Kelly in reply to Petar Subotic says:
  
  November 7, 2011 at 5:59 pm
  
  @Petar Subotic: I dwell in the shadows and just watch you all, waiting for the right moment to strike, and it would appear as if that moment has come
  
  Dude, that was totally Batman!Report
Petar Subotic says:

November 12, 2011 at 8:13 pm

Hate to see you abandon this idea so quickly. I decided to dedicate a part of my Saturday night to the improvement of the League experience (no life, I know.) So, you want to know how to make the League website mobile friendly in 10 minutes or less?

Tah-Dah:

http://petarsubotic.com/testingGrounds/league-responsive/batshit.html

Test it out by doing that thing where you grab and drag the edge of you browser left and right, or tap the link from your phone. It should be noted that this is purely for demonstrative purposes and you would be crazy to something sloppy like this. Now, you can add another 15 lines of code for tablet computers ( . . .)Report

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Shooting in Buffalo Leaves 10 Dead, 13 Wounded

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[caption id="attachment_361266" align="alignnone" width="640"] Screengrab from WIVB Buffalo Channel 4 News[/caption]

Still a developing story, but what we know so far points to an utterly depraved act of violence at a Buffalo supermarket.

WIVB TV 4, Buffalo:

Ten people were killed and three others suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to local hospitals after a mass shooting at a supermarket on Buffalo’s East Side Saturday afternoon.

The shooter was an 18-year-old white male who was heavily armed with tactical gear and was live-streaming during the mass shooting, officials said. City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the shooter is not from Buffalo and traveled “hours” from outside the area.

“This was pure evil,” Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said. “A straight-up racially motivated hate crime.”

The shooter was identified in court Saturday evening as Payton S. Gendron of Conklin, New York, about 200 miles southeast of Buffalo.

Gendron was arraigned on one count of first-degree murder without bail.

The 18-year-old will be back in court on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. for a felony hearing.

When Gendron exited his vehicle at the supermarket, authorities said, he shot four people in the parking lot. Three of them died and one is in the hospital. The shooter entered the store and opened fire on customers.

Twitch deletes shooter’s live-stream video of Buffalo mass shooting
A retired Buffalo Police officer, Aaron Salter, who was working as a security guard, shot Gendron but he was unharmed because he was wearing armor, Gramaglia said. The retired officer was shot and killed.

A law enforcement source told CBS News that the gunman had a racial slur written on his weapon. The attack is being treated as a hate crime.

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn will not confirm the existence of the shooter’s manifesto. He said they believe there was a “racial component” to the attack but won’t say more.

This attack is being investigated by the FBI as a hate crime and as violent extremism.

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Dylan Matthews explains how he (and a lot of other people) got inflation wrong.

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The Federal Reserve's fight against inflation will spark a recession in the United States that begins late next year, Deutsche Bank warned on Tuesday.

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From Reason: The Supreme Court Says You Can Sue Cops Who Frame You on False Charges

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From Reason:

Police officers could frame people, file bogus charges, conjure evidence out of thin air—and, in most of the U.S., they would still be immune from facing any sort of civil accountability for that malicious prosecution. Until yesterday.

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Yesterday, the highest court in the country struck that requirement down, ruling that Thompson should indeed have a right to sue the officers at the center of his case. "A plaintiff such as Thompson must demonstrate, among other things, that he obtained a favorable termination of the underlying criminal prosecution," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court. "We hold that a Fourth Amendment claim…for malicious prosecution does not require the plaintiff to show that the criminal prosecution ended with some affirmative indication of innocence."

From THOMPSON v. CLARK ET AL.:

Held: To demonstrate a favorable termination of a criminal prosecution for purposes of the Fourth Amendment claim under §1983 for malicious prosecution, a plaintiff need not show that the criminal prosecution ended with some affirmative indication of innocence. A plaintiff need only show that his prosecution ended without a conviction.
Thompson has satisfied that requirement here.

Thompson v. Clark was decided 6-3. (Alito wrote the dissent, with Thomas and Gorsuch joining.)

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