Intro – 8/28/08 | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central “It’s the last night of the Democratic convention. Spoiler alert: they picked Obama.” (Overall great episode) (tags: election_2008 stephen_colbert) Lincoln–The Duty to Think Anew (Harper’s Magazine) We can succeed only by concert. It is not “can any of us imagine better?” but, “can we all [...]
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"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
August 30th, 2008
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Technology Review: How Obama Really Did It ‘The Obama campaign could get marching orders to the Texans registered with MyBO with minimal effort. The MyBO databases could slice and dice lists of volunteers by geographic micro region and pair people with appropriate tasks, including prepping nearby voters on caucus procedure. “You could go online and [...]
August 29th, 2008
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Andy Borowitz: New McCain Ad Attacks Obama Kids “The spot uses visuals to link the two Obama kids to other famously cute kids, such as the young Drew Barrymore and the Cabbage Patch dolls.” (tags: election_2008 funny) Foodie Reflections » Chicago Food Planet Walking Tour A straightforward recounting of the stops on a regularly offered [...]
August 28th, 2008
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Metra says so long to its rail saloons — chicagotribune.com “The regulars on the 5:17 laugh heartily as the jokes fly. Riders carry on conversations across the seats and aisle. For a long time, a running poker game was conducted on a makeshift card table spread across the baggage rack.” (tags: chicago drink transit) Share [...]
August 27th, 2008
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Anthropomorphic Cannibalism – a set on Flickr (tags: photography anthropomorphism food) Doonesbury@Slate – Daily Dose Doonesbury on the 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling… (tags: election_2008 comics funny hillary_clinton) Angry PUMAs on the prowl in Denver | Salon News “Never mind that in three days in Denver I had not spotted a single PUMA [...]
August 26th, 2008
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Visualizing Restaurant Searching :: High Earth Orbit “The heatmap essentially shows the evolving enquiry of people looking for a place to eat. There isn’t an actual time display or timeline slider to investigate – but I imagine there are interesting trends during meals, and particularly after normal eating times when people don’t have a plans [...]
August 26th, 2008
Conference of the Birds, 2008-08-26
The 30th Chicago Jazz Festival is starting this week so I took the opportunity to play a few things connected to artists on the bill, namely Sonny Rollins, Amina Claudine Myers, Ornette Coleman, Dave Douglas, and Vijay Iyer. I have to say this year’s schedule is much more to my taste than many recent years… [...]
August 25th, 2008
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Crowd Funding – A Different Way to Pay for the News You Want – NYTimes.com “The idea, which they are calling “community-funded journalism,” is now being tested in the San Francisco Bay area, where a new nonprofit, Spot Us, is using its Web site, spot.us, to solicit ideas for investigative articles and the money to [...]
August 24th, 2008
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FactCheck.org: Rezko Reality “On Aug. 21, Barack Obama released an ad chiding Sen. John McCain for his inability to remember how many houses he owns, and McCain responded the same day with a counterattack charging that Obama got help buying his house from a “convicted felon” who got $14 million in “political favors” from Obama. [...]
August 22nd, 2008
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Harpers: The Perfect Game: Five Years with the Master of Pac-Man “What people don’t realize about that thing,” he says, pointing to a game near the popcorn machine, “is that Pac-Man is no place for panic. The maze is all about planning.” (tags: games videogames perfection via:aruzin filmtagged film:imdb=tt0923752) Share and Enjoy: