The Economist cover this week_1223660075445 (1)
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Michael Surtees posted a photo: noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2008/10/the-econom...
McCain’s Fall (2)
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This correlation between the S & P 500 and McCain’s polls is all you need to know about what went wrong for the Republicans. Tagged: John McCain, Politics, Stock Market plunge
The scary context of this election; the decent efforts to calm (4)
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From CBS: Some of the questioners said they were scared of an Obama presidency, and one woman said she couldn’t trust Obama because “he’s an Arab.” McCain shook his head. “No ma’am, he’s a decent family man, a citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what this campaign is all about.”
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Chung said:
and here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6YKOkfFsE
● Death by kisses, an unusual tombstone (17)
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After posting about the Metropolitan Life Tower the other day, I was looking through some recent email and discovered one from a week ago that by chance contained a very unusual story about the building. Filmmaker Pes was researching for a film in Woodlawn Cemetery when he came across the odd tombstone of a 15-year-old boy who had died on his birthday: LOST LIFE BY STAB IN FALLING ONINK ERASER, EVADING SIX YOUNGWOMEN TRYING TO ...
Bold Moves (2)
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I believe the Black President is wrapping it up in terms of the election. This is looking a lot more like 96, 84 or 76 than 2000 or 04. That’s good. So now there’s this: Obama campaign buys 30-minute time block on Oct 29th. My guess/hope is this will be a Perot-style policy demo. Our debt-based economy is rapidly collapsing, and as clever as Zack’s “25% hit on 401(k): five grand. President Obama? Priceless” line ...
"Chinese Democracy" Release Date (1)
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MUSIC BUZZ: Guns N’ Roses long, long-awaited debut has finally been given a release date of November 23, 2008 (which is, in fact, a Sunday). The disc will be sold exclusively at Best Buy, which is probably where GNR fans spend most of their Sunday afternoons anyway. (Not at all.) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: Will November ‘Reign’ End 17-Year Saga? Expect a “Chinese” Christmas “[Nov. 23] Marks ...
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Jonathan said:
I have had been looking forward to this album since before I could shave.
A FL Teacher on What C.H.A.N.G.E. Stands For (1)
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I’m fresh out of sarcastic comments: TALLAHASSEE — A Marianna, Fla., middle-school teacher has been suspended for 10 days without pay after he wrote a racially charged interpretation of a commonly used phrase in the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama. While some parents and community activists were outraged by the actions of Greg Howard, Jackson County NAACP officials want to gather more facts before the group considers taking action. But some parents feel Howard ...
Dream Captcha for spam-free sleep (9)
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Jeff, an artist, created the Dream Captcha to mashup the traditional dream-catcher and anti-spam gunk -- as a result, his dreams are free of spam: Dream Captcha is a play on the idea of a traditional Ojibwa dreamcatcher and the technology of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). So the idea of the dreamcatcher is something I’ve been exposed to since I was a young kid. In elementary school ...
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yooper1019 said:
Did the Casino's IT guy come up with this? J/K!
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Jonathan said:
AWESOME!!!
Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? (6)
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Matt_dk writes "A team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon. 'It's so simple,' says Ermanno F. Borra, physics professor at the Optics Laboratory of Laval University in Quebec, Canada. 'Isaac Newton knew that any liquid, if put into a shallow container and set spinning, naturally assumes a parabolic shape, the same shape needed by a telescope mirror to bring starlight to a ...
Last-Minute Push for Reluctant Technologists to Embrace, Evangelize Obama (4)
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Employees of some of the biggest tech firms in the United States are financially backing Barack Obama over John McCain by a lopsided ratio of nine to one, according to ZDNet's Robin Harris. Using fundraising data from OpenSecrets that covers donors who have contributed above $200, Harris found that employees of Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Google and six other companies overwhelmingly support the Democratic nominee over his Republican counterpart. If you're Obama or a supporter, ...
Recycling egg (7)
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John's found these superb recycling egg multi-trash-cans: The Ovetto Recycling Egg is an expensive, dual-slot trash can that, for $250, allows for the separation of plastic and aluminum in one receptacle... a goal which can just as easily be accomplished for the price of a couple $5 trash buckets. But you aren't paying for the function, you're paying for the design, and who amongst us does not want to ...
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Eebs said:
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Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones (3)
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Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript (6)
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An anonymous reader writes "There's been a lot of talk about recovering blurred or pixelated text, but here's an actual implementation using nothing but Photoshop and a little JavaScript. Includes a Hollywood-esque video showing the uncovered letters slowly appearing."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Top Maryland cops ordered nonviolent peace activists' names added to anti-terror, drug trafficking databases (9)
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Saying "I don't believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wish to disrupt the government," former Maryland state police superintendent Thomas E. Hutchins authorized the infiltration of several anti-war and anti-death-penalty nonviolent protest groups, then added their members to the national terrorism database and the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database. In all, 53 citizens were thus included (that we know of -- it'd be naive to think that Maryland is ...
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Dave said:
This is how to achieve a fascist police state in three simple steps: 1) Determine there is a threat so profound that any cost is worth paying to fight it. We tried drugs, that didn't take but now terrorism is it. 2) Define every single thing you don't like as that heinous thing and pay any cost to fight it. 3) Erect a giant Stalinesque, Husseinesque statue of yourself!
Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? (3)
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KlaymenDK writes "Over the last decade or so, I have strived to maintain my privacy. I have uninstalled Windows, told my friends 'sorry' when they wanted me to join Facebook, had a fight with my brother when he wanted to move the family email hosting to Gmail, and generally held back on my personal information online. But since, amongst all of my friends, I am the only one doing this, it may well be that ...
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Jonathan said:
As a society, we'll have to decide on the social norms that constitute "privacy" in the coming years. Hopefully it won't include withdrawing from the benefits of social and cloud technologies.
Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence (7)
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mikesd81 writes "Google has developed 'Mail Goggles,' a Gmail add-on that makes sending email from Gmail more difficult during certain times (which you can set). If you have Mail Goggles installed, it will force you to answer a series of math questions before sending out any new messages. You can adjust the math difficulty and times this option is in effect. If you get any of the questions wrong, Mail Goggles will say, 'Water and ...
WPFolio - a wordpress theme for artists (3)
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WPFolio is a free and open source WordPress theme designed by artists specifically for visual artists. Visual artists who have a range of experience with the web (from none, to lots) and want a website that * emphasizes your images * is easy to update and maintain * has a look you can customize without modifying code * uses the latest web standards * is easy for users to navigate It’s free and open source. ...
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Some lovelies from the New York Public Library. Larger images after the jump. —JH Continues...Contribute comment
