January 2008
Clinton's Lead Erodes, Obama Pulls More Edwards... →
On the Democratic side, Clinton leads Obama 43 percent to 34 percent, with John Edwards - who is expected to drop out today – at 14 percent. Clinton’s lead is down 17 points since Jan. 24. Again, if past history provides any clue, polling during the campaign in some states indicated that Obama was the second choice of many Edwards supporters.
beltzner: i went streaking down ECR last night
Firefox share up over 20% in Europe, mostly at... →
The open source Firefox web browser continues to gain market share in Europe at Internet Explorer’s expense. It’s the browser of choice for over one-quarter of European web surfers, according to French metrics firm XiTi.
haha: “we can’t find a first officer to fly the plane”
pdx airport: flight delays are fine when there’s free wifi and more power outlets than people
watching F-15s takeoff from PDX
The great fiscal stimulus package ... of 1929 →
Herbert Hoover — only nine months into his presidency — assembled leaders from the public and private sectors to create an economic-stimulus package. Among the measures, Time magazine reported at the time, was a promise from Congress to offer bipartisan support for a tax-cut package.
sad: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7206165.stm
bookmarked http://hypem.com/random, and clicking it over and over
URGENT: Oppose Telecom Immunity and Contact Your... →
As early as Monday, the Administration and its allies are trying to end Senate debate on FISA and telecom immunity and force a vote on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bill-a bill that would broadly expand the executive branch’s spying powers while granting immunity to telecoms that broke the law and assisted in the NSA’s illegal domestic spying
having an eyegrain
@jasonglaspey: is that the CrossFit diet?! sign me up!
XMPP (a.ka. Jabber) is the future for cloud... →
In just a couple of years Google, Apple, AOL, IBM, Livejournal and Jive have all jumped on board. This post explains how XMPP is the future protocol of choice for cloud services.
@kveton: working on it :( star and tagging is waaay more efficient though, give it a try!
Michael Weiner-Savage Losing Advertisers Over Hate... →
The Weiner Man is just one in a huge gaggle of right wing nut jobs on the radio, but his brand of hate stands alone. The poor guy was canned last year by his management agency for attacking Melissa Etheridge and lesbians and now the schmuck is finally being dumped by some of his biggest sponsors.
@ravenzachary: seems worth it to stop the sale of poisonous toys to kids!
@joshayala: i actually wrote some php code to do exactly that.. i’ll mail it to ya if you want :)
@jaacob: that happened mid-browsing session?
hm, 2 kegs left here at the office from last night’s AIR event == breakfast!
a Key Lime Pie: 1p Crater Lake vodka, 1p vanilla Stoli, 1p lime juice and a splash of simple syrup, shaken
@gabekerbrat: fine, it doesn’t. but it’s open source, so you could add balls…
watching the Netgear Eva8000 kick the Neuros OSD’s ass in the balls
Widespread Cheating & Vote Suppression by Clinton... →
There is widespread cheating and voter suppression going on all over Clark County—and it’s obviously coming in from the top down. Whether it made enough of a difference to swing the election is another question—but there is no question that Hillary was running a campaign in which all of her surrogates were to cheat in every way possible.
At jrr tolkeins b-day party at kennedy school
“Girl on cell: “Hello? Oh hi, I just wanted to tell you that your parents...”
– Overheard in PDX: “So, what are you doing later? Besides jumping off the KOIN tower, I mean.” Hm, who can I call and leave this message…
“In Buffalo Exchange on Hawthorne: Girl: I thought you didn’t like...”
– I like his style. Overheard in PDX: Interesting wardrobe
mmm http://www.nestle.be/GED/00000000/1300/1349.gif
DIY Cartoon Strips Made Social →
Toonlet is a new site where you can create your own cartoon strips with customized characters and leave cartoons as comments in response to other peoples’ strips. It’s fun, fast and easy. Kids will like it and I do too. Few sites on the web where you can create your own comic strips but few of them let you build your own characters. Way cool.
@mconnor: yeah, he’s a chick magnet, that’s certainly a plus
silver cowboy boots, a fedora and a half rack of Bud. yet another awesome Grand Ave morning sighting.
really wondering about the utility of having an attack chihuahua…
@mozpkim: heh, beer accepted :) hm, i should make the session-restore-saved-my-ass extension, with a donation link to a deserving charity.
@jaacob: http://tinyurl.com/xu0f is a good place
*passes Thor’s hammer to @joshayala*
listening to the morning calls of the crazies on grand ave
@gabekerbrat: woo, shit those awesome, thanks!
@gabekerbrat: thanks, flickr that shit up! it’s weird having a historical cutoff date. like we were in witness protection program.
@gabekerbrat: !!! boy, would i like to see those. all that got stolen in 01 :(
@gabekerbrat: just. in. case.
@coveloper: but they’re damn heavy!
QOTD: “Astonishingly, rolling a burning oily rag around in your hand isn’t a good idea.”
hah, gmail just burped up some messages from as far back as march 07
My OpenCongress: Network, Comment and Vote on... →
OpenCongress has come out with a new version which allows you to network, discuss, evaluate, and vote on what’s happening in Congress. You can track specific bills, Senators, Representatives, or issues and they’ve even put together a page on how to make the most of it: http://www.opencongress.org/profile/howtouse
ugh, full-blown sick. in jammies on the couch, coding and watching soccer.
At podnah’s, eating bacon on a stick
Vote counts for Clinton/Obama exchanged in New... →
After the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday there were some suggestions that the Democratic primary might have been tampered with. Now we have proof that the vote counts for Obama and Clinton were exchanged by Diebold voting machines.
watching La Vie en Rose
woo, successfully rebuilt the macbook (2 archive-and-installs later). still no idea what caused the problem to begin with :/
probability of Shauna getting this as a present from me? 100% http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/snuznluz.shtml
