Google Flu Trends

http://www.google.org/flutrends/

An interesting use of computer technology.  It's being hammered right now since it was announced on the evening news.  There is no county by county stats but what is there is worthy.

       Jeff

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Barrack Obama on the subject of Pie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU9qTzhQk3U in which Mr. Obama details about a dozen kinds of pie.  There's also a pretty good Republican story in there as well.

Dave Winer says if Obama wins,  celebrate by eating some pie.

Mr. Winer also says all diets are suspended for the evening.  I imagine if he says it, it must be so.

I'm thinking pumpkin.

   Jeff


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Handgun at Judy's Online Genealogy & Writing Store

http://tinyurl.com/5t2po8

The fun thing about this is... look closely at the old photo of Doris Wade sitting on the porch... you'll see that's a HANDGUN on the bench beside her!

That means you didn't sneak up on Dori Wade.  She probably sat there and did target practice.

"Those Were The Days"   Or not.

Hah.

Jeff

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Cat Being Namer

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=catbeingnamer

"Creates names with a feline feel"

also fun is all the stuff at http://www.chaoticshiny.com  ... chaoticS is a little better quality than what you get at seventhsanctum,  but slightly more gaming oriented.

p.s.

 I am working on my http://www.nanowrimo.com stuff,  like you couldn't tell ;-)

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Great picture of Barack & Family

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/images/callie/20.jpg

the whole series is somewhere around http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/callie-bp.html

I am looking forward to Michell Obama as first lady!





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online layaway programs

Online layaway programs made the evening news.

         Google Search: http://tinyurl.com/698m6q

There's a link there that says this is a good way to save money & avoid debt.  I think they have a little way to go... they could have accounts that just accept payments & when you reach a figure the get you what you want... like through buy.com or something... so the place offering the "layaway" would make money via earning interest off your money.  Of course LOGIC says one should just put the $$ into your OWN account somewhere,  but sadly us humans tend to lack in the logic area.

         Jeff

YouTube adds select TV shows from CBS; takes aim at Hulu

from last100 (DTV news):

http://www.last100.com/2008/10/10/youtube-adds-select-tv-shows-from-cbs-takes-aim-at-hulu-for-long-form-video-content/

I'm hoping for more vendors of full tv shows online to dump the Windows Only playback.

  jeff

Homer Simpson votes for Obama (Scripting News)

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/10/01/homerSimpsonVotesForObama.html

a video.

CBS: Palin can't name one single newspaper or magazine that she has EVER read in her life

Americablog gives an interesting perspective to Couric's interview of Palin:

http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/cbs-palin-cant-name-one-single.html

Apparently someone told Palin she should never answer any question.

I saw this interview on the evening news,  the more I thought about it the more bizarre it seemed.

I think Ms. Palin has some charisma, though;  I'm not sure that is a good thing because it can fool people into thinking there is actual fire there instead of just smoke.  Here is how I can tell that:  If you watch an interview with her she seems reasonable,  but when you read a transcript or listen to the same interview without the visual it becomes apparent that she spews a jumble of words that don't make any sense;  so her appeance and mannerisms tie things together (the smoke) when there is no actual content (no fire).

Sarah Teen USA Palin (Scripting News)

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/09/25/sarahTeenUsaPalin.html#disqus_thread

Ok,  now that's sad.

Unfair to everyone,  but still real in a Very Scary way.

  jeff

David Letterman on McCain's Suspension Campaign.

mentioned on the 'net....

"You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested hero behaves." And he joked: "I think someone's putting something in his metamucil."

"He can't run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sara Palin. Where is she?"

"What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!"

And now for some comic relief: Won’t Get Fooled Again

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/wont_get_fooled_again.php

Bail Out Comedy!

Really!

Go Read.  Including the comments.

Hey Washington, can you buy my bad investments too?

http://www.buymyshitpile.com/

Have you bought stuff that you'd like to sell but no one will buy?

Stuff that won't even sell on eBay,  but you KNOW is way valuable??

Or maybe a loan for a car that turns out to be crap and you can't afford lawsuits over?

Well those things are very much like the houses bought by sub-prime no money down loans given to people who were suckered in.

So http://buymyshitpile.com is building a SHITPILE for all your crap,  and you're invited to add yours to it!  They are up to almost 8 BILLION dollars so far... that's nothing compared to the money they want to shovel at banks,  so why not join the line for handouts?

To quote the SHITPILE site:

With our economy in crisis, the US Government is scrambling to rescue our banks by purchasing their "distressed assets", i.e., assets that no one else wants to buy from them. We figured that instead of protesting this plan, we'd give regular Americans the same opportunity to sell their bad assets to the government. We need your help and you need the Government's help!

    

Works for me

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In this week of turmoil, consider the Enabling Act of 1933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

I saw a comment on Scripting News wondering if the bail out bill was an "Enablement Act".  Took me a while to find out what that referred to.  Basically it was an act in 1933 of the German Government which enabled Hitler to take complete control of the German Republic.

So the fear/pondering about our present time is if the current bail out legislation combined with the 9-11 legislation could be an enabling act for some current politician to take dictatorial powers.

You know, like declare a national emergency and suspend elections.  Or something like that.

This is why I'm seriously hoping that our congress people go slow on writing the blank checks.

     - Jeff -

The Big Picture | How SEC Regulatory Exemptions Helped Lead to Collapse

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/regulatory-exem.html

hmmm...  that clarifies a few things.

It's crazy that the five big culprits they point at are the very three that have gone kablooie and the next two are teetering.

China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/08/07/bcnchina107a.xml

read about relation to the US pres campaigns.

    jeff

and Pontius Pilate was a Governor

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/what_a_community_organizer_doe.html#comment-564546

Jesus was a community organizer

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/what_a_community_organizer_doe.html#comment-564546

What a Community Organizer Does

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/what_a_community_organizer_doe.html

It was a "faith-based" organization.

  Jeff

convention C-SPAN Live Stream - C-SPAN

http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN_rm.aspx

tonight at 5pm ET,  that would be 4pm CDT.

For Mac users... I couldn't get Flip4Mac to work... installed Real Player 11... installed it, chose Real Media stream & it works nicely.