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Visiting Obama’s Richmond headquarters. It has a great...

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:55:41 -0400

Visiting Obama’s Richmond headquarters. It has a great vibe.

"Three in four Chinese think the world likes China, while only one in 10 thinks foreigners..."

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:49:30 -0400

“Three in four Chinese think the world likes China, while only one in 10 thinks foreigners don’t like the country. More than 80 percent believe China takes other countries’ interests into account when formulating foreign policy. Just 3 percent think China’s economic growth has a negative effect on other countries. Only 1 percent knew a lot about the recall of Chinese products for quality and safety reasons.”

- John Kamm - Blinded By the Firewall - washingtonpost.com

"The cabinet-level General Administration of Sport does its job well. It predicts which Olympic..."

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:28:16 -0400

“The cabinet-level General Administration of Sport does its job well. It predicts which Olympic events could yield gold medals to China, allocates extra money to train athletes in those sports and dispatches scouts to locate children who fit certain sports molds. Those scouts may recruit a 6-year-old village girl with double-jointed elbows into a diving program, for instance, because a decade later she could arc into the water with a smaller splash.”

- China’s Gold Rush - NYTimes.com

iTunes Still Tops Music Charts; Amazon Primed for Growth?

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:41:41 -0400

iTunes Still Tops Music Charts; Amazon Primed for Growth? : Steve needs to do whatever it takes to go DRM free and he needs to do it fast.

Got screened for LASIK this morning. My eyes are still dilated. Everything is so bright and fuzzy!

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:57:00 -0400

Got screened for LASIK this morning. My eyes are still dilated. Everything is so bright and fuzzy!

perspctv is a pretty amazing dashboard of the 2008 U.S....

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:04:23 -0400

perspctv is a pretty amazing dashboard of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. You can see the latest estimates of the popular vote and the electoral vote as well as tallies of news articles, blog posts and Twitter tweets about each candidate. You can see many of those stats in a timeline. And, there’s even an embeddable widget. Nice. (via lalamax)

Steve Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards"

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:59:50 -0400

Steve Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards" : Glad Apple is admitting this and taking steps to address it.

The iPhone 2.0.1 software doesn’t seem to like the...

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:37:46 -0400

The iPhone 2.0.1 software doesn’t seem to like the NetNewsWire app.

Why Obama's Tire Gauge Is No Joke

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:15:39 -0400

corcarpemei:

biteofpythias:

ganderthoughts:

Yes, I’m misserable and very intolerant today - of anything that comes close to being conservative, republican, or the like. I have no tolerance for you. I’m closed minded, narrow, hateful. Because you - are a moron.

Today, McCain had a field day making fun of Obama for suggesting that properly inflating our tires and getting tune ups can have as much of an impact on our energy needs as the proposed off-shore drilling. The McCain campaign even gave reporters tire gauges with the words “Obama’s energy plan”.

But, as you can read on this TIME piece, Obama was wrong! Properly inflating our tires and getting tune ups can have MORE of an impact on energy use than what we can expect from off-shore drilling. And the impact is immediate. Not in 20 years!

But McCain and his pals are too stupid to know… or sadly, they know, but they also know that voters are stupid, moronic, to unbelievable levels. Need proof? BUSH.

CNN: What's with Batman's voice in 'Dark Knight'?

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:11:39 -0400

CNN: What's with Batman's voice in 'Dark Knight'?:

rach:

Any nationally syndicated article that begins with “What’s With” is bound to be a little wonky.

Tyler calls this: “The Seinfeld approach to trend pieces.”

Ah, so I’m not the only one who hates Christian Bale’s Batman growl. Reassuring.

Organic Farming Takes Root In China : NPR

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:30:42 -0400

Organic Farming Takes Root In China : NPR: I love NPR for a million reasons, but one of the big ones is that they do stories no one else is doing. While many news outlets are content to look at China as a monolithic culture focused like a laser beam on economic growth, NPR digs into things. NPR shows us that caring about what you put in your body isn’t a Western thing or a democratic thing. It’s a human thing.

Biking in Bryan Park.

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:26:37 -0400

Biking in Bryan Park.

CollegeHumor - March of Shame The faux Morgan Freeman voice is...

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:02:11 -0400

CollegeHumor - March of Shame

The faux Morgan Freeman voice is what makes this perfect.

Despite Flaws, Kindle a $100m Success for Amazon

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:46:42 -0400

Despite Flaws, Kindle a $100m Success for Amazon : If true, not too shabby!

Biking in Byrd Park.

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:59:03 -0400

Biking in Byrd Park.

Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the Webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:01:37 -0400

Jim Davis is awesome for supporting this. (via travors )

Some Female Olympians May Undergo Sex Tests : NPR

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:20:06 -0400

Some Female Olympians May Undergo Sex Tests : NPR:

At the Beijing Olympics, some female athletes may undergo sex testing. Doriane Lambelet Coleman, a professor of law at Duke University and a former athlete, says sex testing began following suspicion that some female athletes either took anabolic androgenic steroids or were, in fact, men.

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:18:05 -0400

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet: (via sujay)

"U.S. interrogators rarely if ever encounter a “ticking time bomb,” someone with detailed..."

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:42:00 -0400

“U.S. interrogators rarely if ever encounter a “ticking time bomb,” someone with detailed information about an imminent terror plot. But according to the advocacy group the Parents Television Council (which has declared war on “24”), [Jack] Bauer encounters a ticking time bomb an average of 12 times every season. Given that each season represents a 24-hour period, Bauer encounters someone who needs torturing 12 times per day. Experienced interrogators know that information extracted through torture is rarely reliable. But Jack Bauer’s torture not only elicits the truth, it does so before the commercial. He is a human polygraph who has a way with flesh-eating chemicals.”

- How Jack Bauer Shaped U.S. Torture Policy | Dahlia Lithwick | Newsweek.com

"Though the tariff system is smaller than other taxes, it is far more regressive. This is because..."

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:20:39 -0400

“Though the tariff system is smaller than other taxes, it is far more regressive. This is because poor people spend a greater share of their income on clothes and shoes than do wealthy or middle-class people. The cheap and simple goods made in poor countries and bought by low-income Americans are subject to far higher tariffs than luxury goods. An acrylic sweater attracts a 32 percent tariff while a cashmere sweater gets only 4 percent; a polyester bra is tagged with a 17 percent tariff, while one made of silk gets less than three percent; and a cheap stainless steel fork is hit with a 19 percent tariff, while a silver-plated spoon has none at all.”

- Foreign Affairs - Taxing the Poor - Edward Gresser