All Blog Posts (Page 36)

Oct 02, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Great Reasons to Fact-Check Interns' Work, #27

From the RNC website: Obama Would Implement The Lugar-Obama Legislation To Crack Down On The Smuggling Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction. "[Obama] also will fully implement the Lugar-Obama legislation to help our allies detect and stop the smuggling ...

Sep 27, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Barack's to lose

Who am I? Why am I here? I don’t even remember anymore. Anyway, I watched the debate tonight with 150 or so people from Washington’s 43rd Legislative District, and thought that it was essentially a draw. Bear in mind: this is not an ideal outcome,...

Sep 16, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Carly knows all about the lack of qualifications

  From Andy Barr at The Hill: "Do you think [Palin] has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?" Fiorina was asked on a St. Louis radio show. "No, I don't," Fiorina said without further explanation. And, as we all know, Carl...

Sep 13, 2008
iPhone

Walt Mossberg on Election '08

Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal wrote about Election ‘08 today: Now there’s a cool new way to follow the 2008 Presidential election anywhere you go...If you care about politics, and understand that polls aren’t perfect, Election ‘08 can p...

Sep 13, 2008
Miscellaneous

Nothing Quite Like Running Naked in a Hurricane

I’ve been watching coverage of Hurricane Ike’s landfall in Texas all evening, and was just watching another clip on the Weather Channel’s website. I noticed something in the last second of this video that’s worth watching: some guy runs naked acro...

Sep 12, 2008
Miscellaneous

Weird Headline Day

  [caption id=”attachment_768” align=”alignnone” width=”300” caption=”NYT: Court clears way for Zuma Presidency”][/caption] [caption id=”attachment_769” align=”alignnone” width=”125” caption=”Zuma Frog”][/caption]  ??????

Sep 11, 2008
iPhone

Election '08 Updated

I just received word from Apple that Election ‘08 has been updated to version 1.1. This brings with it a raft of improvements, including: Battleground states: See which races are the closest at the touch of a button. Polling sources: See the so...

Sep 11, 2008
Zoon Politikon

David Plouffe to 38% of America: STFU

Haha, I love Plouffe: “We’re sensitive to the fluid dynamics of the campaign, but we have a game plan and a strategy,” said Mr. Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe. “We’re familiar with this. And I’m sure between now and Nov. 4 there will be a...

Sep 10, 2008
Apple Mac OS X

iTunes 8: 60 Second Review

Immediate reactions after first firing up iTunes 8, and configuring the Genius feature: Wow, I didn't think Apple could make iTunes look more inconsistent with the rest of the OS and itself than they already had. Guess they topped my expectation...

Sep 10, 2008
Music

Death Cab for Cutie and TV on the Radio

I’m just finishing up lunch, and was spending some time reflecting over the past couple weeks when I realized I never mentioned my day at Bumbershoot on Labor Day. I caught Death Cab for Cutie headlining that night, and was as thoroughly impressed...