So has anyone else been following Nate Silver's (of fivethirtyeight.com) pursuit of Strategic Vision, LLC, a polling company with apparently dubious results? I ask because apparently they are not only a polling company, they're also in the literary publicity biz, which (when I saw that) made me wonder what the people here would make of them.
139 - Apologies. Call it "Amazon for Christian Bookstore customers", if you like.
Throwing out a random theory that I haven't seen yet:
Amazon decides to make a amazon-for-homeschoolers (or similar) site, proceeds to write up filters that will work for that demographic. Perhaps plans to have it implemented by some deniable Christian bookstore partner somehow, perhaps not.
Amazon then lets the code go live on the main site. Oops.
253: Presumably would have no effect either way on Stevens' position in the Senate. A 2/3 vote to expel. (Which means somewhere around a dozen Republican votes to expel needed - the vote could be a leading indicator of how solidly the Republican minority will hold together).
Lee @ 225: The comparison someone made at Grant Park yesterday was of MLK as Moses, leading his people to the edge of the Promised Land but not himself arriving, and Obama as Joshua, the one who actually got there.
(Mind you, most of the book of Joshua in the Bible is a loving, stage-by-stage description of a genocide, but I don't think that invalidates the image).
Voted at 6 AMish this morning. Now I'm having a hard time concentrating on work, waiting to head downtown to go to the Grant Park shindig. Need to plaster my jacket up with Obama stickers first, tho.
Wow, I was thinking about 26: What a perfect Hitherby Dragons pastiche.
Then I mous'd-over the name and saw why.
BTW, talk2myshirt.com has a blog that's pretty much on top of all kinds of wacky geek clothing (though you have to wade through a lot of latest-iteration-of-iPod-enabled-jacket to get there).
Pong on a shirt.
(However, I think it's just an animation, not an actual playable game. Unlike the playable drum set (not linked because I don't feel like falling into moderation, but it's at thinkgeek (the top linked store)).)
How odd, this is the first post that both Steve (at #34) and samuel orr have posted to on Making Light.
Right. I'd want to know what precisely goes into creating the MEA thing. (Also, how pure does the water need to be?) Mind, it still could be a good way to turn power-plant-generated electricity into vehicle-running fuel.
13: This is a bit of a long story, and second-hand:
I knew a guy who was involved in the planning, on the Palestinian side, for Pope John Paul's visit to That There Place. Apparently, everywhere the Pope goes, he gets his identical little chair built custom instead of shipping it around everywhere. So the Palestinians got a copy of it built to spec, and the place they stored it was in this guy's office.
Anyway, dealing with a Pope's visit is obviously very tiring, and one day during the visit, my friend retreats to his office and finds himself badly in need of a nap. The only place to sit down is the Pope's chair, so he curls up. And then is awoken by one of his bodyguards, saying, "Mr. [friend], Mr. [friend], wake up! Mr. Pappa needs his chair!"
Screenshots look fine now in my old/crappy IE.
This may just be my crappy old version of IE, but somehow the screenshots are pushing down over the Doris Lessing post immediately following (on the main page).
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