Among many challenged ballots revealed by Minnesota Public Radio. In their unscientific poll of readers, 59% of the 120,949 respondents thought this one should go for Al Franken.
Once I quit taking pictures and started paying attention to Yeasayer last night I thought that they’d be right at home in the house where the ill-fated drugdeal/gunfight scene took place…
The Faces of Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org
I love this. He had to raise his price to $0.50 per picture to get 30 faces. (clearly my price is zero + exhaustion + boredom, which might be more or less than that, depending.)
I don’t think I’ve ever smelled so much shaving cream up close.
Arnaud Desplechin, in “It’s the “feel-strange” family movie of the season!”. [salon]
A Christmas Tale is growing on me more and more, but he certainly does better by his own small town than the Office does with Joe Biden’s old stomping grounds.
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I immediately thought, “This would make a great t-shirt. Which I would never wear. And probably wouldn’t sell well. Someone else will probably do it anyway.” (via nashamble)
here’s one that’s related, that I own, but rarely wear. [threadless] (f.w.i.w., I find the icon for “pessimist” in this poster disconcerting.)](http://site.despair.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pov.jpg)
I immediately thought, “This would make a great t-shirt. Which I would never wear. And probably wouldn’t sell well. Someone else will probably do it anyway.” (via nashamble)
here’s one that’s related, that I own, but rarely wear. [threadless] (f.w.i.w., I find the icon for “pessimist” in this poster disconcerting.)
![“A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.” (in ”Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He Can” [NYT])
While I can imagine a certain appeal of going without e-mail for four to eight years, this would also be like having a substantial lobotomy. It seems insane to force a person who was successful, in part, because of these technologies and their interconnectedness to sacrifice them for the sake of procedure and protection from recordkeeping. (Maybe I also like the idea that a catalog of Obama’s e-mails and text messages would make him the first blogging president).
Also fascinating: Obama will be the first president to have a portable computer on his desk (presumably his MacBook Pro) and that George W. Bush used an AOL e-mail account with 42 contacts before taking office.](http://media.tumblr.com/Y3duTW2acgex1aiuPGfSBZnHo1_500.jpg)
“A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.” (in ”Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He Can” [NYT])
While I can imagine a certain appeal of going without e-mail for four to eight years, this would also be like having a substantial lobotomy. It seems insane to force a person who was successful, in part, because of these technologies and their interconnectedness to sacrifice them for the sake of procedure and protection from recordkeeping. (Maybe I also like the idea that a catalog of Obama’s e-mails and text messages would make him the first blogging president).
Also fascinating: Obama will be the first president to have a portable computer on his desk (presumably his MacBook Pro) and that George W. Bush used an AOL e-mail account with 42 contacts before taking office.
The Hidden Cameras - “Ban Marriage”
I am trying to offer support and encouragement to Toph
yes and no.
Here, though, is the more encouraging take on the numbers from Prop. 8 [cnn], which looks at the numbers and sees what most people know. The people who voted for it are on the waning side of history:
The good news for supporters of marriage equity is that — and there’s no polite way to put this — the older voters aren’t going to be around for all that much longer, and they’ll gradually be cycled out and replaced by younger voters who grew up in a more tolerant era. Everyone knew going in that Prop 8 was going to be a photo finish — California might be just progressive enough and 2008 might be just soon enough for the voters to affirm marriage equity. Or, it might fall just short, which is what happened. But two or four or six or eight years from now, it will get across the finish line. [538]
Mainly, I think that it is deeply unfortunate that the state uses the same word for a legal contract that the church uses for a magic show.
Joshuah Bearman: This Week’s New Yorker :
“this issue has everything: how Obama won; how McCain lost;Remnick on race and politics; and Obama as the new FDR. I guess I should say I hope it’s everything.”
I was so happy to find this issue in my mailbox when I got home last night. I was less happy to find the beautiful (maybe best of the year) cover torn because I’d been away from my mailbox for several days.
