Archive for October, 2008

you may be ‘palling around” with terrorists

if you’re using twitter. in an army intelligence report investigating creative uses of web 2.0 technologies, twitter is described as
“a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audience…[and warns that]…twitter is [...]


i’ve got the whole world, in my hands…seriously

i know, i know, it’s just a phone but um, it’s really cool. google released google earth for the iphone today. the blog post from their official blog says “even before we introduced google earth back in 2005 the team had long dreamed of being able to carry the earth around in your pocket…with [...]


blame it on the rain…

everyone is waiting for the weather forecast for november 4th. apparently, rain is good for the republicans and bad for the democrats. you see, the majority of democrats live in urban areas and walk to the polls and therefore get discouraged from voting when it rains. the majority of republicans live in suburban and rural [...]


vote or die!

remember this campaign? and how they figured out that paris hilton was urging us to vote, else risk fate of death, but that she wasn’t even registered to vote (i’m sure that it has changed now that she’s running for president)? well, i want to save you from such tragedy. assuming you are already [...]


week in review: october 20-24

can you believe it’s the third week of october? as the cold weather increased, so did the cold hard facts about our economic condition.

here are some other things we learned

people are weird and maybe a little dumb.
anderson cooper doesn’t know jack about travel accessories.
there have been advances in this war and that war.
one liberal’s treasure [...]


elite junk that is

the much reviled and revered new york times is in some trouble because of it’s growing debt and low financial performance–so much so that . moody’s investor services warned that the new york times company is in danger of being rated junk. rating institute announced today that the new york times company’s stock [...]


so we may be able to admit that that color pink sucks?

come on, you know you always think it when you are engulfed by a sea of pink people every saturday in october. if we’re lucky, all of this could come to an end due to some good news about breast cancer and the decline of deaths from it (woo hoo). as discussed in a time [...]