Posts in Elsewhere
Well crap. (2)
Apparently all my comments are lost, and that trusty backup that I made? I can’t find it. Bloody fantastic.
Don’t fall for it (0)
Got another one of those email scams today… (via)
The push to “other-ize” Obama (0)
From the NY Times:
“Just imagine for a moment if it were the black candidate in this election, rather than the white candidate, who was born in Central America, was an indifferent churchgoer, had graduated near the bottom of his university class, had dumped his first wife, had regularly displayed an explosive and profane temper, and [...]
The Former Publisher of the National Review on Obama (0)
Wick Allison, formerly of the uber-conservative National Review, says:
“Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment [...]
The House of Cards (1)
It breaks my heart that people laughed so much at him during the debates and campaigning.
Putting a sweater on someone with a cold can help. Putting a sweater on someone with leprosy…not so much. We want people to solve our economic problems, but aren’t willing to confront the fact that maybe, just maybe, our [...]
GasPedal Scholarships (0)
Andy and the guys at GasPedal are offering scholarships for their next Word of Mouth Marketing Crash Course. If you know folks at a charitable organization, or know an independent blogger who isn’t employed by another company that could benefit from learning more about Word of Mouth, you can nominate them for a free spot [...]
Even Richard Cohen Sees It (0)
Cohen, long one of McCain’s admirers, says:
“What impressed me most about McCain was the effect he had on his audiences, particularly young people. When he talked about service to a cause greater than oneself, he struck a chord. He expressed his message in words, but he packaged it in the McCain story — that man, [...]
Making America Stupid (1)
From Freidman:
Sorry, but there is no sustainable political/military power without economic power, and talking about one without the other is nonsense. Unless we make America the country most able to innovate, compete and win in the age of globalization, our leverage in the world will continue to slowly erode. Those are the issues this election [...]
Conservative Republicans…For Obama (2)
From We Are Out Here (on the admittedly very left-leaning Daily Kos):
“We are out here - the Republicans or ex-Republicans who will no longer tolerate the racist, despicable slime machine that the right wing and the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has become. I know, for I am one of them. I am not [...]
Lose your house, lose your vote (0)
Unbelievable.
Lipstick on a pig (1)
I’m amazed that McCain has a 4 point lead right now. Utterly amazed. I don’t agree with Obama on a lot of issues - many people don’t. But the man refuses to treat us like idiots. He’s taking a risk that people will actually realize that the political “debate” we tend to have is insipid [...]
What a community organizer does (0)
What Guliani and Palin made fun of last night.
The Day After (0)
Why the media should apologize
And…
Ubiquity is awesome (2)
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
The Detention Camp for the DNC (2)
Why is this even in the realm of being acceptable?
Noel gets deported (0)
I bumped into my buddy Noel on Monday at the airport in Newark. Turned out he had just been deported from China for filming some Free Tibet demonstrations.
The last few days have been super-interesting to watch. His facebook status updates were censored, his video was removed from Youtube, etc. Now Boing Boing has picked [...]
SocialDevCamp this weekend (0)
Fellow Jelly member Andy Angelos is one of the guys helping organize SocialDevCamp this weekend. It’s an “unconference for people passionate about social networks, web applications, platform development, new media, and any of the exciting (but messy) topics in-between.”
It’s taking place Saturday at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 8:30am - 6:00pm. Looks like some [...]
City of Walls (0)
Baghdad, 5 Years Later:
Godin’s up to something again… (2)
In anticipation of his newest book, Seth Godin has created a closed community called “The Tribe.” You have to purchase the book without knowing anything about it, send him proof of purchase, and then wait in line in order to get in. For myself and the thousands of others who’ve read everything the guy’s put [...]
The Ultimate Washing Detergent Test (0)
I’m sure people have doubted those detergent commercials with the “stain lifting demos” for a long time. Breeze Excel decided to let you actually do the test yourself. Everything about this campaign is brilliant. (nice find Amit!)
Rock and a hard place (3)
How would you navigate this situation? You don’t visit a mosque and the Muslim community feels slighted. You do visit a mosque and Fox News convinces a bunch of people you’re posing as a Christian but secretly want to destroy America from the inside with your radical fundamentalist agenda.
Where the hell is matt? (2)
Kind of makes you want to go somewhere, doesn’t it. Thanks Jeremy…
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Pork and Beans Video (1)
Every viral video of the last 10 years crammed into a 3 minute video. Absolutely brilliant. (Thanks Jerry)
Americans are sometimes really stupid (0)
“It’s good to hear her talk about gas prices. They’re killing us,” said Donna Madden, 45, a part-time high school cafeteria employee from Clear Fork. “She’s an American, a real American. It’s just good to know that she has the same ancestors as us, that her family goes back for generations and generations and generations.”
From [...]
LeBron on Garnett (4)
LeBron James is a baaad man. (also, I hate to say it but NBC nailed Hulu.)
Solar Lily Pads (0)
There’s a chance Glasgow might start using these brilliant solar panels to power the city. What a clever idea.
