rambling on through the world

This is just plain cool. It's also a great example of stats being skewed via self-selection. Take a look at how Obama "polls" via Twitter users - it's a LANDSLIDE!! I don't know how much better Electoral-vote.com and Hubdub.com work around the self-selection bias but at least it looks a bit more reasonable. In addition, it's a great lesson in the oddities of the electoral college system. Obama and McCain could be a dead-heat percentage wise but as long as Obama carries the big states he's can walk away with it...hence the ever present discussion of battleground states.

What are the poll tracking implications of the number of cases of soda bought with each candidates likeness on it? r.

Here's the keys to the article: UF welcomes back player that beat up then shot at another student....with an AK-47!?!?!? FSU welcomes back a player that was caught with a gun and weed Penn State has had 46 players arrested since 2002 and says "I can't control what they do off field" Georgia had 8 players arrested this off season AND THEY STILL CALL MIAMI THUG U! Every single REAL Canes fan needs to get behind Randy Shannon and support him 110% - no questions asked.

Alright, I know that Pickens has a vested interest in natural gas.... but if this is true ....and NBC simply doesn't want to run the ad for an as yet undetermined reason then this is just plain silly. r.

This is just a cool, slick little app ....makes me almost want to go get an iPod touch right now

Hacker: Gymnast He is 14, not 16 - Salon Olympics Daily - Salon In a pathetic attempt to achieve "Project 119" and greater glory, the Chinese government has actually done the opposite and "lost face" by doing things like this....sad....pathetic and sad

Think Progress » McCain falsely takes credit for ‘creating’ Do Not Call list. I wonder if this is going to be John McCain's version of "I invented the internet"?? Tooooo funny! r.

This is quite possibly the best iTunes tip EVER!! Thanks Paul ;-) r.

I found this incredible to learn today - there are only THREE HoJo's left out there ?!?! Yeah, the site may not be inclusive but rabid fans that build sites like this usually have some good info. r.

These are some of the most incredible images I've ever seen....absolutely beautiful. r.

This is mindboggling......I'm a bit flabbergasted to see someone who could possibly be the next President of the United States say "I can’t know whether a strike would be justified because I don’t know the progress or the significance or the nature of the threat. I know the threat is growing because of the continued development of nuclear weapons." and then he continues to say that the Iranian threat is serious!! Huba wuba?!?!? Waaa?? I'm speechless as my ability to process remarks that ridiculous are completely stumped. Honestly, no joke, I think this dude has stroked out a couple of times and no one has told us yet....he has a mini-stroke a day. Like my email signature line says, "there is a time when panic is the appropriate response"and when someone this stupid has the potential to become President, it's high time to panic!!

Here's one way to auto-magically do it (one way, probably not the right way but one way) - Under the "More Actions" drop down is an option "sort by size" - Gmail automatically scans all email attachments and creates a rank order by size. - Gmail then automatically creates three buckets of small/medium/large. These buckets would be calculated based on a pre-set percentage - the 25% that are the largest are "large" - 50% in the middle are "medium" and the 25% that are the smallest are "small" - The presentation would appear to the user much like the "settings" tab with "large" being the default that you always see first and set to the left (in the same fashion as Settings > General) and then medium (Settings > Account) and small (Settings > Label) following in order to the right. - The emails themselves would be presented in a manner similar to the main Inbox view but with the file name, type and size show...

Ok, up till now I have to admit that I just laughed at most of what came out of Cheney's mouth but this is so ridiculous that I'm actually stunned....and I'm terrified that someone out there might believe him. Question 1 - Regardless of what the Shia and Sunni "may" do to al Qaeda the real question is what in the world would they (al Qaeda) DO with the oil? Does he really think that people would be lining up to buy oil from a known terrorist organization? Where would these phantom revenues come from? Question 2 - Does the Dark Lord think that Saudi, Iran, Syria and...for that matter...the rest of the world would sit idly by and let al Qaeda take control of Iraq's oil? Being the master historian that he is, doesn't he remember Gulf War 1 when we kicked Hussein out of Kuwait over oil - and that time did it with global support by the way...ah, good old days before an imperial presidency :-) r.

Traffic shaping, network management - it doesn't matter what you call it because there are parties on both sides of the argument that are bound and determined to shout and be heard above the opposition. The worst part? I see and feel for both sides of the discussion. On the one hand you have people using their connection for perfectly legitimate reasons (but come on...we all "know" that the vast majority of bit torrent traffic is illegal downloads!! blind denial of this simply makes the rest of your arguments carry less weight!) who have signed up for "X" amount of bandwidth to use (for the most part) however they please. They simply expect their connectivity to work, no matter what. For the most part, I can't disagree with that stance. On the other side you have the service provider/carrier that has been making investments over time and is adding customers to their network as fast as possible. They have a mission to make every customer as happy as the other...

This article is a virtual must read if you are at all interested in seeing what can be done to push the boundaries of what we can do to break the chain of dependence (addiction) on oil....more importantly pushing petro-dollars to the Middle East.

Wow, I guess it's me being naive that I am so surprised to hear a politician saying things like this in a public forum.....a bigger threat then terrorism?!?! I'd also LOVE to hear his background data on which studies show this being the death knell to America. r.

Here's some thoughts on McCain and the people he chooses to surround himself with from the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell...and I have a certain amount of confidence in the kind of people Powell picks to surround himself with.

While the rest of the article is interesting , it's the last sentence that I like the most :) r.

Via Think Progress JUST what we're looking for in a president :)

CBS steamed 50x more video content then Fox?!? I don't know what's more impressive, that number or the fact that NBC says that watching online video content increases brand recall while finding online video ads less disruptive.... That note, increased brand recall, really catches my attention. I wonder what could be done to boost that even higher? The converged/multimedia aspects of online video make the possiblities endless - from the fact that you can dynamically provide more relevant advertising in a very focused manner (i.e. if you are watching a travel show about the Caribbean you could get one ad if you are a man living in NYC vs. a woman living in the Midwest) as well as providing focused ancillary content, maybe blog posts or Wikipedia articles about the topic....providing a richer, more robust experience. And by the way, wonder how much of their soul Move Networks sold to the devil to get this deal with M$ ??