Posts from ‘June, 2007’

I can’t wait for the new iPhone to come out. So that the first time I see someone obsessing over it, acting like they’re hot shit, showing it off at every opportunity, I can punch them in the face. At least when Harry Potter 7 comes out people won’t carry it around to show that [...]

NY Times has an interesting, if improbable, look at how Michael Bloomberg could focus all of his energy at one or two large states, and use these as bargaining chips if neither the Democrats or Republicans manage to get a majority in the Electoral College. Of course, if one of them does manage to get [...]

Christopher Beam has an article on Slate about how Facebook may end up becoming far more popular than other big Internet sites, because it has the social network already built in. He also talks about how corporations fail miserably at attracting their own social networks. Every major corporation, it seems, is trying to add social [...]

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Go to tankonempty.com and find out.

Play the Redistricting Game. Some smart alecks at USC put this game together. You are the state’s mapmaker, and your party controls the state Legislature. You have to guarantee narrow partisan margins for all the districts in the state (and keep them all the same size), while getting approval from the Governor and surviving court [...]

I wish there was an option in iTunes to unbuy songs that you don’t like. Perhaps you can even pay more later for songs you like a lot. For example I downloaded Pop Lock & Drop it by DJ Huey, because it was in the Billboard Top 100 and I was misled into thinking it [...]

I don’t agree with President Bush often. But we have to be careful to avoid hating his ideas just because we hate him. For example, we all stand to lose if Congress gets the last word on trade restrictions to China. Bush has rightfully argued for freer trade with other nations. I also agree with [...]

If you could spend a year doing anything on the planet, money wasn’t an issue, etc. what would you do? Where would you go? You can’t keep anything at the end of the year and you can’t sp I’m not talking about “I would buy a private jet and an island and two women at [...]

Thirteen year old Evan O’Dorney, a homeschooler, captured the National Spelling Bee title yesterday. He lives in the town next door to mine. Holla! I’d like to point out, again, that there is a difference between intelligence and knowledge. O’Dorney is surely a bright boy, but smarts don’t imply that you know how to correctly [...]