Oct 31, 2008

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Senator Obama’s appearance on The Daily Show Wednesday led to its highest ratings ever, 3.6 million people (myself included natch) tuned in. The previous record was set October 8th when the guest was…Michelle Obama.

No Goldfarb, who is number two?

Oct 30, 2008

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McCain spokesperson/blogger Michael Goldfarb has some trouble with CNN’s Rick Sanchez:

Though I enjoy the smug look on Goldfarb’s face, I really am curious as to who the number 2 person is that he’s referring to? Or, I guess more accurately, why he won’t say it? Does he genuinely not have a second name or does [...]

Where’d you go Joe?

Oct 30, 2008

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Well this is a little awkward:

Someone needs to do a post-election article on how, for the last few weeks of the campaign, Senator McCain basically tied all his strategy to a guy called Joe (not his real name) the Plumber (not really a plumber).
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The Unfinished Swan

Oct 30, 2008

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Below is a demo video (via Kottke) for The Unfinished Swan, a maze game in black in white. It looks pretty sick and seems brilliantly designed and executed.
The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Oct 29, 2008

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Music magazine Spinner.com voted Gwyneth Paltrow’s 2000 duet with Huey Lewis “Cruisin’” the worst vocal collaboration of all time. Confession: I like this song and have it on my iPod. While it’s never made my Top 25 Most Player list its certainly in my Top 50 most played. Got a problem with that? via

Five more friends

Oct 29, 2008

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No one beats the standout performance by Jonah Hill in the first one of these but still not bad. Via Ori on the gchat ones and twos, natch.

Oct 29, 2008

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Cascadian Farm frozen broccoli apparently has an inside joke packaging thing where they hide tiny little faces of people in the picture on the front of their boxes. Click through to see for yourself. Its kinda funny/creepy but unfortunately looks like they are stopping the practice.

McCain vs Obama dance-off

Oct 29, 2008

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I’ll give it to them, they’ve both got some nice moves.
via Kottke natch

Don’t blame me, blame them

Oct 28, 2008

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You may have noticed that on Monday and Tuesday the site had some problems and wasn’t loading for long stretches of time (and if you didn’t notice that probably means you aren’t visiting enough, shame on you). It wasn’t anything on my end, my hosting company Media Temple was having some server issues, as illustrated [...]

Oct 28, 2008

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Here’s how Slate employee’s will be voting: Obama (55), McCain (1), Barr (1), Not McCain (1), and Non citizen, can’t vote (4). Rachael Larimore, Deputy Managing Editor and Copy Chief, is the McCain voter and Jack Shafer, Editor at Large and media columnist, is voting for Bob Barr.

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