Here are some interesting numbers about the 2000 election courtesy of MoveOn.org: Official Bush margin in Florida: 537 votes Gore margin in New Mexico: 365 votes Margin of victory in IA, NH, OR and WI: Fewer than 8,000 votes in each Eligible 18-24 year olds who didn’t vote: 15.2 million Total eligible voters who didn’t […]
Taken from Jonathan Alter’s article in this week’s issue of Newsweek entitled “The Danger of Distractions”: “But there is a second reason Bush wants to spend valuable time debating debates. It runs down the clock on discussion of important stuff, like his record in office. The debate over debates is a classic ‘campaign issue’ as […]
Looks like NASA has some home repairs to make.
If I ever need to hire either a night watchman or someone to look after something, I will look for someone who has “Olympic Ping-Pong Player” on their resume. See the pic below: Table tennis players at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, clockwise from top left are: USA’s Ilija Lupulesku on Aug. 14; China’s Zhang […]
Recently, “KnowtheScore,” a single guy in NYC who has been posting about his relationship to J-date.com totally revamped his J-date profile. He took the picture which is attached to his real J-date profile and created a completely fake profile to match the same picture. He did this because his real profile has received only two […]
This is why Erik Neu is part of my ka-tet – he bought me a ticket to this event while I was away on my honeymoon: Conversations with Charlie Rose: Stephen King. Boo-ya! In my old hood no less – I’m beyond psyched, I need to invent a word to describe how I feel… Here […]
From Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed piece entitled “Cult of Death” from the Tuesday, 9/7/04 edition of the New York Times: “Three years after Sept. 11, many are still apparently unable to talk about this evil [i.e. terrorism]. They still try to rationalize terror. What drives the terrorists to do this? What are they trying to achieve? […]
FROM EBAUMSWORLD: “Remember how at the end of every G.I. Joe Cartoon they would have some short educational segment and it would always end with the line “And Knowing Is Half The Battle”? These clips are dubbed over with new dialogue and even some of the animation is changed and remixed. The result is so […]
Inspired by the MC Paul Barman lyric, “I couldn’t stay calm because/ she revealed a bra made of two yarmulkes,” designer KS turns the fantasy into a reality but lauching Yarmulkebra.com. This site made me think of Jessie’s “shana punim” T-shirt which is put out by the Rabbis Daughters clothing line.That then made me perform […]
If you’ve been pining away to see a replay of a video game commercial from the last few years, this fan site has them. I mean it, they have over 1600 video game commercials from across the globe. As the site says, “almost 90% of these commercials come from Japan and look very very very […]