gregladen | September 28, 2008These parodies are getting better and better . This one is hysterical:
gregladen | September 28, 2008As a supplement to my essay on Maine here is the actual important information on Kyle.
Kyle is only barely being thought of as a hurricane at this moment. The forcasters are using terms like "Ugly" (which means not well formed as a hurricane) and "Convectivly Challenged" in their discussion.
Kyle will come ashore in Maine, somewhere around Eastport, over night (near morning) but it is very unlikely to be a hurricane by that time, having passed over cooler waters and generally being a train wreck of a cyclone.
The fact that this was a tropical storm heading straight north, then turned…
gregladen | September 28, 2008To go "down east" is to go "to Maine" ... or if you are already in Maine, to go to the "real" Maine.
As you drive down east on Route One, you can see the transition as clear as the gull shit on Schooner Head. This is to say, it is subtle and misleading. Geology, culture, the weather, and the sea make the Maine coast what it is, and all four of these factors start to blink in and out as you leave Boston and head down east (up north). Sandy beaches give way to rocky heads, you hear pockets of Acadian and Maine accent as long as you get your coffee and donuts or your clam rolls somewhere…
gregladen | September 28, 2008Many people are frustrated with the level of debate these days, and it is not uncommon to wax nostalgic for the good old days, the days when debates were entirely live, in person, and went on and on until they were done, unconstrained by a television schedule. Bioephemera takes us down memory lane.
The first televised American presidential debate: NIxon vs. Kennedy. Kennedy won the debate and the election, and most historians of the era would claim that the debate mattered in that election:
And now, a look at a more recent debate, which proves, unfortunately, that it does not matter…
gregladen | September 28, 2008
Hey, she didn't get where she is by eating moose burgers and popping out kids:
Talk to the hand, babe:
ADDED:
gregladen | September 27, 2008... of the blog Highly Allochon ... Highly Allochthon ... no, wait, .. Got it Highly Allochthonous.
gregladen | September 27, 2008 Not only is our universe expanding, but with the LHC online we may even find the elusive Higgs Boson soon.
Tune in this Sunday for a discussion about the very small and very large in our universe with two prominent physicists:
Keith Olive, Physicist at the U of M's Theoretical Physics Institute, and Jim Peebles, Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus, Princeton University will be guests on the show, broadcast live on AM 950 KTNF on Sunday at 9 to 10 AM central.
Professor Keith Olive is a distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. His research areas…
gregladen | September 27, 2008
Carnival of Feminists #65
Carnival of Education, #190
Announcement: New Book Review Blog Carnival
Social Media Blog Carnival - September 24, 2008
Carnival Of The Liberals, #74
Working at Home Blog Carnival-104th Edition
Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival
Carnival of Eastern European Genealogy - First (Given) Names
Carnival of Cinema: Episode 94 - The Blog Ultimatum (as featured on FOX!!!11!!!
gregladen | September 27, 2008It is a shame when a perfectly good research project gets picked up by a vote grubbing elected official to use in a derogatory way in a sound bite. It is embarrassing when we are talking about the presidential election and the candidate is incapable of hitting his mark properly ... mispronouncing the term "paternity."
You all saw this is Fridays debate. Well, hat tip to Virgil, who points us to a piece published in Scientific American last February that looks into McCain's long standing tiff with bear research.
McCain ... hits .. research in speeches on the stump, cracking jokes about bear…
gregladen | September 27, 2008It has been a while since I've updated you on the latest very important technology movies. If you are PC, don't bother watching. You won't like any of these They are below the fold.
gregladen | September 27, 2008
(BTW: It does not "straddle both France and Switzerland" ... it straddles the border.)
Totally stolen from ABATC
gregladen | September 27, 2008A lot of people think the debate was pretty even. Obama supporters liked Obama, McCain supporters liked McCain, I assume (that is utterly obvious). But what matters is the effect on uncommitted voters. Aside from the effects of the three major gaffs that McCain made (the cost to him, to his party, and to our nation yet to be determined), the uncommitted voter reaction is the most important outcome of the debate. Now, we have the first indication of what this reaction was.
This is from a CBS/Knowledge Networks poll, the first major poll to come out regarding last nights debate. (PDF of…
gregladen | September 26, 2008Linux Dot Com has a piece comparing Obama and McCain. Here. This will be important to anyone with an interest in Open Source technology, the intertubes, all that stuff.
gregladen | September 26, 2008It was fourteen years ago today that New Gingrich, then Leader of the Republican Delegation to the United States House of Represented initiated the absurd stunt known as the Contract on America (or something close to that, anyway). The Contract was originally circulated as a joke internet meme that was accidentally picked up by congressional staffers and converted into policy.
Well, that's not really true, but that is what it looked like. Those of you who are not Americans, were not Americans at the time or who are too young, and thus have no memory of this travesty: Don't let this into…
gregladen | September 26, 2008I want to officially complain about T. Boone Pickens. What an offensive dit. I am tired of his commercials (the most recent having just been aired ... the post debate commercial) telling us that we need to become energy independent, and blaming the very same politicians that he has been buying off and paying off for decades as the cause of our oil dependence.
If Pickens really wanted energy independence, why did he spend so much money to ensure that George Dub Bush got elected two times in a row? Is this thing he is doing now penance?
Since 1980, Pickens has made over $5 million in…
gregladen | September 26, 2008
This is McCain's preferred debating weapon:
And this is what he looked like during the debate:
While at the end, this is how Obama looked:
But McCain got a hug in the end...
gregladen | September 26, 2008From Kathleen Parker of the National Review:
If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream -- away from Sarah Palin.
Oh what fun. Parker, a very conservative columnist writing for a very conservative outlet, is calling for Palin to step aside. To reduce the bleeding.
No, I say, Sarah, don't you dare step aside, girl! We (Democrats) love you! You are a pox on your party! What could be better!
At least stick around long enough to be eviscerated by Joe Biden.
By the way, you can't see…
gregladen | September 26, 2008Don't forget to watch the debates tonight. In watching the pre-debate coverage, we learn that Ted Kennedy has been brought to the hospital. For a man with brain cancer, this may be a not uncommon thing, and there are no details. Stay tuned (to the TV/Radio, not me. What do I look like, AP????) UPDATE: Ted is back home, preparing to watch the debate.
In the mean time, enjoy this photo essay from MSNBC depicting a lot of people experience a lot of stress over what is going on right now with the economy.
And remember ... after the debates ... kick some ass.