November 2008
“You know what most Americans I think realized is that you don’t offer a job, let...”
– Ken Duberstein, Ronald Reagan’s Chief of Staff, comments on McCain’s picking Sarah Palin and endorses Obama. If this keeps up there won’t be any Republicans left, except those that think Palin is great. (via election08)
October 2008
“The other folks are voting.”
– Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R=GA), urging his supporters to get out and vote. And by “other” he means black. Looks like heavy black turnout is threatening Chambliss’ chances. (via election08)
Search unreachable from Sprint
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search.twitter.com is unreachable from internet connections routed through Sprint/Nextel, as per the unfortunate news
We’re having the same problem, working hard to route around it.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs, The New York Times, 2003 (via swissmiss) (via andrewpaulbond)
“I’m going to Washington and I’m going to bring Joe the Plumber with me!” McCain...”
– I really hope this is the last straw for people still wavering (via adamiss)
“Donors listing their employer as the U.S. State Department have given $274,595...”
– Diplomats/Military Gave More To Obama Than McCain (via ericmortensen)
“it’s not my team’s job to keep the score down. It’s the other team’s job.”
– Bobby Bowden, famed Florida State football coach. This seemed an appropriate quote to highlight the news that Obama is putting up ads in Georgia, North Dakota, and … Arizona! Obama’s campaign thinks they can eke out a win in McCain’s home state of Arizona. The Republicans are hoping for a squeaker,...
“The only way is for us to win by so much that our victory can’t be stolen. We...”
– Marco.org: How we need to win
Read the whole thing.
(via peterwknox)
“we are going through something we have never before been through, we are buying...”
– tom brokaw. . still on charlie rose. .. . (via redorangeorangeonred) (via ericmortensen)
“Being the dumbest partner in a room of smart people is exactly where you want to...”
– Seth Godin (via entrepreneurwisdom)
Joe the Plumber is being pursued for a major... →
spiegelman:
We haven’t had a Joey Buttafuoco or Kato Kaelin in a while. I’m glad someone is stepping into that void.
“Sony Corp.’s quarterly profit plunged 72 percent as a surging yen wiped...”
– Sony profit plunges 72 percent on strong yen: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
“If things still continue as they are today we will have growth in the fourth...”
– Maurice Levy
FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Advertising agencies warn of tough year ahead
“Three of the world’s largest advertising groups warned of a tough fourth...”
– FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Advertising agencies warn of tough year ahead
Things I just learned on the way to the airport...
superamit:
The A train never arrived this afternoon so I had to find a car service in Brooklyn to take me to JFK. $44 instead of $5 for the airtrain. :(
But I used the opportunity to learn how taxi fares are structured.
Private car service:
car service owns the car
driver and car service split the fare 50/50
driver pays for gas, car service pays for everything else and lines up jobs
more...
Come meet Hello Health at the Apple Store in Soho
jayparkinsonmd:
The Hello Health team is presenting Hello Health at the Apple Store in Soho on Monday, November 3rd. If you are in town, stop by. You’ll hear all about where we’re going and what we’re doing. We’ll even tell you about the iPhone app we’re releasing in a few months…
Evangelical teenagers have sex earlier--and more... →
soupsoup:
via The New Yorker
“Historically I’ve found that Republicans are more game with sketches than...”
– Seth Meyers on writing SNL sketches that include candidates for office. He said that Palin and her campaign were “very game” about the script for this skit. (via noraleah) (via peterwknox)
“Voter suppression is easy, common, and unlikely to lead to prosecution. Voter...”
– Squashed: Vote supression and voter fraud (via marco)
The Power of Open Source
bijan:
So what are the next areas where open source will change the game?
Here’s what I’m thinking:
-open source consumer electronics
-open source software in set top boxes
-open source games
-open source social networks
What’s next?
How would an open source social network work?
“We had a monster plan with bells, whistles and a cherry on top. Impossible to...”
– Gerry Campbell - in a wonderful story about his business plan that was too big (via betaworks)
Why isn't election day a national holiday?
soupsoup:
This seems like a no-brainer.
Because it would allow too many working class people to vote.
“He just blew Florida for John McCain”
– Florida Republican
Governor Charlie Crist extended voting hours in Florida to give working people a chance to vote.
At a hastily arranged news conference, Crist said the right to vote is sacred and that “many have fought and died for this right.” He said he consulted a leading Democratic...
“If Barack Obama were a company, I’d say he was ready for the IPO. And I for one...”
– Why I Support Barack Obama - O’Reilly Radar (via fred-wilson)
“Tina Fey’s debut impersonation of Sarah Palin was viewed 14 million times on...”
– Who Still Watches Saturday Night Live, Live?, Ryan Tate on Gawker
This is linkbait for Mike Hudack ;)
(via soupsoup)
Linked.
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apsies:election08:
“His Choice?” Obama goes after McCain’s two biggest weaknesses, the economy and Palin.
I like this. It’s simple and well done. It’s an attack, but it attacks for the right reasons. The music is very effective at keeping the mood from tipping over into something much nastier, a wise move.
wow. that was masterful.
Brilliant.
“The global credit crisis, the dislocation of foreign stock markets and the...”
– Foreign apartment buyers grow scarce - The Real Deal New York Real Estate News
Duh. People bleating that foreign buyers would prop up NYC indefinitely were willfully ignorant.
(via wiesen)
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“Earlier today at the Beet.TV Online Video Summit (which I co-moderated with...”
– Blip.tv Figures Out How To Serve Ads In iTunes Videos
“We own in together and spread it around….
[In Alaska] we’re set up, unlike...”
– Palin the Real Wealth Spreader, in an interview with The New Yorker’s Philip Gourevitch.
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spytap:
You cannot be against small government, consider government intervention to be “the problem, not the solution” and attempt to legislate morality at the same time. Those ideas are diametrically opposed. This goes double for ideas like banning gay marriage, where no logical nonreligious argument in favor exists. If the only argument in favor is a religious one, I think you’ll find the...
“Early voting is changing how Americans cast their ballots and how presidential...”
– Early voting: Every day is Election Day - CNN.com
“Whether or not the Frums of the punditosphere are correct, it might be dangerous...”
– The Old Ideological Wars Renewed - Marc Ambinder
I agree wholeheartedly. As Ambinder notes, the race was, until recently, a referendum on the Bush years. Faced with an increasingly likely electoral thumping, they doubled down and made it a battle of conservative ideology vs. liberalism. This seems...
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