- Cartype : Carbon Motors – Carbon Motors Corporation is a new American automaker that is developing and will manufacture, distribute, and service the Carbon E7, the world's first purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle.
- Voter turnout didn’t set record: Democrats’ passion wasn’t matched by GOP – Turnout in last week's election increased from four years ago but fell far short of some forecasts largely because many Republican voters either stayed home or left blank the presidential section of their ballots.
In states won by President-elect Barack Obama, turnout was more than five percentage points higher than in states won by Republican John McCain, according to a Globe analysis of data compiled by a pair of researchers who study voting patterns in US elections.
- G4 – The Feed – Pic Of The New Enterprise Released –
- She’s Got Legs: Sarah Palin Sunbathing – FameCrawler – Get ready – it'll be upskirts and nip-slips for Caribou Barbie any day now…
- Milwaukee Magazine : Feature Story : Secrets of Talk Radio – The stereotyped liberal view of the talk radio audience is that it’s a lot of angry, uneducated white men. In fact, the audience is far more diverse. Many are businesspeople, doctors, lawyers, academics, clergy, or soccer moms and dads. Talk show fans are not stupid. They will detect an obvious phony. The best hosts sincerely believe everything they say. Their passion is real. Their arguments have been carefully crafted in a manner they know will be meaningful to the audience, and that validates the views these folks were already thinking.
Yet while talk show audiences aren’t being led like lemmings to a certain conclusion, they can be carefully prodded into agreement with the Republican views of the day.
Conservative talk show hosts would receive daily talking points e-mails from the Bush White House, the Republican National Committee and, during election years, GOP campaign operations. They’re not called talking points, but that’s what they are.
- The Top 5 Hacks To Unlock Vista’s Potential | MakeUseOf.com – Windows Vista has a large amount of options when it comes to customization, as do nearly all Windows operating systems. Fortunately, Vista makes it even easier then you may believe to tweak your operating system.
Today, we will be looking at some of the top hacks to increase productivity and unlock Vista’s potential.
- Anti Gay Blacklist – Political activism has consequences.
- The Christian Party – The Daily Beast – To win elections Republicans will need to distance themselves from “social conservatism” and the religious right.
- National Journal Online — Lost in Transition – A blog documenting and discussing the issues surrounding the transition.
- Op-Ed Contributor – Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee – NYTimes.com – This is the dilemma that 30 years of Reaganomics (the real Reaganomics — keeping the economy overstimulated with huge deficits and irresponsible consumer borrowing — not the fantasy Reaganomics of government run like a family and tax cuts that pay for themselves) has left us with. So what do we do? The nearest thing to an actual plan seems to be something like this: stimulate first, to avert various short-term disasters, and then — at some signal from the Treasury Department — turn around and start saving like mad, to avert various long-term disasters. In other words, we need to get back our consumer confidence, and then lose it again.
- Lolcats, “I Can Has Cheezburger?” | Salon Life – Just as the dogs in the New Yorker cartoons don't represent actual dogs, these cats don't represent cats at all, but people. By using cats, icanhascheezburger can access themes more tragic and poignant than it could using people. You wouldn't enjoy a comic of an actual person fingering a blade and contemplating suicide — but when it's a cat, you can accept it. You can even laugh.
And that's the real answer to the puzzle. We've gone from cats as cats, to cats as scheming rascals, to cats as human beings. The sad lolcats represent people. We have seen the lolcats, and they are us.
- Google Earth Blog: California Fires – November 2008 – There are once again a number of Google Maps My Maps of each fire each showing the area of the fires, and other important information such as evacuation zones/centers, fire stations, road closures, hospitals, animal shelters, and more. Each of these maps can also be loaded into Google Earth where you can see even more useful information such as the 3D terrain, and – by turning on the "Places of Interest" layer folder – outlines of parks, business locations, churches, hospitals, and more.
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