Akkam’s Razor

• Pew Research Center: McCain’s Image Improves - With Big Assist From Palin -
• Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… | FlowingData -
• Palin Warned to Stop Disparaging Sister’s Ex | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - Court records obtained by NEWSWEEK show that during the course of divorce hearings three years ago, Judge John Suddock heard testimony from an official of the Alaska State Troopers' union about how Sarah Palin—then a private citizen—and members of her family, including her father and daughter, lodged up to a dozen complaints against Wooten with the state police. The union official told the judge that he had never before been asked to appear as a divorce-case witness, that the union believed family complaints against Wooten were "not job-related," and that Wooten was being "harassed" by Palin and other family members.

• Joe Bageant: Moving to the Center of Elite Consensus - What voters are expected to believe is that after a 30-year class war against the bottom 90% of income earners, the source of their troubles are black rappers and inner city fathers and not criminality on Wall Street or a corrupt political system. The road to the White House over the past 30 years has been paved by pretending to believe the absurdity that the individuals who pull the levers of power over people's lives are named Willie Horton, Sister Souljah and Ludicrous, and not Robert Rubin, Phil Gramm and Hank Paulson.

• TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Pundits And Writers Start Hitting McCain For Non-Stop P.O.W. References - Uh-oh, looks like Mr. noun/verb/POW might have overplayed his hand…
• 28 Coolest Firefox About:Config Tricks - Make Tech Easier -
• Mycrocosm personal data graph portal - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics - Mycocosm is an online web service that allows users to visualize & share snippets of all sorts of data in form of simple statistical graphs. the Mycrocosm project focuses on social communication & the creation of individual & biographical data profiles[.]

• Pew Research Center: The Daily Show: Journalism, Satire or Just Laughs?
  Stewart has always insisted that his show isn’t journalism and given its comedic core, its blurring of truth and fiction, and its ignoring of many major events, that is true in a traditional sense.
  (tags: jonstewart dailyshow television new journalism satire)
• Prediction: Broadcast TV Will Get Hosed In Upfront - Silicon Alley Insider
  [Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen] thinks the overall market for prime time broadcast TV will be down anywhere from 2% ($8.79 billion) to 14% ($7.73 billion) from the $8.9 billion spent last year.
  (tags: tv broadcasting revenue upfronts advertising commercials)

• Stephen on Drupal: Tutorial: Creating a group collaboration community with Drupal
  (tags: drupal group tutorial)
• Welcome, watchdog.net (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
  The goal is to be a hub, connecting citizens, activists, organizations, politicians, programmers, and everybody else who’s interested in politics.
  (tags: politics socialsoftware activism blogs social)
• (watchdog.net)
  watchdog.net lets you find out what’s going on in politics and make your voice heard about it.
  (tags: politics government visualization activism)
• Pew Research Center: Where Trust is High, Crime and Corruption are Low
  Over the last two decades, social scientists have repeatedly suggested that good things tend to happen in societies where people tend to trust each other
  (tags: trust society social research politics government)

• The Fabulous Fraudulent Life of Jocelyn and Ed : Rolling Stone
  “Bonnie and Clyde, that’s only because they’re young and good-looking,” scoffs Detective Terry Sweeney of the Philadelphia police. “These two were complete idiots. If this was two fat fucks from South Philly, it would have been Turner and Hooch.”
  (tags: Crime fraud journalism romance Philadelphia)
• TG Daily - Researchers uncover black holes across the Internet
  “There’s an assumption that if you have a working Internet connection then you have access to all of the Internet,” said Ethan Katz-Bassett, a UW doctoral student in computer science and engineering. “We found that’s not the case.”
  (tags: internet information)

• Pew Research Center: Financial Woes Overshadow All Other Concerns For Journalists
  I wonder how much their internal concerns filter into their professional work?
  (tags: journalism national local economy)
• The Big Picture | Two Dollars/share, or an “Orderly Liquidation” ?
  This was not a bailout of any sort. What the NY Fed did was allow for an orderly liquidation (at $0.07 on the dollar). The Fed is providing the liquidity for JPM’s Bear unwind, guaranteeing a good chunk of the debt:
  (tags: liquidity write-down marketvalue lehmanbrothers bearsterns federalreserve)

• Pew Research Center: Backgrounder: Public Opinion About Mormons
  Sounds like Mitt’s Mormon problem is mostly a lack of information, Evangelical supremacy, and a lingering association with polygamy. This should be easily overcome, unless Mitt doesn’t have the support by party insiders beyond the religious litmus test.
  (tags: mittromney mormonism christianity catholicism pew research 2008 election)
• Add Letters! Custom Image Generators & Sign Generators
  (tags: fun generator tools humor image sign generators)
• Coding Horror: Rainbow Hash Cracking
  (tags: security password encryption hacking cracking passwords windows)

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