- 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.
Posts Tagged: Pew Research Center
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Sep 08
Daily Links for September 10th
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Aug 08
Daily Links for August 21st through August 22nd
- 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[.]
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May 08
Daily Links
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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.
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[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.
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Apr 08
Daily Links
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The goal is to be a hub, connecting citizens, activists, organizations, politicians, programmers, and everybody else who’s interested in politics.
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watchdog.net lets you find out what’s going on in politics and make your voice heard about it.
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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
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Apr 08
Daily Links
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“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.”
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“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.”
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Mar 08
Daily Links
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I wonder how much their internal concerns filter into their professional work?
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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:
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Dec 07
Daily Links
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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.
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Oct 07
Daily Links
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Pre-Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson.
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You are about to take our version of a Mechanical Aptitude test as it might apply in the automotive field. [This] test does not measure what you know, but rather your ability to learn mechanical concepts and how things work.
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Oct 07
Daily Links
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Though Abizaid did say “Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” it was[[Tom] Friedman who said “We’ve treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations.”
