I’ve been doing searches on where we were 4 years ago, just a few days before the election. I remembered polls showed the election was close. What I didn’t remember was that Bush had 47%, Gore had just 43%, and Nader had 5% (link). Despite those numbers, the election was too close to call, and [...]
Posted by Deana in Politics on October 30th, 2004 | Comments Off
If you’re going to be a nervous election-news junkie like me next Tuesday, “USA Election Atlas”:http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/ElectionNight2004/pe2004elecnighttime.php might be a useful page to bookmark. They have a map of when polls close in each state, and it looks like they’ll be filling in vote counts as they come in over time.
Or, like Ben, [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on October 28th, 2004 | Comments Off
From Yahoo News, via Deana: “In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have “uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20041027/ap_on_sc/dwarf_cavewoman marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.”
I love it when we discover puzzling new evidence. Whatever the explanation turns out to [...]
Posted by Chris in Science on October 27th, 2004 | Comments Off
I just discovered this Northern California author. He has a new book coming out called Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past that sounds really interesting, even if you aren’t a history geek. You can also test your knowledge with a revolutionary quiz. Think you know [...]
Posted by Deb in History on October 25th, 2004 | Comments Off
I’m wary of posting links to anything pollish. Not that I have anything against polls, but they do tend to… what’s the word?… lie.
However, I’ve become mesmerized by the “Race 2004″:http://www.race2004.net/ poll summary site, mostly because it has pretty colors. Er, I mean it has a state-by-state breakdown of polling, with [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on October 22nd, 2004 | Comments Off
I’m sure you’d love to share with everyone the “lovely recipes”:http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/ we sent you.
You’re welcome.
Posted by Chris in Holiday! Celebrate! on October 21st, 2004 | 2 Comments »
It’s almost becoming a cliche that our President and his administration say one thing and do the opposite. The most recent evidence of this comes from the LA Times, where Robert Scheer has an excellent article on “the CIA covering up a critical 9/11 report”:http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer19oct19,1,6540113.column?coll=la-home-utilities until after the election.
On a side note, [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on October 20th, 2004 | Comments Off
Slashdot just posted an “amazing interview with Neal Stephenson”:http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1518217, with subjects ranging from art criticism to the Vingean singularity to travel tips. The whole thing shows what a true wit Stephenson is, with the full power of both geekiness and social awareness at his disposal.
I’m posting the entirety of the interview here, because there’s [...]
Posted by Chris in Literature on October 20th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Oh, the geekiness. As stolen from “Boing Boing”:http://www.boingboing.net/ :
“Dungeon Majesty”:http://www.dungeonmajesty.com/indexer.html is a cable-access TV show in which four young women play Dungeons and Dragons — the show is intercut with Z-grade green-screen masks of them staging D&D fights in front of fakey caves or deep in spooky woods, and illustrated with flip-book animations fo [...]
Posted by Chris in Fun on October 19th, 2004 | 7 Comments »
Cool site for plant geeks like me — thought I’d let y’all in on the action. :) It’s got pictures and info and a how-to-turn-your-garden-into-wildlife-habitat section. What’s not to love? Scroll down on the first page for an awesome picture of a monarch chrysalis.
Posted by Deb in Environment on October 12th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
