Close the Ted Stevens drama curtains, he’s out. The Alaska recount wasn’t leaning his way and he said Uncle: The end was not what Mr. Stevens would have scripted – a defeat just weeks after his conviction in federal court on ethics charges. The final votes were counted Tuesday, his 85th birthday, and the news came after his colleagues considered but postponed a vote on banishing him from the Republican ranks. Together, the developments represented ...

tags: ted stevens, felon, curtains, elect, senate, alaska

Shaderlabs busted up iPhone, reminded me of the time I broke my iPhone. Back then, Apple was replacing damaged units. Uploaded by shaderlab | more from the dreeping set on Flickr.

tags: iphone, sadness, apple

No matter what you think about the state of the NBA these days, you have to agree that the attendance numbers are, at the very least, slightly troubling.With that in mind, it begs the question: Just how bad is attendance these day? If you go by reported statistical figures, it seems to be off by 5 to 10%, perhaps more, but just how accurate are those numbers?I ask because I was a witness to the ...

tags: michael heisley, vancouver grizzlies, massive sections, attendance numbers, nba team, statistical figures, media member, ownership group, candid camera, proclivity, dear readers, camera phones, rafters, local media, arenas, excuse, gm, witness, photographer, crowd

Belly Dancer by Seattlest Flickr Photographer Shawnmebo The Central District News is hoping the CD and ID get a streetcar out of the passage of Proposition 1. We share their hope.If you're heading west this weekend, West Seattle Blog reminds you there will be lane closures on the West Seattle Bridge.Just in time for Thanksgiving, it's the last Capitol Hill Farmer's Market of 2008 this Sunday. We'll definitely be heading to the market, rain or shine, ...

tags: west seattle bridge, rainer beach high school, phinney ridge, belly dancer, kindred spirits, neighborhood news, christmas carols, rainier valley, fairy tale, orange cat, lane closures, nthe, s market, heading west, belly dancing, district news, streetcar, animal hospital, pho, ballard

Fast Winds at the Bahrain World Trade Center Tapered towers funnel wind between them and meet a sizeable chunk of the energy needs of one of the world's tallest skyscrapers Posted 11.19.2008 at 1:20 pm ...

tags: tallest skyscrapers, sizeable chunk, wind turbines, foot office, office towers, scale wind, first skyscraper, popular science, two buildings, world trade center, electricity

International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten: "Germany's Middle Class Is ShrinkingA new report adds more evidence to the fear of a widening income gap in Germany. The solid German middle class is losing people to the top and bottom of the income scale, while satisfaction with the German system falters. more..."This is important for two reasons. First, the erosion of the middle class in a social democracy argues that the problem in the US and ...

tags: spiegel online nachrichten, trickle down economics, voodoo economics, income gap, social democracy, german system, drag down, necessary step, social policies, middle class, spiegel, maliase, top and bottom, third world, erosion, capitalism, gap, evolution, satisfaction, fear

THE WORLD FROM BERLIN 'Absurdistan along the Horn of Africa' Just a few weeks before the EU anti-pirate mission is set to deploy, German officials are still unsure how much military force they are allowed to use against Somali raiders. Politicans are frustrated by the indecision and, on Thursday, German commentators joined the fray. more... This is the beginning of the internationalism I expect to be a core part of Obama's foreign policy. ...

tags: spiegel online, absurdistan, german officials, horn of africa, world sea, internationalism, obama, indecision, military force, commentators, spiegel, raiders, foreign policy, pirate, berlin

International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten: "GERMANY AND ITALY'S 'COLLECTIVE HISTORY'Conference to Examine Nazi- Era CrimesGerman Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his Italian counterpart announced on Tuesday that historians from the two countries are to hold a conference next year. The topic will be the hundreds of thousands of Italian soldiers that were deported to Nazi Germany during World War II. more... * Nazi Massacre: Berlin Takes Rome to Court * ...

tags: spiegel online nachrichten, frank walter steinmeier, georg elser, italian counterpart, germany during world war ii, german politicians, nazi history, world war ii, collective history, italian soldiers, history conference, anti semitism, nazi germany, spiegel, foreign minister, historians, hitler, hundreds of thousands, assassin, debates

Murray retains Senate leadership post By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter Senate photoU.S. Sen. Patty MurraySen. Patty Murray (D-Bothell) held on to her position as Democratic conference secretary when the Senate Democrats met in Washington, D.C. today, McClatchy’s Les Blumenthal reports. Conference secretary, the post Murray was first elected to in 2006, is considered the fourth highest position in Democratic leadership. There was speculation earlier this fall that Murray might ascend ...

tags: senate leadership post, veterans affairs committee, joe lieberman, senate democrats, democratic conference, outspoken support, conference secretary, politicker, washington politics, patty murray, mcclatchy, democratic leadership, chairmanship, bissell, bothell, blumenthal, politics news, conn, speculation, washington d c

Moishe House: Building in BeijingMy roommates and I built the only rooftop sukkah in Beijing, 16 floors above the traffic on Second Ring Road, overlooking Sinopec headquarters and the small Olympic park next door. It was a true Chinese sukkah — made in part with PVC pipes and metal wire from a local construction market. Read moreWWMT? What would Moses Think?

tags: pvc pipes, olympic park, sukkah, moishe, sinopec, construction market, local construction, roommates, beijing, moses, traffic

I’m not sure what Bruce Ramsey’s point is? According to the latest story, the projected deficit in state government finances is $5.1 billion, up from $3.2 billion. The Times said before the election, in our endorsement of Dino Rossi, that the deficit might get to $5 billion by next spring, and we arrive at that figure early, in November. A progressive blogger accused us of making a deceptive noise about the deficit, which he said did not ...

tags: noise

Contra Frank, in the coming Decade of Contrarianism, the time is obviously ripe for a Bus Rapid Transit opera . . . Conceptually Contrarian jumping-off point: The absurd resurrection and reevaluation of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career.

tags: jean claude van damme, bus rapid transit, jumping off point, reevaluation, claude van damme, jean claude van, resurrection, decade, opera

Submitted for your approval, the Savannah College of Art and Design (aka SKAD) along with Walker & Company are working on 8 graphic novels from the Twilight Zone!!! (just had to go exclamation crazy on this one) They will be adapting these stories from the original Rod Serling scripts and releasing the first two in Fall 2008: "Walking Distance" and "The After Hours." My favorite Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man" will not be in ...

tags: savannah college of art and design, doing twilight, graphic novels, twilight zone, college of art and design

These are actual headlines . . . What’s So Special About a Team of Rivals? What’s the Value of a Big Bonus? What’s the Point of Daylight Time? The black-white Oughts (both George W. Bush’s us-versus-them and the opposition’s are-you-f-ing-kidding-me response to it) will give way to a decade of contrarianism, where everything you know is wrong (and in some cases will be used to give Obama some ideological cover).

tags: george w bush, daylight time, rivals, black white, bonus, headlines

The breathless marketing of Trek's new chainless bicycle will no doubt capture bike industry news heading into the holidays as the next new thing in bicycling. But since I sometimes follow different trails, I'm going to report on something that I discovered this morning that could revolutionize and improve your sag-supported bicycle touring experience -- the Luggage Locator. I've been on many across-state bicycle tours and have never had to repair a broken bike chain (I always ...

tags: luggage locator, chainless bicycle, bicycle tours, bike chain, bike industry, chain tool, sag, no doubt, industry news, trek, holidays, marketing

Meet Inbetween Us. Google maps mashup to find the “middle” of where people are. I actually just used this to figure out where a group of 6 people should meet.

tags: google, maps

The huge growth of credit card processing, it is important that merchant account lenders also provide merchants with credit card processing softwares. Using such softwares are beneficial not only for customers as as for the merchants as it offer a cost-effective solution to their ecommerce business. Benefits of using these softwares are - Economical – Credit card processing software doesn't need any terminals so saving on both space and money. Better Performance – There are...

tags: credit card processing software, credit card processing, cost effective solution, ecommerce business, merchant account, lenders, merchants, money

VMware Fusion - Expanding a disk « Only Talking Sense (tags: vmware) THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING REPUBLICAN BASE, Crystal Ball, U.Va. (tags: politics)

tags: republican base, nthe, crystal ball, fusion

Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers [From Magnum Blog / Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers - the photo blog of Magnum Photos]

tags: magnum photos, good shoes, photographers, gig, photo

From the infrequently updated recipe files: Better Than Store-Bought Hot Chocolate Mix Mix in a cup or jug: 1/3 cup dry milk powder 1 heaping tsp cocoa powder 2 heaping tsp sugar Add 8 oz hot water. Stir. Enjoy. This is better and cheaper than the packaged varieties, and you know what’s in it, unlike the other stuff: sugar, modified whey, cocoa (processed with alkali), hydrogenated coconut oil, nonfat milk, calcium carbonate, less than 2% of: salt, dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglyderides, artificial flavor, carrageenan. I ...

tags: hot chocolate mix, dry milk powder, cocoa powder, swiss miss, recipe files, nadd, jug, hot water

From a recent commenter to the Classmates.com thread: If you really want to get in touch with people, sign up for a facebook account [From a crank’s progress » Blog Archive » classmates.com spam scam] So I did. Hmmm, not a lot of names I recognize. I realize I was in a big high school class (950 or so, I think) but still . . . I had planned to be the last person on Facebook, but curiosity got ...

tags: class 950, facebook, classmates, blog archive, free advice, crank, curiosity, high school class

Content: Crash Time 2 - DemoPrice: FreeAvailability: Not available in Australia, Asia, North America or New ZealandDash Text: [PEGI: 7+] Play the demo and experience pure action with Detective Chief Inspectors Semir and Ben. Wheels are burning up the Autobahn!

tags: detective chief, chief inspectors, semir, time 2, autobahn, crash, wheels, demo, north america, asia, australia, europe

Content: Raconteurs Track PackPrice: 440 Microsoft PointsAvailability: All Xbox LIVE regionsDash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) MILD LYRICS,MILD SUGGESTIVE THEMES] Downloadable Track Pack for Guitar Hero World Tour featuring "Consoler of the Lonely", "Hold Up", and "Salute Your Solution" by The Raconteurs. Please Note: Many songs are available both as singles and as a part of a Track Pack, so please carefully consider your purchases before downloading. For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com There are ...

tags: guitar hero, suggestive themes, xbox live, xbox, lyrics, microsoft

Portrait of cartoonist as Islamophobic cretin Yes it is.  It truly is.  So says Pam Geller (notice the quotation marks–I didn’t say that) of Atlas Shrugged and one of the world’s most distinguished forensic psychologists and learned scholars of Islam.  Er, not really.  The only forensic psychology this woman has ever practiced involves writing her own blog which is a repository for pathological hatred.  As for her scholarly credentials, she earned them at the Merkaz HaRav ...

tags: quotation marks, cretin, cartoonist, mental illness, pam, islam

There’s a lot of sex worker stuff in the news lately, isn’t there?So yes, I’ve been reading about the busts at the tanning salon/brothels on Aurora Ave. I have some sympathy for the female manager who got arrested, seeing as how I once managed a “sensual touch” business myself. And just because you read something in the paper doesn’t make it true. However, if she and the owner really were running women in and out ...

tags: appointment fee, aurora ave, running women, management works, paper doesn, sensual touch, sex worker, club management, coffee table, sex work, those women, strip clubs, brothels, tanning salon, busts, vibrator, small group, peers, sympathy, lawyer

Thursday, November 20 Jonah Goldberg unloads both barrels on the quisling Kathleen Parker: I don't know what's more grating, the quasi-bigotry that has you calling religious Christians low brows, gorillas and oogedy-boogedy types or the bravery-on-the-cheap as you salute — in that winsome way — your own courage for saying what (according to you) needs to be said. Please stop bragging about how courageous you are for weathering a storm of nasty email you invite on ...

tags: chicken chalupas, jules crittenden, blind tastings, objective scholarship, zumwalt destroyer, dark and stormy night, bulwer lytton, religious christians, iowahawk, egregious examples, kathleen parker, gullets, english letters, quisling, naming names, gorditas, writing contest, replicator, tom wolfe, weathering

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/television/America_s_Next_Top_Model_11_Finale'; After 10 weeks and 14 models, America’s Next Top Model: Cycle 11 finally came down to the Top Three. Which lady eventually found herself with an Elite Model Management contract, a Seventeen spread/cover and a $100,000 CoverGirl contract? Was it McKey (the boxer who evolved into a woman), Analeigh (the skater who figured out how to use her body) or Samantha (the girl who once offended a designer but turned things ...

tags: elite model management, television america, model cycle, digg, management contract, america s next top model, next top model, skater, finale, boxer, models

He tore his coffee money to shreds, but at least he still had the banana to chew on during his lunch break.

tags: max keiser, lunch break, shreds, ussr, banana, coffee, money

Collapse is unavoidable. Music Video for a South African band directed by Bryan Little.

tags: safe as houses, collapse, south african band

The Institute for Pornographic Nomenclature.

tags: adult films, nomenclature

Well, it is hard to buzz in on Jeopardy with a penguin costume. Thank goodness we have this gem.

tags: game show, jeopardy, penguins, penguin, goodness

A promise, very NSFW. Just 4:27 of irreverent song while tickling the ivories.

tags: ivories, virgins, cock

from the motion picture Hollywood Hotel (1937) here's the Benny Goodman Orchestra doing "Sing, Sing, Sing" featuring Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton. A classic of the swing era.

tags: sing sing sing benny goodman, sing sing sing, benny goodman orchestra, gene krupa, lionel hampton, hollywood hotel, motion picture, hollywood, swing

The sixth song on their third album, Sheer Heart Attack, it was written by lead guitarist Brian May while he was in the hospital. In the UK, the song hit #11 on the charts when released as a single in 1975. The song has many features on it including Mercury, who hit some of the highest notes in his career. The song is also noted for its hard riff and vocal harmonies. The song remained ...

tags: sheer heart attack, queen rocks, guitarist brian, rainbow theatre, album queen, vocal harmonies, compilation album, brian may, heart attack, riff, music video, segments, nit, mercury

Sam Kinison, preacher, vitriolic humorist, screamer, ranter and great comedian in this 1987 classic. 1 of 5 in this YT playlist.

tags: sam kinison, breaking the rules, humorist, preacher, n1, comedian, yt

Groucho cuts it up with Marine Sgt. Sylvester & Colette Nelson, then model turned dog trainer Marilyn Pierce and pro golfer Jim Ferrier. And then home economics teacher Evelyn Farrow and lion tamer Floyd Humisson play along for cash prizes. Groucho Marx. Full show, RT 27:01. Complete with De Soto commercials.

tags: marine sgt, life water, secret word, groucho, sylvester, you bet your life

Can?t tell you how many times it took to make this work, but it was a lot. Shout out to "Lars" and the rest of the Brierwood Vandals! Prisoner of Society by The Living End - best song on Guitar Hero WT.

tags: guitar hero, vandals, lars, wt

Gromit's daily chores include sweeping up, unfortunately Wallace wants to help. The 525 Crackervac will save Gromit's time and take the strain out of cleaning and it has a "cracker sensor" to boot!! However, things don't go quite as Wallace planned and it's up to Gromit to save the day.

tags: daily chores, cracking contraptions

[@375]Twits du JourLooks like Comcast is back for good. Well, until the next outage that is. #At MickeyD getting a healthy snack... #Looks like Comcast is back up... Nope, it's out again... and back up again... Going up and down faster than I can tweet. #Comcast is 'experiencing an outage' in my area. TV but no internet. That's when Smartphones pay for themselves. Well, not quite. #

tags: healthy snack, twits, comcast

photo credit: elena777

tags: photo credit

The Hindu : Front Page News : Thursday, November 20, 2008: "Indira Gandhi prize for ElBaradeiNEW DELHI: Nobel laureate and Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei has been chosen to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2008. An international jury, chaired ..."

tags: indira gandhi, mohamed elbaradei, atomic energy agency, nobel laureate, international atomic energy agency, international atomic energy, international jury, front page news, disarmament, hindu, peace

Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "According to data just released by the Minnesota Secretary of State, Al Franken has gained a net of 43 votes on the first day of that state's recount process. Norm Coleman had a lead of 215 voters over Franken in Minnesota's certified, pre-recount tally; that margin is now 172 votes.Minnesota reports that it has thus far re-counted 15.49 percent of its ballots. If the first day's results are indicative ...

tags: minnesota secretary of state, norm coleman, democratic stronghold, al franken, narrow victory, initial count, state of the nation, future trends, ballots, duluth, election day, aggregate, secretary of state, tally, minneapolis, pace

Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "More than three decades after he first appeared before the panel as a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar protester, Senator John F. Kerry is widely expected to be named the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position that will give him enormous influence over international relations.The pending announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which congressional aides said could come as early as today, would elevate Kerry to ...

tags: senate majority leader harry reid, senate majority leader, foreign relations committee, senate foreign relations committee, senator john f kerry, senate foreign relations, barack obama, joe biden, congressional aides, vietnam veteran, john f kerry, policy priorities, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, president elect, senate majority leader harry, policy establishment, outgoing chairman, congressional session, us senate, enormous influence

Chinese Democracy is livestreaming on MySpace.

tags: chinese democracy

I just had a short overnight out-of-town trip. Hubby-Eric went to a teacher thing, and we stayed at a swanky hotel. Unfortunately, it was one of those swanky hotels where nothing was free, not even internet access, so we had to forgo the 'net last night. If we'd had a choice, I'd have rather stayed in a Motel 6. You usually get free 'net and a complimentary continental breakfast there, two ...

tags: complimentary continental breakfast, swanky hotel, evil twin, motel 6, hubby, good food, internet access, hotels

From a recent commenter to the Classmates.com thread: If you really want to get in touch with people, sign up for a facebook account [From a crank’s progress » Blog Archive » classmates.com spam scam] So I did. Hmmm, not a lot of names I recognize. I realize I was in a big high school class (950 or so, I think) but still . . . I had planned to be the last person on Facebook, but curiosity got ...

tags: class 950, facebook, classmates, blog archive, free advice, crank, curiosity, high school class

i’m trying to enjoy my post-election obama euphoria. but the world is conspiring to make that really difficult. to wit: i can’t recall ever reading a worse report on the economy. unless it’s this one. even newspaper clippings from the ‘great depression’ were less depressing than this. executive summary: the economy sucks, and its decline is accelerating. happy holidays. expanded summary: the stock market is taking a severe beating nearly every day. and while there’s not a direct correlation ...

tags: cloud

Today in my first meeting of the day we were talking about social networking application in relation to projects that my organization uses for public outreach. Not only blogs, but facebook, youtube and twitter. Imagine -- updating your twitter to tell your constituent/data users that there is a new cruise's worth of bottle data available for their viewing or that you have updated the most recent model runs with last year's climatologies reanalyzed ...

tags: sending a text message, marine protected areas, networking application, facebook, public outreach, youtube, derivative markets, social networking, twitter, data users, widget, first meeting, vortex, constituent, guess, mba, reply, tubes, cruise, bottle data

From the infrequently updated recipe files: Better Than Store-Bought Hot Chocolate Mix Mix in a cup or jug: 1/3 cup dry milk powder 1 heaping tsp cocoa powder 2 heaping tsp sugar Add 8 oz hot water. Stir. Enjoy. This is better and cheaper than the packaged varieties, and you know what’s in it, unlike the other stuff: sugar, modified whey, cocoa (processed with alkali), hydrogenated coconut oil, nonfat milk, calcium carbonate, less than 2% of: salt, dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglyderides, artificial flavor, carrageenan. I ...

tags: hot chocolate mix, dry milk powder, cocoa powder, swiss miss, recipe files, nadd, jug, hot water

The I'm Just Sayin' Show is now out of beta -- it's already looking a lot better than last week! After a nice review, Tilzy.TV has an interview with me that explains how the show came together. We (Jackie, Alisa, Kristen, and I) like to think of the show as "Diggnation for girls" -- or, okay, "Golden Girls for hipsters."

tags: golden girls, alisa, diggnation, kristen, beta