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  • Palin Against Abortion even if Rape or Incest October 7, 2008
    Palin debating the abortion issue in 2006. She's against abortion even in cases of rape or incest. Would approve of legislation outlawing all abortions except for health of the mother only.
  • Keating Economics: Brought to you by John McCain October 6, 2008
    New Barack Obama ad about how John "the maverick" McCain still hasn't learned his since 1989.
  • Bank Loans Have Not 'Dried Up' - Forbes.com October 2, 2008
    A view you won't hear on TV.
  • George Lakoff: A Brief Guide to the Debates October 2, 2008
    In the first debate, Obama did what he needed to do: convince a majority that he has what it takes. But there is room for improvement... The reason the list is short is that Obama did so well. Biden doesn't have to prove himself in this debate. Palin does have to prove herself. That means Biden can hold back, give short but powerful responses, and
  • Sam Stein: McCain Gets Testy With Des Moines Register October 1, 2008
    ...McCain got near anger when it was suggested that the Straight Talk Express had taken a detour, challenging the questioner to provide examples. Asked specifically about the kindergarten sex-ed ad, McCain defended it wholeheartedly....
  • Daily Kos: Seize the Day September 30, 2008
    The temptation now is going to be to coddle the poor right. Give them some minor tweak in the bill to salve their fragile egos and gain the dozen votes that are needed to pass yesterday's bill. Don't. Don't do it, damn it.
  • Economist: Why Bankruptcy is Better than Wall Street Bailout September 30, 2008
    Congress has balked at the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Under this plan, the Treasury would have bought the "troubled assets" of financial institutions in an attempt to avoid economic meltdown. This bailout was a terrible idea. Here's why.
  • Humiliated September 28, 2008
    Jonathan Weisman has a fascinating, even riveting narrative of what went down in Washington on Thursday as John McCain made his play to commandeer the high-level negotiations over the bailout bill. And TPM Reader TW called my attention to a...
  • America’s bail-out plan [Economist] September 26, 2008
    A good article detailing out the happenings of the last year with a focus on the last couple of weeks. Not the Huffington Post.
  • Art Of Time Ensemble with Steven Page · CBC Radio 2 - Concer September 24, 2008
    Internationally renowned Steven Page, lead singer of the band Barenaked Ladies, performing his favourite songs live at the Enwave Theatre, at the Harbourfront Centre. He teams up with members of the Art Of Time Ensemble, led by pianist Andrew Burashko.
  • Oct
    7

    http://election.twitter.com/

    I’ve just added an RSS feed showing the last 5 tweets that match the search terms Obama OR Biden Or McCain Or Palin. These tweets are rolling out at an amazing rate, so fast that the RSS feed is delayed quite a bit. I suggest heading over to http://election.twitter.com/ to watch in near-real-time. It’s mesmerizing. I suppose twitter folk are more techno-literate and therefore I also assume they tend to be more liberal as most of the tweets are PrObama. The other side is represented by a lot of hate, and a lot of spammers. What a hoot, or is that tweet?

    Tonight you can even comment live on the debate, via Twitter:

    How to PARTICIPATE:

    1. 1. Tune in on October 7th at 9pm EST/ 6pm PST for the Live Presidential Debate. Find Current TV on your local cable/satellite provider or come here to watch the live stream of our broadcast.
    2. 2. Make sure you’ve registered with Twitter to participate.
    3. 3. During the debates, chime in by including “#current” in your tweet. Example:
      “This discussion about universal healthcare makes me want to pop some pills! #current”
    4. 4. We won’t be able to air every single tweet on TV, but you can see all of the #current tweets by searching #current on Twitter search.
    5. 5. If you have any questions about participating, send us a tweet @current.

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  • Sep
    21

    About a month ago, I posted on some impending Apple product refreshes. Since then, we’ve seen some nifty new iPods, but the other rumored updates, to the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini, haven’t transpired yet. However, today I came across a very good indicator that Apple’s new laptops will be here very soon, perhaps within days.

    I’ve been a grad student at UCLA for four years now, and I’ve noticed a strong trend: when new Apple products are about to be announced, the UCLA Computer Store makes significant cuts in their prices for whatever hardware is about to be refreshed. I’m not the only one who’s noticed this; it’s almost common knowledge around here that when prices drop, something dramatic is about to happen. I’ve fallen victim to this twice: I bought a suddenly-discounted fourth-gen iPod right before video iPods were announced, and a few months later I picked up an oddly cheap G4 iBook mere days before Apple announced the MacBook.

    Today, I noticed that the UCLA Computer Store’s Apple laptop prices have fallen precipitously. (Apologies for not providing a link; the actual prices are only revealed to those with UCLA logins.) The new prices are good “while supplies last,” another indication that this is an inventory-clearing move. Note that the prices below take into account the standard academic discount:

    2.4 ghz white MacBook: originally $1199, now $999
    2.4 ghz black MacBook: originally $1399, now $1249
    2.4 ghz MacBook Pro: originally $1799, now $1599
    2.5 ghz MacBook Pro: originally $2299, now $1799

    These are pretty substantial price cuts, especially the 2.5 ghz MacBook Pro, which dropped $500. If memory serves, the UCLA Computer Store usually drops prices by $50-$150, so these are significantly larger than usual. This is nothing more than a hunch, but based on these discounts, I’m guessing the laptop revamp will be pretty dramatic, especially at the high end, and that the prices of the new ones will be similar to the current pricing scheme.

    I really don’t know what to expect, or when exactly to expect it, but my guess is the new laptops will be impressive, and we’ll see them announced sometime in the next couple of weeks.

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  • Aug
    18

    Apple goodness coming up?

    Filed under: Apple, technology; Tagged as:
    by Gray

    So, as you may know, I’m planning to pick up a Mac mini for the movie library project, and I’m itching to get a Macbook too, since my iBook’s usefulness is rapidly waning, and my iPod is in drastic need of replacing.  But I haven’t bought any of these things yet because I put too much stock in rumors:

    • An Apple Insider article in March claimed that Apple is preparing a new revision of the Mac mini with a more current generation of dual-core processors, better graphics, and the like.  This has not yet come to pass, and no further mini rumors have come down the pike, but considering the mini is not supposed to receive an updated design, it seems possible that the revision could be pulled off in six months.

    • Reports a few weeks ago from both Apple Insider and Mac Rumors indicate that Apple’s planning a big product event in late September. The products most likely to be updated, they report, are be the iPod Touch (which will look more like an iPhone 3G, and will probably be cheaper), iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano (both of which could see increased storage capacity) and the Macbook (which will look more like the Macbook Air and, supposedly, have a new chipset and processor.  The latter change is supposed to be a dramatic upgrade). Mac Rumors suggested in May that Apple would release its rumored tablet PC this September, but subsequent reports suggest that probably won’t happen.

    • Mac Rumors also reported last month that Apple might be looking to drop the prices of Macbooks and Macbook Pros when the new revisions are released.

    • A week ago, Mac Rumors reported that Apple might be planning to start putting dedicated video encoding/decoding chips into new versions of its computers, taking a tremendous load off of processors and speeding up the process of video encoding.

    So I’m holding my breath and hoping that all of these things are true, and that we’ll get a $199 iPod Touch and new Mac minis and Macbooks, both with dedicated video chips, by late September. I doubt that all of these rumors are true, or, if they are, that they’ll all come to fruition at once, but still, it seems like it might be a good idea to hold off on any Apple purchases until after the announcement comes (if it does) in late September.

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  • Aug
    14

    Some back story: Gray is building a digital media library to eventually replace (though the dvds will be around for back-up) his massive dvd collection. It’s been an interesting discussion involving hours of email, the addition of a Slingbox, and no shortage of web surfing for reviews.

    So reading this article I start to wonder, what’s enough? Storage is cheaper, yes, but media files are growing, right? Read the rest of this entry »

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  • Jul
    4

    You know, it’s time to admit I was wrong. Way, way back, before being hacked, before moving over to wordpress, back when stickybuffalo was a big brown page with a shoutbox, there was some discussion of Apple’s switch from PowerPC processors to Intel processors. As I recall, I was pretty much against the move, seeing it as a bad omen for Apple’s independence. But I was wrong.

    Read the rest of this entry »

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  • Jun
    27

    3D Hologram Projection not just for blowing up the deathstar anymore!

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  • Jun
    27

    porn loves the iPhone. the long-nailed and the fat-fingered don’t. (no worries, though — mash the touchscreen with your palm to obtain a special dialing wand from apple.)

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