October 2008
9 posts
Losing Everything →
TPM’s Josh Marshall on how Sen. McCain has lost the maverick image and the respect of the media elite that made him famous as a politician.
September 2008
12 posts
Semantic data extractor - QA @ W3C →
This is great and is one of those things that helps semantic markup “make sense.”
The Radar
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I really miss the old Tumblr Radar. I think the new Explore section is neat, but it isn’t as consumable; you have to click around way too much to get to the interesting stuff. I loved the simplicity of the old radar. There are days where I’m way too busy to keep up to date with my dashboard, and the Radar offered a nice quick way to get a taste for the day’s posts. I’m not feeling the...
“The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are...”
– Jed Bartlet to Barack Obama
Op-Ed Columnist - Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
"My Gal" by George Saunders, The New Yorker →
Brilliant!
via J. Gruber
“[T]he deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an...”
– Paul Krugman
Blizzard of Lies - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
EveryBlock (Los Angeles) →
Customized news to your zip code. Awesome!
“Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures...”
– Ben Bradlee, former executive director of The Washington Post
from Note to Press: Get a Spine
Watchjaredm:
nullisnotzero:
God I love the Daily Show…
So many contradictions from the Republican party jerkoffs. The sad thing is that I highly doubt this will ever be brought to light on national television. Leave it to a satirical news program on cable TV to stay on top of things.
This is great. And depressing.
“I agree with the Repubs, daughter’s pregnancy is private, just as...”
– A title on reddit 