Embargoed Facebook Gift!

The Libertarian Party has some great editorial content on the bailout going out through their email updates - I'd highly recommend signing up (and joining the LP party, if you're so inclined).

Reminds me of the Microsoft Company Meetings and Buzzword Bingo.

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The funniest talk I've seen on Django all day.

Quoted: Cal Henderson delivers keynote address: "Why I Hate Django"http://www.djangocon.org

Found it - some DiveCam footage here at the 30s mark. Lots of great technology (DiveCam, Multi-frame photos) being used to explain and visualize what happens in the 2-3 seconds of a typical dive.

NBC's Diving Video are posted here.

The 3rd party candidates are getting shut out of the election process by the Democrats and Republicans. I actually think it would be informative to have them included in debates, though, without instant runoff elections, votes for 3rd parties are largely wasted (and can spoil an election and hand it to a candidate preferred by only a minority of the voters - as Nader did in 2000).

Quoted: In this latest Zogby Interactive poll, Bob Barr won 6% support and Nader 2% nationally. Neither candidate has cracked the double-digit barrier in any national polling so far this cycle. This polling showed Obama with a 43% to 40% lead over McCain.

Austan Goolsbee (what a cool name), is an Economics Professor at University of Chicago and Barack Obama's economic advisor. It is refreshing to have a presidential candidate who surrounds himself with SMART people, for a change.

Watch this interview and you'll have a lot more faith in the depth and quality of Obama's economic strategy, if you were skeptical before.

Hilary's new campaign slogan:

"Better White Than Wright"

(I have half a mind to print these myself - ain't I a stinker?)