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Experienced crowd counter weighs in on Beck rally “My estimate is that about 80,000 people were at the rally. Ryan Shuler, an Airphotoslive image analyst, used the same images and a different grid-density method to produce an estimate of 87,000. Considering the error margins around our separately-calculated estimates, they are statistically identical. CBS went with the [...] Searching for the word “liberals” on Openbook I discovered that the link du jour for those on the right is Charles Krauthammer’s “The Last Refuge of the Liberal.” Perhaps the level of willful ignorance is equal among the left and the right and I just don’t read lefties with the same critical eye. Regardless, one [...] Polls end Tuesday at 5pm, so if you haven’t voted yet now is a good time to vote. I recommend voting for Ridiculously inconsistent trickle of consciousness as best blog, and The Refinery as best new restaurant. A couple of columns from Charlie Brooker worth reading. ‘Ground Zero mosque’? The reality is less provocative “The planned “ultra-mosque” will be a staggering 5,600ft tall – more than five times higher than the tallest building on Earth – and will be capped with an immense dome of highly-polished solid gold, carefully positioned to bounce sunlight directly [...] I’m still browsing Openbook, this time searching the word “honor.” I’m not sure why I find this so compelling, but I can’t seem to stop reading. “Why did Beck choose to rally at the feet of a murdering, tyrannical President and use the word “honor”? I found it interesting that Glenn Beck had his “Restoring Honor” [...] Thanks, Tripbase! I received the following email on Wednesday: We have compiled a list of Tampa blogs which we think are fantastic resources for those who have an interest in the popular city. We have commended your website to our visitors and you can see your website listed at the following link: http://www.tripbase.com/d/tampa/ On the right hand side of [...] I’ve been wasting (too much) time the last couple of hours searching Openbook, a search engine just for Facebook pages with their privacy settings set to the most transparent option. Wonkette recommended using the search term “mosk.” OK, that’s pretty hilarious and scary, but as I searched around I found a few status updates I thought [...] I read Pushing Rope regularly, but don’t link to it so much because it deals mostly with national politics and I try to keep those posts to a minimum. I also assume folks who read this blog are also familiar with PR. However, if you are not familiar, let me recommend adding it to your regular [...] I don’t think those attending the Beck/Palin rally are clear on the concept of honor. One aspect of honor is to have principles; to have an integrity of thought; to maintain an ethical philosophy that doesn’t shift with changing opinion or political expediency. One attendee said he wants “government to stay out of people’s lives.” Excellent! [...] Zoe’s running a freaking marathon! And keeping track of her training at I’m running a freaking marathon! “Anyway, you can imagine my surprise and joy when I discovered that Temple Terrace does actually have a few hills. My first concern was whether it had enough of a hill to constitute four minutes, as mandated by [...] I’ve been on a calypso kick lately, and have been thinking about writing up the story of the “Rum and Coca Cola” song. In short the story goes like this: In 1943 Morey Amsterdam visited Trinidad on a USO tour and heard the song “Rum and Coca Cola.” He picked up the sheet music, and [...] This Saturday Glenn Beck reclaims the Civil Rights movement in his “Restoring Honor” event. (via Other 98%) (Thanks, BR!) Tea Party enthusiasts are so shallow, so ill-educated, so dismissive of the conservative values of tradition and honor, and so repulsed by the humane policies of progressives that they think it perfectly reasonable to celebrate the words of [...] (via Boing Boing) This is the last week of training at work, so with any luck next week will bring about a more regular schedule. Be sure to vote in the primary elections tomorrow (Tuesday, August 24, 2010). You can find out more about who you’re voting for at the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections page. *** For a party that [...] The Campaign Manager points to these political satire animations by “trusted aide to Bill McCollum” Kirk Pepper (but almost certainly NOT by Kirk Pepper). The most recent episode, posted a couple of weeks ago, is “The Case of the Missing Scattergun” about Bill McCollum’s stolen shotgun. *** Alan Snel reports on the ghost bike installation to memorialize [...] Despite our short attention spans and recent suggestions that all the oil spilled in the Gulf miraculously vanished, it turns out that there’s still a bunch of oil floating around out there. “The plume of petroleum hydrocarbon chemicals measures a staggering 22 miles long, and has settled in a deep underwater layer.” More at the NYT. And, researchers [...] The Land Art Generator Initiative is an interesting architectural design competition looking to combine art installations with clean energy production. This is the kind of urban art installations I’d love to see going in around the Tampa Bay area. From their Project Description page: “The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is to design [...] Man, the 1930s were tough on everyone, even the maniacally gleeful Mickey Mouse. Here’s the story of when Mickey tried to commit suicide. “He would make suggestions every once in a while, for some short continuities and so on, and I would do them. One that I’ll never forget, and which I still don’t understand was [...] Touching, bittersweet story about a long and happy marriage. Danny & Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo. Danny & Annie “Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, remember their life together—from their first date to Danny’s final days with terminal cancer. This remarkable couple personifies the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices [...] From the I’ll-Believe-It-When-I-See-It-Department. I hope it comes to market next year, but …. (Thanks, CJ!) Do-it-yourself solar power for your home Imagine outfitting your house with small, affordable solar panels that plug into a socket and pump power into your electrical system instead of taking it out. That’s the promise of a Seattle, Washington-based start-up that is working to [...] It’s becoming increasingly clear that Google cannot create successful social media applications. I linked to this article by ifindkarma in July, but it’s worth revisiting now that Google has announced the closing of Google Wave. Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications… “With Google applications we return to the app to do something specific and then [...] From now on I expect all towers carrying electric power cables to look like this: Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition. (Thanks, TP!) “This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design.” “Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created [...] Here’s a vintage police department safety book reminding you of all the ways you can suffer injury or die if you’re not careful. (via Scanning Around with Gene) That is the LAST time I hide in a pile of leaves. The Expressionist reviews the Postcard Inn, “located on beautiful St. Pete Beach.” “I’m a sucker for nostalgia, so I couldn’t wait to check this place out. It was a warm June evening when I decided to venture over to the hotel and have dinner at its critically acclaimed barbeque restaurant. Wildwood Barbeque has gotten [...] Here’s some good advice from Jenny Dryeraseboard - The original “girl quits job on dry erase board” post here. TheChive’s revelation of the hoax here. TechCrunch’s story of the hoax here. Some nice visual interpretations of a statistical analysis of the WikiLeaks Afghan leak. Below is an image of the growing spread of combat from 2004 to 2009. “It’s one thing to read about individual Taliban attacks in WikiLeaks’ trove of war logs. It’s something quite different to see the bombings and the shootings mount, and watch [...] Interesting article by a woman who has made the conversion from metaphysical healer to thoughtful skeptic. “One of the biggest falsehoods I’ve encountered is that skeptics can’t tolerate mystery, while New Age people can. This is completely wrong, because it is actually the people in my culture who can’t handle mystery—not even a tiny bit [...] Recently many of my FB acquaintances passed around a link to a NYT article about the rise of plagiarism among college students. “Perhaps more significant, the number who believed that copying from the Web constitutes ‘serious cheating’ is declining — to 29 percent on average in recent surveys from 34 percent earlier in the decade.” After responding [...] RT @NextNature Plastic is a new material in ecosystem http://www.nextnature.net/2010/08/plastic-is-a-new-material-in-the-earths-ecosystem/ I’ve barely looked at the Internet or the news for the last ten days, so I’m not sure exactly what to be incensed about. I suppose I’ll make today’s Politics Monday a round-up of links of interest. *** First, during my staycation I read an interesting book by George Friedman titled The Next 100 Years: A Forecast [...] |
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