Neon Blogarita: Archive

Oct 31st

Alltop Bacon →

More than you ever wanted to know about bacon

Oct 31st

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Stephen Colbert has the courage to cross party lines

Oct 31st

Which affects more people?

Delta and Northwest Airlines just merged… time to approval 6 months. That’s a year less than it took to approve the Sirius/XM merger.

Oct 30th

Obama ad boosts network ratings →

Hollywood Reporter: Early ratings are coming in for Obama’s 30-minute primetime infomercial, and the numbers suggest the paid ad outperformed the usual programming in the time period.

Oct 30th

Exxon Mobil: Biggest profit in U.S. history →

Oct 30th

Discrimination

I grew up in the midwest in the 60’s. My Mom had a bust of John F. Kennedy in the living room, my Dad told me he voted for pro-segregation George Wallace one year. As I kid I could not understand the amazing changes that were going on in the country regarding civil rights, but I did not understand how people could be so full of hate for no reason. Years later my Dad would be invited to play...

Oct 30th

Today's talking point

Today the McCain campaign is beating the drum that Obama broke a promise about campaign financing. Do I need to point out that John McCain promised to run a clean campaign? Which broken promise has hurt the people? One took no public funding after realizing they did not need it, the other has inspired hate and division with the most despicable ads and statements.

Oct 30th

I saw a fog bank rolling in on my way home and...

Oct 30th

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Wow!

Oct 29th

What were people thinking?

I find it interesting that in any discussion about the election one very common ground is how screwed up things are and how horrible George W. Bush has been as President. My question is - what were people thinking 4 years ago when no matter what election tampering was done the vote was close enough to get him re-elected? Now everyone is wrapped in the banner of change, but seriously almost half...

Oct 29th

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Stephen Colbert interviews the actual Socialist Candidate for President - Brian Moore

Oct 29th

“The gifts that came to his home, he claimed he never asked for those gifts, he...”

– Paul Singer of Roll Call defending Senator Stevens taking gifts (from a clip shown on The Colbert Report)

Oct 29th

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Air Quotes… been waiting for someone to focus on this

Oct 29th

Obama doing The Daily Show Wednesday! →

Oct 28th

Who's behind the "Wassup 2008" Obama ad? Not... →

Great story! Video here if you missed my earlier post.

Oct 28th

Eight ways to survive the next 8 days →

My favorite: There is a reason it is not called “the every 5 minutes Kos”

Oct 28th

Zune comedy from TV show Chuck

Chuck: Do we carry any Rush CD's?
Morgan: No, but not to worry buddy... I have every Rush track on my Zune.
Chuck: Wait, you have a Zune?
Morgan: No, I'll go get my iPod.

Oct 28th

Friars Roast Matt Lauer →

No cameras allowed, a reporters notes

Oct 28th

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Media's Presidential Bias & Decline →

A member of the media looks at media and does not like what he sees

Oct 28th

Oct 27th

“But in case you haven’t noticed, the world is changing. The economy’s in the...”

– Lenslinger blog (a local news photographer) in a post titled “Death of the Specialist”

Oct 27th

Life Imitates West Wing →

A video about the similarities between Obama campaign and last season of The West Wing

Oct 27th

Aperture Referenced Files

I take a lot of pictures and I use the Apple Software Aperture to manage them. One issue I have struggled with is the amount of disk space (on my primary Laptop) and a sensible archive system. Well today I had a breakthrough. Aperture works in two ways… with one you can have it manage the library and you have no idea where stuff lives (this has been my preferred way of working), the other...

Oct 27th

Anchorage Daily News endorses Obama →

A thoughtful, well written endorsement that is worth reading

Oct 27th