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Huffington Post: Here's a quick rundown of her resumé: she's the former point guard and captain of the Wasilla (Alaska) High School Warriors who went on to become Miss Wasilla 1984 before working as a local news sports reporter who then served as city councilwoman and mayor of the town of about 9,000 before being elected governor of her home state just two years ago. Take a look back at the woman who failed to become Miss Alaska, but could possibly be a heartbeat away from becoming the President of the United States of America.
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Wired magazine's contributing editor shares the story of how an Obama site he built in four hours racked up 7.5 million pageviews and landed him a book deal.
It's a fun example of instant web fame. ("The thing you have to keep in mind is that I got the idea for the site on a bus ride home, and between 5 p.m. and when the site went live at 9 p.m. — nothing was done after that!") Ironically, he hates political sites. ("I tend to avoid political web sites like I do somebody who's got a hacking cough.")
Parodies of his own site sprung up about Steve Jobs and Ron Paul. And now he's hoping "the Internets" can magically procure Obama's autograph on his book (even offering a $250 reward). read more
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racked up 7.5 million pageviews and landed him a book deal.
It's a fun example of instant web fame. ("The thing you have to keep in mind is that I got the idea for the site on a bus ride home, and between 5 p.m. and when the site went live at 9 p.m. — nothing was done after that!") Ironically, he hates political sites. ("I tend to avoid political web sites like I do somebody who's got a hacking cough.")
Parodies of his own site sprung up about Steve Jobs and Ron Paul. And now he's hoping "the Internets" can magically procure Obama's autograph on his book (even offering a $250 reward).">
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James Carney and Michael Scherer, TIME Magazine:
What do you want voters to know coming out of the Republican Convention — about you, about your candidacy?
I'm prepared to be President of the United States, and I'll put my country first.
There's a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us?
Read it in my books.
I've read your books.
No, I'm not going to define it.
But honor in politics?
I defined it in five books. Read my books.
[Your] campaign today is more disciplined, more traditional, more aggressive. From your point of view, why the change?
I will do as much as we possibly can do to provide as much access to the press as possible.
But beyond the press, sir, just in terms of ...
I think we're running a fine campaign, and this is where we are.
Do you miss the old way of doing it?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Really? Come on, Senator.
I'll provide as much access as possible ...
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Looks like Jack Parsons life is being aggrandized in comic form. While skeptical at first, the comic is actually very good.
From Wikipedia: John Whiteside Parsons was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Aerojet Corporation. He was also an enthusiastic occultist, and one of the earliest American devotees of Aleister Crowley.
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"Trouble the Water" is a documentary made by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, a pair of professional filmmakers who worked with Michael Moore on "Fahrenheit 9/11," and like other documentaries it's a movie about real people and their lives, designed to enlighten and entertain in roughly equal measure. You could say that all documentary films represent a collaboration between director and subject, but in "Trouble the Water" that collaboration is stretched nearly to the breaking point, since the heart of the film is footage Lessin and Deal didn't shoot.
As they would be the first to admit, "Trouble the Water" only exists because Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a charismatic, trash-talking "street hustler" (her words) and aspiring rapper from the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, turned on her new Sony camcorder — she'd bought it on the street for $20, provenance unknown — on Aug. 29, 2005, and began to shoot what was happening in her neighborhood. What was happening, in case you've forgotten, was that a big hurricane passed over New Orleans, the city's levees were breached in many places, and the water on Roberts' street rose past the stop signs and nearly to the housetops.
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As they would be the first to admit, "Trouble the Water" only exists because Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a charismatic, trash-talking "street hustler" (her words) and aspiring rapper from the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, turned on her new Sony camcorder — she'd bought it on the street for $20, provenance unknown — on Aug. 29, 2005, and began to shoot what was happening in her neighborhood. What was happening, in case you've forgotten, was that a big hurricane passed over New Orleans, the city's levees were breached in many places, and the water on Roberts' street rose past the stop signs and nearly to the housetops.
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I dunno. Seems like a bit of a stretch.
When you take the mirror image reflection of Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece, "The Last Supper", and superimpose it on the standard image, the combination reveals puzzling new details. These details seem to be in keeping with the mysteries discussed in popular fiction, making them all the more eyebrow-raising.
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Andrew Sullivan writes:
In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?
According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.
Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do John Yoo and David Addington and George Tenet. In the one indisputably authentic version of the story of a Vietnamese guard showing compassion, McCain talks of the agony of long-time standing. A quarter century later, Don Rumsfeld was putting his signature to memos lengthening the agony of "long-time standing" that victims of Bush's torture regime would have to endure. These torture techniques are, according to the president of the United States, merely "enhanced interrogation."
John McCain lies in a hospital bed in Hanoi, North Vietnam, after being taken prisoner of war.
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John McCain lies in a hospital bed in Hanoi, North Vietnam, after being taken prisoner of war.
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Robert Evans, Reuters:
Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago. The final tests involved pumping a single bunch of energy particles from the project's accelerator into the 17-mile beam pipe of the collider and steering them counter-clockwise around it for about 2 miles. Earlier in the month a clockwise trial in the LHC had been equally successful, CERN said.
The LHC team now plans to send a full particle beam all the way around the collider pipe in one direction on September 10 as a prelude to sending beams in both directions and smashing them together later in the year. That collision, in which both particle clusters will be traveling at the speed of light, will be monitored on computers at CERN and laboratories around the world by scientists looking for, among other things, a particle that made life possible.
The elusive particle, which has been dubbed the "Higgs boson" after Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who first postulated nearly 50 years ago that it must exist, is thought to be the mysterious factor that holds matter together. read more
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The LHC team now plans to send a full particle beam all the way around the collider pipe in one direction on September 10 as a prelude to sending beams in both directions and smashing them together later in the year. That collision, in which both particle clusters will be traveling at the speed of light, will be monitored on computers at CERN and laboratories around the world by scientists looking for, among other things, a particle that made life possible.
The elusive particle, which has been dubbed the "Higgs boson" after Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who first postulated nearly 50 years ago that it must exist, is thought to be the mysterious factor that holds matter together.">
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An Interesting documentary about the collection of nearly 1000 boxes that Stanley Kubrick filled with all sorts of notes, photos and miscellaneous items. After he died the filmmaker spent about 4 years going through the boxes and inspecting their contents. A strange documentary that the film-god would have enjoyed where he still alive.
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MSNBC points out that the ubiquity of sites like Facebook and Myspace have rendered password resets based on personal questions dangerously insecure:
As an experiment, Herbert Thompson, chief security strategist of People Security, recently asked a few friends for permission to hack into their bank accounts. Using only information gathered from Web sites, Thompson found his way in within minutes. How?
After clicking on the familiar "Forgot your password?" link, one can access online accounts by entering your pet's name, identifying a high school mascot, or answering some other seemingly obscure questions. But there's a problem: A criminal can do that, too. With the help of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, personal trivia is getting less obscure all the time. You’d be surprised how easily someone can uncover Fido's name or your alma mater with a little creative searching. read more
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Annalee Newitz writes on i09.com:
Why haven't we met aliens yet? And why aren't we sending rockets all over the solar system? There is only one plausible explanation. Earth is being quarantined! A combination of higher alien civilizations and our own Earth-based military forces are working together to keep the Earth contained and neutralized. The reasons why they would do this are obvious, but where is the evidence? Below, we've got enough truly true facts to get your conspiracy engines revved up to maximum.
1. We have been located in a backwater part of the galactic rim.
To keep Earth inhabitants away from the rest of the universe community, our planet was stuck way out in the boondocks at the rim of a second-rate galaxy. Obviously only a higher alien intelligence could have done this, to prevent humans from leaking out everywhere and finding all the cool shit in the universe.
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