With The Band

Just finishing up another great night over at the C-SPAN Debate Hub. One of the cool features in there is the Word Tree, a treemap display of the most popular words in the debate.

One thing stood out. McCain said “friends” 18 times. Obama? Zilch.
It’s clear who has my vote.

When I first made the jump from a big consulting company to a tiny creative agency, I was worried I would be spending most of my time doing small boring web projects. Yeah, right.
As if I the C-SPAN Convention Hubs that I wrote on earlier weren’t successful enough, we at JESS3 teamed up with C-SPAN […]

Thanks to Jimmy for pointing this out.
Effective July 1, 2008, Maryland’s 6 percent sales tax will apply to computer services, including:

Computer facilities management and operation.
Custom programming.
Computer system planning and design that integrate computer hardware, software, and communication technologies.
Computer disaster recovery.
Data processing, storage and recovery.
Hardware or software installation, maintenance, and repair.

Help Stop The Maryland Tech Tax.

Please, […]

I found this breathtaking - not just that they endorsed someone else, but that Giuliani gets completely torn apart. These three paragraphs disassemble the image of Rudy as “America’s Mayor.”
Primary Choices: John McCain - New York Times
The real Mr. Giuliani, whom many New Yorkers came to know and mistrust, is a narrow, […]

362 days, 6 hours, 41 minutes.
In 362 days, we’re going to have a new president. We’re mired right now with candidates of both parties yammering about their platforms, attacking each other (since when did being called a Muslim get considered an insult?), and telling us what we think is important.
But what do you think is […]

In short, at the top of the meritocratic ladder we have in America a
generation of students who are extraordinarily bright, morally earnest,
and incredibly industrious. They like to study and socialize in groups.
They create and join organizations with great enthusiasm. They are
responsible, safety-conscious, and mature. They feel no compelling need
to rebel—not even a hint of one. […]

A nifty Google Maps mashup shows where all the presidential candidates have been. If you drag the right-hand slider above the map all the way to the right, you can see the full timeline.
New Mexico isn’t getting any love (Bill Richardson does not count). Nor is Maryland. And if anyone can tell me which states […]

The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
To travel to Iraq, would-be contractors needed permission from the Bush administration, which was far from blind in its appraisal of applicants. In a much-ballyhooed example of favoritism, the White House originally installed a clown named Jim O’Beirne at the relevant evaluation desk in the Department of […]

Obama’s Full Terrorism Speech: Sharpens Contrast With Hillary On Foreign Policy | TPMCafe
The America I know is the last, best hope for that child looking up at a helicopter. It’s the country that put a man on the moon; that defeated fascism and helped rebuild Europe. It’s a country whose strength abroad is […]

Bush has been the formative political experience for the youngest generation of voters, those 18 to 30. Studies of voting preferences show that the experience imprinted on a generation in its 20s largely determines its future political complexion. This generation is the most Democratic generation ever — more Democratic than the youngest voting generations of […]