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Wednesday, July 23 23:29
Eintrittskarten werden nicht benötigt!
Those Europeans have us totally beat on poster designs.
(h/t s4xton just because he beat me to it by hours and hours)
Wednesday, July 23 22:47
Just blocked half my followers. It was funny seeing their latest tweets about their not being allowed to follow any more people. Oh spammers
Wednesday, July 23 22:38
The Cellphone Problem:
Young, urban people are increasingly only or primarily using cellphones for voice communication. Because people using cellphones are notoriously hard to get a hold of by pollsters, this group is underrepresented in nearly all polls on any major issue or political race.
It just so happens that these same people tend to skew very heavily Democratic.
So any poll you see, question its veracity. Because fully 50% of people under the age of thirty are primarily cellphone users and they are being under sampled, chances are any percentages lean farther to the right than the actual population.
Wednesday, July 23 16:43
I've been having to put my foot down with my bloggers on one just one thing: every HHH blog must have links to all other HHH blog.
Wednesday, July 23 15:36
Not surprisingly, the name Adolph for newborns really took a dive around 1936… http://tinyurl.com/6gs6lt
Wednesday, July 23 13:42
Going to be a guest on an upcoming episode of Flak Radio. Excited to tape this coming Tuesday evening. Although I will miss softball.
Wednesday, July 23 12:29
Sweet Jesus! Are they really going to hear Kucinich out and consider impeachment? http://bit.ly/1MQs94
Wednesday, July 23 09:49
Congrats @jongordon -- are you planning on moving back? You didn't mention that!
Wednesday, July 23 09:47
http://www.last.fm/music/Polaris
Wednesday, July 23 09:03
Urg. Totally forgot to turn in timecard. Better see if I can do that tomorrow. So long, bi-weekly pay! Hello, monthly!
Tuesday, July 22 17:40
Apparently my guerilla testing of Al's Breakfast's non-corporate ethos is the first result for the Google search "not so secret recipe."
Tuesday, July 22 17:38
@schmelzenfreude, yeah my order of Do it Right With Type and a Moleskine reporter notebook was just <$35. Got a larger notebook instead.
Tuesday, July 22 17:01
@schmelzenfreude FAIL on the free shipping.
Tuesday, July 22 16:29
Man, was I disappointed that Comic Sans didn’t make an appearance. I think that font would best be represented by a 50-year-old bespectacled woman with kitties on her sweater who loves creating newsletters to send out to family and friends. (via
stephcv on digg)
Tuesday, July 22 15:46
Why, @captainoctagon, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, of course!
Tuesday, July 22 14:38
And, no, it's not a technical issue (I've had that worked out for weeks). It's a quality assurance / identity and message control issue.
Tuesday, July 22 14:06
( This close ) to getting the 3 latest blog headlines from across the Humphrey to appear on the "official" front page.
Tuesday, July 22 14:05
Awesome-looking iPhone app version of Star Wars: the Force Unleashed. How many different versions of this game are there? PS3, xBox 360, PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, iPhone… Atari 2600?
Tuesday, July 22 12:27
Need: advice on good digital cams (AVCHD for iMovie '08/Final Cut Express)… buying for non-tech ppl. @noahkunin and @chuckumentary halp!
Tuesday, July 22 11:24
I'm sure this has been thought by someone else before but Gavin Newsom = Harvey Dent. Hopefully before his fall, that is.
Tuesday, July 22 10:57
McCain doesn’t need to use a computer—he’s got ticker tape!
by Barry Bitt
Tuesday, July 22 10:44
Simply gorgeous this morning as I bike to al's for breakfast!
Tuesday, July 22 08:24
New Facebook... too... wide...!
Tuesday, July 22 07:41
http://www.last.fm/music/Nancy+Drew+Crew
Tuesday, July 22 01:04
http://www.last.fm/music/Interpol
Tuesday, July 22 01:00
The World’s Final Buffalo
An ingenious little ditty by Midway superstars
The Robot Houseband recorded at Big V’s god-only-knows when. You may hear me laughing at parts and praising the band at the end… declaring boldly:
“They can just stop writing songs! Not them, not them… I mean everybody!”Tuesday, July 22 00:55
http://www.last.fm/music/Bruce+Springsteen
Tuesday, July 22 00:53
www.minneapolisfuckingrocks.com/mp3/:
Unprotected directory full of mp3-formatted music that, apparently, causes Minneapolis to quote-unquote fuckingrock(s.com).
HINT: If you get some nonsense about “Service Unavailable” try alt-clicking the links to force your browser to download them instead of playing the mp3s in your browser.
ANOTHER HINT: Seems you can only download a few at a time.
Tuesday, July 22 00:39
If you are from some distant black-energy-only funkless galaxy and don't know @captainoctagon's Dance Band: http://myspace.com/mydanceband
Monday, July 21 22:59
ZAP! @captainoctagon of intergalactic alien-slaying funkmasters of booty-shaking doom has started following me. I am obliged to reciprocate.
Monday, July 21 22:58
I’m sorry if this is old and I am out of touch, but this is just hilarious. I think I found it over at Kottke’s site, but who knows with things like this.
Also surprising: I wasn’t aware know Jimmy Kimmel had done anything funny since he left Win Ben Stein’s Money.
Unnessary Censorship (via fr53k)
Monday, July 21 18:37
"PC Sales Help Apple in Quarter":
From the New York Times. This seems like an odd headline, don’t you think? Odd that PC sales would help Apple. That should read Mac sales. In any case, another bang-up quarter for Apple, which means their stock should immediately and inexplicably plummet if history is any guide.
Sure enough: Apple shares drop 9% in after-hours trading. (via Daring Fireball)
Monday, July 21 18:24
Ah, the joys of printing on physical media. Working with the Carlson copy center to print promo postcards for a new Humphrey blog.
Monday, July 21 16:47
Humphrey blogging initiative:
A little bit of self-promotion can’t hurt when it’s my own link blog, right?
Emphasizing the ‘Public’ in Public Affairs
“Emphasizing the ‘Public’ in Public Affairs” is a grant-funded initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs to infuse a traditional academic institution with the new media tools of “Web 2.0.”
Proposed and led by Humphrey graduate student Graham Lampa, the project has partnered with multiple Humphrey research centers to leverage the University’s UThinkblogging system to develop a bottom-up public outreach network.
The project was funded by a Service and Process Improvement Fund grant from the University of Minnesota’s Office of Service and Continuous Improvement.
Monday, July 21 09:29
http://www.last.fm/music/Mission+Impossible
Sunday, July 20 10:34
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Hidden+Cameras
Sunday, July 20 10:31
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Magnetic+Fields
Sunday, July 20 01:26
http://www.last.fm/music/Die+Fantastischen+Vier
Sunday, July 20 01:04
http://www.last.fm/music/Best+Friends+Forever
Sunday, July 20 01:00
http://www.last.fm/music/Best+Friends+Forever
Sunday, July 20 00:56
For posterity’s sake: My brief appearance on the O’Reilly Factor from last month’s National Conference for Media Reform.
At about 5:55 left in the video, as Rev. Yearwood yells “Fox… News… is complicit… in… this… madness!”
Saturday, July 19 23:19
We’ll do it live!
Bill O’Reilly intros a Nintendo 1988 Inside Edition TV news report with Super Mario (via dannyo8 on YouTube and motafett on Digg). I love it. They take almost a whole minute of air time to explain the best way to defeat the hammer-throwing dudes.
O’Reilly admits that his most advanced toy was Lincoln Logs, so he’s a bit out of his league.
Saturday, July 19 23:13
Not-so-secret Al’s Breakfast recipe
Saturday, July 19 10:31
