The LA Times has a slightly amusing look at the laudry list of candidates mentioned in the 2008 Veepstakes.
“This list is getting so long that everyone’s going to end up on it eventually,” joked Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), who has advised Obama on whom to pick.
The list of people I have heard on both [...]

Spent some time playing Guitar Hero last night and was reminded of the single most irritating part of playing that game.  It’s not the fast fingering required for the expert level…  It’s not the addictive nature of the game…
The most annoying thing is the fact that every time I play, I can’t get the music [...]

(cross-posted at The Next Right)
Last week the Obama campaign released a list of states where it was going up with advertising - Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia.
An odd grouping of states, no doubt.  I saw a couple [...]

I recently wrote a post about the fact that someone punched Matt Stoller in the face, and suggested it might have had something to do with him accusing people of being racist at every opportunity.  Matt even weighed in and (correctly) pointed out that the post I had linked to was not drafted by him.  [...]

@KatieHarbath points me to Wordle, and interesting “printed word as art” sort of project.  It allows you to take a large block of text (this blog post, for instance) and it will convert the phrases into a word cloud based on their relative frequency of usage.  You can mess around with the colors, fonts, skew, and [...]