Was just accepted into UW.

Yay.

Also, small Obama moneybomb tomorrow. Give $5.01 if you've got it.

Man, that guy has a fun name.

Anyway, this Newsweek story does a pretty good job of summing up our generation's mores and why Obama is a good fit for them. That sounds horribly clichéd. But it's really a good story. Shades of Garden State.

-Daniel

A pretty good way of summing up what's going on with Pravd...I mean, Fox News.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/10/wallace/index.html
(sorry, they might make you watch an ad.)

-Daniel

Generating random numbers is a hard thing for the human brain (at least, for this human brain) to do. When my mental capacity goes down, the ability to be actually random is one of the very first things to disappear.

How interesting. I wonder if there are any studies on this. Lexicat?

-Daniel

News stations have this really annoying habit of not releasing exit poll data that indicates what the result of the vote is projected to be.

However, they're not very smart about it. From msnbc:


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Man, I am on a posting binge today.

Anyway, this article does a great job busting the myths about the Canadian health care system. Next time you hear some misinformed person or demagogue talking about how horrible things are up north, use this to set them straight.

-Daniel

I'm kinda sad Romney won't have a chance to be president. I think his heart was in the right place. You know, other than that "double Guantanamo" comment. That was scary ( Read more... )

Just had my interview with an alum from Georgetown.

It went smashingly, I think.

-Daniel

This video is pretty good. The first 3/4ths is a relatively unbiased recounting of the history of money and how the current system came about. I learned a lot. The last 1/4th has a lot of opinions and some talk of "shadowy banker elites." But still interesting. Omitted some stuff though, like the effects of bankruptcy and other bad loans ( Read more... )

College (Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an educational institution [citation needed].

Really? You need a citation to say that "college" usually refers to an educational institution? Why do we not also need a citation to prove that "College" is a term?

Yeesh. I'm gonna go fix that right now.

-Daniel