This is probally a little too early and I don't know how everyones financial situation is like but who wants to go on a Vegas trip?

Just putting it out there so I can gauge a general interest. Otherwise back to the drawing board for my vacation plans.

Yeah, those Connecticutians always make things awkward...

Thanks, Jess. Here's something else to keep people busy for a while: The next President of the United States, by The Big Picture. Really amazing photos.

I don't think what happened Tuesday night has quite sunk in for me.

Hey Paras,

I never mentioned that I totally appreciate your posts here. I totally use what you post here to spice up emails to my ex-step-brother who lives in Conneticut, which are, predicably, awkward.

They are also excellent for not doing homework. Like now.


edit: As is deciding you're going to use a Star Trek clip for your presentation tomorrow and getting caught up on YouTube clips.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0_70d-KVe4&feature=related

Perspective:

But as 64% turnout rate is a very big deal. According to this Wiki entry, turnout four years ago was about 56%, and that was considered a pretty good year. More notably, turnout was 63% in the Kennedy-Nixon race in 1960, and that was the high watermark of the modern political era.

If 64% is the final number, where would that put the 2008 race historically? According to a Wall Street Journal item, we're talking about "the biggest voter turnout in the period since women got the vote in 1920."

Without important issues or a very exciting campaign, voter turn-out reached a record low of 64.1 per cent (corrected from initial reporting of 61.2 per cent).

Sturmjager!

Sturmtiger!

Sturmpanzer!

Happen to be 3 different model of Grand Arms...

That's not random...

The First Black President:

Alright Par you can go ahead with this info/data/ visulization experiment but I'll slip in a few random words to skew your results. Spoon!

The keynote the last day of this conference in Chicago was given by Martin Wattenberg. It was a fascinating look at the cool little things you can do with text and data visualizations and by asking a few very simple questions. For example, going from "what color is a lemon?" to using web-based image searches to create a map of the average color of every word in the English language. Another, possibly more familiar, visualization was the NameVoyager, which was an interactive plot of the relative popularity of baby names. (Click the link, it's more than likely you've seen it before.)

In any case, some very interesting stuff.

Now, something new they have is the Many Eyes project. Per Wattenberg:

To "democratize" visualization, and experiment with new collaborative techniques, we built Many Eyes, a web site where people may upload their own data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations.

This.Fucking.Election. Relive the fun!

Saul Williams weighs in on the election. Guess who he supports.