I want to watch High Noon now more then any other time. I've read that its a presidential favorite going back to Ike; the first man who really understood the power of media in politics. Never seen it. Maybe if I can get my hands on a copy I'll make it an election night thing. It would be perfect for TV number three.

Oh yes.. That might be useful background. Watching TV, as much as it does hurt, is best done in concert with other things. I've been desiring the three television setup. Elvis had it, the president has it, I want it. He used to sit in a yellow room watching them with a gun in one hand, and a drink in the other. I have a general idea of what it was that finally made him pop off a round. Elvis that is, not the president. I wonder how much he gestured with the gun.

I don't have the three television setup, but I can fake it to a degree thanks to laptops. I certainly don't have the evil boardroom wall o' tv thing that's been made popular in movies. Almost all of my viewing is done in the kitchen, on a little TV. Its like watching TV in a foxhole. I sat in the same kitchen, watching the same TV, and typing furiously on the same laptop while watching the Iraq war. What a show that was. Several scenes are forever burned into my memory, such as watching the 3rd ID burn across the desert of Iraq in realtime while sitting in my kitchen foxhole listening to River Euphrates. Priceless.

Its been one hell of an election cycle. I've disliked administrations. Hell, that comes naturally. However, I've never actually been scared of one before. I'm glad I can still be surprised. Politics have never been so engaging. Clinton and his dick don't even compare.

This is about the time I'm used to hearing people start complaining about the electoral system. Oh yes, it has its problems sure. At the very least realize that your state does speak for itself in how its elections go, so try not to shit up your section of the fucking union. Ok? That is the way it works. Its your state versus all the others. If you state sucks, its your problem. Its your state. Shutup. (Yes, yes.. Florida. Don't be too hard on them.. They have had a bad year. And don't put too much stock into the whole message from God thing either. If anything, it was just a scream. Could mean anything.)

At the very least, I'm happy to be in Jersey. We seem to have outdone ourselves yet again in brilliantly sucking. Our past few years continue to expose us for the pit of corruption we are, but we continue inventing new ways to get out of it. How America of us. This time around, we have been holding up as a swing state to the very end, even though we all know Jersey will go blue. Being needlessly contentious is our style. Check out those polls. The way scale works here, every one of those bumps represents hundreds of fist fights. I know, I was a participant in one that broke out during the last debate.

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Camera phone image from Santa Clara...

via BoingBoing. Brian Nicks, the voter who got this screen, says a local tv cameraman got some footage of the screen as well.

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On the morning of October 27, Thomas Friedman gave a keynote address at the United Nations in which he outlined the key themes of his next book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century."

It is liable to make you think, "I could have written that." But Friedman regularly drips with clue, his audience is a big one, and it can't be a bad thing.

Thomas Friedman at the United Nations

University of Maryland's archive of failed businesses.

Business Plan Archive

If you didn't know, you do now. This, the thing we thought would never happen, is in fact happening. Words cannot be used in an eloquent enough way to express how fucking rad this is. Ok.. The Doors could do a reunion tour with Morrison who it turns out faked his death, and it would be really damn cool for some people. None of them are me.

We will be there in force. I've been getting contacted from multiple angles about this one. I have my ticket. Monday show. Second of the two.

I have grown up on this band. I love this band. There is no way I could have ever seen them when they last toured due to age. Hell fucking yeah. If only Dave Blood was not dead.

Dead Milkmen Reunion Shows

] Osama bin Laden speaks in this image made from an
] undated video broadcast on Friday, Oct. 29,
] 2004 by Arab television station Al-Jazeera. In the
] statement, bin Laden directly admitted for the first time
] that he carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, and said 'the
] best way to avoid another Manhattan' was to stop
] threatening Muslims' security. Al-Jazeera, based in
] Qatar, did not say how it had received the tape. (AP
] Photo/AlJazeera via APTN)

Handy for those of you who need something new for your dart board... Or maybe something to stick in your office's mens room urinal.

New Bin Laden video

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is now out. I cannot wait to play this game. Every evil bone in my body and all the violent tendencies buried within can be peacefully sated by playing this wonderful line of games. The ultimate high tech stress ball has its new revision. Praise Jah!

Follow this link for the contents of the soundtrack.

From Bel Biv Devoe to Willy Nelson, all the cheese and crackers are present. You will be able to mow down virtual people with machine gun fire and automobiles while singing Rage Against the Machine lyrics. You will not catch the irony, because as you hop into the next vehicle you will be greeted by anything ranging from NWA to Patsy Cline to David Bowie. I know someone up there likes me. Oh yeah.

GTA SA - Soundtrack - SpazioGames.it

] None of these scenarios is likely to occur next week, but
] neither is any of them far-fetched. Tuesday's election
] will probably be decided in 11 states where polls
] currently show the race too tight to predict a winner.
] And, assuming the other states go as predicted, a
] computer analysis finds no fewer than 33 combinations in
] which those 11 states could divide to produce a 269 to
] 269 electoral tie.

This election is better then football, the American or European version. The American version being the one with more complex rules.

Lets just hope there are no errors.. Errr.. That's baseball. Fouls? Calling foul? What the fuck do you do in football? Do I go to DC and toss a flag in the reflection pool? What color is the flag? How does this work?

Electoral College Calculus (washingtonpost.com)

This seems to be the best site for getting polling data and information to predict how the Electoral Vote is going to go.

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

This looks old, but it is infact George Bush giving the middle finger to the camera while preparing to be video taped. Sounds like it was in response to commands he was getting over his monitor. Nothing all too shocking about this, but its just begging for inclusion in a cut-up..

"She's still telling me what to do.. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. [the bird] Just a one finger victory salute."

via BoingBoing

Bush and his one finger victory salute