Friday, January 4, 2008

Friday is Iowa

Hello and welcome. As we all anticipated, Obama took the Iowa caucuses with 38% of the votes. Too bad Kucinich and Paul were left off the ballot. Anyway, happy weekend!



Obama (D) and Huckabee (R) win Iowa caucuses [politics] (msnbc.msn.com)

Obama won in almost every stastical category--ideology, issues, income level. He even drew more support than Hillary from female voters. [politics] (ablogistan.com)

Mideast newspaper: "The very moment [Obama] appears on the world's television screens, victorious and smiling, America's image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution." [politics] (dailystar.com.lb)

The day after the Iowa caucus, FoxNews leads with story about Brittany Spears hostage crisis, CNN leads with article about the weather in California. [politics] (ablogistan.com)

Dennis Kucinich Is Smarter Than Michael Moore [politics] (ourdoings.com)

For all of us who don't know how the US primary elections work. [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Top 10 Moments in Mike Huckabee's Extremism..(Huckabee's conservative and religious views are both radical and frightening.) [politics] (alternet.org)

“The 48 Laws of Power”: A Machiavellian Look at How to Grab Power [business] (docstoc.com)

Central banking is perhaps the most brilliant scam ever perpetrated, and the U.S. Federal Reserve stands as the most successful of all central banks in history. [politics] (populistamerica.com)

"Cocaine vaccine" makes it nearly impossible for vaccinated users to get high from cocaine [science] (chron.com)

In olden days, the police solved crimes by finding the guilty party. No more. In our time, the police create crimes. And that's one of the reasons the US prison population is twice the size of China's [politics] (lewrockwell.com)

The Best Man vs. Woman Explanation I Have Ever Seen (yep.it)

When you're turned on by your partner's scent, taking a deep whiff of his chest or the back of her neck feels like taking a powerful drug—it's an instant flume ride to bliss, however momentary [science] (psychologytoday.com)

Cooking: Improve Your Cooking Chops with the Invisible Ingredient (lifehacker.com)

New $420 Billion Plan to Convert US to Solar Power [science] (nextenergynews.com)

Welcome to the Solar Century [science] (environmentalgraffiti.com)

100 Items to Disappear First when the Crash occurs - get them while you can [politics] (thepowerhour.com)

Dreaming (especially lucid) is a function of the Fear and Survival system. Dream interpretation is valid on a personal basis only: Determined by individual concerns. [science] (saliu.com)

Quantum leap in technology to unravel 'cosmic web' of universe [science] (uk.news.yahoo.com)

The VR hypothesis: a physicist suggests that we (already now) explore scientifically if the Physical World is a Virtual Reality simulation [science] (newscientist.com)

Space tourist funds next-generation telescope [science] (newscientist.com)

"In short, Reddit is currently promoting a right-wing hit piece created by a propaganda organization that was created to promote the Lewinsky affair." [politics] (2parse.com)

Top Ten most corrupt politicians of 2007 includes FOUR presidential candidates (including Huckabee and Giuliani) [politics] (politicalinquirer.com)

Massive Lenin statue found in Antarctica [science] (stuff.co.nz)

5 Unbelievably Cool Research Facilities (Pics) (deputy-dog.com)

The United States Postal Service opposes "No Junk Mail" list because half of the mail it handles "is direct marketing mail, and reducing its volume could cost thousands of Postal Service jobs". [politics] (thedenverchannel.com)

Deep cylindrical pits on Mars are not easy to explain. Small-scale plasma discharge experiments could offer some clues to their formation. [science] (thunderbolts.info)

Love to cuddle? The Love Mattress is for you! (inventorspot.com)

When nano-wires explode was only the beginning. [pics] [science] (blog.wired.com)

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