So now I have a Tumblr? My new Internet strategy is to accumulate so many 2.0ish sites to cycle through that by the time I've checked them all, there's new content back at the first one. And I'll never have to leave my computer again. Genius!
“…The results attained by me have made my scheme of intelligence transmission, for which the name of “World Telegraphy” has been suggested, easily realizable… it will add materially to general safety, comfort and convenience, and maintenance of peaceful relations. It involves the employment of a number of plants, all of which are capable of transmitting individualized signals to the uttermost confines of the earth. Each of them will be preferably located near some important center of civilization and the news it receives through any channel will be flashed to all points of the globe. A cheap and simple device, which might be carried in one’s pocket, may then be set up somewhere on sea or land, and it will record the world’s news or such special messages as may be intended for it. Thus the entire earth will be converted into a huge brain, as it were, capable of response in every one of its parts. Since a single plant of but one hundred horsepower can operate hundreds of millions of instruments, the system will have a virtually infinite working capacity, and it must needs immensely facilitate and cheapen the transmission of intelligence.” —
I find this interesting. A lot of play this cycle has been given to “Obama Republicans,” but what about people who voted for Kerry in 2004 but sided for McCain in 2008? Discount Alaska and Arizona — some people always root for the home team. But what about the rest? What can be inferred from them?
The “Eisenhower Answers America” ads, conceived and created by Madison Avenue advertising executive Rosser Reeves of Ted Bates and Company, were as bold in conception as they were simple in execution. The campaign created forty “spot ads,” each consisting of a question from an ordinary voter and a response from the candidate. The answers were filmed first, in a midtown Manhattan studio, with General Eisenhower reading off of cue cards. The questions were filmed later, read by tourists who were scouted in front of Radio City Music Hall. Eisenhower is filmed in the elevated position; the questioners all look up at him, establishing a personal connection but also keeping him in the position of the hero.
Nate Silver’s take on what John McCain has to do: 1) forget PA, WI, MN, & IA; 2) focus on NH & NM; 3) defend CO, VA, NV, OH & NC; 4) pray FL, MO & IN stay red. (via www.nypost.com)
David Fincher (Fight Club, yo, recognize) directs the life-long journey of pro football players LaDainian Tomlinson and Troy Polamalu as their destinies collide in an NFL football game.
