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1) Evite App - so I can say maybe faster

2) Linked-In App - so I can update my resume

3) Netflix App - so I can update my queue

4) Yelp! App (already built, but you can not log-in to your account to look at your bookmarks)

5) del.icio.us App - so I can look at some bookmarks on all digital devices (computer, phone, ipod)

I would like your feedback before I release it.

Thank you.

This American Life episode 365

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There’s an effort to elect an unknown random person as President… and it’s someone we know! Watch this online video about the surprising new nominee:

http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=357563&altf=Njdibfm&altl=Npouf9

Jot back a note to let me know what you think!

This is not a post against Warren and his kind (his kind being the rich). This is a post about our economy and how we save it. If Warren Buffett says he wants to pay more taxes, I think we should let him. If Warren Buffett says the 95% of Americans should pay less taxes, I support that as well. If Warren Buffett, one of the smartest investors in the history of economics, supports Obama, I think we need to support Obama as well.

Please watch the video below, it’s long (55 min) but you can skip ahead to the 41:15 mark to see his support of Obama.

John McCain’s recent statement on embryonic stem cell research was ambiguous in some ways, but clearly misleading in another: He equated human embryos with fetuses, and used language implying that farming fetuses for their tissues is a realistic possibility.

“I voted to ban the practice of ‘fetal farming,’ making it a federal crime for researchers to use cells or fetal tissue from an embryo created for research purposes,” McCain said in a statement Monday in response to questions posed by ScienceDebate2008, a nonpartisan science advocacy group.

More and more, John McCain reminds me of Monty Burns:

A bit sexier than the bus (or the Toby van - thank you Toby for the use of your van in the interium).

Purchased: Sept. 1st 2008

Added tint: Sept. 13th 2008

Looking for Rims: Oct. 1st - any suggestions?

• Walk/run 4 times this week (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs)
• Finish the SatPurush Project I have been working on for way too long
• Play in the Conway’s No Limit Hold ‘Em Tournament at Commerce Casino this week - sign up now
• Read 100 pages of Watchmen
• Read 100 pages of Super System 2 (need to work on my H.O.R.S.E. game)

Feel free to list some of you weekly goals for all the world (not really) to see.

Regular running slows the effects of aging, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine that has tracked 500 older runners for more than 20 years. Elderly runners have fewer disabilities, a longer span of active life and are half as likely as aging nonrunners to die early deaths, the research found.

Aerobic exercise is good for you and allows you to live forever…duh.

Artists perform during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the National Stadium, also known as the “Bird’s Nest”, on August 8, 2008. The three-hour show at Beijing’s iconic national stadium was set to see more than 15,000 performers showcase the nation’s ancient history and its rise as a modern power. (AFP PHOTO / Olivier Morin)

So the opening ceremony was amazing. Good luck to London, home of the 2012 games, you have  quite a show to try and top.

I have been watching the games on a 60″ LCD HD TV with full surround (thank you Jon) and I must admit that if you have the means, I highly recommend it. It’s the only way to watch live events.

Undated handout proof of one of Greyhound’s ads that the bus company recently pulled. The company made the move in response to the gruesome beheading murder on an eastbound Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie, Man., which claimed the life of 22-year-old Tim McLean July 30, 2008.
Photograph by : Handout photo, Greyhound Lines, Inc.

When I was in college, they taught us a few things that stick with me. 1) You don’t want to be everything to everybody, 2) Nothing kills loyalty better than broken promises, and 3) shit happens only after the client says ‘YES’. After you spend months developing a great ad campaign for Greyhound, the client is ready to move with the ad, the presses are inked up, the pixels are getting pushed around by the web developers, and you are reworking the ad for TV and online video. Then some nut takes the head off some kid on one of your Greyhound buses.

Back to the drawing board because shit happens.

NASA’s Phoenix Lander has discovered water on Mars. We now have a place to go once we destroy this planet. If NASA wants to pay for itself, they should consider mining the water and selling it here on Earth.

“NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander quenched a longtime scientific thirst yesterday when it detected water in a soil sample—the first time liquid water has been touched or “tasted” on another planet.

The craft obtained water by heating an icy soil sample in its “bake and sniff” oven, called the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer. “TEGA” identifies substances by heating them and analyzing the resulting vapors.

“We have water,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for TEGA.

“We’ve now finally touched it and tasted it—and from my standpoint it tastes very fine.”"