Monthly Archives: October 2008

Be Your Own Obama iPhone Bank

Via Politico: No technology unexploited; Obama can take over your iPhone. CNET reports on the applications fairly rich set of features: The most notable feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly,” according to the software. The application anonymously reports back the number of calls made this …

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Sarah Palin’s Greatest Hits!

Here’s a great recap of all the Sarah Palin clips I’ve posted over the last few weeks.

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Breakfast On A Stick

I guess this is sort of a breakfast corn dog. With chocolate chips. It’s microwavable! I don’t know how new of a product this is, I saw it at the Food Emporium and cracked up.

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Wingnuts Launch Google Boycott

What’s less surprising than the Gayken coming out? The Christianist boycott of Google for opposing Prop 8. Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for Children and Families says young billionaires Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google co-founder) have “replaced all notions of God’s truth by worshiping money as god. You might have noticed that their website actually avoids Thanksgiving, diminishes holidays …

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ACLU Demands Probe Of Maryland Police Accused Of Spying On 32 Groups

Has the Maryland state police been infiltrating political activism groups such as Equality Maryland? The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland yesterday demanded that the state police disclose under public information laws whether 32 grass-roots advocacy and political activist groups that have held large public protests in recent years have been targets of spying by undercover agents. Yesterday’s request follows …

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Hannah Montana Sends Queers Packing

Disneyland has announced they will close early on the last day of Gay Days this weekend in order to boot out the queers for the 16th birthday party of Miley Cyrus. Disney will redirect mouse-happy homos over to California Adventure. In what is presumably an oversight on someone’s part, the “Hannah Montana” star’s Sweet 16 celebration with 5,000 of her …

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Okoge

From a Times article about rice cookers: Japanese cooks, however, consider toasted rice overcooked and highly undesirable. The unwanted crust left stuck to the bottom of the rice cooker is called okoge — the same word used as slang for a single woman who spends a lot of time with gay men. And now you know.

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The Fake “Liberal Democrat”

Busted! “I’m a liberal Democrat.” So began a widely circulated opinion piece by David Blankenhorn appearing in the Los Angeles Times on Sept. 19 in support of Proposition 8, an initiative on California’s November 4 ballot that would eliminate the marriage rights of same-sex couples recently recognized by the California Supreme Court. The piece is entitled “Protecting Marriage to Protect …

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Latest Electoral Map

As always, Ohio and Florida are where it’s at.

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Bill Clinton Stumps For Obama At UCF

Yesterday Bill Clinton campaigned for Obama in Orlando at my alma mater, the University of Central Florida. “Hillary sent me!” More from his speech: Here’s why you ought to be for Barack Obama. Number one, he’s got the right philosophy. He knows you have to grow an economy from the ground up, not from the top down. Number two, he’s …

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Rosie Launches Variety Show

Rosie O’Donnell is trying to bring back the variety show, starting with a special on the night before Thanksgiving. NBC will air “Rosie’s Variety Show” as an hourlong live special the night before Thanksgiving, with an eye toward expansion to a full series order should viewers embrace the project. The special will feature celebrity guests, musical acts, comedy skits and …

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They Could Call It The iPoz

How about a handheld detector for a slew of diseases, including HIV? Testing for diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis could soon be as simple as using a pregnancy testing kit. A team led by scientists at the University of Leeds has developed a biosensor technology that uses antibodies to detect biomarkers – molecules in the human body which …

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Homer Tries To Vote Obama

Funny. But also worrying.

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Ellen On Leno

Ellen DeGeneres appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday to denounce Proposition 8. Go Ellen! (Via – Queerty)

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Veep Debate Watching Map For NYC

Via Gothamist, go here for an interactive map of places hosting Biden/Palin debate watching parties tonight in NYC. If you wanna plug your own bar or destination, put it in the comments. I’m going to try to make to the Room Service event below.

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Let’s See, There’s Roe V. Wade …And….Uh….That’s All

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Bailout Passes Senate,
House May Vote On Friday

Once more, with stealing. The Senate strongly endorsed the $700 billion economic bailout plan on Wednesday, leaving backers optimistic that the easy approval, coupled with an array of popular additions, would lead to House acceptance by Friday and end the legislative uncertainty that has rocked the markets. In stark contrast to the House rejection of the plan on Monday, a …

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Morning View – NYPD Tower

The NYPD has this portable conning tower thingy set up on Broadway & 42nd just south of Times Square. Mmmm, panopticony!

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Open Thread Thursday

Do you have a “type”? If so, has it changed since you’ve gotten older?

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Moving Along To The Talent Segment

Hair and makeup by Anita Bryant, costume by Amish Discount Outlets, four locations, closed Sundays.

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