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I used ScribeFire to post the last few entries. For some of them, it inexplicably disallowed comments. They should all be fixed now. I hope I can get this working correctly, because posting via ScribeFire is very convenient, but not if I still have to log in to the blog to allow comments.

I really want the following domain name for my new geometry website:

http://www.cityofangles.com

Sadly, however, stupid buydomains.com is squatting on it.

How disappointing.

Another great CL ad:




Update: Too funny... the ad above is satirizing the following ad posted just minutes earlier:

Oddly beautiful. How to vid here. (via Make)

I decided I needed to follow more people on twitter, so I added several people, including the three presidential candidates. Within minutes, Barack Obama started following me, too, although I'm not sure why.

Several years ago, Jason suggested that it would be interesting to compare the techno-friendliness of our politicians by looking at their sites and how they use various other online outlets like blogs and now flickr & twitter, etc. I'd imagine that sooner, rather than later, this will be a moot point as they're all starting to embrace these things. It'll probably just end up being a race to see who can adopt a particular tech first.

Although, maybe that's not so true. There's definitely levels of adoption, so to speak. I'm not going to dig into this right now, but let's just take twitter for sake of argument and for sake of easiness as I have all three candidates' twitter pages up already).

Stats in alphabetical order:

Clinton:

• Following 0
  
• Followers 4,165
  
• Favorites 0
  
• Updates 172
  
• Last 2 updates: 5 hours ago & 2 days ago
  

McCain:

• Following 1,470
  
• Followers 1,112
  
• Favorites 4
  
• Updates 324
  
• Last 2 updates: 5 days ago & 7 days ago
  

Obama:

• Following 35,978
  
• Followers 34,958
  
• Favorites 0
  
• Updates 128
  
• Last 2 updates: 21 minutes ago & 2 days ago

Now that I've got them all laid out, I'm not sure what they mean. They're certainly not what I was expecting. I assumed Obama would have the most people following him, which is true. But, I also assumed that he'd have the most posts, which isn't. So, what can we learn from the stats above?

...and why is Barack Obama following me?