I'll admit this is a bit over the top but fun nevertheless...
Point and click
No power in the 'verse can stop me.
River ,'War Stories'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Oct 15, 2008 5:09:54 am PDT #4602 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Fred Pete - Oct 15, 2008 5:12:11 am PDT #4603 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
((((sarameg and Mister Kitty)))) He's eating. That's a step in the right direction.
We haven't been watching the debates. I find the analysis gets us to the most important and entertaining parts.
Fred Pete - Oct 15, 2008 5:13:28 am PDT #4604 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'll admit this is a bit over the top but fun nevertheless...
The baby names banner really makes it work....
Gudanov - Oct 15, 2008 5:13:31 am PDT #4605 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
We haven't been watching the debates. I find the analysis gets us to the most important and entertaining parts.
You're not missing much.
Best wishes for Mister Kitty.
sarameg - Oct 15, 2008 5:14:16 am PDT #4606 of 10001
Vet is giving me a pain prescription.
Sue - Oct 15, 2008 5:25:22 am PDT #4607 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Why does it show that Bloc Québécois got more seats, but a smaller popular vote than the NDP?
The voting is representative, not proportional, and based on seats. So you can be an also ran in many seats, but never win any.
The Bloc, being a Quebec nationalist party only runs candidates in Quebec which has a total of 75 seats. So they got a high percentage of the popular vote within Quebec to win the 50 seats they did, but no votes outside of Quebec. The NDP run a full slate of candidates across the country, so they may win fewer seats, but get proportionately more votes than the Bloc.
Calli - Oct 15, 2008 5:26:55 am PDT #4608 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Blegh. I'm feeling nauseated and dizzy today. Luckily I can work from home, and lying around on a couch with a laptop works just fine. But I have my running group meeting tonight and if I'm feeling then as I am now that's just not going to happen.
ETA: Much kittie~ma to those who need it.
Emily - Oct 15, 2008 5:27:44 am PDT #4609 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
My students -- my college-bound, high-achiever, new-media-literate students -- believe that Obama is a Muslim (because he went to pre-school in Kenya, and pre-school is "a very important age for religion") and won't swear on a bible or take the pledge of allegiance. I freaking give up.
Does anyone know of a trustable fact-checking site with a Republican slant? I sent them to factcheck.org, but they thought it looked liberal. I thought to myself, "That's because liberals like FACTS," but kept it to myself. Also, fightthesmears.com is blocked from our school (plus I doubt they'd believe it).
Gudanov - Oct 15, 2008 5:28:26 am PDT #4610 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
The baby names banner really makes it work....
Violent though it is, I am rather partial to clicking on the deer.
amych - Oct 15, 2008 5:35:18 am PDT #4611 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Emily, do they trust Snopes more than Factcheck (since it's more of a general-purpose site, and doesn't look like it was set up just for the election -- which I know Factcheck wasn't, but I wonder if that's what the students were reacting to)?
I've never seen a repub-leaning version, but if Snopes comes off more neutral to them, it could do the trick.
For crap like not saying the Pledge, there's plenty of video out there of Obama actually saying the Pledge, and if that doesn't stop that one, they aren't actually looking for disproof...