This is an edited response to the desperate hate-mongering and lies and guilt-by-association game that McCain/Palin are trying to gin-up.  I wanted to have a nice list of McCain/Palin’s associations.  Of course, Guilt by association isn’t.  So I am not arguing that their associations make them guilty – just that there are lots of associations to go around if you want to play that game.  But if you’re going to play, you’ve got to show your cards as well.

Note to McCain: Overhead projector is not a planetarium projector - Boing Boing

I feel it is my moral duty to not let emails full of lies, mischaracterizations, and known misleading or untrue information go by without pointing this out.

There have been a number of studies saying the same thing (search Bruce Schneier’s blog for plenty of other examples)

Yeah, “Oops”.  “Honest mistake”

This is one of my favorite parts of this article for Newsweek.  The scary thing is that you could see her answering a question just like this.

A couple of cool sites that I’ve come across recently

I can’t believe that I would be the only one to notice this, but I find it so annoying that it seems universal across College and NFL football coverage and universal on every network I’ve seen that the statistics that are persistent on the screen throughout the game only consist of:

I often think of this when I watch CSI and see them busting down doors, cutting people’s carpet, etc. to obtain evidence or apprehend suspects.

This is very interesting research.  May explain why people turn to religion in those instances too.