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Keating Economics: John McCain and a Financial Crisis (1,359 diggs) See the full-length video at http:// KeatingEconomics.com starting @ noon Eastern on 10/5. KEATING ECONOMICS: The story of John McCain and the making of a financial crisis.

Sarah Palin in 30 seconds (1,800 diggs) "Sarah Palin's debate performance, reduced to its essence." "Here's my latest video remix, this time of America's latest sweetheart/ demagogue." from http:// www.boingboing.net/ 2008/10/05/sarah- palin-in-30-se.html ...

Hibernating a Linux Laptop...FINALLY! (435 diggs) The good news and the bad news. The good news is that Linux can do Hibernate fairly well. AND there are even GUIS to help you configure Hibernate. The bad news is that Linux is a ways away from any sort of reliable Suspend.

France urges Israel not to attack Iran (557 diggs) JERUSALEM (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has urged Israel not to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday Kouchner, in the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian...

Bill Maher Kicks Zucker’s Ass At The Box Office (911 diggs) This weekend Bill Maher's "Religulous" earned three times the per screen average of Mark Zucker's Michael Moore parody "American Carol".

Cosmonaut wants Booze in Space (510 diggs) A Russian cosmonaut says alcohol should be allowed in space. Salizhan Sharipov, who has just returned from the International Space Station, said an occasional tipple would help cosmonauts relax. Speaking at a press conference, Sharipov said it would be 'desirable' to have 50mm of wine or cognac per day.

I have a friend who knows a guy whose son does websites. (715 diggs) Ten years ago, selling websites was, for all intents and purposes, easy. You needed a royal blue shirt, charcoal grey pants, business cards, and a promise. Everybody needed a website but only a few companies and individuals were providing the service effectively. It was an Economics 101 lesson in supply and demand.

The United States Congress gives NASA a much-needed lifeline (479 diggs) "The $20.2 billion NASA budget for 2009 includes $2.6 billion more than President Bush requested. The additional funds will pay for at least one more shuttle flight than currently planned . . . The legislation also extends a waiver allowing the United States to purchase seats for astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft until 2016."

Google Chrome: Turn Firefox into a Google Chrome Clone (481 diggs) Last month Adam showed you six Firefox extensions that enable Chrome's best features, but today reader Asian Angel takes it a few steps further and creates an almost identical-looking Chrome clone using 10 Firefox extensions and one theme.

Burger King: Out of Meet? (meat) [PIC] (1,710 diggs) Ummm When you pull into Burger Kinf this is not the kind of sign you want to see? Epic Fail x 2!

The Power Of Books (913 diggs)

The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator (1,068 diggs) So it was in 1978 that when the proton beam entered Anatoli Bugorski's skull it measured about 200,000 rads, and when it exited, having collided with the inside of his head, it weighed in at about 300,000 rads.

Rolling Stone: John McCain Fake Maverick, Spoiled Brat (2,329 diggs) Great piece in Rolling Stone detailing the life of a rich, spoiled brat who has always put himself first and country second.

Fun Way To View Logs with logstalgia (372 diggs) To observe server performance I have a separate monitor on my desk that I use to SSH from terminator with split screen. I usually use trafshow and htop to monitor and occasionally tail -f log messages. Which are mostly enough for basic server monitoring.

Keating Economics: McCain & the Making of a Financial Crisis (1,398 diggs) The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s.

Scales of Attractiveness from Composites of Faces (PIC) (1,169 diggs) These women do not exist. They each are a composite of about 30 faces that I created to find out the current standard of good looks on the Internet. I collected some photos from Hot or Not, sorted them by rank and created multi-morph composites from them. What can be concluded about good looks from these virtual faces? Read on...

More And More Men Are Taking Their Wives' Last Names (493 diggs) "When indie musician Todd Baechle married Orenda Fink, he made a decision that rocked some worlds. He took his wife's last name."

See a Pattern on Wall Street? (514 diggs) Take a look at the two blurry images below. Can you see an object hidden in each one? Before I give the answers, here ’s another question: Do you feel a certain lack of control over events right now?

Depth [XKCD] (901 diggs) The Planck length is another thousand or two pixels below the comic.

Obama takes big lead in new Minn. poll (1,442 diggs) Some 55 percent of respondents said they support Obama, compared to 37 percent for McCain. The results represent a dramatic departure from the last Star Tribune Minnesota Poll conducted in September, which showed Obama and McCain deadlocked at 45 percent.

With friends like these ... [McCain & G. Gordon Liddy] (980 diggs) Can a presidential candidate justify a long and friendly relationship with someone who, back in the '70s, extolled violence and committed crimes in the name of a radical ideology -- and who has never shown remorse or admitted error? When the candidate in question is Obama, McCain says no. But when the candidate in question is himself, he's not sure

A Homeless Man And His Dog. (2,354 diggs)

Obesity as a System [chart] (381 diggs) Developed for the Foresight Tackling Obesities project, this causal loop map was designed to provide systemic insight into the multiplicity of factors contributing to the obesity epidemic.

Atheism [PIC] (2,465 diggs) [Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]

Super Secret Flying, Diving, Space Bound, Submersible Craft (569 diggs) Unbeknownst to most of the world, the late super rich adventurer Steve Fossett had started work on an amazing flying submersible that would one day theoretically touch the stars. More importantly, however, was that the design would have allowed adventurers and scientists alike to venture into the deep ocean