Round Up ADVANCED
Welcome to Round Up ADVANCED!!!
I’m hoping to make all future round ups more detailed so you can find the links that interest you more. The Future Is…NOW.
- Stocks Plunge as House Rejects Bail Out: “House leaders pushing for the package kept the voting period open for some 40 minutes past the allotted time, trying to convert “no” votes by pointing to damage being done to the markets, but to no avail.” [NYT]
- ABC writes erotic Obama Fan Fiction: “The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.” [ABC]
- Derrick Comedy (of Bro Rape fame) just released the trailer for their brand new feature film, Mystery Team:
[MysteryTeam] - Foox makes the point that the NFC East is really, really good: In fact, of the three losses distributed among the division, every one came at the hands of a division rival (Giants beat the Redskins, Redskins beat the Cowboys, Cowboys beat the Eagles). Against teams in the rest of the league, the combined division is 8-0, outscoring teams 228-112, or 28.5-14 each game. That means they basically doubled up every opponent. [Sports!]
- Personal Bank is the easiest way to avoid the financial crunch:
[Landline] - The Cool Kids are the next big thing in Hip Hop. This is a song about riding bikes:
[MySpace] - Obama wins Global Electoral College 8,086 to 3: “What if every country could vote, with the result decided using an American-style electoral-college system.” [Economist]
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Comments
It’s by no means a representative sample, it just allocates electoral votes based on a web poll.
Check out the rules here
From that page: “a nation must have at least ten individual votes in order to have its electoral-college votes counted.”
It’s not very effective as a poll, but it’s silly and silly is good.
The last link is interesting, but when I see the US going 79-21 for Obama, it becomes clear that it’s nowhere remotely near a representative sample of those who can (or would) vote.
That said, I’d love to see a map like that where someone took a representative sample of each country.