Just another E!

Iran, a new scent by Calvin Klein.


... Come on, it isn't that crazy. CK is known for trying to be excessively edgy in their advertising. Sponsoring a revolution might be just the idea their marketing department was looking for.

This was my commute last night:


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Now I visit Digg. A lot if I'm honest. I have been a regular for years but I don't have a Digg account. Mainly because it seemed like another pointless time sink hole. Every time I feel the urge to post a reply I step back and realise I only want to post to inform someone of the intrinsic wrongness of their comment. I feel the urge to correct all my fellow internet citizens on topics from Opera to Forensic Testing to the rolls of Religion in society. Not that Digg is full of only the moronic fringe (see youtube) but it does tend to attract the fools, the trolls, and compulsively argumentative. Trust me Digg will end in a giant Goodwin's law shark jump.

Think Hitler jumping over reddit sharks while Ron Howard, Anonymous, Ron Paul, and Dawkins cheer from the shore sharing drags on a doobie. A powerful image, to be sure.

Now Digg has a new site update. The digg bar. Every site you visit from digg comes with a shortened link and a digg bar. You google this 'advancement' and find tons of discussions on the values of shortened links and easy access to Digg vs the moral crime of SEO-damaging link theft. The users all seem for it and the websites are up in arms.

What about those of us that just find the damn bar annoying?

Update: How to Block Digg Bar on your sites.

My current roommate is hooked on all those CW evening soaps. Tonight we watched Supernatural, which I admit I'd never watched before. Surprisingly decent programming actually. The actors are certainly cute and there is a bit of action. Still suffers from the whole 'R lives r way serius 'n stuff. So we r angsty.' syndrome that rules every CW show.
Anyway... I did have a point, I swear. Tonight they visited a school in Indiana. The school colors were Red and Black and the school mascot was the Bombers.
Granted, the town was wrong and for some reason the gym was still one of those ancient things built over 60 years ago that you only now see in use in inner city neighborhoods and TV. I imagine there are very few of those old schools still in use in rural Indiana (as schools).[/tangent]

Kinda cool.

p.s. Smallville is as awful as I remember it.

Since the 1800's, bookies tend to predict the Elections with far superior accuracy to the polls. People lie to pollsters, but gamblers don't rely on what people say point blank. They rely on trends and moods, and it overwhelmingly works, even beating out exit poll numbers. So pay attention:

That pretty much sums it up.

(Though personally I'm a big fan of FiveThirtyEight, as seen on the Colbert Report.)