After the Magic Number, the new Magic Number

Chicago 10 - PBS - A Review This week the PBS show Independent Lens showed the uniquely entertaining Chicago 10. I always thought it was 7 but I was wrong. The film include 8th defendant Bobby Seale and the 2 defense lawyers William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass. The documentary included actual footage from the 1968 Democratic Convention along with an animated re-enactment of the courtroom scenes. The voices in the animated sequences are played by Hank Azaria (Abby Hoffman), Mark Ruffal... more

The Flobots are back in town tonight, with their Providence-inspired alt-hippity-hop. They’re at Lupo’s, backing up Matisyahu, on whom we’ll reserve comment. Here’s Jerzyk’s Phoenix story about them and his coverage of the Flobots at the Democratic Convention, And here’s the video for their second single, Rise: ... more

Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Manassas, Va. Barack Obama made a final closing argument Monday night at the last rally of his twenty-two-month candidacy. ?The change we seek will not just come from government alone, it?s going to have to come from each of us,? Obama told the crowd of over 90,000. ?Each of us has a role to play.? He used his standard stump speech but also reflected on the campaign he?s run. ?Our campaign hasn?t been perfect,? he said. ?But we?ve go... more

Textbook that devotes 15 pages to Obama’s ‘life of service’ and further cites the 2004 Democratic National Convention as an example of good literature. World Net Daily: The mother of an 8th-grader in Wisconsin is blasting school officials over their use of a textbook lauding Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s “change” theme and highlighting his 2004 Democratic National Convention as an example of good literature. The mother, whose na... more

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is coming to Maine this week to campaign for presidential candidate Barack Obama.... more

Source: News - Local - Denver Three people arrested in downtown Denver during the Democratic National Convention went on trial Monday in Denver County Court on a municipal violation of obstructing a passageway. original story | email this story | comment ... more

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the People’s National Convention (PNC) last Friday failed to show up at an essential services forum to outline their strategies on how to address the overwhelming problems of health, education, water and sanitation confronting Ghanaians.... more

In 1988, Teddy Kennedy famously shouted “Where was George” during the Democrat’s National Convention. (To which I think it was P.J. O’Rourke who brilliantly responded: At home, in bed, with his wife, sober.) To the question of “Where is Obama” during the market’s current turbulence, David Frum explains “Why Obama is AWOL on the market [...]2 Vote(s)... more

Hey Milwaukee!  Hearing Loss Association of America has just announced that the National Convention for HLAA in 2010 will be held in Milwaukee, WI!   Every year, HLAA holds a National Convention somewhere in the U.S.  (For 2009, it is being held in Nashville, TN.)   Milwaukee finally gets the chance to show all of the people who have hearing loss in their lives what great people live here.  Congratulations! If you have any questions about the 2010 conve... more

Con tan amenazador aspecto, ha de ser descagarda de inmediato: Magic Number Machine , sólo para Mac OS X. Quien use Windows habrá de esperar a la Calculadora de Windows 7 para poder saborear algo con 25 dígitos de precisión y tantos botones, constantes científicas y sistema de notación que harían palidecer al propio Euler. (Vía 2+2 = Lifehacker .) # Enlace Permanente ... more

Magic Number Machine es una completa calculadora para Mac OS X (10.4 o posteriores), gratuita y de código libre. Los usuarios de Mac OS X 10.2.8/10.3.9 pueden descargar una versión especial de la primera versión con los últimos errores corregidos. Entre sus características destacan más de 25 dígitos de precisión, números complejos, historial de expresiones, funciones varias y soporte para matrices. Además de en inglés, la aplicación está disponible en castellano, francés... more

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You should now an additional graph along the right-hand side of the page, which I have dubbed the ’Swing State Analysis’. What this tells you is which states are likely to ’swing’ the election. As I describe it here : I’m now reporting another new parameter in my output, which is the state that "swings" the election in each of the simulation runs. The way that this works is as follows: I arrange the states from best to worst in order of Obama’s (or ... more

I decided to look at something relatively basic tonight that I should have looked at a long time ago. Do the Democratic candidates fare better in the polls in the states in which there has been an active primary campaign? It turns out that the answer appears to be yes for one of the candidates. Consider the following: In Ohio, where there has been a primary campaign, Barack Obama leads McCain by 2.6 points in our weighted average of polls. In Pennsylvania, where there hasn’t yet been a... more

Although the Clinton campaign has been dismissing the importance of primaries in any states that have fewer than 1,000, or more than 100,000 black people contain more Starbucks than Dunkin’ Donuts had the audacity to vote for Obama, this may be the first time they’ve written off a state in the general election. Actually, four states, according to Harold Ickes in today’s New York Times : They’re great states, but Idaho, Nebraska and the Carolinas are not going to be in t... more

A couple of new polls from Pennsylvania: Rasmussen shows McCain leading Obama by 1 and Clinton by 2, whereas Susquehana shows a bigger split between the two Dems: McCain leads Obama by 4, but trails Clinton by 3. Rasmussen also has a new Michigan poll out, with both Democrats trailing McCain by 3 points. These polls, when combined with the new pollster weightings that we rolled out yesterday, reduce Obama’s overall win percentage from 61.7% to 59.5%. Clinton’s number... more