Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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America is purple.

All right, you guys have to see this. Robert J. Vanderbei at Princeton has very effectively put what I was saying into graphic form. Check it out: What Dr. Vanderbei did was color the Republican counties red, the Democrat counties blue, and the 50/50 counties purple. It’s pretty obvious that the majority of America is […]

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Kottke’s right: we’re all stupid.

Jason Kottke has published an excellent commentary, How George Bush Won the Election, over at kottke.org. As always, well-written and interesting. Check it out.

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Finishing Season: Dreamsbay deliverable packages.

This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a long, long time and finally had occasion to actually finish it: the Dreamsbay deliverable packaging. This is built using the Jewelboxing system, which is extremely slick, and I recommend it to everyone for ease of use and elegance of the finished product. The pictures here […]

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Thinking about America.

Like many Americans, and undoubtedly a huge number of politically-minded individuals around the world, I was up late last night watching the election coverage. At the moment, it looks like Bush has won the race – but the margins in almost every state are astoundingly narrow. If you go to the New York Times Presidential […]

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Jeb Bush is at it again!

Would somebody please pass a law keeping family members from holding multiple positions in government? All right, that might not be legal, but how about preventing multiple Bush family members from that? Because when 58,000 absentee ballots from a county where 67% voted for Gore in 2000 go missing, I cry shenanigans. Very long, very […]

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NON-POLITICAL: I love my friends.

In this day of utter craziness, a break in the political tsunami: Halloween in the Castro 2004 – The year of Lotsa Leias! Nice touch, D.

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Well, now, that there’s an interestin’ graphic.

If you enlarge the states to represent their electoral votes, you get something like this: Nifty.

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Dear Lord, I hope so.

Courtesy of William Gibson: This just in: “Will the cell phone voting bloc wind up becoming the November surprise? Zogby has just released a path-breaking presidential poll conducted exclusively on mobile phones. And the winner is John Kerry by a landslide margin of 55 to 40 percent. Jimmy Breslin and others have been complaining that […]

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Happy Halloween!

A quick note here to wish you all a very Happy Halloween. Be happy, be spooky, and be safe.

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Geoff 1, Deer 0.

I grew up in the middle of the woods and cornfields. I went to college in the middle of woods and cornfields. Last night I hit my first deer – in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. Ah, justice. The final score: I walked away unscathed, except for getting a bunch of airbag dust in my […]

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