Sunday, October 3, 2004
Home Photo Stamps experiment stopped by USPS
Here’s why. (Background from NewMexiKen here).
Especially don’t miss this postage stamp.
Archive for October 3, 2004
Oh, and by the way
Based on current polls, according to the Votemaster at Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004, “If the Senate election were held today, the Democrats would take control of the Senate, 52-48 (counting independent Sen. Jeffords as a Democrat, since he caucuses with the Democrats).”
Billionaires who blog
Pointer from kottke.
Worth noting between now and November 2nd
“If Kerry were the president and Bush the challenger, would anyone — anyone — think Bush has what it takes to be the commander in chief?”
Colorado Luis referring to last week’s debate
Drought update
Five years of record-breaking drought in the Colorado River basin have drained Lake Powell of more than 60% of its water. Flows on the Colorado are among the lowest in 500 years.
Downriver, Lake Mead, the biggest reservoir in North America and supplier of water to Southern California, Arizona and Las Vegas, is little more than half full. At Mead’s northern end, the foundations of St. Thomas, a little town demolished in the 1930s to make way for the reservoir, have reemerged.
From the Los Angeles Times.
Firefox
Once again NewMexiKen encourages you to consider Mozilla Firefox as your browser. As the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg puts it:
I suggest dumping Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser, which has a history of security breaches. I recommend instead Mozilla Firefox, which is free at www.mozilla.org. It’s not only more secure but also more modern and advanced, with tabbed browsing, which allows multiple pages to be open on one screen, and a better pop-up ad blocker than the belated one Microsoft recently added to IE.
The newest release of Firefox also allows you to create RSS bookmarks (Live Bookmarks)!
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Worth noting between now and November 2nd
“There’s 100,000 troops trained: police, guard, special units, border patrol. There’s going to be 125,000 trained by the end of this year.”
President George W. Bush
Presidential Debate
September 30th, 2004
From Reuters:
They estimated that 22,700 Iraqi personnel have received enough basic training to make them “minimally effective at their tasks,” in contrast to the 100,000 figure cited by Bush.
