Paul Haahr

Vader's Imperial Star Destroyer takes on Picard's Enterprise. - Simon via Bookmarklet

"For sale: a vast tunnel complex in central London. Former tenants include Britain’s secret service, the famous hot line between America and the Soviet Union during the cold war and 400 tons of government documents. The asking price is $7.4 million." - Richard Chen via Bookmarklet

"Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the nation crappy enough to rise above 300 years of racial prejudice and make lasting change." - (@){ via Bookmarklet

"Sometime before 4:38 a.m. Sunday, a team of suspects pried open the door of Hordin's Bookkeeping & Income Tax Service and cut through a portion of a wall separating the tax accountant's office and Harold's Jewelry, 164 Main St. The hole lined up exactly with the jeweler's safe. Police Sgt. John Korges said the thieves used commercial metal cutters to peel open the safe and make off with at least $350,000 worth of loose stones, jewelry waiting for repair and display pieces. Cops showed up 14 minutes later only to find an empty jewelry store and no suspects. Korges got a buzz at home at 5 a.m. alerting him that something major had gone down. "This was a big deal,'' Korges said. "This level of sophistication is rarely seen in Santa Clara County. The labor and the time it took to evaluate the territory and make plans, this was very involved."" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

"Police were reportedly planning to interview Mr. Jerry Yang, a resident of Palo Alto. Authorities did not describe Yang as a suspect, but rather as a 'person of interest' in the case. Mr. Yang's company was said to have fallen on hard times, and had recently retained alleged confidence man Daniel Ocean of Las Vegas as a 'strategic business consultant.'" - Karim

This sounds like the plot of "The Bank Job" (2008) http://www.netflix.com/Movie/T... - Mike Doeff

"Let the issues be the issue." - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

A little clumsy, but I like the point that this makes. - Kamilah Gill

Heh, it's Mr. Potato Head, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. - Tanath

+1 for Samuel L. Jackson - Gabe

German traffic police have been left looking like proper muppets by a British prankster. An Audi TT with British registration plates has been repeatedly caught speeding on roads in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth. But because continental speed cameras are set up for left-hand drive vehicles, the cameras keep missing the driver’s face. - grant

Sockpuppets: Not just an internet problem. - Micah Wittman via twhirl

"For Macintosh users, the Silverlight player will work only on Intel-based Macs, which currently account for roughly three-fourths of Mac units operated by Netflix subscribers." - fshamsi

"Prop. 8 asks voters to affirm that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" - a concept that voters overwhelmingly backed when they approved Proposition 22 in 2000. Voters still favor the traditional definition of marriage, 49 to 47 percent, according to the most recent Public Policy Institute of California poll. However, in the wake of the state Supreme Court decision in May legalizing same-sex marriage, Brown worded Prop. 8's ballot description to specify that it "eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry."" - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet

According to the article, the revised wording lowered support for Prop 8 by 8 points! I <3 Jerry Brown! - Kevin Fox

Yeah, this stuff is important. - j1m

I've reshared this to the books room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/bo... - Anika Malone

The cover art is almost better than the titles. - Jill, Superhero Librarian

Fantastic! I need to dig up some of my own and then do my own post on my book blog. - AJ Kohn

A fun site that lets you see what's correlated with Google query traffic. For examples, try [shotgun] or [grits] or [prius] or [mittens]. - Amit Patel via Bookmarklet

I like how ff is correlated with unemployment: http://statestats.appspot.com/... -- but not as much as http://statestats.appspot.com/... - j1m

Try [hemp] — correlated with long life, low obesity, low crime, low illiteracy, good education. - Amit Patel

"The Cupertino-based computer and iPod maker said on its Web site Friday it made a $100,000 pledge to defeat Proposition 8." - Dan Hsiao via Bookmarklet

Nice. - j1m

So good! - Paul Buchheit

"the election between the hot lady and the tiger woods guy" - Clare Dibble

James, can you view it on the NBC site? http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Ni... - Maryam

Great shots from a photo journalist following Obama around for over a year. My favorite is the first one I clipped here of Michelle and Barrack. - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

brought tears to my eyes, I don't really know that much about Obama, these pictures were a nice glimpse into his world. - amelia arapoff

Beautiful!! These really capture the essence of a great man! wow!! go vote people!! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

http://www.tsa.gov/press/relea... "The award recognizes the airport that exhibits exceptional courtesy and attentiveness to all passengers and customers while offering the highest quality of airport security." They also use computers instead of fax machines and hand deliveries. - Gary Burd

I remember taking shots of my plane at the gate. International flight as well. Never got hasselrd once. - Roberto Bonini

I should add that I've been hassled for taking photos in an airPLANE, but not an airPORT. - Gabe

fantastic guys - awesome. thank you. - Zee.

Fantastic - Varun Mahajan

thanks, might not need to go to facebook at all anymore! - Joelle Nebbe

"Young Frankenstein is a 1974 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder as the title character. Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman also star. The screenplay was written by Brooks and Wilder. The film is an affectionate parody of the classical horror film genre, in particular the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein produced by Universal in the 1930s. This is reflected by the fact that most of the pieces of lab equipment used as props are the same ones created by Kenneth Strickfaden for the 1931 film Frankenstein. To further reflect the atmosphere of the earlier films, Brooks shot the picture entirely in black-and-white, a rare choice at the time, and employed 1930s-style opening credits and period scene transitions such as iris outs, wipes, and fades to black. The film also features a notable period score by Brooks' longtime composer John Morris." - Steve Isaacs via Bookmarklet

"PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ!" - Bonnie "Prorogue" Dean

Favorite movie and the Broadway version was just as awesome. - jlt

go Ana go - j1m

Let's cut the middleman (middlewoman) and just buy votes directly! :) - Amit Patel

I'm in Reno until election day. Maybe I'll see you out here. - Benjy Weinberger

If Prop 8 passes it will have a direct and devastating impact on several of my friends and family members. If you're registered to vote in California please vote 'NO' on Prop 8 and resist an amendment whose sole purpose is to discriminate against a minority. - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet

No, Robert, this is a constitutional amendment. - ⓞnor

Amendment parity is confusing. I accidentally said I was 'for' this amendment a few hours ago, though in fact I voted No. I was very careful when I filled out my ballot. - j1m

Yay! I installed AdBlock+ just to get rid of this (the ads don't bother me nearly as much.) - Larry Greenfield

"Oh, and for those Joe Sixpacks out there playing a drinkin' game at home: Maverick." - Howard Trickey

The Obama campaign has clearly prepared for this and is ready to counter any personal attacks by labeling them as distractions and a sign of weakness in the attacker. - AJ Kohn

Is this the Rochester event? - Paul Buchheit

We were at Mendon Ponds Park, specifically the Cobblestone house in the park. Its about 15 minutes from where I grew up (and where my parents still are) Bloomfield, NY. Basically right at the beginning of the fingerlakes. And thank you everyone!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Man....getting married twice is cheating! I shoulda thought of that! And heck, if I'd known I'd get to wear my dress again, I might have had to rethink my travel plans! Glad you guys are having such a great time! - Alessandra Novak

Nicely done. He also highlights two sources for fact checking, http://factcheck.org/ and http://www.politifact.com/ that I've been using as well and includes videos of Obama's talk at Google. (Where Obama asserted, "I'm conservative in the sense that I want us to get back to those values that were essential to building America.") Best thing: I can stop working on a similar page I was drafting. - Chris Wetherell

Wow, this page rocks. I've always liked Peter Norvig, and now I admire/appreciate him even more. This is, IMHO, a very evenhanded and informative examination of the candidates (and their chances in this election). - Adam Lasnik