It turns out that the whole "Sarah Palin doesn't know Africa is a continent" thing was part of an elaborate hoax by someone who has pretending to be a McCain policy advisor for quite a while. - Jess Lee
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This is also the guy who spread the false rumor that Joe the Plumber is the son-in-law of Charles Keating. - Jess Lee
@jessica - They only claim that him being the source was a hoax "and they say they have no reason to cast doubt on the original story" - James Macgill
lolllz@Mike Massey....I think Kim Jong Il has the last one :) - Mohomed=genieyclo
...no wonder he's (possibly, just maybe) sick (dead?). "cause of death: uranium periodic table ring bought on teh interwebs." @tehkenny: http://tinyurl.com/66losh - Mike Massey
The clip is from Obama's talk at Google many months ago. I recognize it because I attended that talk. You can see the letters "gle" behind him. - Jess Lee
A Web-only release makes sense. This tech stuff would just intimidate couch potatoes, and most of the science nerds are at their computers anyway. - Mike Abundo
some good minds in that campaign, hopefully they will be in the administration .. and biden needs some training in wider thinking, so hope a couple are assigned to him - Gregory Lent
For tech i thought his campaign was a good testimony of how much appreciation and importance he accords to tech and all things IT. His weak point is business and i didnt see him recently talking about it. Does anyone see him recently commenting on business-related issues? - Hayk
i think he has well-developed ideas about business .. and they are not the kind of thing an american public can easily grasp, so he is keeping a bit quiet .. - Gregory Lent
@Gregory "Woot", an exclamation of joy and excitement common among GenY and late GenX geeks. Commonly used in multiplayer video games such as MMORPGs and FPSs. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
When I see San Franciscans with dogs on leash, it often reminds me of Nethack adventurers embarking on dungeon crawls. Now I'm going to picture dog armor too. Just great. - Chris Prince
"Earlier this year CNN(embedded above), the BBC, and the Associated Press reported about Yukio Shige, a retired police officer who founded a non-profit organization that helps prevent suicides. Shige spends most of his days at the Tojimbo Cliffs, a scenic spot where many people come to commit suicide." - Chieze Okoye
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And the fun of it all is that you get to deal with really grumpy, mean civil servants who work for US Immigration while you go through this whole process. - Sheila Taylor
But hey, it's not like any of these so-called "skilled" immigrants ever went on to accomplish anything useful here. None of my professors and talented co-workers were born outside the US :P - Joel Webber
"A good recut trailer not only amuses, but provides a helpful reminder that a trailer has exactly as much to do with the movie you're actually going to see as the maker of the trailer decides it should." - Chieze Okoye
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highly recommended. The recuts are fantastic. - Chieze Okoye
the mary poppins one just melted my brain. and "shining"...well... - Mike Massey
"At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade." - Jess Lee
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"At a speech in San Francisco on Wednesday, Google (GOOG Quote - Cramer on GOOG - Stock Picks) CEO Eric Schmidt proposed a new energy plan for the U.S. that the company claims could reduce fossil fuel-based energy generation by 88 percent." - Chieze Okoye
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"The detailed responses are bad news for Mr McCain (the full data are available here). Eighty per cent of respondents and no fewer than 71% of those who do not cleave to either main party say Mr Obama has a better grasp of economics. Even among Republicans Mr Obama has the edge: 46% versus 23% say Mr Obama has the better grasp of the subject." - Evan Parker
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And the The Economist is hardly a tree-huggin' liberal hippie rag :P - Adam Lasnik
<insert rant against liberal media conspiracy here blah blah bl--oh, wait...> - Mike Massey
one of the interesting charts from Peter Norvig's excellent election faq - Jess Lee
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Among the list of endorsements, "Obama has a list of 61 Nobel Laureate scientists, including many of my favorites: Harold Varmus, Don Glaser, Eric Kandel, Leon Lederman, Craig Mello, and Burton Richter. Wow. Obama also has four Nobel economists. The words "Nobel", "Economics" and "Scientist" do not appear on McCain's page." - Ming Tsai
Saying she reads the Internets might have helped. - Chris White
I can name 2 newspapers I read in Alaska. The Fairbanks Daily Newsminer and the Anchorage Daily News. That was 4 fricking years ago and I can still name them. - Erica Baker
There are no words...I mean like gee...she's all like...WTF - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
(A) Honesty: "I read the Wasilia Moosehumper, but usually just have time for Family Circus and Dear Abbey". (B) Lying: "I read the Journal, Harper's, the Economist, and the Harvard Law Review". (C) Cluelessness: "Um. All of them." - Steve Weis
Couric: "What about blogs, do you keep up with any blogs?" Palin: "Yes, I read any of the ones put in front of me. I read all of them Katie." - Jason Shellen
Why are you all so hard on her? She said she reads most, all, and any put in front of her. Oh, and a vast variety of sources. How can you argue with that?! I mean, personally, I've only read a "bunch," so she has me beat - I think. - Vince DeGeorge
I read a bunch too. Google News. Memeorandum. FriendFeed. Between the three all the world's newspapers come into my view. But at least I could tell you something about them. How can we get her to go away? Please make it stop. I really hope this helps the Republican Party purge themselves of all the Religious Right jerks who've destroyed that party in the past 20 years. - Robert Scoble
I can't name a newspaper I read cause I don't read newspapers. I get all my news from the screen in front of me or a little bit from the TV. - Mathew Ballard
I think the important thing to remember is we are not 'picking on her', we are trying to hold her to the high standard the office she is applying for demands... - Johnny Worthington
Why does it feel like, the worse Palin appears, the more likely she's actually going to get voted into office? Oh, I remember now. That's what happened in the 2004 election. - Victor Ganata
I tell you one thing, she has really made me appreciate Hillary... - Vince DeGeorge
She should NOT have said she "reads them all". WTF kinda answer is that. I'm trying not to be on the Palin hater bandwagon, but she just won't work with me... - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
she reads "all of 'em. any of 'em." she's very entertaining! god bless her - Cee Bee
Alright, that's it - Palin has officially entered "un-parody-able" territory. Any joke about how uninformed she is only pales in comparison to the reality of how uninformed she is. SNL has got nothing on this Katie Couric footage. - Adam Kazwell
good god help us. This is it. I'm utterly disgusted at the joke that McCain and his campaign have made out of our election process and our government as a whole with this woman (sure, there are people there I'm sure who don't like her, but this nonsense was allowed to happen). - Chieze Okoye
I saw this mentioned this weekend, but I agree. It's cruel to put her in this position. She clearly isn't knowledgeable enough to answer these questions. She also clearly freezes up when challenged. They had to have some clue these were traits of her's before putting her up there. - Occasional Headbanger
more shit...this has got to go AWAY now dammit!! this is sooo stuoooopid! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
this is a totally different stage than she's used to. they might not have known she would be like this under these conditions. <trying to give benefit of the doubt> - Jon Price
You know what I take away from this? That she reads and believes anything put in front of her. Let's hope the Taliban aren't sending her spoofed articles. *removes tongue from cheek* - Lindsey
So you think she could name a newspaper and not get in trouble? Saying you read them all is a polite reply without picking favorites. - Dan Nimtz
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No, say "I'm not gonna give them free advertising", say anything that doesn't sound totally random and moronic - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Just say "Time" or "People" any thing at all.... Well; any thing except what you did say. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
she gave the same exact answer W gave, except he also tossed in 'the Google'. - Anika Malone
What's the shortest book in the world? The Sarah Palin book of Political Philosophy - Ivan Pope
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Not judging perspective, but Bush was proud not to listen to news and katrina happened under his nose. They had to basically put a You Tube style of clips in front of him so he could figure out what was happening. I am very concerned about someone who doesn't expose themselves to news that doesn't filter through their handlers. They should not be so easily controlled. - Eric @ CS Techcast
Dan: "get in trouble"??? with who? even if she said National Review Online, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, she still would have covered her ass on the right-wing side. Hell, I'm not running for anything (yet) and read those all the time. I wouldn't even expect her to read them everyday, but at least be able to list something. - Anika Malone
I just brought myself to watch this clip. My God. Seriously? Seriously? Are they for reals? Seriously? How Katie didn't just stop the strolling and say point blank "Please, just name one newspaper you read.", I'll never know. Although, the look on her face was awesome. Your face said it out loud Katie. - Yolanda
I'm sick of giving her the benefit of the doubt. She's had how long to prepare and CAN'T NAME A SINGLE NEWSPAPER IN THE US?? Any other position where she's this clearly mismatched (scratch that, unqualified) for the role, ANY OTHER POSITION, and she would have been laughed out of the room. This is completely ridiculous. - Chieze Okoye
w. Sadly Tina Fey's excellent parody is straight up. She doesn't need to presenhy wouldst a caricature, just the real thing... she get into trouble for naming a newspaper. That's ridiculou - Tim Wolters
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Ok, we all agree. Not smart. Perhaps the title should be: "Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Doesn't Read." What would your alternate video title be? - Jason Shellen
"I think the Onion has some great insight" But seriously, say WSJ, NYT, Washington Times - heck you'd even get points for USA Today. - AJ Kohn
If she says 1 particular newspaper, then people will drill down on that paper and assume that is the only place she gets her information from... and if she says 1 newspaper, the moment she has an opinion about something all media will be able to link it to one newspaper and its potential biases. She answered the question strategically here. I don't mind the answer. - Mike
She is totally in touch with the "microcosm of America" -- who actually reads newspapers or magazine anymore anyway? Reading is for lefty wimps. - Pete Delucchi
c'mon, she pretty much said she only reads what is put in front of her (at this point by Republican party handlers), which to me is actually worse than not saying "all of 'em" or "getting in trouble" for name dropping the wrong ones. basically it says she reads only what someone tells her too. I could never support someone that has this little curiosity about the world. - Jon Price
This was the greatest. Kinda sad that a comedy show like SNL, when creating parodies, uses direct and complete quotations from the subject. - JC unwired
@Jody - I think the writers realized there was no way they could write anything crazier or off topic than Palin's own answers. I loved Amy's Couric impression - understated, yet hilarious. - Jennifer Dittrich
That was hilarious! The koala in the beginning..actually all of it! too funny! - at first I was like "wait..is this bad? Oh well.." yeah, that was worth the click :) - Anna Lynn M.
This is amazing for too many reasons to list. - ::Kristen::
"Metadata found on Microsoft's creative copy used in its 'I'm a PC' ad reveals that the graphics were actually produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3. After the details were published on the Flickr photo sharing site, Microsoft scrambled to polish off the embarrassing details last night" - MG Siegler
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I'm not surprised by this, but I am surprised that they would forget to wipe the metadata. If any company should know about dealing with metadata it should be Microsoft. - Alex Scoble CISSP
Love it. When you really want to creative work done, fire up the Mac. - Jason Kaneshiro
Countdown until the Macbots start scrambling to diminish the impact of these ads.. 3... 2... 1, - Sprague D
Buddy at MS just told me that 90% of their designers and other creative types use Macs and Adobe... - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
No huge surprise here but seriously MS, what are you doing!? - Nicholas Kreidberg
What? The creative folks at Microsoft use Macs? Makes sense to me. - Rob McNair-Huff
Same thing happened with the Vista print ads back in the day. - Veronica
Isn't "back in the day" reserved for stuff that happened a long time ago? When did Vista come out? 2006? Damn I must be old. - Chris White
Does this also mean that their creative software engineers write Vista using Macs? :P - imabonehead
Or maybe someone has just taken screenshots with Mac and uploaded to web? Other parts of campaign (even the video) could have been made with Windows. - Daniel Schildt
It makes sense - most creative work is probably done on Macs these days. - Sally Church
I just made the point to @mathewi that chances are the project plans and time lines for the Apple ads were likely done on PCs using Microsoft Project (and if one were doing the Apple website, all the Info Architecture and wireframes would be done on PCs as well) - leigh himel
Nobody at Apple uses PCs. And I doubt the ad companies they use do either. - Chris White
pc's are fat and bloated , same as actor - johnpiercy
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@Chris your actually wrong about that - maybe not about Apple but definitely about their agencies - leigh himel
leigh, my mistake. Apple doesn't use PCs. Their ad companies use Macs for creative work, like everyone else. - Chris White
This thread just reinforces the Microsoft message. People are making a big deal out of the fact that marketing creatives -- a tiny sliver of the population -- use Macs, when most of the world uses Windows PCs. - Sprague D
Most of the world drives crappy cars too. That doesn't mean people shouldn't want to drive a nice one. - Chris White
Most Art Directors/Designers use Macs (Photoshop, Illustrator) but most client services people, IAs, tech people use PCS and Microsoft Tools such as Project, Excel, Powerpoint etc. (and for both of these I say most - there are always exceptions to the rule). It's kinda why i think the whole, the Microsoft ads were created by Macs thing is silly. - leigh himel
Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, Powerpoint, Word, all run on both Macs & PCs, as does Windows. The MacOS is just more sophisticated, and the machines are generally better. - Chris White
No, but most design-y people buy that lie. Hook, line, sinker. - Jordan Hofker
Machines generally better? They all use the same hardware these days. The only difference between a Mac and a PC is the OS, in all reality. - Alex Scoble CISSP
So the processor is the only thing about a computer that is important? That's like saying the engine of a car is the only important thing. No leather seats, no nav system, or convertible top? Come on, the beauty is in the details. And, I guess I must be a "design-y" that doesn't understand technology. One that appreciates the ability to drop down into a real unix shell instead of having to run that cygwin crap. - Chris White
Am I the only Mac user that can't stand Mac users? - Andrew Smith
Not sure Andrew, but I don't dislike PC users. I worked at Microsoft for 3 years, and took a 5 year vacation from using Macs. - Chris White
@AndrewSmith I dunno, maybe it's just who I follow, but the Mac haters seem a whole lot more vocal than the Apple Fanboys in the last couple of years. - Chris Weiss
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MORE BREAKING NEWS... the agency receptionist uses a pc and the ceo has a blackberry... gripping stuff - James Tenniswood
I've worked in an advertising department. The artists used Macs, everyone else used PCs. - Mark Radigan
"I am often asked if the Olympic village - the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world's top athletes for the duration of the Games - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is. I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point. That is to say twice, which may not sound a lot, but for a 21-year-old undergraduate with crooked teeth, it was a minor miracle." - Jess Lee
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"Or Nouanesing could make an OS X version that substitutes mirrors for windowpanes, constantly reminding you of how superior you really are" - Ross Miller
