1282 17th Ave N minneapolis

Go to 1282 17th Ave N minneapolis on Google maps (or click the link). Go onto Street View. Interesting.

Researching for the best fit

http://www.dehp.net/candidate/ Respond to a short list of issues and it will tell you whose platform your views are closest. I like this site more than http://www.electoralcompass.com even though it doesn't look as pretty. The site is simplistic and should be considered only as a tool.

I'm in the process of researching whose policies I most agree. I usually keep my political views out of discussions because they have consistently led to arguments that many take personally, and end up with tense, awkward moments. I have seen political discussions even breaking up friendships. I'm tempted to share my views, here, but it's the same is true as it is in the real world. Maybe I'll share as the days come closer. But for now, I will remain shrouded in mystery.

The Mystery Of The Face On The Cake

I came across one of those rare stories that make you feel good all over. I'm a sucker for father/son tales, too (go see Tell Them Who Your Are and make sure you watch the cut scene they included in the Special Features, which in my opinion made the whole movie worth it to me; I actually cried.) So you can tell that the story below got to me. I laughed out loud and smiled throughout the whole story. It has 3 short parts; there's a link at the end of each section. It's worth the time to read and is guaranteed to make you feel good. Enjoy.

The Mystery Of The Face On The Cake via TheSneeze.com

The Electoral Compass

I just ran onto this simplistic survey of which candidate most agrees with your views on issues like immigration, health care and education. I'm just bummed that Kucinich isn't represented any where on the final quadrant.

via Electoral Compass USA

The beauty of being watched

Check out this link

FreeRice.com

Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game.
For every word definition you get correct, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Food Programme. At time of writing over 10 Billion Grains of rice have been donated.

You can prove how smart you are and that you have a sensitive philanthropic side of you too. The highest score I got was 40, but average 35-38.

Happy Holidays!

FreeRice.com

Gmail Adds AIM Support to Chat

Google is ruling the internets! Now it has a way to consolidate my chat lists. I've been doing it with meebo at work, and Adium at home (both combine AIM, Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo and ICQ). But hey, if my gmail is already on, why not?

via Lifehacker

Val and Albert are my brothers

This is probably not new to many of you, but my co-worker just came in here cracking up about doing this all weekend.

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

Blue Steel! I am a hottie!

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

Where is everyone?

An oddity in the world of teh internets...

My buddy list only has one person on it. Hello? *echo* hellooooooo? *crickets* It feels eerie to be in IM isolation.

Please come back.

Hey firewall...let people back in!!!

Twitter 6th sense

This is a great Wired article for all those twitter naysayers who complain that 0ne line "tweets" can never tell a full story about someone's life. These same folks don't see the need for a play-by-play of everyday life. But it's not in the individual tweets, but all of them as a whole that creates what the article calls "social proprioception:"

They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination.

Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination. For example, when I meet Misha for lunch after not having seen her for a month, I already know the wireframe outline of her life: She was nervous about last week's big presentation, got stuck in a rare spring snowstorm, and became addicted to salt bagels.

So why has Twitter been so misunderstood? Because it's experiential. Scrolling through random Twitter messages can't explain the appeal. You have to do it — and, more important, do it with friends. (Monitoring the lives of total strangers is fun but doesn't have the same addictive effect.) ... It's practically collectivist — you're creating a shared understanding larger than yourself.

And now...a shameless plug to gain social proprioception into my world.