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ha! Find out how annoying someone is *before* you follow them on Twitter.

Anil shows Palin's use of code switching by bypass media analysis. "Sarah Palin's conduct has gone far past the bounds of decency, and far past even the most dangerous efforts of any previous candidate for such high office."

Here's the ongoing voter turnout numbers for Benton County.

"Four years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, 'I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road.' Her first photo essay on Obama was two and half years ago. She has stuck with him ever since." [via kottke]

"The newest and cutest exotic animals babies from zoos around the world." CUTE!

as advertised.

Eric Raymond on asking questions.

Find domain names for your projects beyond the big three.

Handy list of world currency symbols.

This is a nice theme for Movable Type that doesn't ship with MT4.

Neat idea for finding a meeting spot. [via kottke]

Brian Eno put together a generative music app for the iPhone called Bloom.

"Our results showed that just the very basic metric of reply length, along with the number of competing answers, and the track record of the user, was most predictive of whether the answer would be selected. The number of other best answers by a user, a potential indicator of expertise, was predictive of an answer being selected as best, but most significantly so for the technically focused Programming category." [via waxy]

Jay Rosen: "At what point does an extreme attempt to de-legitimate the press actually de-legitimate the candidate as an extremist in the eyes of the press?"

Andy Baio and Joshua Shacter whip up a political blog ideology rating system by analyzing their linking patterns and scoring with Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).

A multifunction utility for system maintenance, optimization, and personalization.

Is there anything better than engravings of alchemists' laboratories?

"...future versions of Firefox plan on supporting the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location." [via veen]

You can launch a web app in its own process on the iPhone (outside of mobile safari).

I do not condone this. But I'll link to it anyway. For the lulz.

The history and current state of product placement on TV. [via Fimoculous]