November 24th, 2007 | 
Author: This is the Weekend Update for the weekend of November 22nd – 25th.
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This was Thanksgiving weekend. I want to say that I’m very thankful for everything God has given me, and I still believe that if one really takes the time to count all one’s blessings, the problems and trials that we face every day really aren’t that big of a deal.
I also want to say that I’m very thankful for all of my faithful blog readers who put up with my nonsense and leave clever, thoughtful, and humorous comments all the time. Reading this blog wouldn’t be half as entertaining without you.
Next, I’ve been building up a backlog of interesting links I wanted to write about but haven’t really got around to it yet. I wanted to at least share the links before deleting them after they get too old.
- Recently, I was doing some work with generating Excel spreadsheets dynamically with PHP. Hint: don’t try it with SSL. Here’s a link to help you out a little bit.
- Geeks.com has a portable Intellivision system available on their site now. I think it’s pretty cool looking.
- Complex tax law has been estimated to cost $265 billion or more, but it is sometimes advantageous if you happen to be a big company that can afford to spend a little on lawyers and tax shelters. Note to next president, whoever you are: let’s put a simple tax system in place, okay? Sales tax, flat tax, fair tax, whatever. Just do it already.
- Something fishy might be going on with the unions and the Franklin county commissioners in regards to Huntington Park.
- I think this is a pretty good article about Bush hatred.
- Kudos to Mike Coleman for cutting spending instead of raising taxes. I didn’t vote for him (or any mayoral candidate), but I gotta give him props. Note to next president, whoever you are: can we get a balanced budget amendment going already, okay? Just do it already.
- And finally, Digg’s political bias is now a matter of record. The official bias: out-of-the-mainstream candidates. Besides that, it leans heavily to the left (and Hillary isn’t even there yet). By Digg, of course, I mean its users, not the staff of Digg.
And here’s what my neighbor did, really:
Not quite as ridiculous as this guy, but still pretty cool. Note that this isn’t my rotten neighbor.
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How does Digg lean heavily to the left? A Republican candidate has twice as many “votes” as the closest Democrat candidate.
First off, Digg is a total scam.
Secondly, the numbers have changed pretty signficantly, and I suspect that little page was made live fairly recently (and I think Hillary was only very recently added).
Aggregate totals as of writing: 13146 (blue) to 12480 (red). So, a slight left bias, even with Ron Paul’s clear overall lead. However, throw out the two non-mainstream candidates (Paul and Kucinich) and now it’s 8479 (blue) to 2383 (red). Which was my point: non-mainstream, and then left.
Besides, everyone knows that Ron Paul is a two-faced rat (http://comicscout.com/blog/2007/11/will-the-real-rob-liefeld-please-stand-up/)! Anyway, if you doubt this analysis, ask yourself who Ron Paul’s friends would choose if he wasn’t running? If Ron Paul himself is any indication, they would choose either nobody, or one of the anti-war Democrats.
Also, I’m not saying this bias is a bad thing or that Digg is a tool of the DNC. I just think it’s interesting to note who creates Digg’s political front page (http://digg.com/politics).
So you’re saying the popular vote should count? Zing?
No zing for you!
The guys who run Digg are from San Fran, enough said
no christmas party this year?
Why wouldn’t there be a Christmas party? Ali says she doesn’t want to invite you though, after the booze incident from last year.
stupid kid jumping down the stairs at me
That was an awesome flying kick.