After hearing about 3-hr waiting lines for early voting a few weeks ago, we were worried that it would take forever to vote today. We shouldn’t have — in and out in 20 minutes!
November 4, 2008
August 11, 2008
George Bush and the Redeem Team
Our president seems to be having a good time in Beijing, and the athletes seem to be treating him as “one of the guys,” from beach volleyball to basketball where Lebron James greeted him with:
What’s up, Pops?
February 7, 2008
Giuliani’s Baseball Card
This “joke” to be published by the Topps Baseball Card Company seems set to rub everyone the wrong way:
Good thing the man isn’t running for President anymore…
October 6, 2007
No more RSS in China?
Big news yesterday, China has supposedly banned all RSS feeds. The long and short is that they have blocked all urls containing “feed” or “rss” or “blog.” I don’t know how this is going to play out in the long run, but the Chinese government is getting away with some pretty serious brainwashing right now…
In related news, I discovered a neat little tool for checking to see if an url is banned in Beijing, Hong Kong, or Shanghai. I tested one of our new feeds (Recently Added Cookbooks) and it works in all three locations. I guess they don’t view Common Kitchen as a threat (nor should they).
