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Democratic Primaries in 8 Minutes

In case you had a hard time following the Democratic primaries, the attached video will catch you up in a quick and informative manner. Obviously quite a bit is omitted in terms of what the Republicans were up to and any involvement that Ralph Nader may or may not have but that's sorta the point.. it's focused on the Democratic race.

Indecision 2008

So, the Daily Show did a little piece on Barack Obama's recent comments in Pennsylvania regarding elitism. Honestly, I can see them as functioning as a rather harmful audio snippet against his whole campaign but Jon Stewart and crew shed some light on the larger issue at hand. Are Presidential candidates elitist? Absolutely! I've often thought about the fact that running for President means that you're a total egomaniac who believes their ideas are the best. That isn't to say they are terrible people but certainly a different mindset than the majority of us.

I do find it interesting that Barack will probably have to seriously step up to the plate to defend those comments while Hillary comes out and openly admits that she lied about her recent comments on her experience in Bosnia. Yet she's not catching serious flack for openly lying and saying "oh yea, sorry about that."

Overall, politics are exhausting to keep up with and include a huge amount of ridiculousness - fortunately places like The Daily Show help to expose that absurdity. Via Zea.

Forest City Rockers

I love the character design in the Forest City Rockers Motorcycle Club - courtesy of the artworks of Jay Howell. It's not for everybody but I love the style and hilarity of the presentation.. so over the top. I mean, it's a Motorcycle Club with just one motorcycle, how great is that?

Wordpress Overhaul

Looks like Wordpress 2.5 is finally coming to light and they've revamped the backend portion of the application in a huge way. This is good news as I have had to apply the Tiger skin on a few sites that I use WP with and I'd much prefer to use the native environment (not that Tiger Skin is bad but native is better if you can make it happen).

Friday Videos Holiday Spectacular - Dec 7th, 2007

The top two videos are full episodes and 110% worth watching. I realize not everyone has a spare 45 minutes lying around but please take time to watch them both at some point during the weekend. The GUBA video player controls are insane non-intuitive but it's the only place I could find the full episode.. turns out if you right-click the video you can play / pause at your leisure.

The Tyson clip is very NSFW but you have to see all the clips together.

The Vader Redux is a hilarious concept but waay too long. Do yourself a favor and stop watching it after about 30 - 40 seconds, you'll have the taste you need.

Enjoy your weekend.

Friday Videos - Sept 21st

I really wanted to link this cats video but I assumed that'd be too much of a copout.. Man, I love cat videos.

Have a great weekend.

jQuery Nerd Links

I've been doing some coding on an upcoming project in my free time and ran across some great plugins for jQuery while doing various bits of research. I realize that moo tools is the next best js framework to be using but I'm still impressed by the ease of jquery.

• jEditable - plugin for jQuery that makes in place editing super simple. It's actually not that hard in the first place but this takes out some of the woeful production side of it and still leaves it robust and configurable.
• Ajax File Upload - it's rather ghetto that uploading inline must be done with an iframe but this plugin makes the pain of the process a little easier. I've not used it first hand yet but the documentation makes it look pretty simple.
• 10 jQuery Essentials - a nice list of available plugins that may be worth taking a look at. I think that Interface does some great stuff but seems to crash several versions of Safari so you may need to look elsewhere for your sortable needs. Mostly I was into the Autocomplete script... opens up some nice "Spotlight" like capabilities.

Friday Videos - Aug 17th

Have a great weekend!

jTip vs jQuery Tooltip

For the record, I prefer jTip to the official jQuery Tooltip plugin. Why? Because it doesn't break my entire site in IE7. That's good enough reason, right?

Good Cop, Baby Cop

Good Cop, Baby Cop is another installment in the Will Ferrel created independent shorts. It's the same gag as the landlord sketch but it's still funny. The language is NSFW for some of you, so be aware.

Wordpress Admin Skin

WordPress Tiger Administration - if you are a Wordpress user I suggest you give some serious consideration to installing this add-on skin for the WP admin. The look takes things to a whole new level in my opinion.