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Earning the new puppy

Birth of a meme?

“I think American Airlines did not earn the new puppy today.”

“Thanks for buying all that beer and cheese! You have really earned the new puppy!”

This will be the exact opposite of not getting any ice cream.

A Possible Future

This extremely thorough spoof of the New York Times was distributed today to over 1.2m people. It’s an elaborate exercise in creating an alternate reality – by getting people to think of these things, of the possibility of an end to the war in Iraq, free health care, etc. it makes them more conceivable, […]

President Obama

President Obama on the cover of the Daily News

Huge crowds are celebrating in Union Square, in New York. Someone picked up copies of the first edition of the Daily News announcing the Obama victory, and they were paraded around to great acclamation. I have never seen such sheer unadulterated joy in New York […]

New York Votes and Volunteers

Up at 6:00am this morning, voted at 6:15am. Things were very busy at my polling station, a real sense of occasion. The lady next to me was congratulating a first-time voter, about voting in *this* particular election. I actually teared up a bit.

Billboard in the East Village

Here is a picture of my […]

Defeat the robots!

My favorite campaign ad, ever:

No robots in sight at an Obama office:

See any robots?