http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/

I don’t know very much about this blog. It is very good though, as I have been reading it for a couple weeks now. Essentially, it takes everything that the different candidates have done and actually runs a fact check of them. I had always wondered exactly how truthful some of the things these candidates say are and now I know.

The worst part about this blog is the fact that every single candidate has said things that don’t really pan out well. Its sad but “Politicians lie” exists because it works. Maybe this blog is the start of making that disappear.

See it live!

 http://www.nytimes.com/

Its sort of amazing to see it sync together so well.  I am honestly in awe to see it work that well.  I wonder if its a programming trick or something.

Right now, banner ads have a problem, they all have pretty bad performance rates, and this is due to the ads themselves pretty much sucking.  The problem being, everyone just sees an ad space the same way they see a commercial.  this is all you can really do, the closest to innovation is something like hte orbitz minigames.  yet, when you see an advertisement like this, what it shows is that there is a lot of creative space out there, creative space which has not been explored.  There is currently a void in creative advertisements, the first companies to excel at it will hit it big.  The first companies who hire these creative gurus will find themselves with ads like Apples.

On a side note, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a standardized web page design for ad spaces?

Always a 728×90 on top, always a 300×350 on the side?  Right now, something like this almost has to be designed from the ground up for the specific site.

Gizmodo has a small post on the new Radeon R680 here, and essentially says the speed of it is equivalent to 1000x cray-1 supercomputers.  Whenever I read something like this, it always boggles my mind.  The Cray one was first installed in 1976.

Thinking about that, I wonder what it would be like to go back in time only 30 years, and talk to those developers.

“In 30 years, we will have computers that are a thousand times faster just to make our games look prettier”.

By far the best, its an article penned by a former Dateline correspondent.

Its a very interesting view into the behind the scenes of the news show.  I have nothing more interesting to add yet.

 http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19845/page1/