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Similarities to the 2008 US Presidential Election
 

Similarities between the fictional 2006 election and the real-life 2008 U.S. presidential election have been noted in the media: young minority Democratic candidate (Matthew Santos on the show, Barack Obama in real life) has a grueling but successful primary campaign against a more experienced candidate (Bob Russell on the show, Hillary Clinton in real life) and chooses an experienced Washington insider as his running mate (Leo McGarry on the show, Joe Biden in real life), whereas the Republican contest is determined early in the primary season with an aging maverick senator of a Western state being the nominee (Arnold Vinick on the show, John McCain in real life), defeating an ordained minister as the closest competitor (Reverend Butler on the show, Mike Huckabee in real life), and then selecting a socially conservative running mate from a small Republican state (West Virginia Governor Ray Sullivan on the show, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in real life). After the election, the President-elect nominates a former rival to the post of Secretary of State (Arnold Vinick on the show, Hillary Clinton in real life).
 
Writer Eli Attie called David Axelrod to talk about Obama after Obama's 2004 Democratic National Convention speech and says that he "drew inspiration from [Obama] in drawing [the Santos] character," while actor Jimmy Smits says that Obama "was one of the people that I looked to draw upon." Writer and producer Lawrence O'Donnell says that he partly modeled Vinick after McCain. Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is said to be the basis of the Josh Lyman character, who became Santos' Chief of Staff.

"and I am sure you can catch one"

Found unexpectedly in archive.org, echonest.com's past life.

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Lego

This morning, my 4-y-o daughter opened her first set of 'big girl' Lego bricks. They're girly ones: predominantly pink, geared toward domestic scenes. What's her first model? 'an aeroplane' What's her plan for the next model? 'Let's build an airport!'

I am a proud papa.

i'm sorry say again cactus

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it)

I think I'm behind the curve, here, but I wanted to note this video, worth a couple chuckles:
 

using effective filters has a wide applicability

http://enthusiasm.posterous.com/standardized-debate-format
 
Clicking through to the original article to see it the comment in context is also well worth it:
 
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/11/the_economics_o.html

Found while looking at old tweets

I found this photograph (that I took while visiting MIT for ROFLCon) while looking
 at old tweets. I note that omnomnomnom.com has received an upgrade and is getting regular updates.