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Nice set of webicons.

Texas can leave the USA but only by divid­ing into 5 sep­a­rate states.

“Why have we heard this line from our Gov­er­nor, last elected with a 39 per­cent plu­ral­ity? Why would he expose him­self to ridicule from all but the most extreme in a state where only 41 per­cent of recently Gallup-surveyed vot­ers are will­ing to self-identify as mem­bers of his party?”

“Pres­i­dent Obama on Thurs­day accepted the res­ig­na­tion of Louis Caldera, the direc­tor of the White House Mil­i­tary Office, and released a photo show­ing Air Force One as it flew over the Statue of Lib­erty in New York City, a photo op that caused wide-spread panic on April 27. The White House also released an inter­nal review con­cern­ing the flight. ” It’s still a pretty cool photo.

“The fastest imag­ing sys­tem ever devised has been demon­strated by researchers report­ing in the jour­nal Nature. Their camera’s “shut­ter speed” is just a half a bil­lionth of a sec­ond, and it can cap­ture over six mil­lion images in a sec­ond con­tin­u­ously.” Tell me that’s not cool.

“Let’s get real. No one owns it. No one com­pany, no one spe­cialty, no one indi­vid­ual has all the answers to address the fun­da­men­tal changes tak­ing place. The changes are too sweep­ing, too fast mov­ing, too com­plex for any­one to talk in absolutes. We’re still in the early stages of a media dis­rup­tion that affects mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions in ways yet be fully under­stood.” Indeed.

“Stop and think for a moment about any one startup that has had such an impact on other star­tups. There aren’t many, and there really hasn’t been one for a while. I sup­pose you could throw Face­book in there, and before that obvi­ously Google. But really, there aren’t too many com­pa­nies in gen­eral that are chang­ing the ways oth­ers do things, the way Twit­ter is right now.” Why is Twit­ter so impor­tant to the startup world?

“That said, your nor­mally web-savvy team just made one of the most bone­headed moves done by a major news web­site since the dawn of the Inter­net.” New York Times when merg­ing the Inter­na­tional Her­ald Tri­bune and the NYT did this: “They killed the IHT and erased the archives.” Can you say stu­pid not just to Google but the world as a whole los­ing all that information?

Okay this was just awesome.

Make your email inbox turn into inbox zero.

“Pakistan’s gov­ern­ment is lift­ing a cur­few in the Swat val­ley to allow res­i­dents to escape an intense bat­tle between the army and Tale­ban mil­i­tants. The cur­few has trapped tens of thou­sands of peo­ple attempt­ing to flee the violence.”

“A 7-year-old boy died Sat­ur­day and a 30-year-old fam­ily friend was in seri­ous con­di­tion after author­i­ties said they were shot by a mar­ried cou­ple who thought the off-roaders were tres­pass­ing on their prop­erty.” One of those prob­lems that hap­pen when even respon­si­ble peo­ple own guns.

“George­town Uni­ver­sity spokes­woman Julie Green Bataille: In coor­di­nat­ing the logis­ti­cal arrange­ments for yesterday’s event, George­town hon­ored the White House staff’s request to cover all of the George­town Uni­ver­sity sig­nage and sym­bols behind Gas­ton Hall stage.”

“These large Demo­c­ra­tic Party con­trib­u­tors are dif­fer­ent. They all signed a let­ter demand­ing the exist­ing sys­tem be scrapped, and that cit­i­zen funded elec­tions replace it.”

You obvi­ously are on the inter­net so why haven’t you seen this stuff?

The orig­i­nal essay on elec­tronic vot­ing machines.

“They’re vot­ing on paper again; smart coun­try.” Get rid of elec­tronic vot­ing machines.

“And some law­mak­ers pre­dicted that Con­gress would save the extra engine as insur­ance against fur­ther delays in the fighter pro­gram (Joint Strike Fighter), just as it did when Pres­i­dent George W. Bush tried three times to kill it.”

Most inter­est­ing part of the whole arti­cle is here: “Phone com­pa­nies have sold enough wire­less devices to cover almost 90 per­cent of the Amer­i­can pop­u­la­tion, accord­ing to wire­less indus­try asso­ci­a­tion CTIA.”

The new Kindle.

“Jacob Zuma, leader of the African National Con­gress, has been sworn in as South Africa’s new president.”

“A joint US-Afghan inquiry has con­firmed that a num­ber of civil­ians were killed in recent fight­ing and US air strikes in the west­ern province of Farah.”

Have no fear a nurse is on the case.

Oh man it’s funny.

“Fer­nando Lugo, the for­mer priest who is now the country’s pres­i­dent, shocked the nation last month by admit­ting to father­ing one child — and pos­si­bly more — before the Vat­i­can had returned him to lay­man sta­tus. He had run a cam­paign focused on ethics, moral­ity and trans­parency — attrib­utes he asso­ci­ated with the church — so Mr. Lugo’s admis­sion that he was not quite the inno­cent ser­vant of Scrip­ture he seemed has dev­as­tated and dis­il­lu­sioned many here, some of whom are call­ing for his res­ig­na­tion.” Not good for this coun­try which had just started on it’s path to true democracy.

That’s pretty neat.

FiveThir­tyEight joins Twit­ter for realz.

“Free by itself is no longer enough to guar­an­tee much of any­thing.” Good point.

“Value = benefit/price.” Raise your value by pro­vid­ing more benefit.

“In a YouTube video posted today, Polan­sky said that dur­ing his crew’s mis­sion to the Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion, sched­uled for June, he plans to both issue Twit­ter updates and take ques­tions from YouTube users — ques­tions that he will answer live from space.” That’s cool.

Link your Face­book pro­file with your imme­di­ate fam­ily members.

I looked at it, not too bad if you have a win­dows machine.

Boba Fett at the Lilac Festival.