I just got a retweet from the Prime Minister (I suspect it was actually one of his flunkies as he’s probably quite busy most days) asking me for Facebook feedback on the government. Specifically, what had I actually wanted after the last election.
By the time I got around to voting, 1,107,003 other people had already cast their click, and look at the results so far:
So, 24% of people are happy with what we got, but more people than that wanted another election.
Which leaves us with one question: with the coalition still banging on about inclusive politics and consulting us on what we want, isn’t it time it called another election?
Has it really come to this? They’ll cover-mount anything these days for a quick sale.
Enjoy it while it lasts. I can’t see this staying online too long, considering all the copyright naughtyness going on, but it’s the best election broadcast of this year’s campaign.
And if you’ve not voted yet, get out there and do it.
Toe-curlingly fantastic.
Reviewing papers at work today, I came across a poll on the Oakland Tribune:
What a dilemma.
Not quite opposites, are they, but somehow still not sufficiently illogical to fox at least 199 voters to far…
From BBC News:
The bride and groom had hired a small plane to fly past and throw the bouquet to a line of women guests, Corriere della Sera reported.
However, the flowers were sucked into the plane’s engine causing it to catch fire and explode.
The aircraft plunged into a hostel.
Now that the US election is over and the Republicans have been comprehensively trounced, the talk has begun of who may run against the incumbent in 2012. Palin’s name is being bandied around with worrying regularity.
But it’s not all in favour. While her die-hard supporters would love her to run for the highest office in four years’ time, those in the party who dislike her way of working are finally starting to talk about what went on behind the scenes in this year’s campaign.
And why not? They have nothing more to lose now they’ve lost the presidency.
McCain, in his concession speech, said that the loss was all his own fault, perhaps because he knows he can never run again and his deputy has a chance of making it next time. According to Palin, meanwhile, saying she caused the failure of their campaign gives her too much credit.
‘I don’t think anybody should give Sarah Palin that much credit, that I would trump an economic time in this nation that occurred about two months ago, that my presence on the ticket would trump the economic crisis that America found itself in a couple of months ago and attribute John McCain’s loss to me,’ she said.
But clearly some believe she did have something to do with that loss, and now they’re starting to talk. About how she wouldn’t prepare for TV interviews, how she had tantrums at bad press reports, how she gave a briefing wearing just a towel and how she didn’t realise that Africa was a continent, not a country.
Even Fox news, which is traditionally sympathetic to the Republican cause, reported the unnamed insiders’ vented feelings.
Here’s the report:
That’s scary.
It’s not inconceivable that she could run for office in 2012, but Palin’s biggest problem is what her supporters see as her biggest asset: her strong views. Palin is a polarising force, and I suspect that in the next four years, out of office and with plenty of time to plan its next campaign, the Republican Party will come to the realisation that it needs a moderate candidate to unify both sides of the party.
Palin, strong though she may be, probably isn’t that person.
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"The clergyman, in his 50s, told nurses he had been hanging curtains when he fell backwards on to his kitchen table.
He happened to be nude at the time of the mishap, said the vicar, who insisted he had not been playing a sex game.
The vicar had to undergo a delicate operation to extract the vegetable."
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Great for giving backgrounds some depth in Photoshop and web pages. I was looking for something like this a few weeks back for a project I was working on. A bit late now, but here for next time.
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Use selection tools, layer effects and highlights to make it look like your image has a sprinkling of water.
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Can’t take beautiful smooth waterfall shots because you haven’t got a tripod? Do it in Photoshop instead.
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Surprisingly easy, effective way to put any scene on to water.
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“Elevator maker Otis will replace hundreds of lift buttons in France after authorities found radioactive materials imported from India at a supplier factory, a source at Otis said on Wednesday.”
Otis says there’s no risk to users.
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“While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra…”
So it just slipped in, did it? Hmmm… OK. How many people hold a fish in their hand while they go to the loo? And how did it get from there to… well, perhaps best not asked.
