Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Homeless Japanese Woman Found Living in Closet
From the this-is-not-a-movie department:
Earlier this week, while responding to a potential burglary call, police discovered that 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, a homeless Japanese woman, was living undetected in the closet of another Japanese man for nearly a year.
The 57-year-old man had installed security cameras in his apartment after he noticed food disappearing from his kitchen. The photos were sent to his cell phone, at which time he called the police.
The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man’s house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.
(Photo from AFP)
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Ickes Reserves Right to Call for Nuclear Option
Harold M. Ickes, a senior adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton, today said that her campaign was reserving the what amounts to their last best option, challenging the decision of the Rules and Bylaws Committee before the entire Democratic National Convention this summer in Denver.
“This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our Party,” he said. “We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.”
Ickes’ comment came just before the RBC passed a resolution (by a vote of 19-8) seating all of Michigan’s delegates and awarding each a 1/2 vote and passing unanimously a resolution to award Florida’s delegates 1/2 a vote as well.
Evidently, Ickes and some other Clinton supporters entered the meeting thinking there was actually a possibility that a “fair allocation” meant that Sen. Barack Obama should receive no delegates at all. In fact, reports say that Obama had the votes for a 50-50 split, but chose to accept a lesser split in the interest of party unity.
Chalk up another magnanimous decision on behalf of Sen. Obama and another selfish (and hopefully empty) threat by Sen. Clinton’s campaign. Hopefully the superdelegates can help stick a fork in this election on Tuesday so we can get on to the important battle against Sen. John McCain.
• Email This PostFriday, May 30th, 2008
Help Firefox Set a World Record
A few years ago, most of the world had written off the browser competition. Netscape had lost, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer had won (despite some underhanded tactics).
Today, there’s a thriving competition between IE, Apple’s Safari and the open-source cousin of Netscape, Mozilla Firefox. As part of the celebration around the release of the third version of Firefox, there’s an effort underway to beat establish the world record for the number of downloads in a single day.
They’re aiming for 5 million and have nearly 400,000 people signed up so far. No word yet on the exact day–the development team is keeping that quiet for now–but it’s rumored to be sometime in the middle of June.
Sign up today–not only to set a record, but to replace as many copies of the inferior, bug-ridden IE browser with the vastly better option of Firefox.
• Email This PostFriday, May 30th, 2008
Hillary in Grade School
In honor of this weekend’s Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting, a funny clip from the Internet video group 60 Frames:
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