Blog Title: FatMixx

Vegetarians and the Challenge of Thanksgiving | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com

Interesting article. While we haven’t had any fights over it, it definitely requires some planning so our families are comfortable. (link)

FiveThirtyEight.com: Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website

And the slime from McCain supporters continue… get a life, people. (link)

Predicting the future for fun and, uh, fun: hubdub.com

I’ve been playing the futures market game at HubDub.com. It’s basically like InTrade where you can buy futures contracts on various predictions. It’s all play money, so there’s no risk, and there are a wide (almost chaotic) variety of futures to bet on. Lots of political predictions, DJIA predictions, sports, entertainment (e.g. read more..

Daddy, Where’s Your Phone? - O’Reilly Radar

This is an interesting post. I think all of us that built our careers on the back of PCs and traditional browsers will need to read this. Entrepreneurs should have to answer, “How can my idea be a mobile app? Why isn’t it?” (link)

India probe crash-lands successfully on moon - CNN.com

This is more significant than people might think. Did Pakistan get a rocket to the moon yet? (link)

Obama’s Brain - The Washington Note

Interesting article and interview about Karen Kornbluh, a senior policy advisor to President Elect Obama. (link)

Balloon Juice » Pig Ignorant Religious Nuts

Wow, I think they’re going to regret this Christmas decoration. (link)

YUI Library Examples: Event Utility: Using Event Utility and Event Delegation to Improve Performance

Good idea to keep your code a little more efficient, with a little bit of extra code. This approach works for non-YUI code, as well. (link)

‘Renegade’ and ‘Renaissance’. . .Better Than ‘Maverick’ and ‘Medieval’ - The Washington Note

Random trivia for those of you who care. Secret Service code names for our President- and First Lady-elect. (link)

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Better targeting your indic language site

Interesting stuff. India really has some unique challenges compared to other non-Asian places (I’d guess places like China also share some of these challenges). Google is benefiting from their Indian staff, I think, and it should help them own that market. (link)

November 2008 Mix

Yeah, I forgot to do October. Just got busy, skipped it. I had a couple of issues putting together this month’s mix. The order isn’t quite right, but it’s mostly there. The bigger issue is that the mix contains a few tracks that the Amazon MP3 store doesn’t have. They read more..

Black Diamond is out

Finally, after way too freaking long, Buraka Som Sistema has released their latest album, Black Diamond. The song above, Sound of Kuduro is by far the best on the album, but there are some other nice gems on here. MIA is featured on several tracks, and the rhythm is just addicting. read more..

What to do about Lieberman

I had an interesting conversation with a friend tonight about what the Democrats should do about Joe Lieberman. His position was that the Dems should forego any retribution for his behavior during the election and leave him be in his chairmanship and in the caucus. I disagree with that for several reasons. First, this read more..

Obama Collects Comics? 50 Things You Might Not Know About The President-Elect

Josh, this one’s for you. I personally like that he’s read every Harry Potter book. (link)

Rachel Maddow rocks

For the record, I’m usually not in my pajamas and I don’t blog from my parent’s basement (they don’t have one). And Sarah Palin is still an idiot. Just sayin’