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The only seemingly implausible result there is Kansas over Texas. But even if the Jayhawks lose that one, if all the other results happen, we'd still have four 4-4 teams tied for first. Personally I hope Colorado wins out and Kansas State loses out (in which case the Buffaloes are Big 12 North champs), but barring that, this would be my preferred outcome. :) - Brendan Loy

Wow! Someone with common sense. - Ryan Kessler

An example of this startling inability in most sports commentators is how long it took for folks recognize that Kansas had a real shot at the national title game in 2007, even though their ranking was initially so low. Most commentators seemed not to understand the obvious fact that, if the Jayhawks kept winning, they would inevitably rise further and further in the polls, leapfrogging... more... - Brendan Loy

...converting the posts from GMT to MDT, without causing the import engine to get confused and think the post in question hasn't been imported yet, thus resulting in endless duplication of each post? (I gather this a possibility because, when I manually change the timestamp, it will then re-import the item with the old timestamp.) - Brendan Loy

Brendan; good question! If you select 'Twitter Search' as the feed type you can use any variety or combination of Twitter Advanced Search from http://search.twitter.com/advance... - Bob Hitching

Argh, I realized I can do it in 1.1.6, and it almost works, except... tweets from my Twitter search stream post in the correct time zone, whereas the FriendFeed items continue to post in GMT, as they always have. This is a problem because I've switched my whole blog to GMT in order to avoid the FF posts being out of order. But if I use the Twitter Search stream, now the *Twitter* posts are out of order!! Argh. - Brendan Loy

LOL Brendan, come on! First, there's no longer a War on Terror, if there ever was one. Second, the economy is getting better just ask an administration official, Ahmedinejad won the election fair and square, and swine flu is a myth inspired to scare people. Get it right! - Melissa

Heh. :) On an unrelated note, Nicolas Sarkozy looks like Mr. Bean. - Brendan Loy

"Malia Obama" - Brendan Loy from Bookmarklet

Actually i'd like to see it again. - David K.

heh - Brendan Loy

Wow, something REALLY fishy is going on there. - David K.

P.S. And can we start having these conversations on the blog version of my FriendFeed, please? :P - Brendan Loy

I suppose Sanford deserves the benefit of the doubt as to his explanation that he told his staff he might go hiking on the Appalachian Trail and then changed his mind at the last minute, but it's still inexcusable that a governor's staff doesn't know his whereabouts when he's out of the country by himself. - John P.

Um, yeah, never mind what I said above about the benefit of the doubt, accepting Sanford's explanation at face value, etc. I really only meant the last sentence of my previous comment! - John P.

Are you running Wordbook by chance? I had a similar issue -- not "hundreds of copies," but it did start posting duplicates right after I installed Wordbook. - Brendan Loy

Thanks, but no, no Wordbook - Mike Baker

It's like "One Day More" from Les Mis, come to life: "Tomorrow we'll be far away, tomorrow is the judgment day, tomorrow we'll discover what our God in Heaven has in store..." - Brendan Loy from Bookmarklet

P.S. Isn't this Fox News scoop somewhat akin to reporting troop movements? DOES FOX NEWS HATE AMERICA?!?!?! - Brendan Loy from Bookmarklet

McCain is a neocon now? That term has become next to meaningless. But it's somehow fitting that one failed presidential contender would lecture another failed presidential contender. - John P.

McCain isn't a neocon so much as a hothead who always seems to think the best response is to say something "tough," shoot from the hip, etc., regardless of whether those responses actually make sense given the facts of the situation. But most of the commentators and intellectuals making similar statements are neoconservatives, I think. Anyway, I mostly said "neocon" because I didn't... more... - Brendan Loy

Hi, just wondering if you could share your plugin hack that allows Fresh From posts to go into a specified WordPress category. Thx - Brendan Loy

In case you're wondering what I'm talking about, as I realize it was several months ago: http://tinyurl.com/lgp8zz - Brendan Loy

im sorry, can you tell us how could you do it? - Guido

I desperately need the default category hack - how did you do it? - Brendan Loy

Good for him. His stock just went up, or at least stopped falling. - John P.

She did SNL and look how well that turned out for her! Oh...wait.. :) - David K.

Good thing Dave explained that it wasn't really a rape joke (aimed at Willow) so much as a whore joke (aimed at Bristol). Whew! - John P.

Fair enough, Dane. While I might quibble with the notion that this episode doesn't have larger cultural implications for, say, the issue of misogyny and when it's still deemed acceptable, I can't argue with the fact that it's unimportant compared to issues like health care. But for the reasons stated above, I absolutely disagree that only "an idiot" could think that Letterman could've... more... - John P.

Sly use of the double-negatives by Manny . . . that murderer and rapist isn't fooling anyone. - John P.

LOL - Brendan Loy

Even simpler, we should have some group somewhere that tracks the GPS positions of the planes, don't even need to broadcast the black box data (although that would be nice). - David K.

Sorry but I really don't buy the fact that it would be that prohibitively expensive to add a repeating signal that sends out a planes GPS coordinates on a regular interval. - David K.

I would expect the right wing to simply ignore it, just like the the left has ignored Obama's vindication of many of Bush's anti-terror policies that had supported the left wing's Bush-as-shredder-of-the-Constitution storyline. - John P.

P.S. Your word was “credit”, so that’s what I was responding to. As someone who thinks that many of Obama’s actions have been naïve or misguided (e.g., on nuclear proliferation, repeatedly running down his own country abroad, releasing the CIA interrogation memos, promising to close Gitmo, etc.), I find the possibility of a tough stance towards North Korea to be a welcome development.... more... - John P.

What are you talking about, the stock market makes perfect sense. GDP declines more than expected; swine flu threatens global economy; banks still unstable, "stress tests" widely regarded as fraudulent. BUY! BUY! BUY! - Brendan Loy

Agreed, I was scratching my head about this one today. The Fed says things were worse than we thought, but there are some faint signs of recovery. Lacking serious good news in the morning, we might see some backtracking in Thursday's markets. - Mike Reynolds

Shep can sit on his high horse all he wants, but if it's the life of someone he cherishes on the line then I suspect he'll suddenly be in the mood to make exceptions. - John P.

The more I learn about this subject (including the fact that many Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, were BRIEFED on these techniques shortly after 9/11 and DIDN’T SAY BOO at the time), the more I am persuaded that the moral “outrage” on display on the Left is simply being feigned for ideological and political reasons, which is the real blatantly dishonest, “utter bullshit” here. - John P.

No it's not - have an apple! - Alec Taylor

Hmm... good point! - Brendan Loy

And those conservatives who say otherwise -- who try to argue that he's some sort of ignoramus whenever he's without his teleprompter -- are demonstrating flagrant intellectual dishonesty and/or partisan blindness (not to mention hypocrisy, if they ever once defended Bush from liberal criticism of his intelligence), and simply should not be taken seriously. The evidence to the contrary of the "Obama is dumb" position is so overwhelming as to be irrefutable. Obama is wrong about some things, perhaps many things, perhaps most things! We can debate that. But he is clearly a smart and thoughtful man; that much should be obvious to anyone with eyes and ears. Unless of course one holds that liberal positions are inherently dumb or unthoughtful, which brings me back to "...simply should not be taken seriously." - Brendan Loy

What a hypocrite, "He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt" gee, where was he the past 8 years when his buddy Dubya was balooning the deficit and getting us INTO this mess? And talking about secession? - David K.

In other words, there’s every reason to think that the “stimulus” bill Obama and the Dems rushed through Congress will run up deficits in even more reckless and unnecessary a manner than liberal partisans claim Bush did. - John P.

Keep in mind that many if not most of these people never protested before. Grass-roots and all that. - John P.

Clearly, PJ O'Rourke needs to draw on his 60's experiences and tell the movement how protesting is done. - Charles Fenwick

I actually count 66 stars on the flag, not 75, so perhaps the title should be "Counting 4 ur funny caption: ur doing it wrong." - Brendan Loy

David thinks people who call it "Coke" are lame - David K.

You don't remember packing 7-up along with the rest of your supplies when playing Oregon Trail?? - David K.

The difference is that Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore were never the de-facto leader of the left, while Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter are the defacto leaders of the right. - David K.

That's a stretch re: Ann Coulter. I'd say she and Michael Moore are in similar positions in terms of their mainstream-ness. Rush, however, is certainly more mainstream than Sheehan or Moore ever were, as is the hilarious/terrifying/terrifyingly hilarious/hilariously terrifying Glenn Beck. - Brendan Loy

The idea that someone might be brainwashed by a logo is very odd indeed..... - Alec Taylor

The "Geometry Olympics” story alone makes this a good read....... :) - Alec Taylor

Ah no, it was a sound editorial judgment - at least the Geometry Olympics wasn't a foregone conclusion (your impressive form notwithstanding!). - Alec Taylor