Jason Nunes

My second year of NaNoWriMo. Can’t claim to have a clear narrative, or anything worth reading, but I have completed the arbitrary goal of writing 50,000 words during the month of November. And just in time too. I was about ready to throw in the towel. Maybe next year I’ll come up with something readable. But I’m not holding my breath. Next time you’ll hear from me will probably be April when I participate in Script Fenzy. Much higher chance of coherance with that one…

Aggregation seems to be an emerging experience meme. (web 3.0 anyone?) Why create your own content, or functionality, when there are TONS of companies out there trying to be the next digg, or google, or youtube, or facebook, or… well, you get the picture… that you can leverage and bring together in one (overused buzzword alert) mashed-up experience?

I still use Google to find information on the specific, but Addictomatic is an interesting way to get an overall picture of how a specific thing (or topic) is being talked about on the web. Can be a fun distraction. NOW, if they’d just take a page from election.twitter.com and have the feeds update in real time…

Thanks to the fantastically useful site Intersquash:

Got a site with an RSS feed you want to iPhonize? Run, don’t walk! It’s easy.

I’ve always suspected. As someone who has lived and voted in both New York and California, I have to say, the electoral college SUCKS!

From the NY Times:

This map shows each state re-sized in proportion to the relative influence of the individual voters who live there. The numbers indicate the total delegates to the Electoral College from each state, and how many eligible voters a single delegate from each state represents.

I’ve always suspected. As someone who has lived and voted in both New York and California, I have to say, the electoral college SUCKS!

I love this info graphic from a very small array:

…and not just because I live in NYC. After spending the last 6 months staring at maps splashed with red and blue, it’s nice to be reminded that we aren’t simply a country of red states and blue states, but rather a country of rural areas and urban areas. Homogeneity vs. heterogeneity. Hopefully some day we can figure out how to bring these 2 different worlds together.

If you’re stuck circling JFK during the next month, open up that pocket in front of you, fish out the latest issue of Hemispheres and take a read.

As many of you may already know… (especially if you’ve seen the tattoo.)

So, I was very happy to stumble on this cool octopus stuff this morning:

Otto the octopus wreaks havoc

Otto, a 6-month-old octopus at the Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany, shorted out the aquarium’s entire electrial system by squirting water at a spotlight overhead.

GO TEAM CEPHALOPODS!