More miscellanous tab cleanout.
- Palin/Fey Trivia Quiz! I got 60%.
- Sad Guys on Trading Floors! (And while we're at it, Garfield Minus Garfield has been good lately too.)
- I've just been added to HamTwits, a list of hams who use Twitter. If you fit in this category, contact innismir and ask him to add you too.
- Google Trends suggests that general internet interest in ham radio has declining year over year since 2004. The spikes in interest are themselves interesting: there's a big one in 2005 for Katrina, but I've no idea what is responsible for the spikes at the end of 2004 and 2006.
- In a disturbing turn of events, we recently had an armed robbery in Woodfield, the nation's ninth largest shopping center.
- Is anyone really surprised that the NSA's listening activities have mainly led to a nice collection of phone sex tapes?
- For anyone who wants to place bets on the election, FiveThirtyEight is indispensible. Looks like the odds on an electoral college tie are 1 to 624 at the moment.
The Boxer Day Tsunami occurred on December 26, 2004, killing some 225,000 people. That's probably what caused the spike at the end of 2004.
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