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Friday, May 16 at Abbey Pub, 3420 West Grace (ANDREW FRAKER & SONS)
Saturday, May 17 at Cullen's, 3741 North Southport (DIVER)

COZ SINGS every Tuesday night at the Vaughan's Open Jam along with members of DIVER
All musicians welcome ** $3 microbrews ** 2917 North Sheffield ** 9:30pm start

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May 14, 2008

Isn't That Special?

NP: Pandora (Secret Machines Radio)

Keith and his staff drop a teaser for tonight. Please, please, let it be about what a monumental jackass Terry McAuliffe is! Pretty please?

Seriously, I caught a bit of the interview where McAuliffe proclaimed that Hillary Clinton's speech would be "one of the greatest political speeches ever," and Olbermann openly and deservedly mocked the statement throughout the rest of the ridiculously excessive primary coverage. I didn't tune in after the speech to see if he really brought the hammer down.

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Every Data Set Tells A Story

NP: Pandora (Secret Machines Radio)

This map has been showing up in a bunch of my blog reading, and I'm fascinated with it not so much from a political perspective -- although that's interesting, too -- but from a pure data analysis standpoint. I'm a firm believer that there are patterns pretty much everywhere, you just have to figure out how to uncover them. Looking at county-level data and picking a threshold of 65% did the trick here, and I love that moment when you tweak those sorts of parameters and a clear picture presents itself.

For the political side, Josh Marshall seems to have done the heavy lifting at the link provided above that everyone else is citing.

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May 13, 2008

Relieved

NP: John Cage, 4'33"

It's not every day that you stumble across a headline that reads "Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens". Good to know that the Pope is on top of these things, and just in time for the second X-Files movie. Which isn't about aliens. I think.

This may be all the inspiration I need to take another crack at "Starman" tonight at Vaughan's.

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