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Is pretty cool and makes a great point…

From The New Yorker… endorses Obama…

Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching—that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has—at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity—undermined the country and its ideals?

… We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the Presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential. The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.

I’ve been using the Dell Dock for sometime and really like it… especially on wide screens like my XPS One. Also got it running on a M1330 and my work Tablet… Not sure how legitimate it is but you can download it here…

Frightening view of our current economic malaise…  more and more folks abandoning trickle down economic theory it seems to me…

David has a long list of tips to make you heaps more productive… Some of my faves that I use lots:

• Shortcut for saving: Ctrl+s
• When typing a web address into MS Internet Explorer’s address bar, you can type, for example, “nytimes” (no quotes) and then press Ctrl+Enter on the keyboard and the address will complete itself into “www.nytimes.com”
• alt+d = takes you to the address bar of most modern web browsers
• You can double-click a word to highlight it in any document, e-mail or Web page.
• You can hide all windows, revealing only what’s on the computer desktop, with one keystroke: hit the Windows key and “D” simultaneously in Windows
• You can also enlarge the entire Web page or document by pressing the Control key as you turn the wheel on top of your mouse.
• You can tap the Space bar to scroll down on a Web page one screenful. Add the Shift key to scroll back up
• When you’re searching for something on the Web using, say, Google, put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. For example, if you put quotes around “electric curtains,” Google won’t waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word “electric” and another set containing the word “curtains.”
• You can use Google to do math for you. Just type the equation, like 23*7+15/3=, and hit Enter.