Photo: atennies94 / CC The McDonald’s fast-food empire nets around $22 billion a year by serving its less-than healthy entrees to millions of patrons around the world — but now, in a twist of irony, they’ll be paying a pretty penny to one man who was forced by the company to eat the stuff. A former restaurant manager in Porto Ale… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …There’s one big mother wave heading for the polling booths of this country: The final USA Today/Gallup measure of Americans’ voting intentions for Congress shows Republicans continuing to hold a substantial lead over Democrats among likely voters, a lead large enough to suggest that regardless of turnout, the Republicans will win more than the 40 seats needed to give them the majority in the U.S. House. The results are from Gallup’s Oct. 28-31 survey of 1,539 likely voters. It finds 52% to 55% of likely voters preferring the Republican candidate and 40% to 42% for the Democratic candidate on the national generic ballot — depending on turnout assumptions. Gallup’s analysis of several indicators of voter turnout from the weekend poll suggests turnout will be slightly higher than in recent years, at 45%. This would give the Republicans a 55% to 40% lead on the generic ballot, with 5% undecided. Unprecedented is way too timid a description of those numbers. It’s a Democrat Mass Extinction Event. The equivalent of the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs. It’s an electeroid! I’ve been calling for a 56 seat gain in the House. I think I may be way too low.
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Call it the Peter Principle 2.0. Instead of just promoting someone to the level of his incompetence, McClatchy Newspapers has actually promoted failed Miami Herald executive editor, Anders Gyllenhaal, beyond his level of his incompetence. Is your humble correspondent being a bit too harsh in his assessment of Anders Gyllenhaal's capabilities? Allow me to enter into the record the judgement in September of the people who actually worked for him at the Herald: Last week, several Miami Herald editors and reporters wrote a letter to the paper's management asking it to stop focusing on delivering quick news and return to its roots in well-reported investigative journalism. We're not sure if this is the answer. But we are sure of one thing: the quality of the paper has suffered a lot under the leadership of executive editor Anders Gyllenhaal. Perhaps he understands the Internet and its role in new journalism, but he is clearly having a hard time putting a plan into action. Indeed the letter circulated internally and signed by most of the paper's top news personnel is a clear sign of dysfunction. Why would such a group of bright people — including a half dozen Pulitzer Prizer winners — resort to assembling such a diatribe if the paper were working. … Gyllenhaal worked in Miami back in the '80s, but he spent years away before returning several years ago. He doesn't get the pulse of this city. Moreover, he's aloof and not well liked in the newsroom. He is the wrong guy to run the paper at this time. So listen up McClatchy: It's time to dump Anders. read more
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Dilma Rousseff wins election in Brazil with 55% of the vote, beating José Serra, who trailed on 44% Dilma Rousseff, who has won the election for president of Brazil, greets supporters in the city of Porto Alegre. Photograph: Nabor Goulart/AP A former Marxist rebel who was jailed and tortured during Brazil’s military dictatorship last night became the first female president in her country’s history. With 96% of votes counted, Dilma Rousseff had 55.72% of the vote while her rival, José Serra from Brazil’s Social Democracy Party (PSDB), trailed on 44.28%. “I thank Brazilian men and women for this moment,” said 62-year-old Rousseff as she left her home in Brasilia last night en route to…
Continue reading …Gotta love this video of the two Presidents Bush throwing the first pitch to Nolan Ryan: How will this play with voters? Some thoughts from earlier today here. Bush 41 is looking pretty frail.
Continue reading …Inhabitat’s Week in Green: reach for the stars, safer kids and sexier cars
November 1, 2010 No Comment
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. This week Inhabitat saw several incredible feats of green architecture reach for the stars as Richard Branson unveiled the world’s first commercial spaceport and a lunar solar power tower won the Moon Capital International Design Challenge. We were also impressed by Sn
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President Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed area children and military families to celebrate Halloween at the White House Sunday evening. The children and their families were invited to trick-or-treat their way across the North Lawn. (Oct. 31)
Continue reading …Halloween, 1990: She turned 22 yesterday. *sigh*
Continue reading …ViewSonic G-Tablet pops up in Sears weekly ad, mistakenly claims to be the ViewPad 10 at Sears’ website
October 31, 2010 No Comment
Did ViewSonic’s 10-inch tablets catch your eye? We’ve got good and bad news. The good news is that the G-Tablet (with a 1GHz processor and Android 2.2) is now on sale at Sears for $379.99 — even less than we were told . The bad news is that the Intel Atom N455-powered ViewPad 10 apparently is, too. We say apparently because Sears seems to have crossed some wires when putting the latter slate up on its site, most egregiously stating that that dual-booting device does both Windows 7 and Android 2.2 for the exact same $379.99. Last we heard, the ViewPad 10 — like the eerily similar Tega v2 — could only do Android 1.6 alongside Microsoft’s OS and would cost quite a bit more. Don’t rely on Sears to cut you a deal, folks. ViewSonic G-Tablet pops up in Sears weekly ad, mistakenly claims to be the ViewPad 10 at Sears’ website originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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