Friday, August 22, 2003

Dean Fundraising 11 O'clock Update-- and Sleepless Preview. It's 11 pm (for real this time) and the grassroots never sleeps! 5,324 Americans have contributed $283,753.03 to the Dean campaign today. We'll be doing one more update at midnight, and then we'll resume your regularly-scheduled Sleepless updates at 9 am tomorrow. We've got some great plans for the Sleepless Summer Tour here on the blog. There will be photos, audio links, some video-- and a special guest blogger for each day of the tour. David Weinberger of Joho the Blog will be posting reports tomorrow; on Sunday, Natasha from Pacific Views will report from the road; on Monday, Anna from Dean Nation makes the jump to the O-blog; and wrapping up on Tuesday will be none other than Markos himself from Daily Kos. So check in! We'll be here, sleepless as ever! [Blog for America] 9:18:05 PM

SmartID A Wi-Fi Detector with Oomphf. Gizmodo gives two thumbs up to SmartID's WiFi Detector: My only question is -- where can I buy one?... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 1:31:48 PM

Shadow of... The Vampire. The picture on the left shows the graveyard at Whitby Abbey, where Dracula attacks Lucy [photograph by Shari Hodges, 1997]. More photos of Whitby and Dracula paintings by Greg Hildebrandt are at Artwork and Photography Related to Dracula; you will also find a complete PowerPoint presentation about Gothic Literature there. Great. (Not PowerPoint though - I prefer keynote. PPT is horrible and most awkward to use.) [The Cartoonist] 1:26:37 PM

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Audio Bloggers in New Hampshire Some bloggers have traveled to New Hampshire to cover the upcoming Presidential race. Howard Dean's internet strategy has been quite notable. Blogger Chris Lydon provides MP3 streaming audio of a Howard Dean Q&A at a local house party. Topics include Health Care, International Policy and Small Business. Dean mentions making headway with diverse political coalitions and concludes the session with how the internet is helping his campaign: http://media.skybuilders.com/Lydon/Dean.Q&A.Aug.03.mp3 Link also on Scripting News - Q&A with the candidate. [Scripting News] 1:04:52 PM

Indies for Dean The first real grassroots campaign. Open Secrets has a really nice presentation of donor demographics for the presidential candidates. Even if it is not news to you, this drives home the fact that Dean really is generating a true grassroots campaign, the first I can... [Dean Independents] 11:37:02 AM

Bloggers, Surfers, Countrymen - Time to Bring Out the Bat 3,083 Sleepless Contributors!. As of 1 PM, 3,083 people have contributed $166,431.05 -- 3,083 Americans standing up to Bush and going for a million grassroots dollars. The average contribution is $53.98. When thousands of people come together and decide to make a difference, the collective voice is thundering. At the same time, we've reached 969 Dean Get Local grassroots events in August -- only 31 more to go until 1,000 August Get Local events. Take the news of the bat to the ball game! Tonight, at the Yankee's game, Dean grassroots will be flyering Yankees fans from 5:30 until the game gets under way. Sign up for baseball flyering--and dozens of other New York Sleepless Summer flyering events--here. Bring out the Dean gear to celebrate bringing out the bat and get out into your community this weekend. There are plenty of ball games all around the country tonight -- let alone movies, sports, and concerts. Bring grassroots posters to poster your town and keep the local momentum going (hey New York, California's got you beat right now -- nearly twice as many posters downloaded (see all state stats here). [Blog for America] 11:28:22 AM

Poster Thing Posters American Style. "The purpose of American posters has always been to grab the individual and the collective consciousness and demand attention and action. Whatever the message -- from urgent appeals to patriotism to voices raised in protest, from pleas for environmentalism to seductive suggestions urging us to buy jeans -- the poster reflects the explosion of ideas in the twentieth century, both intellectual and visual." [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE] 11:22:52 AM

Back in '03: I Know What You Did During The Sleepless Summer Sleepless Summer Animation. Watch the People-Powered Howard Flash Animation for the Sleepless Summer Tour: Forward this on>> [Blog for America] 2:31:00 AM

Update - Phoenix Gas Shortage More gas for Phoenix. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners expects to increase gasoline deliveries to Phoenix starting Sunday night by creating a bypass and reversing the flow on a pipeline that normally delivers fuel to Tucson from Phoenix. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 2:24:33 AM

sources Luminarium. Wonderful resource of English Literature: Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century. This site combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Nothing replaces a quality library, but hopefully this site will help fill the needs of those who have not access to one. Via linkfilter. [The Cartoonist] 2:18:28 AM

Blogging Gnome-Girl.com wisdom. The other day I was thinking about how people say we get wiser as we get older. I think sometimes... [Gnome-Girl] 1:12:38 AM

Via Senator Bob Graham's Weblog Hopefully, Not Too Little Too Late. Finally, it appears that President Bush is heeding the advice that I and others have repeatedly given him over the last year to pursue more help from our allies around the world. I just hope that his actions will not... [Blog Graham] 12:17:36 AM

a nice composite Yesterday's Sunset. [Ottmar Liebert] 12:10:28 AM