I know, this is making its rounds on the web this week, so I am just doing my part:
Whole Foods at Union Square (photo: NYTimes)
I watch Top Chef. Shocking, I know.
Well I just finished watching tonight’s episode and couldn’t help noticing a little TV magic. Now, you might expect a bit of this on a television show about food, especially one where the “challenge” is to cook food for another television show, but it isn’t what your thinking.
What I noticed was that they always shop at Whole Foods, I know this because they show the exterior. That’s the Whole Foods on 14th Street. You can see the Union Square vendors selling their $5 sunglasses outside, and the New York mini mall all around it. And, of course, what kind of plug would it be if they didn’t also show the lovely inside of the store.
And now here comes the magic. Abracadabra, they are inside the Whole Foods on Houston Street. I know this because that is my supermarket. I shop at that fish counter, pick over those same veggies. Oddly they haven’t shown the massive cheese section much. Read more »
Gay folks can’t marry because it might erode the sanctity of the institution…
However, these folks can advertise on K-Rock* and put up billboards in LA and NYC
I don’t get it.
*If you’re thinking I must have heard that late night, you’d be wrong. 7:30pm: prime listening time.
Ok, so I was checking out the NY Times statistics on the election and there are these two maps showing which states voted for who. I knwo two states are still pending, but they have colored them based on the most likely outcome. Now I was studying these maps and noticed something isn’t quite right. Let me know if you see it as well (For those of you who’d liek to guess as to the problem I will put the answer below the jump and make it invisible):
With the election being called at 11:00pm last night, CNN and virtually every other station had to cut their typical election night coverage short. For those of you who watched CNN, you may have noticed from time to time they went to their touch screen to pull up various details from their polling of who was most likely voting for who (like 84% of South Carolina Evangelical Christians voted for McCain… Shocking, I know). Unfortunately with the election ending so early last night there were a number of statistics that CNN had data on but did not have time to get to report them to us. Fortunatley I got my hands on some of CNNs polling data and it shows some interesting, if not unexpected trends:
84% of left handed males from Rhode Island with three or more vowels in their first name voted for Obama
72% of 18 - 24 year olds with red hair from Kentucky voted for Obama
67% of Native Alaskan women over the age of 78 voted for McCain
82% of New Mexican men who buy supermarket brand cereal voted for McCain
91% of Pennsylvannian men whose last names are between 6 and 13 letters long and had GPAs below 2.81 during college voted for Obama
82% of terrorists native to Oklaholma voted for McCain (personally I found this to be very surprising)
76% of bearded men in Wisconsin who resemble Wolf Blitzer voted for McCain
yet, only 22% of bearded women in Wisconsin who resemble Wolf Blitzer voted for Obama
and finally, 99.3% of Americans who voted for Obama are pleased with the election results today.
