http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com Commenting on the Tectonics of Modern Current Events Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:36:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in January of 2007 I noted that Obama kind of reminded me of Mr PotatoHead.        I found a blog entry detailing how a guy got several candidates to pose with Mr PotatoHead.  Strangely enough there is an erie resemblance on the part of Mr PotatoHead to Barack Obama. Skin ... http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/barack-obama-lands-lead-role-in-mister-potatohead-goes-to-washington.htm If you were trying to reverse engineer a database of a blind e commerce site like MercadoLivre it appears you only need to have 6 ish levels of connection to be able to connect everyone.  This is something I have wondered about and now realize the 6 degrees applies to ... http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/six-degrees-of-separation-and-implications-for-reverse-engineering.htm    Tire gauges used to look like this before Obama.  ( B.O.)       Obama says fill your tires.        Post Obama ( P.O )....Now tire gauges look like this since Obama's technological makeover that allows tire gauges to be substituted for oil drilling.   Click here and stare at the tire gauge.   Its as though ... http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/trying-to-get-a-gauge-on-obamas-forward-looking-energy-plan.htm My liberal friend Freemon Sandlewould says we should just tie rocks on our feet and call them shoes.   It will save alot of natural resources, keep waste out of the landfills and everyone will be a socialistic stylistic ideal equal.   He says we should not allow any of those fancy ... http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/eco-friendly-shoes.htm I find it fun to make up hippy names and comment the most inane liberal themed comments I can think of on liberal blogs.  My favorite moniker to date is Freemon Sandlewould.  A sample of Freemons thinking is included below:  Ever notice how when you drive its really windy?  I think ... http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/freemon-sandlewould-is-my-liberal-moniker.htm Down for the struggle A rub and a tuggle Mister M. C. Cain Demah Creeps insane woo aaah oooh aa oooh a oh can't touch that.   http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/mc-cain-woop-cant-touch-that.htm Part of the 10% that has sense. http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/zo-just-keeps-getting-better.htm I just saw a discovery channel program that said its quite possible that the 72 virgins promised muslims when they die might be wrong.  It might be with the erroneous placement of a few dots under the letters that "a basket of grapes" was turned into 72 virgins. Imagine those jackass ... http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/so-i-got-to-heaven-after-blowing-myself-up-and-all-i-got-was-this-fruit-basket.htm Chris Matthews head.  Feel free to use it. If you have his leg please send it to me!  A leg animation is even better. http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/the-chris-matthews-open-source-animation-project-objecthead.htm I joke you not MIT has a leg laboratory We should take up a collection and send Chris Matthews to the leg laboratory for he has the most mysterious leg of all that responds like a page set to vibrate when Zero-bama speaks. All though it might only be sciatica. Chris has been ... http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/chris-matthews-should-get-to-the-mit-leg-laboratory-for-help.htm