I just received two sets of delicious election cookies from Eleni’s of NYC c/o a colleague – one featuring Obama and one featuring McCain.Now, I might be reading too much into this, but the picture of Obama looks quite strong, while the McCain cookie looks a little green around the gills. Is this cookie foreshadowing [...]

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Per Eick’s earlier message, please get out and vote today. But don’t just listen to me – listen to all the offers for free food after you have voted. How about a star-shaped Krispy Kreme doughnut with red, white and blue sprinkles (my personal fave)? How about a free scoop from Ben and Jerry’s? How [...]

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My company, New Media Strategies  has teamed up with orange juice titan Tropicana to create a Twitter-focused data visualization tool that we’re calling Fresh Squeezed Election Tweets. You can check it out at An Orange America. The site is collecting and live-aggregating tweets using the words “Obama” and “McCain” and other words that appear frequently [...]

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Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa went the celebrity chef route with some of their Halloween costumes this year, with Regis impersonating foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsey and Emeril. Kelly Ripa played a down-home, butter loving Paula Deen, and a Nigella Lawson who couldn’t get enough of licking her spoon. Here’s the full video. It’s long, but [...]

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From Failblog comes an amusing maple syrup related fail image, from, of all places, my home state of Vermont.  Look closely at the image if you don’t get it right away.

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Time for a little fun with Google Analytics.  Based purely on looking at the stats for So Good, I have to assume that people are obsessing over the election and very little else right now.  Check out the top ten search terms that brought people to So Good over the weekend (Saturday and Sunday): Wow. [...]

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