4 Unforgettable Sports Championships in 2008

4 Unforgettable Sports Championships in 2008

1. New York Giants over New England Patriots in Super Bowl

2. Tiger Woods over Rocco Mediate in U.S. Open playoff

3. Rafael Nadal over Roger Federer at Wimbledon

4. Michael Phelps over Milorad Cavic by .01 of a second at the Olympics

-time

4 Interesting Top Ten Lists

4 Interesting Top Ten Lists from Time's Top Ten of Everything 2008:

1. Top 10 Underreported News Stories

2. Top 10 Non-fiction Books

3. Top 10 Museum Exhibits

4. Top 10 Photos

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4 Cool Things about an Obama Post-Presidency

4 Cool Things about an Obama Post-Presidency

1. Presidential museum and library in Chicago

2. Convention speeches every 4 years for life

3. State funeral

4. Monument in Chicago; maybe D.C.

-nb

4 Key Demographics in the Obama Win

4 Key Demographics in the Obama Win

1. African Americans

2. Latinos

3. Young Voters

4. Parents

-fivethirtyeight

4 Things Hurting the Oceans

4 Things Hurting the Oceans

1. Overfishing

2. Shipped goods that are lost or left from shipwrecks.

3. Global warming

4. Aquaculture

-smithsonian

4 Good Questions about the Bailout

4 Good Questions about the Bailout from Time's list of 18:

1. How, exactly, is this bailout supposed to 'save' credit markets?

2. Why should Wall Street be bailed out? Won't it just make them all the more eager to engage in risky practices in the future?

3. Would the money be better spent just buying up the mortgages themselves instead of the securities?

4. What is the difference between Wall Street and a casino?

-time

4 web sites or services I just heard about

4 web sites or services I just heard about at a web conference

1. Lively from Google

2. BookSummit.com

3. Sermo

4. MyBlogLog

-nb

4 things I'm still worried about that could help McCain

4 things I'm still worried about that could help McCain, with one month to go:

1. Last-minute undecideds could break for McCain (but are there enough of them in swing states?)

2. Your next regularly scheduled Momentum Change should go to McCain (but will bad economic news ever go away?)

3. It's about to get nastier, and McCain's better at nasty. So are the Swift Boaters. (But does nasty work with independents?)

4. A terrorist attack or another bin Laden video would scare voters away from the newbie and back to the old soldier. (But can national security trump the economy as Issue #1 this year?)

-nb

4 ways (some) bloggers make (some) money

4 ways (some) bloggers make (some) money, from Slate

1. Amazon Associates

2. Google AdSense

3. BlogAds

4. "micropatrons"

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4 key lines from the speech I heard Obama give in Grand Rapids yesterday

4 key lines from the speech I heard Obama give in Grand Rapids yesterday

1. "This financial crisis is a direct result of ... a philosophy that views even the most common-sense regulations as unwise and unnecessary. Well, this crisis is nothing less than a final verdict on this failed philosophy – and it’s a philosophy I’m running for President to end."

2. "My opponent ... says he’ll take on corporate lobbyists now, but he put seven of the biggest lobbyists in Washington in charge of his campaign. And if you think those lobbyists are working day and night to elect him just to put themselves out of business, well I’ve got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska."

3. "I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95% of all working families."

4. "This country and the dream it represents are being tested in a way that we haven’t seen in nearly a century. And future generations will judge ours by how we respond to this test."

-nb

4 Options for the Failed Bailout from Slate

1. Tweak it to please Republicans.

2. Tweak it to please Democrats.

3. Start over.

4. Do nothing.

-slate

4 Executive Orders by Bush that need to be rescinded, from Slate's list of 10

1. Executive Order 13233 (hides presidential records)

2. E.O. 13435 (blocks stem cell research)

3. E.O. 13440 (allows torture)

4. E.O. 13292 (says VP can classify documents)

-slate

4 'Genius Grant' Recipients from the MacArthur Foundation

1. John A. Ochsendorf, engineer and architectural historian who uses old technologies that go back to the Incas to improve today’s buildings.

2. Will Allen, urban farmer in Milwaukee, who delivers healthy food to poor city dwellers, and founded the nonprofit group Growing Power.

3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning Nigerian writer whose most recent novel, "Half of a Yellow Sun," details the horrors following the Biafran civil war.

4. Nancy G. Siraisi, an historian of medicine focusing on the Renaissance.

-nyt

4 Numbers Related to the Proposed Federal Bailout

1. 6.4: percentage of home mortgages that were at least 30 days behind in their payments as of the end of June, in addition to 2.75 percent that were in foreclosure (wp)

2. 275: factor by which CEO salaries were greater than the salaries of average workers, up from 35 in the late 1970s, according to the Economy Policy Institute. (nyt)

3. $250 billion: possible actual cost of the bailout (wp)

4. $3 trillion: annual federal budget (wp)

4 things still on the Oklahoma City NBA franchise's to-do list
with two months until its first game, according to ESPN the Magazine's Sept. 8 issue:

1. Name the team. (now done)

2. Finish renovating the arena.

3. Hire over 80% of the staff.

4. Sell some tickets. (now started)

-espnmag

4 Instructions for Oval Office Movers If Obama Wins

1. Erase penciled-in edits on Constitution.

2. Retrieve red phone from vice president's office, put back in Oval Office.

3. Take presidential approval ratings chart off easel, turn upside down, put back on easel.

4. Take "Whites Only" sign off back of president's chair.

-nb

4 Key Advisors in an Obama Administration

1. Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago professor whom many expect to head a President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

2. Jason Furman, an economist in the Clinton administration and a top aide to John Kerry in 2004.

3. Tony Lake, Mr Clinton's national security adviser, who taught the ex-president how to salute and who toiled to bring peace to the Balkans.

4. Samantha Power, author of "Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide"

-econ.

4 Good Things about $4 Gas from Time magazine's list of 10:

1. Some outsourced jobs come back

2. Sprawl stalls

3. Fewer traffic deaths

4. More cops on foot

-time

4 Photos of the Bird's Nest in Beijing

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4 Architecturally Interesting New Buildings in Beijing

1. National Stadium (Bird's Nest)
2. Aquatic Center (Water Cube)
3. Digital Beijing Building
4. CCTV Headquarters

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4 Ways to Fight the Global Water Crisis

1. Conserve Irrigation Water
2. Charge More for Water
3. Invest in Water Infrastructures
4. Ship "Virtual Water"

- sci.amn. (more)

Un-hiatus-ing?

Maybe. But to keep things short and simple, I'll use a "4 Things ..." format.