It’s been a real long week, because I’m heading into crunch-time at work and trying to get deliverables done. It’s hard to feel like I can get anything else done when I’m already working a lot (and on weekends, even), but somehow I’m finding time to play Modern Warfare 2 and watch movies, so it ain’t that bad, right?

Speaking of movies, we saw She’s Out of My League last weekend and I have to say it was pretty funny, which is weird because they’re the same dudes that wrote Sex Drive, which was, from what I’ve seen, very much not. That said, because SOML was good, I will be lobbying to see Hot Tub Time Machine this weekend. Same writers. Good times.

Health Care Reform! There’s some interesting articles on financial bailout stuff below, but probably only interesting for those that like to torture themselves with that kind of thing. The McCain thing is really awful (so many people thought he was not a bad 2nd choice before he actually started campaigning!), but the Harry Reid response was great.

• Gregoire on McKenna: "He Does Not Represent Me." (And She'll Enter the Lawsuit Herself if She Has To.)
   + i don't know wtf mckenna is doing, but glad gregoire is stepping up her game. she knows her constituency. if the GOP continues to play this game, it will backfire.
• Vengeance Will Be McCain's!
   + mccain look like hulk! hulk get angry!
• The End of the Original Red Robin
   + And let the eternity begin.
• In Defense of Deficits
   + And on the same note, if Stiglitz was saying we should have nationalized those banks, Galbraith is saying the same thing--That breaking those nationalized banks into smaller ones would be a much easier process, and it would enable functional credit to return in a way that creates jobs rather than creating profits.
• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner : The New Yorker
   + is it too obvious to point out that in an economic crisis, you're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't? though stiglitz's comment, that we're basically socializing debt and privatizing profit is a good one, why is populist anger (from tea partiers) not ripping the republicans to shreds as well?

It’s about time I brought this back, huh? But before I do, wanted to post this Los Campesinos! song, which is definitely rated R, but is so catchy! I better get to enjoying the weather, and so should you.

If I was going to recommend just one link out of all of these, it’d have to be the new trailer for treme, the new series by the guys that brought you The Wire.

Now, go have a great time out in the weather! I think I’ve heard it’s nice from coast to coast, but haven’t confirmed that, so sorry if it’s raining where you are. In any case, do have a good weekend.

• WSJ: Ten Percent of Microsoft Employees Use an iPhone
   + a little bird also tells me that windows mobile phones are basically free for employees, but most still don't use them and will actually pay to just use an iphone.
• TREME: New Trailer
• The Farmville horror
   + more than anyone else, i blame the people that play farmville for killing health care. naw, only kidding. kinda.
• 8-bit map of NYC
   + oh man now i have the zelda theme song stuck in my head
• A flower is a thing that flows
   + man, i'd kill for design skills like MB. KILL! WATCH OUT!
• Michael Lewis: What I Read | The Atlantic Wire
   + i like the last line. good stuff.
• Edward Tufte’s Initial Thoughts on the Windows Phone 7 Series Interface Design
   + oh, the tufte slam!
• Breaking news, analysis and opinion on politics, business, culture, international, science, technology, national, food — The Atlantic
   + james, is this redesign your work?
• SEACATS EP 2.0 | SEACATS
   + a bunch of kids from kelso, who sound an awful like BOAT's little brothers. but it's actually pretty good. and when i say "kids" it's not just because i'm old, but also because some of these dudes are 14.
• Training Regimen
   + EXPLOSIVE!
• Attempt to dilute restrictions on cell phone use fails | MORE TOP STORIES - The News Tribune | Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather, Sports, Jobs, Homes and Cars | South Puget Sound's Destination
   + you know what is confusing? that a guy that can't figure out what speakerphone is is a representative of an entire district.
• Fortress America, London SW4
   + "Release the Mongolian Terror Trout!"
• Required Viewing: Elimination Hockey Wednesday
   + we paid $5 for antibiotics last week, $75 this week. our health care system is awesome.
• Broken Social Scene - "World Sick" - MP3 - Stereogum
   + kind of a big fan of this track.
• Joe Mauer » Statistics » Batting | FanGraphs Baseball
   + keeper draft started. do i go with mauer over fielder, just for positional scarcity's sake?
• Regarding Foursquare and Please Rob Me
   + don't list your weddings or funerals.
• Wired's magazine concept for tablet computers
   + the first guy's voice is scary deep and the 2nd guy sounds like vin diesel.
• W.A.R. - Mariner Central
   + if you like baseball stats and haven't read this thread, you probably should.