I want the debates to be annotated after the fact, a la pop-up video.

vytae — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:08:30 -0800

Has anyone seen a pop-up-video style version of the presidential or VP debates that checks facts and names? If not, is there any organization I could suggest this to with any reasonable hope of having them implement it? I know FactCheck.org and other various news agencies have published lists of selected falsehoods and mistakes, but I would really love to have "true"/"not true"/"his real name is..."/"the actual number was..." info show up on my screen as I watch the recorded version of each debate. I feel like this idea would have enough mass appeal that somebody on the internet (if not a major news outlet) should have done it already, but my searches turn up nothing. Have you seen this anywhere? Can you think of anyone I could suggest this to, who could put this kind of thing together? (I'm half hoping that someone like CNN would love to make this happen, they just haven't come up with the idea yet. Maybe I'm crazy.)

Is there a bad day to eat fish in NYC?

afroblanca — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:20:41 -0800

Fact or fiction : All (or most) NYC restaurants get their fish deliveries on the same day every week. So, as the legend goes, it is a bad idea to order fish in a restaurant on the day or two preceding that day.

Some say that the deliveries come on Monday, others say Tuesday. It seems implausible, but I've heard it from a number of people who have lived in the city for longer than I.

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I want the debates to be annotated after the fact, a la pop-up video.

Is there a bad day to eat fish in NYC?