pretty random

What was I thinking deciding to build a poll this big?
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Radio: "U2's Bono and The Edge are working on music for, get this, Spiderman The Musical. That's great news! (long pause) ...for Spiderman fans."[Poll #969385]

[Poll #909734]
(this is a true situation)

Our condo has not sold yet. It's been three weeks. One way to fight this is new pictures, so please review the pictures below and vote for your favourites! (MLS allows 6-7 pictures max, so please exercise restraint on the off chance you love them all)
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Not really sure what I hope to gain from this, but I'm curious.

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[Poll #779052]

Scenario

Cam wants to make his journal available to longtime friends and parents who are perhaps unaware of some of the seedier aspects of his life, or perhaps don't need to read descriptions of certain acts and/or body parts. He wants to friends-only any such posts. He doesn't want to actually reread his entire journal to ensure he got them all. He decides to have a contest wherein his LJ friends do the work for him. As a reward for any found entries, he promises to take and post a picture of anything they want, with the caveat of nothing visible that network television would refuse to show.

Question

Is this lazy (leapfish's opinion) or ingenious (c9's opinion) ?

I will update this post with the results of your vote, possibly activating this contest dealie.

So far there appears to be one vote for ingenious. Or at least, one person willing to participate. Update: You can ignore 1998-2003.

Needed: People with Gmail accounts and Firefox 1.5 installed on their PCs.

I request that you try the steps below to see if the same thing happens to you, then comment and let me know your results:

1. Close down all running Firefox windows.
2. Start Firefox
3. Maximize the window if necessary.
4. Load up Gmail, and log in.
5. Hit CTRL-T
6. Hit CTRL-W
7. Hit CTRL-T
8. Hit CTRL-W
9. Hit CTRL-T
   
   (Ctrl-T opens a new tab, and Ctrl-W closes the current tab.)

If your window is no longer maximized, you've got the same problem! I don't know what the issue is, but it's happened to me on three different PCs. All are running Windows XP though, I haven't tested on other platforms yet.

I can't make it happen on other websites, but Gmail seems to work well. If you're really interested, I'm using the secure Gmail, https://mail.google.com.

Another question from the same survey organization, on a different survey:

Do you think the Liberal government in Ottawa has done a good enough job to deserve re-election, or is it time to give a new party a chance?
Please select one response only.

• Liberal Party deserves re-election
• Time to give new party a chance

...and later on, I was asked to indicate which party leader is best described by the following words or phrases:

insipiring, dishonest, strong leadership, competent, arrogant, flip flops, has the best plan for the future, too negative, understands the concerns of people like me, corrupt, makes unrealistic promises, compassionate, stands for what I believe, and intelligent.

Hmmmm. When answering on some, like "flip flops," I wondered whether my answer would actually have any effect on the overall poll. (My answer was Stephen Harper, because he has a proven track record of opportunistically changing his position to win votes. Most politicians do, even in the NDP (though not Jack Layton, that I've noticed anyway). But I suspect Paul Martin will get the most votes in that category regardless of how I answer.)

Winter is often sucky. Elections are often sucky. I'm going to create some synergy here and have a contest on federal election predictions!

Please answer, in one comment, the following questions:

1. How many seats will the Liberals win?
2. How many seats will the Conservatives win?
3. How many seats will the NDP win?
4. How many seats will the Bloc Québécois win?
5. How many seats will the Green Party, Marxist-Leninist Party, Marijuana Party, Elephant Party, Canadian Action Party, Pity Party, and Independent candidates win, combined?
6. Minority or Majority? (a majority requires 155 seats)
7. If minority, which party will hold the balance of power? (meaning which party, when combined with the leading party, creates a majority, so that a coalition might provide some stability)
8. Which leader(s) will announce their resignation during their concession speech(es)?
9. Who will stab their party in the back first, Ralph Klein or Dalton McGuinty? (Note, Ralph's pre-election musings don't count)
10. Will the following star candidates win or lose?
    1. (NDP) Svend Robinson (former NDP leadership contender and 25-year member of Parliament, resigned due to weird "stressed-out-and-stole-a-ring" situation, now back in the game)
    2. (Liberal) Belinda Stronach (former Tory leadership contender turned Liberal cabinet member)
    3. (Liberal) Scott Brison (former Tory leadership contender turned Liberal cabinet member)
    4. (Liberal) Michael Ignatieff (Harvard academic and author)
    5. (NDP) Olivia Chow (20-year Toronto city councillor, wife of NDP leader Jack Layton)
    6. (Conservative) Peter Kent (former Global News anchor)
    7. (NDP) Paul Summerville (former chief economist at RBC Dominion (!))

I will award points on January 24th to the person or persons who are closest in their answers, and award some prizes! Not sure what the prizes are, feel free to suggest any old thing. Keeping in mind I have little money. :) Everyone may enter, worldwide, and you may revise your answers up until December 5th at midnight EST. After that, you can still enter but with an automatic reduction in points as we get closer to January 23rd, the date of the election.

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