check out the ad on the left for "sinceslicedbread.com" let's click it

[NMDemDist2]

and vote tomorrow for the cool ideas

[skids]

1. Definitely.

I got a few in logged in there before the buzzer, so I'll be there bright and early tomorrow to see if any made the cut.

[Boojatta]

2. Get in touch with your inner paranoid pessimist

For $200,000 in prize money, what kind of database of personal information is being gathered? Should we trust anyone who has $200,000 to spend? Does the impressive list of contest judges tell us anything about who has access to the database of personal information?

Is it realistic to think that a good idea is going to be recognizably good even if someone has only 175 words to express the idea? Might the best ideas be rejected on the grounds that they aren't feasible? What if it would take more than 175 words to explain why a very good idea might be feasible?

If the purpose is to get good ideas, then why is the contest only for "legal residents of the United States"? The submissions are to be in English or Spanish. There are a lot of people in the world who either speak at least one of those languages or can afford to get a very short document professionally translated into one of those two languages.

To what extent is an idea expressed in 175 words likely to be customized for special conditions in the United States that people outside the United States are unaware of?

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4. No thanks.

Jeez. You must really have it in for the SEIU or something. Well, I've been on that site since midway through and they are sincere about the contest. They don't ask for any more personal information than what is already in the phone book. And as far as the U.S. resident thing, they probably just didn't want the legal hassle involved in taking the contest international.

(Either that or your meds got held up by Bush's Medicare debacle.)

[Boojatta]

6. "You must really have it in for the SEIU or something."

This must be a case of "or something" because my first impulse upon reading your reply was to find out what "SEIU" stands for. You might be pleased to hear that I successfully suppressed the impulse. I suspect that a search engine or something like acronymfinder.com would solve the riddle.

[alfredo]

3. Left of where?

[madfloridian]

5. Check out the SEIU site bloggers.

It really surprised me a lot. Two for sure, maybe 3 of them, are not the type you would picture blogging for unions.

http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/bloggers

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7. Yeah, Glenn Reynolds was not a popular addition.

He caught a bit of flac :-). I guess they were trying to "reach out" to the wings but keep a centrist core. I haven't even seen Andrei blog. Terrance is somehow the backbone of the site, and Amy and Marshall blog a good deal, too.

[madfloridian]

8. When did SEIU become a "centrist" union?

Those two terms just don't seem to go together. I remember the Purple Ocean blog, and I remember that SEIU often worked a lot with DFA.

Somehow the Bull Moose does not fit an image of being very pro-labor. Maybe that's just my impression.

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9. Kick -- voting now open.

Voting is now open. I'm a bit dissapointed at their picks (but no, I don't think it's because their a union that the given ideas were picked. I think they just didn't apply the level of critical thought/effort they should have during screening -- with 20K+ ideas I think they punted.)