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Links from March 14th

Sports metaphors for Clinton vs. Obama. - Excellent top to bottom. I still contend that the rules of Quidditch prove that JK Rowling was never a sports fan.
jQuery creator John Resig demonstrates some cool JavaScript programming tricks in Search and Don’t Replace.
Fred Clark explains how rising land prices can put mobile home owners in a horrible position. They own depreciating mobile homes and rent appreciating land to put them on. The fundamental problem here is that mobile homes aren’t really mobile.
Andrew Leonard reports on home equity loan defaults. Homeowners who are behind on their loans have figured out that they can’t take your house away for not paying your HELOC.
The Great Daylight Saving Time Conspiracy - Lobbyists are busy people.
Anil Dash creates embeddable versions of his blog posts. Step aside, blockquote. I’m still trying to puzzle out the implications.
John Gruber analyzes why Apple’s iPhone SDK allows only one app to run at a time. He later posted the counter-argument.
The Obama campaign circulated a point-by-point takedown of talking points that the Clinton campaign circulated to journalists. Life imitates blogging.
kottke.org is ten years old today - An incredible milestone and an interesting design retrospective. The rc3.org ten year anniversary celebration arrives latter this year.

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1 stephen o'grady // Mar 15, 2008 at 8:42 pm

“I still contend that the rules of Quidditch prove that JK Rowling was never a sports fan.”

hahaha - not that i disagree, but i’m curious as to why, specifically.
2 Rafe // Mar 15, 2008 at 10:33 pm

The game ends when the snitch is caught. You have the seekers flying around trying to catch the snitch for 150, while in the meantime the others try to score goals worth 10 points apiece. Everything but the snitch chasing is pretty much a distraction from the key goal, which is for the seeker to grab the snitch. It’s kind of nonsensical.
3 stephen o'grady // Mar 16, 2008 at 1:35 pm

among other things