Here’s the Official MacWorld Expo Prediction Form for you….

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On Wednesday, one floor trader bought 1,000 barrels, the smallest amount permitted, and sold it immediately for $99.40 at a $600 loss, said Stephen Schork, a former floor trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the editor of an oil market newsletter.

“They absolutely overpaid,” he told Radio Four’s Today Programme.

“He paid $600 for the right to tell his grandchildren that he was the first in the world to buy $100 oil.”

Meanwhile, every news agency in the world is reporting a $100/barrel price and predicting huge raises at the pump because of the milestone…

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An adult, unpigmented Adelie penguin was photographed near Granholm Hut on Sunday.

Penguins lacking pigmentation are referred to as “leucistic” and do not usually survive until adulthood because they attract predators and don’t breed.

Australian Antarctic Division biologist, Rhonda Pike, says only one penguin with the genetic defect has been detected over a number of breeding seasons in a population of 4,000 Adelies.

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A hemophilic boy in Pennsylvania bleeds to death over a period of two days from a small cut on his foot. An Indiana girl dies after a malignant tumor sprouts from her skull and grows so enormous that it’s nearly the size of her head. A boy in Massachusetts succumbs to a bowel obstruction. (His cries of pain are so loud that neighbors are forced to shut their windows to block out the sound.)

None of these children benefit from the readily-available medical treatments that might save their lives, or at least mitigate their suffering. Because the tenets of their parents’ religious faiths mandate it, their ailments are treated by prayer rather than medical science. The results are tragic.

It is difficult to determine precisely how many children in the United States lose their lives every year as the result of the phenomenon that has come to be known as religion-based medical neglect. A landmark study published in the journal Pediatrics uncovered more than 150 reported fatalities over a 10-year period – a tally that one of the study’s authors later said represented only “the tip of the iceberg” of a surprisingly pervasive problem. Assessing whether forms of religion-related child abuse pose a greater risk to children than more widely publicized threats, such as ritual satanic abuse, a wide-ranging study funded by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect concluded that “there are more children actually being abused in the name of God than in the name of Satan.”

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Total Voter Turnout (approximate)
356,000

Percentage of total vote
24.5% Obama
20.5% Edwards
19.8% Clinton
11.4% Huckabee (R)

In 2004 and 2000, Iowa was a “barely R” state. If the voter turnout is any indication, the state is now solid D.

Just when you think Sears was having a bad day…

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“Hey Dad, did you guys by any chance buy a new sewing machine from Sears on September 30th?”

“We did. How did you know that?”

“I just found it listed on a Sears web site. It looks like they have another privacy problem.”

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(dank je, Paul)

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Democrats (1,781/1,781 reporting)

Republicans (93% reporting)

candidate	state del.	percentage	candidate	votes	percentage
Biden	23	0.93%	Giuliani	3,853	4%
Clinton	737	29.47%	Huckabee	38,605	34%
Dodd	1	0.02%	Hunter	499	0%
Edwards	744	29.75%	McCain	14,749	13%
Kucinich	0	0%	Paul	11,232	10%
Obama	940	37.58%	Romney	28,367	25%
Richardson	53	2.11%	Thompson	15,044	13%