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From Change.gov:

To give you a behind the scenes look at the Transition and provide a window to how the team is approaching climate issues, we filmed this meeting of our Energy & Environment Policy Transition Team and interview with team member Heather Zichal.

Watch the video, then tell us your story,( http://www.change.gov/page/s/energyenviro) which energy and environment issues are important to you, or what actions you'd like to see an Obama-Biden administration take.

The Polar Express Conductor:

Clark Griswold aka Sparky:

Justin Timberlake e Beyonce - Single Ladies SNL

Full SNL skit:

The Polar Express Conductor:

Clark Griswold aka Sparky:

Justin hosts SNL in two minutes flat

Favorite Links Today:

You can now follow me on twitter:
http://twitter.com/plrexpconductor

I'm a Fan of Clark Griswold on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home. php#/pages/Clark-Griswold/58098344936

And I also follow him on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/clarkgriswld

Stan and Kyle are hooked on Guitar Hero. But Stan's superior skills on the video game damage his friendship with Kyle.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/127947/

This episode is almost has good has their World of War Craft Spoof.

Real guitars are for old people:

You Suck:

Favorite Links:
The Polar Express Conductor:

Clark Griswold aka Sparky:

Google is now going to inform us when the chances of catching the flu are high in our state.

http://www.google.org/flutrends/

From Google's flutrends page:
We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional flu surveillance systems.

Each week, millions of users around the world search for online health information. As you might expect, there are more flu-related searches during flu season, more allergy-related searches during allergy season, and more sunburn-related searches during the summer. You can explore all of these phenomena using Google Trends. But can search query trends provide an accurate, reliable model of real-world phenomena?

We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for "flu" is actually sick, but a pattern emerges when all the flu-related search queries from each state and region are added together. We compared our query counts with data from a surveillance system managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and discovered that some search queries tend to be popular exactly when flu season is happening. By counting how often we see these search queries, we can estimate how much flu is circulating in various regions of the United States.

During the 2007-2008 flu season, an early version of Google Flu Trends was used to share results each week with the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch of the Influenza Division at CDC. Across each of the nine surveillance regions of the United States, we were able to accurately estimate current flu levels one to two weeks faster than published CDC reports.

A couple videos to help you have a enjoyable Thanksgiving:

Impress your guests with a perfectly carved turkey.

From YouTube User: cookingcom
Video Description: Learn to carve a turkey with Professional Chef Gordon Drysdale and
Cooking.com.

From: WashingtonPost
Turkey Carving 101

Watch some football:

and sit back and watch the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

More Turkey Talk:
Martha and Russell Crowe prepare a Thanksgiving Turkey:

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.

The best part of Christmas for me is setting up the Lionel Polar Express train and the Dept. 56 Christmas village. Here is a video I took of the village with the camera on the train:

From Change.Gov's about page:
Throughout the Presidential Transition Project, this website will be your source for the latest news, events, and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Obama Administration. And just as this historic campaign was, from the beginning, about you -- the transition process will offer you opportunities to participate in redefining our government.

Come back often as we define new programs and possibilities to engage and be part of this administration.

There is also a section where you can submit your own ideas on how to handle America's issues.

http://www.change.gov/

What's Up with Those Creepy Ads in the Back of the Sun-Times:

WGN Morning News' Pat Tomasulo does it again. From the maker of Tom Freakin' Skilling, we give you What's Up with Those Creepy Ads in the Back of the Chicago Sun-Times. Great stuff, Pat.

CNN Hologram TV First
During the American election Jessica Yellin was recorded as a hologram and beamed into the studio

Very cool.