A couple of pieces this week from the daily crush, where (I think) I did a decent job of illustrating what the articles were about.

Barack Obama's super marketing machine
He knows your neighborhood, your favorite products and even when you open your e-mail. How Obama is betting on vast, corporate-style voter outreach to win the White House
By Mike Madden

Can you hear me now? Obama's missing 2 percent
By failing to survey cellphone-only voters, pollsters could be undercounting Barack Obama's support by millions of voters
By Paul Maslin and Jonathan Brown
July 17, 2008
30 ceramic birds: The set of 29, supplemented by the one that started it all, equals 30!
All gone: Six total, four on the bottom, two on top.
This iteration: 06/12/07
Or, previous: 02/25/02