{"id":1267,"date":"2006-07-24T22:32:38","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T02:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/07\/24\/dubyas-dashboard-ooh-shiny\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T23:29:47","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T03:29:47","slug":"dubyas-dashboard-ooh-shiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/07\/dubyas-dashboard-ooh-shiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubya&#8217;s Dashboard &#8211; ooh, shiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m considered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingsherpa.com\/vas2006\/7.html\">nationally influential<\/a> blogger, particularly for the viral distribution of bright shiny Blogger objects, here&#8217;s another:  <a href=\"http:\/\/jumperbailey.com\/dashboard\/index.php\">Dubya&#8217;s Dashboard<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/jumperbailey.com\/\">JumperBailey.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to counting the number of days left, it gives a few hints as to why many of us are counting down the days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m placing it on the sidebar right beneath the running national debt so as to quicklook the misery. <\/p>\n<p><iframe SRC=\"http:\/\/jumperbailey.com\/dashboard\/bush-board.htm\" TITLE=\"Dubya's Dashboard\" WIDTH=170 HEIGHT=130 MARGINWIDTH=1 MARGINHEIGHT=1 FRAMEBORDER=0><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jumperbailey.com\/dashboard\/index.php\" target=_blank>Get the<br \/>Dubya Dashboard!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the explanation, and I&#8217;ll plug in the numbers for today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Days Left, 911<br \/>The number of days left in Dubya&#8217;s presidency. 911, huh?\n<\/li>\n<li>Approval = 31%<br \/>Dubya&#8217;s current approval rating as determined by Gallup (updated every couple of weeks)\n<\/li>\n<li>Deficit\/Surplus = $319B<br \/>The current U.S. budget deficit (updated annually)\n<\/li>\n<li>Forbes 400 = $1.13T<br \/>The cumulative wealth of the richest 400 Americans, which interestingly dwarfs the deficit (updated annually)\n<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers = 2648<br \/>The number of coalition deaths in the Iraq War (updated weekly)\n<\/li>\n<li>WMD = 0<br \/>The number of &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221; found, which is the ostensible reason we went to war in the first place (updated whenever we find them)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An approval &#8220;trend&#8221; graph which shows the president&#8217;s Gallup approval rating over the course of his administration. (Updated every few weeks)\n<\/li>\n<li>A budget deficit &#8220;trend&#8221; graph (shown as a percentage of GDP) which charts our budget deficit history from JFK to Dubya. (Updated annually)\n<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;winners&#8221; table which shows which segments of society won and lost after taxes from 2002 to 2003.\n<\/li>\n<li>A list of the names, ages, and hometowns of the men and women who have lost their lives in the Iraq conflict. (Updated weekly until the deaths stop)\n<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;Get the Dashboard!&#8221; link which allows people to get their own dashboard. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My criticisms are these:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The statistics, graphs and lists aren&#8217;t updated often enough.\n<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not intuitively clear that you can click within the frame to return to the original state of the display.\n<\/li>\n<li>I had to adjust the width and height to get rid of scrollbars.\n<\/li>\n<li>It would be a better strategy all around to have the links go out to full webpages\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I would like to see an expanded version of these kinds of statistics. Here are some of my suggestions for blog toymakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much money is being printed (trend report)\n<\/li>\n<li>Amount of tax revenue lost through corporate welfare (trend report)\n<\/li>\n<li>Environmental effects &#8211; Increase in children with asthma, extinctions, top 50 companies who destroy for profit, etc.\n<\/li>\n<li>Number of schools &#8220;left behind&#8221; (Does that phrase remind you of the Rapture, or is it just me?)\n<\/li>\n<li>Average college tuition (trend report)\n<\/li>\n<li>Average student loan debt (trend report)\n<\/li>\n<li>Average household credit card debt (trend report)\n<\/li>\n<li>Consumer price index, and price of a gallon of: milk, gasoline, housepaint, water (trend report)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m considered a nationally influential blogger, particularly for the viral distribution of bright shiny Blogger objects, here&#8217;s another: Dubya&#8217;s Dashboard from JumperBailey.com In addition to counting the number of days left, it gives a few hints as to why many of us are counting down the days. I&#8217;m placing it on the sidebar right beneath the running national debt so as to quicklook the misery. Get theDubya Dashboard! Here&#8217;s the explanation, and I&#8217;ll plug in the numbers for today&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/07\/dubyas-dashboard-ooh-shiny\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,5,7,12,3,14],"tags":[2428,998,2624,96,2625,2626,2627,2628,2629,2630,2631,151,2632,239,2633,2634,837],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armchair-activism","category-alien-nation","category-culture","category-blog-toys","category-technology-and-science","category-politics","category-virus-related","tag-approval-rating","tag-blogging","tag-budget-deficit","tag-bush","tag-coalition-deaths","tag-code-meme","tag-countdown","tag-dubya-dashboard","tag-gallup","tag-richest-americans","tag-statistics","tag-taxes","tag-trend-graphs","tag-viral","tag-welfare","tag-winners","tag-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}