Stewart's Rally To Restore Sanity Beats Beck's Attendance

Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity with Stephen Colbert on October 30, 2010 drew in a bigger crowd than Glenn Beck's Rally to Restore Honor.

Stewart's event drew in over 210,000 people, and Beck's rally in August had less than 100,000 people in attendance.

Entertainment Weekly reports that 250,000 attending in person and 4 million streamed the event on computers.

Dallas Cowboys Blown Out By Jacksonville Jaguars 35 to 17

The Dallas Cowboys improbable season continues. The only thing worth watching at Cowboys Stadium this season are The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and the stadium's art work. The Cowboys were blown out at home by the Jacksonville Jaguars 35 to 17, as Jaguars Quarterback David Garrard threw four touchdown passes.

In fact, David Garrard tied a club record, as he was 17 of 21 for 260 yards and four touchdowns. His quarterback rating was 157.8.

By contrast, Cowboys Quarterback Jon Kitna was just good and awful at the same time, throwing for 374 yards, 34 of 49, but committing four interceptions against just one touchdown.

The Cowboys actually outgained the Jaguars 415 yards to 387 yards, but the interceptions made the difference, as Dallas gave the ball to a red-hot David Garrard.

It was so bad that fans started cheering "Let's go Rangers," referring to tonight's World Series Game 4 pitting the Texas Rangers against the San Francisco Giants.

Dallas Cowboys' Season Is Terrible

Now, The Cowboys are 1 and 6, and there's no sign their fortunes will get any better, soon.

CNN's Dana Bash' Unexplained Lisa Murkowski Tweet Causes Internet Storm

CNN's Dana Bash has some explaining to do. Her tweet about Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski caused the Senator's name to be retweeted so much, it's now the second hottest topic on Google Trends as of this writing. Used properly, Twitter can be a force for good or bad. In this case, the bad is for Lisa Murkowski and the good may be for Joe Miller if this little firestorm grows.

On Twitter, Dana sent out this tweet 54 minutes ago as of this writing:

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Woah. Lisa murkowski just made really clear to our drew griffin in alaska republicans can't count on her to be w them.

Now Dana (photo at left) didn't provide a link to a video or text of an interview as part of her tweet, she just tweeted that statement.

The tweet was red meet to rabid Tea Party Movement supporters just two days before the 2010 MidTerm Elections. It was retweeted 14 times directly by followers (as of this writing), but many, many more times by follower of those followers, and so on. The result is a sea of retweets helping to create the content that meets the search demand for "Lisa Murkowski."

But just what Lisa Murkowski said was never explained by Dana Bash, and it must be. Google News has no supporting information that Senator Murkowski's going to, essentially, jump ship on the Republican Party. Was that Dana's interpretation?

If it was, Dana, as a political news reporter, should be really careful how she shares her take on politics. It could be interpreted as support for the Tea Party.   The Senator's challenger, Tea Party-backed Joe Miller, is reportedly behind in the polls.  Dana's tweet is the kind of spark that could turn it around for him, which is why it was so careless for Bash not to explain it.

Stay tuned.

Marine Corps Marathon

The 35th annual Marine Corps Marathon took place Sunday, October 31, 2010 throughout the D.C. streets.

Runners from across the world came wearing festive attire as they ran through the DC. streets. Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Biden's wife, fired the starting gun at 8 a.m. and the runners began their 26.2 mile run.

The marathon is also known as The People's Marathon and there were over thousands in attendance.

Denise Borino Quinn: Sopranos Actress Dies Of Liver Cancer

Denise Borino Quinn, the actress who played mobster Johnny Sack's wife Ginny Sacramoni on The Sopranos has died of liver cancer. She was just 46 years old.

According to EOnline, Borino Quinn died last Wednesday at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey, and her funeral was held Saturday.

On July 23rd, 2000, Denise was selected to play the role of Ginny Sacramoni after an open casting call that drew 15,000 participants.  She had never acted before at any level.

Before her famous job with the The Sopranos, Denise Borino Quinn was a legal secretary and part-time manicurist living in New Jersey. Interestingsly Ouinn said she was really at the open casting call to support her best friend Maria Galasso; Denise didn't think she herself would be picked.

Denise is a graduate of West Essex Senior and Junior High School in North Caldwell, has a business degree from Dover Business College, and two semesters at Morris County College.

In an interview Denise explained how she wanted to be remembered:

I guess I want to be remembered for always being genuinely nice to people and being able to put a smile on their face. Just before my husband Luke’s sister Theresa passed away, Luke had brought me over to her house to meet her and Luke said he hadn’t seen his sister smile like that in months so for me knowing that I brought a little bit of happiness into his sister’s life means the world to me!

Given her role on The Sopranos, it's fair to say she did put a smile on America's face.

Time Change Fall 2010: Daylight Savings Time Change Nov 7

When does Time Change Fall 2010 take place? That seems to be the question of the day online, as this first period of heavy online use in our history is causing confusion on this day of Daylight Savings Time, called "DST," or the Time Change Fall 2010.

(UPDATE - Now it's our turn!)

But for Europe, not America or the Americas.

Today is Time Change Fall 2010 for Europe; in America and the Americas, it takes place November 7th.  That's one week from today, October 31st.  It's the first Sunday in November - the time for America to change its clocks.

Why?

First, Daylight Savings Time, or DST, itself was adopted to gain more light from a single day. It was observed more when the World's economy was largely agrarian. In today's tech culture, Daylight Savings Time isn't really needed as much. However, it does help with tourism and events.

Second, if you know that sundown is at 8 PM, because the clocks reflect that, rather than 7 PM, you will leave your event open one hour longer at least. That means more money and exposure for businesses that depend on daylight for revenue generation.

Time Change Fall and Daylight Savings Time Not Everywhere

With that, some countries don't observe the practice or the Time Change Fall 2010 or whatever and a number of countries are considering changes to DST or observe it in a different way. For example, Russia reduced their number of time zones from 11 to nine and are considering ending Daylight Savings Time in 2011.   And Egypt changed its clock four times in 2010.

Time Change Fall 2010 - Daylight Savings Time Change For Europe

Note: Time Change for USA on November 7th.

Some hold that today is Time Change Fall 2010, but the problem is that Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In America.

In November. That would be next week. Today is October 31st, Halloween.

But in Europe, because it's on that side of the Earth, it's different. Today is Time Change Fall 2010, and clocks are set back one hour.

According to the website Webexhibits.org:

In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment.

So for America, the time remains the same; for Europe it goes back one hour today.  On Halloween.

London NFL Game Impacted

An NFL Football game will be played today in London. Given the time change difference, you've got to wonder if the player of the San Francisco 49ers and The Denver Broncos are all aware of this.  Not only do they have to deal with the time zone date line change, but the time change itself.  Yikes.