Classic Olberman melodrama but I feel it's pretty spot on.

CCK - Dan http://drupal.org/project/cck

Views - Dan http://drupal.org/project/views

Webform - Dan http://drupal.org/project/webform

Google Analytics - Dan http://drupal.org/project/google_analytics

Nice Menus - Brandon http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus

WYSIWYG -Brandon

FCKEditor http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor

Yahoo http://drupal.org/project/yui_editor

Pathauto - Bryan http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

Captcha - Bryan http://drupal.org/project/captcha

Custom Module - Bryan

At OJC (my day job) we embraced Drupal as our primary CMS of choice (or at least mine) going on a couple years ago. Locally, the University of Illinois and its various campuses and schools have started to do the same. With OJC being a familiar name around the school, my colleague Brandon Bowersox put together a nice list local centric Why Drupal? and of course why OJC :)

Units across campus are using Drupal:

· WILL AM/FM/TV, including PrairieFire http://will.illinois.edu/prairiefire

· College of Education, including IEP Quality http://iepq.ed.uiuc.edu/

· College of ACES, including http://students.aces.uiuc.edu/ http://global.aces.uiuc.edu/ and http://advancement.aces.uiuc.edu/

· Center for Global Studies, new website by OJC underway powered by Drupal

· UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy http://www.ihrp.uic.edu/

· Center for Prevention Research and Development AIMS http://www.aims.uiuc.edu/, existing design with Drupal implementation by OJC

· Department of Kinesiology, IPACS https://www.kines.uiuc.edu/IPACS/, design by Creative Services and Drupal custom modules and implementation by OJC

· Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, new website by OJC underway powered by Drupal

· CITES Ed Tech

· AITS (used for about 3 sites already with an RFP process with OBFS to select a tool for 30+ sites)

Two of the Four ‘Best of the Web 2008’ award winners at the University of Illinois 9th Annual Webmasters Forum were powered by Drupal. A 1-day “Drupal Boot Camp” in Spring 2008 hosted by the University of Illinois with OJC as a key presenter got over 80 attendees from units across the University.

Units across campus are migrating to Drupal because it is technical robust while also user-friendly for content updaters. Units with varying levels of technical sophistication are finding that contracting for support and maintenance from OJC allows them to have as much or as little support as they need to be successful with Drupal. Some departments such as UIC IHRP have internal staff who have learned Drupal and perform sophisticated enhancements on their own, while only occasssionally relying on OJC to ask questions or advice. Other units such as CPRD AIMS have no technical staff in-house who manage Drupal and rely fully on OJC to support the tool and keep Drupal running smoothly for non-technical content authors.

Drupal provides the full set of features that make it a robust and user-friendly CMS:

· In-site editing for non-technical content authors, who can simply click through the website itself and click the Edit tab to make changes

· Search-engine friendly and user-friendly URLs such as http://www.ihrp.uic.edu/researcher/susan-j-curry-phd without the need for numerical IDs (?contentId=8765.432 or obfshome.cfm?level=1&path=accounts&xmldata=accounts1), file extensions (.aspx or .shtml) , or escape sequences (latest%20news.php)

· Hundreds of robust add-on modules and a solid, secure open source foundation similar to other successful open source tools such as Linux or Apache.

That's right... tonight is the last debate between McCain and Obama.  I am hosting a debate party at my house.  Below is some of the promotional material to get you all excited:

Some more hilarious Final Countdown goodness:

http://www.hulu.com/embed/FPncYuR5hGQAyeGY2LmHOg/1052/1079

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU

Like most of us other I am completely in the fog as to what is *really* going on with our economy right now. We just gave 700,000,000,000 of our tax dollars away to try and help the situation and I have no idea if it was the right thing to do.  I have my roommate Rory (who saves like no one else I know) and my buddy Jim (who's trying to find a good lender for college loans) shouting doom and gloom to any ear that will listen, other friends saying it's nothing to worry about... it's just the fat cats screwing up, and the mass media saying this is a start of the next depression.

About the clearest explanation I've heard yet was from the folks up in Chicago at This American Life in a special they did with NPR's Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson titled The Giant Pool of Money. I highly recommend listening to it for free (see the Full Episode link on on the page). I was pointed to this just a month or so ago when trying to find out more information the then pending Bailout. Today a friend of mine, Sascha Meinrath, Tweeted about their follow up segment  titled Another Frightening Show About the Economy just in time for me to catch it on WILL 580AM. It answered a great deal many of my questions and scared the shit out of me.  Unfortunately, the Bailout has already passed and IMHO w/o some important provisions.

In their very easy and and a slightly entertaining way, Alex and Adam, put you in the know regarding what in the last 10 or so years has led us to our current problems ending with what they think about the Bail out:

This crisis is severe its going to get worse... The new plan is better, its not great but it does help.

Even with their dumbing down of whats going on for us non economist, it's easy to see that this problem is huge and has its seeds from events more than 10 years ago.  Listen to the shows, read the Bailout bill (click me to download), spend some time on google, and be more fiscially responsible.