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Pictures from Barack Obama Chicago Grant Park Election Rally
Our muscles-in-the-know, Grant Gochanuer, made it down to the Grant Part rally for the Obama Election Rally last night and snapped off some excellent shots. His full Flickr set is here. Here are some highlights: For anyone that missed Obama’s acceptance speech, it was really a moving speech. A lot of nice things said… obviously action [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Poll Shows Support for Obama
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
According to the data released by Microsoft’s gamerscore blog, Senator Barack Obama is the favorite among Xbox 360 owners in the race for the white house. The presidential hopeful and his running mate Joe Biden are leading the McCain/Palin camp by twenty percent. While this doesn’t reflect all of America, I do believe that this is [...]
Continue reading...John McCain President… According to the AOL.com Homepage Poll
Monday, November 3, 2008
Tom Robinson sent in a link to an interesting “general sampling” of the population as far as the presidential election goes, in the form of the AOL.com’s homepage presidential pole. The results are in and it looks like John McCain dominated the poll oddly enough. Assuming that the Flash-based poll wasn’t hacked, I was initially surprised [...]
Continue reading...Obama Pledges Creation of US CTO - Job Creation Through Technology
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
BusinessWeek had a piece recently discussing Barack Obama’s plan to develop an office of CTO for the United States if he wins in November. Obama feels that the US is not making use of it’s inherent brain trust or resources to advance technology day-in and day-out to both improve our lives, education and existence but also [...]
Continue reading...Barak Obama Buys Ads in Burnout Paradise
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Pretty interesting sign of times to come… Robert Heron sent in a tidbit about Obama’s campaign having purchased ad-space inside of the Burnout Paradise game available on both Xbox 360 and the PS3. In-game advertisements are nothing new, EA started dabbling in the Rainbow Six series years ago, but I think this is the first time [...]
Continue reading...Presidential Candidate Compass
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Electoral Compass is a handy Flash-based tool that asks you 25 or so questions to determine where you fall on the compass of political positions with relation to the existing presidential candidates. Not knowing much about the politics of individual candidates, it was a handy to use this tool to get an idea of where I [...]
Continue reading...Election 2008 Candidate Positions on Science & Technology
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Popular Mechanics put together a pretty bad-ass chart of the 2008 presidential candidate’s stances on Science and Technology. You can keep it handy as a reference when voting time comes around along with the 2008 Presidential Quick Reference Guide.
Continue reading...2/3 of NYU Would Sell Right to Vote for Scholarship
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The full quote is they would give up their right to vote in the next election for a scholarship. I wonder if that stat is that surprising? Two reasons I can think of this not being that surprising is: A lot of people felt the last 2 elections were bullshit with all the shenanigans that ensued [...]
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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