The “Break it Down” Blog

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 [...]

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John McCain President… According to the AOL.com Homepage Poll

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 [...]

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Obama Pledges Creation of US CTO – Job Creation Through Technology

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 [...]

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Barak Obama Buys Ads in Burnout Paradise

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 [...]

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Presidential Candidate Compass

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 [...]

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