Archive | October, 2008

Obama Runs Ads on XBox 360 Game

History has shows that as the public adopts new media, savvy politicians are quick to embrace it. FDR used radio to sell his New Deal, many argue that Nixon lost to Kennedy due to his poor appearance on televised debates. So it is in this election season as candidates try to figure out how to [...]

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Software Usability – Find the shortest path to achieve your goals.

I just downloaded the recently release Open Office 3.0 productivity suite. On first launch of the software, I was prompted to register the software in order to help Sun determine the global market share. I didn’t mind doing this so I clicked the Register button. What transpired was a very long process requiring me to [...]

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What 3 million dollar overhead projector

For those who like to fact check, as it turns out, the 3 million dollar overhead projector mentioned by Sen. McCain in the debate was in fact a replacement planetarium projector for the historic Sky Theater. To clarify, the Adler Planetarium requested federal support – which was not funded – to replace the projector in [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-08

sorry missed the HH. Wanted to watch debate # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-03

Popcorn and beer, gearing up for the debate. # Go Phils! # Embarrased to know a Hillary supporter who is voting for M/P based on Palin. # Palin did better than I expected. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Economists Speak About the Election

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, is interested in electing the candidate who will be best for the economy. But along the way he has learned the iron law of the political marketplace: there is an excess supply of political blowhards, and there are far too few unbiased experts. Even worse, it is hard to [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-02

datamining # Idea for SNL Skit McCain/Palin Geico Ad # Go Back in time http://www.google.com/search2001.html # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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