Tag Archives: “Barack Obama”

A stand-up job

Obama gets funny. Some of the jokes fall flat, but most are pretty good. A few are LOL. He gets serious toward the end. You can skip that part.

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Imagine if Barack had Tourette’s

Filling out this… yielded this: Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech My fellow Americans, today is a fibrous day. You have shown the world that “hope” is not just another word for “chair”, and that “change” is not only something we can … Continue reading

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Happy New Country

Changes at Whitehouse.gov are the top item on Techmeme. My tweets watching The Event: Say Amen. about 2 hours ago from web search isn’t working too well at http://whitehouse.gov about 2 hours ago from web Speech text: http://tinyurl.com/9wlgax about 2 … Continue reading

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SourceForce

I just posted The Open Source Force Behind the Obama Campaign over at Linux Journal. I wrote it in August for the November issue, which would come out in time for the election. But it was too long for the … Continue reading

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The Mountaintop

0400GMT, 4am London time, seconds after the polls close on the West Coast and Hawaii (and not a vote yet reported from any of those reliably blue states) CNN calls Barack Obama the winner. On the 100th Anniversary of the … Continue reading

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Voices and dreams

Say Hear is page that patches together voice messages from people who want to say why they’ve voting for whom. Interesting to click around. I just wrote in my vote for Obama. Somewhere back early this year I explained why … Continue reading

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