From io9: "Remember those Battlestar Galactica webisodes we were promised before the second half of the show's final season launches January 16? Turns out "webisodes" was sort of a misnomer. They're actually going to air on the Sci Fi Channel during the channel's showing of Pitch Black on January 15. (I guess they're "webisodes" in the sense that a ton of websites, including this one, will be posting them immediately afterwards.) The channel will also air a half-hour special, BSG: Essential Elements, on Sunday, Jan. 11." - Mark Trapp
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President-elect of the United States. Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and President-elect of the United States of America. - Mitchell Tsai
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Obama is the first African-American to be elected President of the United States of America and the first African-American to be nominated by a major American political party for President. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he became the first black person to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review. - Mitchell Tsai
Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. - Mitchell Tsai
One of my friends writes "of course success has 'many fathers'. But thx. to the numerous University of Chicago affiliates in Barack Obama's team and not only their excellent analytical skills but also the entire strategy of the campaign and the AAA+ execution to the very detail in the past two years have led to his election. Obama is a former University of Chicago Law School Prof. & faculty member. Chicago Boys' such as Austan Golsbe (Obama's Chief Economic Advisor / GSB Prof.), David Axelrod (Obama's Chief Strategiest / UoC College), Steven Levitt (author of the bestseling book "Freakonomics" / GSB Prof.), among others where of tremendous benefit to his campaign - Mitchell Tsai
I work in the financial market. Lots of groans and talk of people pulling their money out even more. Woohoo! - Mike L
Its amazing what the feeling is right now. There is something in the air. It feels like Christmas, New Years Eve, and Halloween when you were a little kid all together. - Brad Blosat
Same here when seeing folks today, but now I wonder what to do next. I feel like I have energy and hope that wasn't there before... just not sure where to channel it. - Kevin C. Tofel
All people here in Germany are moved, touched and happy! The American dream has truly renewed itself! This is a tremendous signal to the world and a sign of hope, for political change and also the intellectual abilities of our time.
I wish all Americans dream-fullfilling times ahead and am exited to see what will happen now. - Anina
I feel better that the election circus has ended - Bwana
"Nov. 5 (Bloomberg)-- Barack Obama played above the rim.
He made the difficult look easy. A rookie in a field of veterans, he made the fewest mistakes. He stayed cool when others were impulsive. He took ownership of the word ``change'' and never relinquished it.
He leveraged technology as never before, rewriting the template for campaigns in the digital age. Obama, 47, ended up with millions of volunteers and more than $650 million, the political equivalent of all the money in the world." - Thomas Hawk
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Isn't that how it works though? Put it on the line and don't bork it up FTW. - Gerald Buckley
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And frankly by promising whatever people wanted to hear. I hope he can pull through with even a small portion of his promises. I have never seen a campaign one on a basis of so much smooth rhetoric and spin. - Jeremy Hall
I wonder if Wall Street already saw this coming. Yahoo's stock has gone up today and hasn't fallen the way I expected it to in hearing this news. - Geoffrey Hamilton
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I am wondering the same thing Geoffrey, Google's stock change is well within its normal swings but I am surprised to see the jump in Yahoo's stock. - pcnerd37
Hard to fall further when you are already dug into the ground - Ian D. Nock
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Descriptive article, and pretty comprehensive, covering the unique features of the races, a summary of what happened, and what lies ahead - Cass
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it's not everyday that I open the paper in Seattle, and there is a great article about Singapore. - lisa.ong
I have offficially managed to scare all of my friends* with this poster so, for that alone, thanks for the post! *non-republican friends, obviously. - pea gives ♥ a bad name
That about sums up the election - facts don;t enter into it - this is all about fear and framing. - Soulhuntre
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i agree -- the framing with obama's "terrorist ties" and scaring people into thinking his discourse with countries like iran is hazardous to the safety of this nation, etc - Cee Bee
From io9: "There are many, many reasons to wish that you'd worked on Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica: -the critical kudos, the security of being involved in one of television's best SF shows ever, the possibility of being in the same room as Grace Park at some point - but the wrap party's special limited edition yearbook may be the prettiest reason of them all. Is it too much to ask that this tribute to the cast and crew of the show gets some kind of modified general release when the series reaches its conclusion next year?" - Mark Trapp
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Also, the floor delegate interviews remind me of the sort of things you'd see outside a rock concert. Reporter: "What did you think of Governor Palin's speech?" Moron A: "She was awesome, amazing, I identify with her. The right pick." Reporter: "Why?" Moron A: "Uhh, she rocks... n stuff, and she's going to protect Amurika." - Anthony Citrano
From SciFi Wire: "SCI FI Channel is calling "inaccurate" rumors that the second half of Battlestar Galactica's fourth and final season will be delayed and confirmed again that the original series will return with new episodes in January 2009.
Several Web sites, including io9 and Galactica Sitrep, have posted the rumors, reportedly based on comments made by Battlestar cast member Aaron Douglas at Dragon*Con.
The reports are erroneous, the channel confirmed to SCI FI Wire. "It is still slated to return January 2009," a spokesman for the channel said. " - Mark Trapp
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It's all about making sure power stays with the big companies. A bad tactic, as without good web radio services, people will just resort to illegitimate sources. - Chris Nixon
Mike U still Fat or U lost some weight? ;-) - Igor The Troll
the only reason i use Pandora is to check out new songs out there that i've never heard of or songs that i want to ID. I've bought 3 CD's this month after previewing on Pandora. - Mark L
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I guess Last.fm being bought by CBS turned out to be a good thing, otherwise it could be th next "target"... - João Almeida
Have to agree. Radio in any form brings music to new audiences. This essentially free marketing for the record labels. This anihalation of Internet radio will only drive down CD sales even more. The recording industry will be in such a precarious situation that they will reverse themselves. - Roberto Bonini
The music monopoly is happy to drive radio out of business. They only they can afford to run their own radio stations (paying their exhorbitant fees to themselves). Then all listeners will eat what they're fed, mass produced music from the monopoly. - Indio Apache
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I find the whole situation in the music industry completely absurd. I am in the middle of this fiasco as a music management company and label owner. This is ridiculous that Pandora are required to pay the performance and songwriter's royalties when radio station have been excluded from paying performance royalties for like 50+ years. And only now have they begun to chase after radio stations to pay the performance fee. Albeit to save face and not look like the bullies they are. - Dale Adams
This is about Control. They screwed it up 10 years ago when we drug their asses kicking and screaming into the Internet. Now every time someone invents something to bring the music to the masses the major labels start crying foul because they lose control of something that they had on lock. Now that distribution has been yanked out of their bratty selfish hands they want to start making small internet radio stations pay extortionist fees at the hands of the FCC ruling instead of a percentage of profits. Did somebody ask the RIAA what happened to all that money they've collected from Napster and the customers they've sued? If I was them I'd hire a PR firm and have press conference as I started handing out checks to the artists I was supposedly representing. There is nothing wrong with the state of the music industry except the majors want their distribution back. Your time of control is up. Keep trying to sell us your 8-track methods in a digital world. - Dale Adams
and I had just taken all of the music off of my jesus-phone in an effort to use Pandora that much more. I find this really irritating. I have gotten multiple new cd's as a result of hearing a song I really liked on Pandora. What more do they want from me? - Tim Wright
I think that film director James Gunn has summed up Twitter with this statement, "I like people to know when I'm drinking coffee, so I joined Twitter." http://twitter.com/james_gunn - Mark Wilson
@eagledawg are you seeing this thread? - ¡ M A R I E !
I share so much random crap, I don't even know what I could be co-branded with. Story of my life too much diversity! - Geoff Schultz
Geoff, I also shared this in honor of Mona's hiatus. As long as we're staking claims, I get 'random crap'. But not literal crap, that belongs to the folks who posted the floating turd. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
rofl. @ SB all hail Random Figurative Crap Queen SB - Geoff Schultz
If we're going to have all these posts about bacon, someone has to start posting about eggs. - eve shot first
If that video had anymore awesome crammed into it, it would break the speed of awesome and cause the universe to unravel in an instance of pure ecstasy. - Geoff Schultz
If someone is elected eggs do they get to be bacon's significant other? If so that may drastically increase the number of interested parties. - Geoff Schultz
@Geoff: I graciously accept my title as Random Figurative Crap Queen *curtsy* You shall be Random Figurative Crap King. We both shall reign until others with even more free time and aversion to actual work usurp our power. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
More aversion to work than us? Our reign will be long indeed. - Geoff Schultz
"Cookie Monster cupcakes! These are the cutest things I've seen all week! Photo from princess_of_llyr over on Flickr. Check out her photostream--she's got some great pics of candy, fruit, and other tasty delights!" - RAPatton
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"Before Alex was born, I predicted that he would be able to be elected to office if he so chose; as time passes, and his skills and personality are revealed, my chatter seem more and more like a premonition. The most recent foreshadowing came Monday when Alex informed us that he organized the kids at chess camp so that they shared their snacks with each other. That evening Chris Obert was caught raiding his pantry by his mother; he was inspired to bring more items to share (Chris also now wants braces because Alex has them!). On Tuesday the fever peaked, as one little girl, whose name Alex does not even know, got carried away during the feast of Alex and enthusiastically told the others, "we need people like Alex to end world hunger." After which she proclaimed, "if he were to run for president, I would vote him!" A hearty cheer erupted as the lunch room morphed into scene reminiscent of parliament as the others kids loudly added their "me too"s! ...." - RAPatton
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"... By the way, have I ever told you that if Alex wants one, I think he has a future in politics? - RAPatton
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