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Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president.

I wish I ran across this project before I headed into vote this morning so I could have participated. The New York times with the AIGA is asking the voters of the United States to snap and upload picts of their voting places. This is a great way for the regular Joe American to document there voting environments and give us online users a way to sneak a peak into the worlds of other voters around the country. It’s kind of interesting seeing schools, public buildings and even firehouses turned into makeshift voting places.

This cracks me up. Following Stephen Colbert’s attempt at running for president a few months back, I just read today in an article on CNN titled “Colbert earns ‘appropriate place’ at Smithsonian” that his portrait is now actually hanging in the Hall of Presidents. Or maybe I should say it’s hanging close to the Hall of Presidents. Erin M has a nice snapshot of the portrait up on Flickr.

For those of you who are familiar with the old Obama site that went up early last year you should check back in because some time around the Iowa caucus it seems they launched a website redesign. For those of you who were not familiar with the first site, check this post out to see screen shots of the nicely designed original and read about it’s deterioration over the year.

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If you haven’t heard the latest effort from our government to try and infringe on our rights you should read this post about the new bill called the “Safe act” proposed by the House of Representatives.

Our government want’s to keep us safe from all smut peddlers online by creating legislation that would enforce the monitoring of all publicly open WiFi networks for “obscene” image downloads. I’m all for keeping our children safe from pedophiles posing as 13 year old girls online but this clearly is not the answer to those problems. We don’t live in China nor a police state and I can’t even imagine how difficult it would be to enforce such a ridiculous law. It’s guaranteed if this thing passed we’d immediately see a huge reeducation in public WiFi.

It begs to the ask the question, what lobbyist are behind this B.S? Telcos and ISPs seem to be the only ones who’d benefit from the bill.