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Animation (Politics): On the quest for the Democratic Messiah
This little animation shows the struggle of the US Democrats to find the right candidate for the next elections in a “kind of” humorous way. Who will be the chosen one to lead the Democrats out of the desert after more than seven years?
Well, I guess we might know tomorrow but latest in November…
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Humor: Voting machine accidentally leaks results of 2008 election early
Great video with very dark humor from one of our favorite web sites “The Onion”.
Check the echoed lines on the voting machine in the video.
…ERROR: segregation fault…delete file: voter data…
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Opinion: Olbermann timeline or the Nexus of Politics and Terror
Last Thursday night during “MSNBC Countdown” Keith Olbermann presented a timeline of what he calls the “Nexus of Politics and Terror” in the USA. Events are clustered together into 13 time groups starting 18-May-2002 to show how the government and administration in the US has put spin on old, untrue or hold-back information to suppress other stories or influence news and the public towards their political agendas.
The video starts with an intro on the most recent FISA voting…
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Opinion: Obamania or Change You Can’t Believe In?
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There is an interesting opinion piece at Spiegel Online - the web site of Germany’s leading political weekly magazine - on Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
It compares Barack Obama’s campaign to the Dot-Net boom of the 1990s when for companies key economic indicators like profit, sales and numbers of employees, or experience and realism of the management team were replaced by momentum of the rising stock price.
Interesting read and for those who know the realities of dealing with Multi-Billion organizations or of international diplomacy some quite intriguing comparisons…
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Internet: Wikileaks.org ordered offline by US court
The BBC today has an article online about Wikileaks.org, a website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents.
The “BBC reports” that “…following a California court ruling, the site been taken offline in the US…” Well seemingly that’s not completely true. You won’t get access to the site via wikileaks.org but that’s because the DNS server entries have been deleted.
But hey - there are other ways. You can access the site’s content at other servers on the Internet (see image below). We suggest searching for the web site’s name and DNS and you might find it yourself. Popular bookmarking sites might also turn out helpful.
While you can question the motives why people upload documents to this site or even question the content of some of them, Wikileaks.org definitely had a rough ride the last days.
Within days they endured a fire in their server room, massive DDoS attacks and censorship threats…
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Time: Cold War Calculators
Those who still remember slide rules from the time before pocket calculators or learned flying a plane before GPS devices became so common will love this site. Others who remember the atrocities of the cold war might have a different approach to these relics from a time we all hoped that it would have long passed…
But whatever approach or understanding for that time you might have the web site “Cold War Calculators” - a site dedicate to radiac calculators slides - might show you some new “instruments” seemingly necessary during this dark period…
We didn’t know there were that many kinds of different calculators for these strange purposes - radiation dosage calculators, bomb damage effect computers, nuclear effects estimators, causality slide rules, weapons effects rules and calculators, fallout predictors, burst calculators…
Anyway - bang you’re gone…
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Video: Cha-Cha-Changes…
When you follow the interviews, debates and news on the US presidential election campaigns one word became the most popular latest after Iowa - Changes
How often it’s used and by whom - well we did not realize it until we watch the short clip below…
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Data visualization: Leading surveillance societies around the world
Since 1997 two NGOs - the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International - have surveyed and assessed the state of surveillance and privacy protection in 47 countries. The annual Privacy & Human Rights Report compiled from their findings has by now become one of the most comprehensive surveys of global privacy and citizen rights.
Their “most recent report” published a few days ago has been created with the help of more than 200 experts from around the world and has grown to 1,100 pages. It shows trends of
“…an overall worsening of privacy protection across the world, reflecting an increase in surveillance and a declining performance of privacy safeguards…“, and
“…an increasing trend amongst governments to archive data on the geographic, communications and financial records of all their citizens and residents. This trend leads to the conclusion that all citizens, regardless of legal status, are under suspicion…
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Employment: ATT starts off-the-shelf “spy-casting” service
What for long seem to have been a domain for larger organizations (when did you last time read the small print in your employment contract written in”Enron Beelzebub”) - to extent the CCTV camera surveillance from public spaces into the corporate world - now, thanks to ATT, will become available as an off-the-shelf service to any corner-shop in town.
As the “NY Times” today reports ATT is planning to sell a standardized service to enable owners of SMEs to monitor their staff…
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Everyone counts but you!
This is the outcome - winner of a design challenge to propose a strategy to raise the turnout of voters between 18 and 24.
“…I don’t care what you think of my writing or my message. You’re not included in what is going on here. Your opinion is worthless and everyone here knows it. Everyone else has something worthwhile to contribute, except you.
You’re the outcast. Everyone else has this figured out, except you. Everyone fits in, except you. Everyone, except you. Except you…
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