So what did we all think of the CNN election-day holograms? (which weren’t really that at all, as one geek at our Votewatch pub lunch pointed out, and as the SMH technology section explains is technically known as a tomogram)… Read More ›
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US Election ’08: Transcript of Hoyden About Town LiveBloggyChat
Greetings, folks! [A transcript of president-elect Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Grant Park is here.] Earlier today, we had a liveblog/chat during the US election result counting. I’ve cleaned it up and trimmed it a lot (trying to maintain the… Read More ›
Third Debate Thoughts, and Video of McCain’s air-scarequotes “health of the mother”
My first impression thoughts of the third presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, mostly grabbed from my twitter feed: – McCain choked on addressing Obama as “Senator Obama” at the opening, unless there was a glitch in the… Read More ›
Hurricane Gustav
[edited 31 Aug: CNN map updated.] My thoughts go out to any Hoydenizens in the path or trail of Hurricane Gustav. Stay safe.
Obama/Osama confusion: It’s not just Fox
Looks like it’s not just Fox News’ Liz Trotta, Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, CNN, Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, and AP Chairman W. Dean Singleton. Fairfax’s Sydney Morning Herald is now in on the “Obama? Osama?” faux-confusion act. A… Read More ›
Well, there goes Facebook then
Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous. In other news, the fossilised remains of a R.O.U.S. have been discovered in Uruguay. Image Source: CNN In other other news, CNN seems to have sacked all employees with a smidgen of grammatical nous. H/T… Read More ›
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