I volunteered for the Obama campaign and called voters in swing states yesterday and today. I really wish I’d gotten involved sooner! It was actually a lot of fun, and it was amazing to see the huge diversity of people who showed up at the headquarters to help. I wish I could have taken pictures! [...]
Category Archives: news
Phone banking for Obama (highlights!)
04-Nov-08Part I Did you know that the Federal Govt. spends about $91,687,500.00 (that’s nearly $92 million, for those of us who don’t often see numbers bigger than 4 or 5 digits) a year on the salaries of 551 people? Did you know that our president makes $400,000 a year? (sources: 1, 2) The average US [...]
less than 1/3 of 1% difference.
09-Nov-06On the Virginia race: An Associated Press count Wednesday night showed Webb with 1,172,538 votes and Allen with 1,165,302, a difference of 7,236, or less than one-third of 1 percent. Wow. There are more people enrolled in some high schools than that. My high school was something like 6,000 people when I was enrolled. Nevermind! [...]
Voter turnout
08-Nov-06Cassady just told me that voter turnout exceeded 40% for yesterday’s midterms (preliminary analysis). I know that I was one of those people who decided to stop feeling apathetic and start actually trying to understand what’s going on and get people to vote. Seems I wasn’t the only one. Other news is saying they projected [...]
An Oregon reaction to Election Day!
08-Nov-06Oregon: Did you see the OregonLive results yet?? I’m pretty happy about pretty much everything there. :) Except, uh… laughably 47 is passing without 46. Considering that 46 ALLOWS laws regulating campaign funds in the first place, you can’t pass a MEASURE THAT WOULD REGULATE FUNDS (measure 47) without it. And thus… right now, measure [...]
Literacy, technology, Google, and India
05-Oct-06(or titled “part 2 of the “hole in the wall” India literacy experiment post!”) Google announced yesterday that it’s launching the Google Literacy project to help spread literacy and provide resources and lots of other stuff for teachers, parents, mentors, students, and just regular people (with internet access) to help do so. While promoting literacy [...]
Alton Verm’s request to ban “Fahrenheit 451″ came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban “Fahrenheit 451,” a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence Hahahahahaha. coincidence, my ass. so… I’ve been hanging out on reddit.com this morning. can you tell?
Wow. I didn’t even hear about this before now, but today while reading some of my work-related rss feeds, I came face-to-face with the story of AOL’s big screw up last July… and the fact that now they’re being sued for $5k a person-whose-data-was-released… wow. Here’s a link to the complaint and here’s a story [...]
Google gives public domain books!
31-Aug-06I feel a tiny TINY bit bad for those awesome sites who’ve long maintained archives of public domain literature (Gutenberg, C.U.T., and this UK library to name a few), because now they’ve got some serious competition. But at the same time, now they don’t HAVE to maintain those libraries. They probably weren’t making a lot [...]
OpenOffice to become a native Mac App!!
30-Aug-06Macworld shares the happy OO news. Microsoft Office alternative, OpenOffice, will ship in a native version for OS X next month. You have NO IDEA how happy this makes me. It’s soo difficult for me to run OO on my mac, because NeoOffice and running X11 take up too many resources and slow everything down. [...]