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TECHNOLOGY
♦ 07-26-10 - The Library of Congress added five new exemptions to its Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Monday, including the legalization of jailbreaking iphones
♦ 07-20-10 - US firm Raytheon has unveiled its anti-aircraft laser at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire.
♦  07-02-10 - Apple tries to cover up its iPhone 4 design flaw, by admitting its been lying to its customers for the last 5 years about the iphones weak reception signal strength.
♦ 06-26-10 - the new iphone 4 losses its signal whenever being held...apple's response: don't hold it.
♦  06-08-10 - AT&T is hard at work trying to frustrate and scare away it's customers
♦ apple demonstrates the lack of an AT&T 3G signal for the iphones, and the weakness of the new iphone's wi-fi capabilities, while trying to present the new iphone 4
♦ apple whines about how gizmodo's publication about a lost next-gen iphone was immensely damaging because now people wont but apple products until they release it. as if it wasnt common knowledge that apple doesnt come out with a newer version of their products every other year.
♦ 05-12-10 - A $1.4million TV advertising blitz has been launched across the US in an attempt to derail efforts to increase regulation of broadband services so that ISPs would be forced to treat their customers fairly and equally.
♦ 05-11-10 - firefox developers outline plans for firefox 4.0
♦ Android Outsells the iPhone
♦ 05-08-10 - now after apple has insists on blocking flash from working on the iphone (claiming that flash is a proprietary software), apple intends to create its own proprietary alternateive version of flash.
♦ A future in which robots help around the home could prove harmful to humans, suggests a study.
♦ 05-06-10 - The web undergoes a "historic" change as a system that allows the first web addresses in non-Latin scripts is switched on.
♦ Microsoft's Internet Explorer's share of the browser market drops below 60% for the first time, while Google's Chrome gains strength.
♦ 04-29-10 - Steve Jobs writes a letter explaining why we should accept apple's monopolistic attitudes, and tries to say that its because apple is open that it refuses to allow software content from apple's compeitors to run on the iphone....in short, a this letter is full of shit.
♦ 04-23-10 - after years of no flash support on iphone and apple blaming the issue on adobe, adobe takes steps to create software to allow flash to run on iphone, apple then says software will not be allowed to run on iphone, and now adobe abandons project
♦ 04-13-10 - in an attempt to screw over their loyal customers and dstop people from creating iphone apps, Apple is now saying only programs written with their software development kits will be allowed on iphones.
♦ 04-06-10 - ipad users act shocked to find that there are problems with the ipad's wifi capabilities.
♦ Ada Lovelace, who is credited with writing the world's first computer program when she came up with a way of using the machine, was voted most popular technology heroine
♦ high speed Internet for eveyone by 2020
♦ thanks to the iphone, AT&T reported third-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates.
♦ 10-22-09 - microsoft officially launches windows7
♦ nokia is suing apple over the iphone
♦ known bug when upgrading from vista to windows7
♦ upgrade to windowsw7
♦ 10-17-09 - ATSC, which oversees TV standards for the U.S., said Friday it has approved a standard for mobile digital broadcasts.
♦ at&t launches its own version of hulu, but doesnt make it compatible with its own users, ie the iphone users
♦ 09-09-09 - AT&T blames iphone users for AT&T's crappy service and networks
♦ 03-30-09 - Giant laser experiment powers up: The US has finished constructing a huge physics experiment aimed at recreating conditions at the heart of our Sun.
♦ 01-28-09 - house votes not to delay the death sentence for analog tv
♦ 01-23-09 - Pope Benedict XVI has launched his own dedicated channel on the popular video sharing website, YouTube
♦ programming code samples for vb
♦ IBM to build brain-like computers
♦ inside CERN
♦ 09-10-08 - the Large Hadron Collider at CERN successfully fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel
♦ image metrics - CGI facial animations
♦ 07-11-08 - review of the new iPhone 3G
♦ Toyota will equip Prius with solar panels
♦ the aptera - a car that gets 230 mpg
♦ monkey's brain controls robotic arm
♦ Do Not Call list - www.donotcall.gov
♦ DVD ripping software
♦ Dr. Moreau is alive and working in Newcastle
♦ melodyne studio - a polyphonic audio editing program
♦ internet connection speed test
♦ favicon plugin
♦ vectorize images
♦ October 10th 1979 -Its PacMan;s Birthday
♦ useless but cool goggles
♦ how to view thumbnails of PSD files
♦ google 411 --- telephone voice local search
♦ Vint Cerf rejects calls to regulate the internet
♦ ascii and html codes
♦ 25th anniversary of the compact disc
♦ nasa
♦ how the space shuttle returns to earth
♦ jason van winkle and james nelms get their artwork ripped off being without given any credit...oh, and something about the future of agriculture
♦ Beware Technophobes - Be Assimilated or Go to Jail! (an essay about the julie amero case)
PRESIDENTIAL RACE 2008
♦ 11-02-08 - Sarah Palin duped by prank call from a canadian comedian -- with audio
♦ 10-27-08 - 2 Men charged with plotting to kill Obama
♦ 01-21-09 - President Obama retook his oath of office Wednesday after Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed while delivering it at Tuesday's inauguration
♦ 01-20-08 - obama's inagural speech in full -- text and video
♦ 01-20-09 - obama is inargurated today, and is officially president of the united states of america
♦ presidential inauguration website
♦ 01-04-09 - A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race
♦ 12-01-08 - hillary clinton named secretary of state
♦ 11-10-08 - Obama launches Web site to reach public
♦ 11-06-08 - U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel will be Obama's chief of staff
♦ 11-05-08 - World leaders hail Obama triumph
♦ BARACK OBAMA WINS US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
♦ 11-04-08 - 8:00pm - BARACK OBAMA IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE USA
♦ 11-03-08 - Obama's grandmother dies hours before election
♦ 10-30-08 - Elizabeth Dole(R), who is down in polls for the N.C. senate race, calls her opponent (D)Kay Hagan godless, stooping to new lows for republicans campaigning in north carolina.
♦ 10-26-08 - rift inside mccain's campaign, most notably the rift between mccain staffers and palin loyalists
♦ Major League Baseball has agreed to push back the start time of a potential World Series Game 6 by eight minutes to allow Democrat Barack Obama to purchase a half-hour of air time on the Fox network on Oct 29 between 8pm - 8:30pm
♦ 10-26-08 - voters are being purged from registries without proper notification, all across country
♦ 10-24-08 - mccain campaign worker admits making up story about being attacked by a man angered by a John McCain bumper sticker on her car
♦ 10-24-08 - long time mccain advisor, charles fried supports Obama
♦ 10-23-08 - Former Bush aide, Scott McClellan, voting for Obama
♦ 10-19-08 - Barack Obama fired back against charges his tax policy amounts to “socialism”
♦ 10-19-08 - Colin Powell endorses Obama
♦ 10-18-08 - Obama speaks in front of a crowd of 100,000 people in St. Louis, Missouri
♦ the New Yorker says Biden would be most effective as VP behind scenes
♦ 10-17-08 - Joe Biden ripped into recent comments by his Republican counterpart that suggested that some places in the U.S. are more "pro-America" than others.
♦ 10-17-08 - The Supreme Court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute
♦ 10-12-08 - republican leaders criticize the way mccain is running his campaign
♦ 10-12-08 - obama campaigns by knocking on people's door
♦ 10-11-08 - after an independent bi-partisan commission concluding palin was guilty of abuse of power in violation of state ethics laws, palin denies she abused power
♦ 10-11-08 - mccain is trying to act surprised that his campaign mobs shout racist and ignorant things about obama, at mccain's rallies
♦ 10-11-08 - Sarah Palin dialed back the attacks on Senator Barack Obama during a speech in Pennsylvania
♦  10-10-08 - mccain booed by his own supports when he tried to calm the anti-obama mob
♦ 10-10-08 - Alaskan State Legislature concluded Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor
♦ link to full troopergate report released today
♦ 10-10-08 - Sarah Palin is guilty of abuse of power, according to a probe by the state legislature
♦ 10-09-08 - Alaska Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Palin Probe
♦ Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of primetime television on CBS and NBC, sources confirm.
♦  10-08-08 - NYtimes describes mccain's campaign as the most appalling campaign of all time
♦ A group of Alaskan state employees have agreed to testify at a probe into alleged abuses of power by Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin.
♦ GOP appeal the courts ruling that the legislative body has the right to investigate palin's troopergate case
♦ obama camp rejects palin's absurd connection between obama and terrorists
♦ 10-05-08 - mccain campaign getting desperate, and turns to smear campaigns to win over voters
♦ 10-03-08 - Superior Court Judge says Legislature palin's 'troopergate' case, GOP now trying to appeal decision
♦ 10-03-08 - Viewer Analysis: Palin does better then expected (which isn't saying much), but Biden wins debate
♦ Fact Check: Palin maintained a private e-mail account that she used to communicate with a small circle of staff members outside the state government's secure official e-mail system
♦ 09-30-08 - Obama, McCain, Biden will all to vote on bailout bill
♦ 09-30-08 - Obama calls on Americans to support rescue plan
♦ 09-30-08 - mccain campaign tries to explain palin's dumbass putin comment druring her interview with katie couric
♦ Courts Allow Same-Day Vote Window to Go Forward in Ohio (until Oct 6th)
♦ AP Investigation: Palin got zoning aid, gifts
♦ 09-26-08 - Fact Checker of the debate tonight
♦ 09-25-08 3:48 PM ET - Obama and Mccain meet with Bush at the white house to discuss bail out plan
♦ Obama's proposed Tax Plan (from the obama website)
♦ Mccain's proposed Tax Plan
♦  Obama's proposed Tax Plan explained
♦ 09-24-08 - obama responds to mccain's announcement to suspend debates and campaigns, basically says, he'll be in washington whenever it is helpful, but a president should be able to do more than one thing at a time.
♦  09-24-08 - New voting glitches raise concerns in Palm Beach County, Florida
♦ 09-24-08 - after taking a brutal beating in the polls Mccain is trying to get obama to stop campaigning
♦ FACT CHECKS: cnn's fact checker
♦ 09-23-08 - Man arrested near Obama's chicago home with a pistol and a bulletproof vest
♦ 09-22-08 - CNN POLL OF POLLS: Obama ahead in crucial battlegrounds
♦ Fact Check: Palin's town charged women for rape exams
♦ Fact Check: Senator John McCain's campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations
♦ electoral map of years past
♦ 09-19-08 - 'the McCain campaign is trying to "stonewall" the investigation' into sarah palin
♦ did palin illegally use her yahoo email for government purposes, and then delete all the emails?
♦ Fact Check: Palin was directly involved in soliciting millions of dollars in earmarks
♦ 09-18-08 - Voting problems reported in 10 vital swing states
♦ 09-18-08 - top republican senatore says Palin is unready to be vice-president
♦ 09-17-08 - Gov. Sarah Palin won't comply with subpoenas issued by state lawmakers
♦  A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries
♦ a basic economic 'to do list' that the next president will have to deal with
♦ 09-16-08 - Mccain is not trying to say the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device was a "miracle that John McCain helped create."
♦ Fact Check: Mccain and Palin inflate the alaskan energy figures
♦ 09-16-08 - palin files a lawsuit to stop the investigation into the case of her abuse of power
♦ 09-15-08 - sarah palin refuses to cooperate with an investigator hired by lawmakers to look into the firing of her public safety commissioner
♦ Voter Absentee Ballots Deadline for each state
♦ Voter Registration Deadlines for each state
♦ 09-14-08 - obama pulls in $66million in donations during August
♦ polls: "registered voters" vs. "likely voters"
♦ 09-14-08 - Karl Rove even says Mccain hasn't been telling the truth in his campaign ads
♦ 09-12-08 - Campaign Finance Tracker
♦ Fact Check: CNN exposes earmarks sought by sarah palin
♦ Fact Check: palin’s pipeline is years from being a reality, and it will cost 50x more than the pipeline proposed by the former alaskan governors
♦ Judge warned Palin in 2005 to back off brother-in-law's job
♦ Fact Check: McCain earmark claims examined - guess what, palin had $450million in earmarks, obama only had $98million
♦ mccain used the 'lipstick on a pig' comment, prior to criticising obama for using it
♦ mccain's vice-pres nominee, sarah palin, refuses to answer any question, but rather sticks to her same scripted speech of lies and mis-representations
♦ 09-10-08 - mccain campaign using same old 'swift boat' style smear campaigns to distract people from talking about real issues
♦ 09-10-08 - Obama's response to Mccain's use of 'swift boat politics'
♦ 09-09-08 - All 22 countries in a BBC World Service poll would prefer Democratic nominee Barack Obama to be US president
♦ FACT: Seven top McCain officials were lobbyists
♦ obama's economic plans vs. mccain's - guess what? mccain's results in an estimaed $2.9 trillion loss, while obama's plan is estimated to have $596 billion surplus
♦ 09-09-08 - mccain ahead in national polls, but obama is leading in projected electoral votes
♦ 09-09-08 - cnn finally starts fact checking sarah palin's misleading, and distorted acceptance speech
♦ presidential election polls (a collection of data from various independent polls)
♦ US 2008 presidentail election polltracker (includes Gallup, Rasmussen, Washington Post, and AP-Ipsos polls)
♦ 09-05-08 - US jobless rate soars to 6.1%, the highest since 2003
♦ senator joe leiberman calls barak obama a 'blessing', and says he will do whatever he can to help 'him reach to the stars'
♦ 09-02-08 - jon stewart exposes the hypocrisy of the republican party
♦ article describing some of obama's legislative achievements
♦ palin vs. reality
♦  09-02-08 - fact check on sarah palin's acceptance speech
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