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[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 5, 2008 by admin in Comics
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Your Thoughts On Election Day?
[ 4 Comments ]Posted on November 4, 2008 by admin in Politics
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Well, I voted. Now all I can do is sit back and trust America. Which worked so well for me in 2000 and again in 2004. So I’m just trying to float through the rest of the day with a sense of humor. On that note, four-year old Truett says to get out and vote, [...]
Well, I voted. Now all I can do is sit back and trust America. Which worked so well for me in 2000 and again in 2004. So I’m just trying to float through the rest of the day with a sense of humor. On that note, four-year old Truett says to get out and vote, pointing out that you’re lucky, because “I Nevew Kin Vote Fo Fo-teen Yee-wuhs“. On the other end of the age spectrum, apparently America’s remaining dial-up Internet users have already elected McCain in a landslide. As usual, The Onion has some good stuff in their “War for the White House” section like Bush: ‘Can I Stop Being President Now?’ and commentary on long voter lines like “If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too? And by that I mean I’m not voting.” And for a sort of odd time-filler, check out the New York Times’ Election Word Train, which lets you say how you feel and watch results of others’ input as a “word crawl”. We don’t have a Word Train on Dissociated Press, but I’d love to hear your experiences or thoughts about today…
Life In 2015, If Obama Wins
[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 3, 2008 by admin in Politics
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
The Longest 24 Hours Of My Life
[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 3, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Monday, November 3rd, 2008I feel like the kid who’s been smacked too many times by his mean dad to believe that he’s finally getting a piece of candy just for being good. Is this really happening? Is an intelligent, sohisticated, compassionate, BLACK man actually going to be elected president tomorrow? I keep drinking coffee and pinching myself. Maybe [...]
I feel like the kid who’s been smacked too many times by his mean dad to believe that he’s finally getting a piece of candy just for being good. Is this really happening? Is an intelligent, sohisticated, compassionate, BLACK man actually going to be elected president tomorrow? I keep drinking coffee and pinching myself. Maybe I slipped into a coma induced by the eighth year of the surreality of the Bush administration…but no, I keep looking, and rubbing my eyes, and it’s still there. Why are so many of us still worried the candy’s going to be snatched back from us? Why do I feel like tomorrow is going to be the longest 24 hours of my life?
Lose Your Keys? Big Brother Knows Where They Are
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on November 3, 2008 by admin in Technology
Monday, November 3rd, 2008And soon Google will have a service to make replacement keys for you!
I’m the kind of person who gets annoyed when Google takes my picture without asking. So the implications of these two technologies has staggering possibilities to me. First, UC San Diego researchers managed to use a photo taken with a telephoto lens to make a functional set of duplicate keys. Combine that with the incredible new image recognition technology in the presentation at left, and the possibilities are amazing. The clip is nine minutes long, but worth a watch (and probably much better full size). The software being discussed is called Photosynth, and what it does is analyze photos for similarities to others, then uses that data to build a model of where the photos were taken. This can theoretically be done with photos from all over the web, the info being gathered much like text is gathered by Google. Now that image recognition is becoming so sophisticated, is it possible that soon those automated help voices on the phone will understand what we’re saying?