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Barack Obama’s First 100 Days

time.com

Day 1
Jan. 20, 2009

"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept, but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task."

Barack Obama in his Inaugural Address, minutes after being sworn into office as the 44th President

See Time’s special report on President Obama’s first 100 days.

The Wall Street Journal’s take on the President’s first 100 days: read

Star Trek: Old vs. New

boston.com

Ron Agrella, Boston.com, compares the actors of the original Star Trek and  the new actors who will be stepping up into these classic roles. read

Official movie site

"You are capable of deciding your own destiny, the question is which path will you choose?"
Sarek, Spock’s father, said to young Spock when he questioned him why he married a human.

Innerpartysystem

This is entertainment!

Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica

“In December 2007 and January 2008 Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky went to Antarctica to shoot a film and make a large scale multimedia performance work that will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent called Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica. Sinfonia Antarctica transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape of Antarctica into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. It’s about the environment, sound, hip hop, electronic music and what it means to be a composer in the 21st century.” more

Earth Day Around the World

 

Forbestraveller.com has put together an interesting slide show of Earth Day events around the globe.

watch the slid show

Linux Air

linuxscrew.com

The year is 2025, Linux community has launched its airline dubbed Linux Air…

“Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself.

When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, “You had to do what with the seat?” read about the rest of OS airlines.

My Individual Workstation (MIW)

Zeynep Altmisoglu a senior student at Istanbul Technical University has designed the next generation work surface for student designers. However, It looks like that the rest of us can use this pragmatic work surface as well.

Check out the rest of the photos here.

Rodrigo y Gabriela

 

Rod y Gab Website

F1 appeal rules in Brawn’s favor

news.bbc.co.uk/sport

“World motorsport’s governing body the FIA has ruled that F1 championship leader Jenson Button’s car is legal.

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Button has won both races this season and there were complaints that his Brawn GP team and rivals Toyota and Williams used an illegal diffuser.

But following eight hours of strongly worded evidence the International Court of Appeal ruled that the cars "comply with the applicable regulations".

All three teams are free to race in the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.”  read

8tracks

8tracks is a simple way for people to create or listen to a mix, a short
playlist containing at least 30 minutes — roughly 8 tracks — of music.

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