Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Of all the appointments Barack Obama is making to his new cabinet, none has attracted as much attention as that of Hillary Clinton. The way it has been handled says more about the future of his presidency than any other. (Read More)
Submitted by Milieunet
from YouTube:
President-elect Barack Obama announces he has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or create 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011. For more information, visit http://change.gov. (Read More)
: meh, content is good, but he comes across too dictitorialsounds too dictitorial. prez needs nedia training like nobody's biz. communications director needs to fall on his sword if necessary to insist that brother Barack learn to speak extemporaneously...not from the teleprompter. either that, or Rahmbo could do it...easily. to repurpose the prez's closing quote. we need to act...now
: @Jeffrey I disagree. I think these weekly videos should verge on the boring. No panic, but confident. Compare the content of what he's saying with how he says it. I think the balance is close to just right.
Submitted by Adamcohen
from Google Reader:
A little bit of weekend fun – I spotted this on Shel Holtz’s blog today. Suddenly I feel like I’m in the middle of Minority Report:
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Screw Second Life; I want this.
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: Back in 1998 when I was mkting vp of Activeworlds, precursor to Second Life, I met with all of the major film studios, who told me to come back when AW looked and felt like the Holodeck...seems we may be getting there with sufficient compute power, but bandwidth will indeed be the holdup. Unless everyone get's ftth (fibre-2-the-home), it won't work. Wireless won't cut it...not wimax, not LTE...no friggin way; not unless the FCC frees up 100's of additional Mhz...and even then...may not be sufficient.
Submitted by Jeffrey Schwartz:
Limit on review of war crimes issuesFriday, June 20th, 2008 1:39 pm | Lyle Denniston | Comments Off | Print This PostEmail this • Share on Facebook • Digg This!The D.C. Circuit Court, giving the Pentagon a significant victory as it prepares war crimes trials, ruled on Friday that the Court has no authority to hear challenge (Read More)
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Submitted by Jeffrey Schwartz:
New technology from a company called Sandbridge Technologies could help keep smartphone prices in check as carriers begin to move toward 4G wireless networks.On Monday, Sandbridge, based in Tarrytown, N.Y., plans to announce that its new baseband processor for cell phones, called the SB3500, is now shipping to cell phone ma (Read More)
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A government report released Thursday paints an alarming picture of an unstable future for international relations defined by waning American influence, a fragmentation of political power and intensifying struggles for increasingly scarce natural resources.
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