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Category Archives: Politics

Take the New York Times quiz every day.

If you want to keep up with the world’s news while you are browsing on Facebook, try the NY Times Quiz.

It’s challenging, and only takes a few minutes. They have five multiple-choice questions that are mostly international.
I have to admit that I have another tab open searching Google News. Most of the time, my guesses [...]

Digg the candidates

Daniel posted this today, and I thought I would share it with you. Digg’s audience is stereotyped as being a bunch of 13-year-old kids that just like to talk shit. Well, I don’t think that’s their core audience. It will be interesting to see who the tech community diggs. I will be checkin this page [...]

Frank Chu explains galaxies, corrupt government.

Frank Chu being interviewed in SOMA from Andrew Mager on Vimeo.
Mr. Million Galaxies was spotted at a party for Reddit.com. My colleague and I interviewed him. Sorry if the audio is choppy.

What am I doing? Where am I? Ask my phone.

Two new mobile services just recently caught my eye. And I have to admit, I am addicted to them.
Twitter, a two-year-old social networking site, asks one simple question, “What are you doing?”
When I first came across this site, I signed up for an account, and sparingly updated my status. I never really got into it [...]

Apologize for Slavery?

Delegate Frank D. Hargrove, who is white and Christian, made his remarks in opposition to a measure that would apologize on the state’s behalf to the descendants of slaves.

In an interview published Tuesday in The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Hargrove, 79, said slavery ended nearly 140 years ago with the Civil War and added that [...]

Just Stop Fighting

Today in Iraq, the deaths of six U.S. soldiers pushed the American toll beyond the number of victims in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

I just don’t understand why we have to keep dipping our pen in Iraqi ink every day. If we can’t get our act together in the states, what justifies us going somewhere [...]

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