Barack Obama’s getting a Cadillac-styled new Presidential Limo tomorrow. While nice, we’re more interested in the Gatling gun-equipped Suburban that follows Cadillac One. Here’s video of the bullet-spraying Chevy in action.
“Mr. Obama tends to take a magpie approach to reading — ruminating upon writers’ ideas and picking and choosing those that flesh out his vision of the world or open promising new avenues of inquiry.”
Oprah! Bono! Miley! Oh, and some guy named Barack Obama. Along with millions of regular folk, celebrities swarmed to DC to celebrate the Inauguration. Find out who was there.
In these dour economic times, one complaint made by the people who didn’t vote for Barack Obama is: why is the federal government spending so much money on his inauguration? As Tom “Hammer” Delay told Politico.
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Cellphone Users Told To Expect Delays
Washington Post – 1 hour ago By Spencer S. Hsu Pre-inauguration concertgoers who flocked to the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday sent about 10 times the volume of wireless calls, text messages, pictures and videos as on the busiest hour of a typical day, causing scattered outages that … 'Text, don't talk' Globe and Mail Obama crowds test mobile networks BBC News Inside NoVA – MSNBC – Scientific American – Popular Science all 19 news articles |
Will Windows 7 achieve the respect that Vista failed to win? It’s telling that one element of Windows 7 Microsoft isn’t especially trumpeting (amidst the cloud of self-congratulation about how the new OS is slicker, faster and essentially the Barack Obama of networking) is its gaming clout.
Before he was even a senator, let alone president-elect, then-unknown Barack Obama was, at a 2003 St. Patrick’s Day parade, a plunger wrangler.
It will probably be the most widely watched address ever delivered on the planet, one that will draw millions of Americans and billions around the globe together – to savor the moment and the message of one man at one memorable turning point in American history.
