When he delivers his historic inaugural address on Jan. 20, President-elect and noted public speaker Barack Obama will be continuing a 220-year-old oratorical tradition begun by George Washington.
With four days to go until president-elect Barack Obama takes is inaugurated, history is documenting George Bush’s environmental record at home and abroad. Read more on the Bush legacy in The Bush Years supplement in Saturday’s paper
Ilgaz writes in to let us know that we will have to install MS Silverlight 2 to watch the US President’s inauguration online. Everyone running Mac PPC, Linux, and FreeBSD has been left out, as there are no working Silverlight 2-capable alternatives on these systems. Here is Microsoft’s press release announcing the selection of Silverlight yesterday. Streaming of various events around the inauguration begins today at the Presidential Inaugural Committee site, which touts its “inclusive and accessible” coverage.
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Staking Arctic claims
Toronto Star – 15 Jan 2009 Will the Arctic cast a chill over Barack Obama's official visit to Canada soon after his inauguration? Let's hope not. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the US president-elect are looking to co-operate across a wide range of issues, from the global … Clarity and contrast Globe and Mail Bush issues US policy on Arctic energy supplies Reuters DigitalJournal.com – TheChronicleHerald.ca – The Gazette (Montreal) – Calgary Herald all 138 news articles |
Hah! A Kenyan cellphone company has released a Barack Obama-branded cellphone. It’s decked out in red and blue, with fun phrases like “Yes We Can”
Ustream is launching an iPhone app that lets users watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from their iPhone. The timing on the application is near perfect with the Obama inauguration coming up on January 20.
Obama fever has officially hit Legoland. The Carlsbad, CA, park has modified its U.S. Capitol model to illustrate the historic Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. The display opens to the public January 16, and will stay on through Memorial Day.
Betsson, a Swedish online betting site, has listed the odds of Obama using certain words during his inaugural address on January 20, with “banana” and “Angela Merkel” given 1,000 to 1 odds.
Lisa P. Jackson, chosen to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said at her confirmation hearing that her first task would be to restore scientific and legal integrity to the agency.
There’s actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush. Over the past eight years, Bob Woodward interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 hours, spent hundreds of hours with his administration’s key players and reviewed thousands of pages of documents and notes.
