Month November 2008

Change.gov

Obama gets it about using the net to communicate. Change.gov has lots of information on transition plans, their full platform, a blog, what to know what you thing, and has a blog. Tip: Intoxination

Photo of the Day

“Students at Barack Obama’s old primary school in Indonesia react as their teacher announced Obama’s win. Bay Ismoyo AFP/Getty Images” From an LA Times article on the hugely positive world reaction to Obama being elected.

Nationwide third party results

Third Party candidates did poorly this year. In comments to our previous post on third party turnout, Dave Riley notes “here is one absolute rule of thumb: when you have polarised elections the third party vote will always go down.”

Outlet switch stops vampire energy

Excellent idea. Cut off the power at the wall, not at the power strips, thus easily and quickly stopping phantom power drain from everything plugged into the wall outlet. (And if the spaghetti of wires behind your computers looks like…

FCC opens “white spaces” spectrum

In a welcome move recently, the FCC said unused “white spaces” spectrum between TV channels can be used for wireless broadband. Google was a major proponent for this and the decision “was a clear victory for Internet users and anyone…