Does anyone actually still use this thing?

The outcome of this election, just like the last one, was almost a foregone conclusion. In 2008 Obama succeeded marvellously at branding himself as the candidate of hope and change. He framed the messaging so eloquently that there was essentially no way for anyone to run against him. If you were against Obama, you were against hope and change, and ( Read more... )

( tons of photos here )

So I stayed up all night again, even though I have work in slightly over ten hours (I'll be heading off to bed shortly). Mostly this was because I've been editing audio files. I've been going through poorly mastered CDs (which these days seems to be most of them) and correcting the various flaws to the best of my ability. The free audio editor ( Read more... )

It's amazing how easily people get distracted by completely fact-free hysteria these days. It goes without saying, of course, that the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is not at Ground Zero - in fact, it's not even visible from Ground Zero - and it's also not a mosque. It's not even distinguishable from the local surroundings, in fact:

( proof )

Should I start updating this thing again?

I intend to start posting regularly again sometime in the near future. I graduated, and since then have been working close to full-time and doing a bunch of maintenance work for various sites I'm involved with. I intended to write up a long post-electoral analysis, but somehow I never got around to it.

In the mean time I'll leave you with this ( Read more... )

Thank you, America.

I'm far too busy as of late to write up an entry of my own, so via vulgarlad:

Final Gallup poll: Obama 53%, McCain 42%...an 11-point margin (among likely voters). Split the undecideds equally and it becomes 55/44, Obama. Give McCain ALL of the undecideds, and it's still Obama by 51%.

Final Wall Street Journal/NBC poll: Obama 51%, McCain McCain 43%. ( Read more... )

I may have been wrong about the al-Qaeda story being this election's October Surprise. The Beltway types mostly seem to be ignoring it, despite the McCain camp's tremendously feeble response to it. There's acutally another story which is drawing even more outrage, from Republicans, because it cuts through Sarah Palin's Everywoman persona and ( Read more... )