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Webology Weekly #2: Obama, Obama, Obama!

Peng — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:48:04 +0000

Nothing much happened in the world this week. Except for, you know, the single most significant day in the past decade, Obama’s inauguration. I’m still having trouble adjusting to hearing good things come out of Washington. In a mere week, Obama has signed the closing of Guantanamo Bay, brought back the Freedom of Information Act, ordered withdrawal from Iraq, and banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees. Change indeed! Follow Obama’s progress with the Obameter. http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/

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Moving on… here are the coolest things on the internet this week.

Superuseless Superpowers

The newest addition to my list of favorite webcomics. I especially like this one.

Melting Bunny

Such a beautiful yet disturbing video. Poor bunny.

Incredibly slimming down (slightly disgusting pictures)

The pictures speak for themselves. This guy lost a TON of weight. Literally.

Atmosfear 1337 teaches you how to hack a road sign. Just so you know, DOTS is the default password. Holding “Control” and “Shift” while entering “DIPY” will reset the password to “DOTS”. Not that I condone such a horrible thing.

Portal Gun Replica

If you haven’t beaten Portal already, what are you doing on the internet?

Accurate GOP logos

What if the GOP elephant is accurate? Visit the site to see more. Sorry if I’m too biased. I’ve included a poll above to decide the political future of Webology Weekly.

P-P-P-Powerbook!

An Ebay scammer messed with the wrong guy. Hilarious read!

Windows 7 Wordpad Will Open .docx Files

Never worry about incompatibility again. -At least for people with Windows 7.

Honorable Mentions

Obama’s Inauguration

Peng — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:11:43 +0000

Obama’s inauguration is finally here! A record 3 million people will be attending the historic event tomorrow in addition to 11,000 soldiers, 25,000 policemen, snipers on every rooftop, scout drones, and F16 fighter jets patrolling the city. It’s going to be awesome! If you want in on the action, there are many online places to watch the inauguration.

Have fun and say bye to Bush for me. :]

Eight is Enough

Peng — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:30:07 +0000

I watched Obama’s acceptance speech last night and what a historic speech it was. Competing with the speeches of those who spoke before him (Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Edward Kennedy, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Joe Biden – all exceptional orators) is no easy task but Obama delivered as always. His resounding message of hope and change echos that of MLK’s dream exactly 45 years ago. Obama is right. Eight is enough.

Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land – enough! This moment – this election – is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: “Eight is enough.”