Archive for December, 2008

Obama Picks Housing Secretary

December 13, 2008

By Philip Elliott, Jim Kuhnhenn ASSOCIATED PRESS Sunday, December 14, 2008 CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama rounded out his economic team Saturday, naming his choice for housing secretary, and gave new prominence to the mortgage crisis that has helped drag the country into a recession. New York housing commissioner Shaun Donovan has been nominated to [...]

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A Day for Rememberance

December 9, 2008

Dear John, Sixty years ago today, the U.N. adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The nations of the world said “Never Again” in the wake of the Holocaust, pledging to stop genocide wherever and whenever it occurs. To mark this historic occasion, former Secretaries of State and Defense [...]

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Google Chrome – my review

December 5, 2008

Short version: It Kicks Ass. Long Version:So I stumbled across the beta of Google’s web browser, it kicks ass.  It has everything that firefox has but better.  It has the security and safety features i’ve found in firefox, but with a much cleaner more minimalist design.  It’s fast and the greatest feature I’ve had so [...]

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Wefeelfine.org

December 2, 2008

Taken from their website, cause they do a good job describing what it is.. ” Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. [...]

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Republicans win crucial Georgia Senate seat

December 2, 2008

ATLANTA (Reuters) – Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss won a run-off election in Georgia on Tuesday, CNN said, denying Democrats the chance for a 60-seat “super majority” in the Senate that would have enabled them to pass legislation virtually at will. Chambliss, an incumbent who first won his U.S. Senate seat in 2002, defeated Democrat Jim [...]

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