Technology & Pop Culture

CNN And Microsoft To Capture “Most Detailed Moment Ever” For Obama Inauguration

Posted by Bradley under News, Technology

Tomorrow the United States of America will make history by inaugurating Barack Obama as the first African-American President in its history as a nation.

And CNN and Microsoft want to help by “capture[ing] the most detailed experience of a single moment ever”.

At the moment Obama takes the Oath of Office, attendees of the event are requested to e-mail CNN three photos.

Those three photos will be used along with Micorsoft’s Photosynth technology to create a 3D visualization of the event.

From CNN.com:

1. Take one photo of the moment when Obama takes the oath. If you have a digital camera with a zoom lens, take three photos (wide-angle, mid-zoom, full-zoom)

2. E-mail each photo as soon as possible to themoment@cnn.com (one photo per message, 10MB size limit). Don’t forget to include your name in the message if you’d like to appear in the list of the contributors. Please only send in photos you took yourself.

3. Go to cnn.com/themoment to see all of the photos in our photosynth

Check out this awesome example of the Roman Colosseum put together by National Geographic using the Photosynth technology.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/

Tags: CNN, Inaugration, Microsoft, Obama, Photosynth

Watch Obama’s 60 Minutes Interview At Cbsnews.com In Its Entirety

Posted by Bradley under News, Technology

In case you missed Barack and Michelle Obama’s interview from 60 Minutes this past Sunday here is the link to the entire interview, in all its streaming-internet-video-glory.

All the cute Obama moments included.

And such a distinguished and classy interview by Steve Kroft!  Props to him and CBS.

From Cbsnews.com:

Steve Kroft speaks with President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, about his historic election victory, his personal transition, and his family; And, Andy Rooney salutes the art of print journalism.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4608198n

Tags: 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, CBS, Michelle Obama, Steve Kroft, Sunday

2008 Electoral Map: 18-29 Year Olds

Posted by Bradley under News, Personal

An interesting look at what my generation thought about last Tuesday.

http://futuremajority.com/node/3969

[IMG via futuremajority.com]

Tags: 18-29, 2008, Election, Electoral, Map

Obama’s Blog: Scenes From Election Night

Posted by Bradley under Movies, News, Personal

Barack Obama’s blog has a Flickr slide show of photos taken during Election Night 2008 with some great behind the scenes shots.

My favorites are Obama’s reaction to McCain’s, admittedly, moving concession speech.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGxQ9X

And you might have seen this amazing picture floating around the tubes yesterday.

Completely unofficial and probably staged but moving none-the-less.

Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, Blog, Election Night, Flickr, Photos

700 Obama Front Pages From Around The World

Posted by Bradley under News

Can you find the Star?

http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html

Tags: 700, Barack Obama, Front Pages, Newspaper, Star

Movie Voice Dude Don LaFontaine Dead At 68

Posted by Bradley under Entertainment, News, Personal

Kinda sad.

I always looked up to this guy.

http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/09/64990/index.html

[IMG via blogs.wncn.info]

Tags: 68, Dead, Don LaFontaine, Movie Voice, Voiceover

Olympic Logos: 1896-2008

Posted by Bradley under News, Television

On the eve of the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Summer Olympics we present a look back at the logos that represented the talented athletes who used performance-enhancing drugs to get there.

Show starts tomorrow at 8:08 pm.

Get it.  8/8/08 at 8:08.

Barf.

There are much better things to attend to!

(Ok, ok, I’ll admit the TiVo is recording the HD version.  Just for the sheer theatrical spectacle of technology, lights, smoke and pyrotechnics that it is.)

http://www.2008beijingolimpics.com/the-olympics/feature-all-the-olympics-logos-from-1896-to-2012/

Tags: Beijing, Logos, Olympics, Opening Ceremony

Girl Runs Away From President Bush

Posted by Bradley under Cheeseburger Aficionado, Entertainment, Movies, News, Pop Culture, et al.

Normally I avoid political commentary on my blog… but this just cracked me up! Run, sweetheart, run! http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=566f38d3-f06d-4291-a36c-1dbfbcd96acb

Tags: Bush, Girl, President, Runs

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Seven Officially Official

Posted by Bradley under Entertainment, News, Television

Larry David is bringing back Curb Your Enthusiasm to HBO for a seventh season!  Award American humorists unite.

The new season will premiere in early 2009.  Set your TiVo’s.

http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN1015695520080711

[IMG via Rockford Register Star]

Tags: Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO, Larry David

Liberty Students Get Zunes, iPod Is Totally West Coast

Posted by Bradley under Kansas City, News

Our very own Liberty, Missouri is on Yahoo! News and a handful of other blogs RE: getting students to listen to class lectures and related podcasts on their Zunes.

Microsoft donated the devices in exchange for usage information.

Arg!  A virus ate meh homework.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_hi_te/tec_techbit_podcast_campus

Tags: iPod, Liberty, Missouri, Yahoo!, Zune, Zune Guy