Obama to unveil voter registration drive? Is that where Bill Richardson went?

Wasn’t Bill Richardson supposed to speak last night? Aswini Anburajan at HuffingtonPost posts that Obama will unveil a “massive” voter registration drive tonight, which would be a fantastic move — symbolically right, but, more important exactly how you win an election without running to the middle. Perhaps Obama is going to bring out Richardson to help kick that off?

Also from Rumor Land comes the idea that McCain may name Kay Bailey Hutchison as veep. No reason to think it’s true, but, what the heck, there it is.

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Where Are They Now? The Straight Talk Express

The Strayed-Talk Express

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Obamemes for tonight

Care to predict Obama’s memes for tonight? The aim of the game is to anticipate particular phrases or turns of idea he might use.

For example:

John McCain will undoubtedly use images of this very event against us. That’s because when he sees tens of thousands of Americans eager to participate, eager to pick up the tools to build a better America for themselves and for their neighbors, John McCain sees celebrity. As I look out tonight, I see democracy.

The McCain campaign’s first reaction to my selecting Joe Biden as my running mate was to air an ad that shows Joe disagreeing with me during the long primary season. I truly thank Senator McCain for that. I’m proud that...
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A Summer Poem

Ode to an Outdoor Shower

Bird watching
Becomes
Birds watching.

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Chatting about the Dem Convention right now

We’re live now, chatting away at irc://irc.freenode.net/#democonvo. (Dave Winer has had a chat going also, at #dnc08)

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Born Digital - The Book!

Born Digital, a book by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser — my brilliant friends and colleagues at the Berkman Center — has just been published. Yay!

JP has posted some of the first reactions to the book. I can’t wait to read it.

[Tags: berkman digital_natives born_digital john_palfrey urs_gasser books ]

Ten worst movie industry predictions

Scott Kirsner has posted his ten favorite worst predictions about the movies, drawn from his just-published book. My favorite of his favorite: Jack Valenti’s. (I missed Scott on Science Friday…)

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Yet another way to avoid working

Fantastic Contraption is a free, simplified riff on the old Incredible Machine game. Your aim is to move a box into a zone by hooking together some wheels and sticks. It lacks the inventive motor elements of the older game (set the balloon to pop to lower the basket that has the mice that will cause the elephant to move onto the scale that flips the lighter that sets off the rocket, etc.), but its simplicity also works in its favor.

You may have a child that will love it. You might also. If not, there are bunches of other games on the site.

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Jeans and blogging from North Korea

Initiated and managed by three Swedes with a background in advertising and PR, Noko Jeans is our attempt to approach and get closer to North Korea, and it is our attempt to answer the question: is it possible to do what no one has ever done before? Is it possible to design, produce and import jeans from North Korea? [link]

The NoKo blog is here. It gives a peak at North Korea from a Swedish, jeans-making perspective.

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Ballpark, see “out of”

I may get around to blogging about Michelle Obama’s speech. I’m still floored.

You can see the entire speech here. [Tags: obama michelle_obama politics dnc08 ]