I was directed to a site today that lets you take any image and “obamaize” it. Basically, it converts that image into a Obama like poster.

I initially did one of my own photo but it came out fairly lame so feeling inspired by the standard “Hope” slogan, and the constant references to the Obamessiah, I decided to mix it up a bit:

via obamiconme

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Here are the two parts to Obama’s inauguration speech. I’m as skeptical as anyone that he will bring about real, lasting change to Washington. However, this speech isn’t so much about how HE will change the government as much as it is about how we, the people, need to change and get off our asses to work for a better America.

If we do take this as a proverbial call to arms and we each, in our own small way, work to improve our communities, our schools, our cities and states then the nation as a whole will get better. The message I hear is stop waiting for someone else to fix the problems; if you see something wrong get up and fix it.

Part 1

Part 2

Give it a listen and try to find something good in it for you instead of something cynical you can pick to bitch about. Give it a try; it can’t hurt.

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This is a fairly graphically violent but nonetheless entertaining animation by three French students at the Sellier students School of Artistic Trades.

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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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McCains Plan - sadly in three parts.

He doesn’t start his plan until 7:19 of the first video

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[In the UK] everyday we throw away:

• 5.1 million whole potatoes
  
• 4.4 million whole apples
  
• 2.8 million whole tomatoes
  
• 7 million whole slices of bread
  
• 1.3 million unopened yoghurts and yoghurt drinks
  
• 1.2 million sausages
  
• 1 million slices of ham
  
• 0.7 million whole eggs
  
• 0.7 million whole bars of chocolate and unwrapped sweets
  
• 0.3 million unopened meat-based ready meals or takeaways
  
• 0.3 million unopened packets of crisps
  

Hyperbio: The food we waste (based on this food waste study)

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I define the lazy web as a system where by you throw a question out to the masses in hopes that one of them can answer it.  So, instead of doing a google query or spending any effort of your own to find the answer you can just have an expert on the topic shoot the answer back to you.

Basically this is easy for both parties.  The person with the question does nothing but ask and the mass crowd out there all ignores it unless they can answer it.  Only if you already know the answer do you bother shooting out the response.  Nobody has to do research and everyone gets to help out everyone else when they can.  A win-win!

Or maybe not.  First off the lazyweb only works if there is a sufficient mass of people in the cloud your asking your question to and assuming there is at least one person in that crowd who knows the answer to your question.  It fails if nobody knows the answer or wosre somene feeds you a bad answer trying to pass it off as valid.

I’ve thrown out my first question to the lazyweb today (how to integrate tumblr posts into the flow of my wordpress blog).  Hopefully it works out and  I get a good answer because the Google web failed me earlier today.

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