Faraway, So Close

Beautiful photos from the end of the world in Antarctica over on The Big Picture. I can’t imagine what it would be like to live/work there. I’m both terrified and fascinated by the remoteness. Lonely Planet has a page for travel to/from Antarctica. Apparently you can book a 12hr fly-over from [...]

From Will.I.Am:

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And the original, Yes We Can, video:

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Via techcrunch.com

Looking at these photos from Barack Obama’s flickr stream feels a bit surreal. Kind of like you’re looking at someone’s vacation photos who you know from work.

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Originally uploaded by Barack Obama.

Coincidence or planned attempt to subtly tell you what to think by some left/right-wing media conspiracy to undermine the Presidential election:
Consider: McCain left the Arizona stage to part of Hans Zimmer’s score from “Crimson Tide.” (This part, actually.) The 1995 Tony Scott film focused on a career Navy man (Gene Hackman), labeled a maverick by [...]

Congratulations to those folks south of our border on saying enough is enough.
Barack Obama: 44th President of the United States.
Via tcritic.com

Disclaimer: I’m a Canadian who follows American politics fairly loosely (as in I watch the Daily Show/Colbert Report and read the occasional blog/tweet about it). I don’t usually blog about it too much because I don’t like talking about something I don’t totally understand. But, Barack Obama has excited me about politics [...]

From whatilearnd.com’s entry on what’s in her yoghurt after hearing about Burt’s Bees ‘Natural Vs’ ad campaign:
Yoplait Strawberry Contains: cultured pasteurized grade A low fat milk, sugar, strawberries, modified corn starch, high fructose corn syrup, nonfat milk, kosher gelatin, citric acid, tricalcium phosphate, natural flavor, pectin, colored with carmines, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3.
She then [...]

Update: Looks like the video was pulled. Just due to copyright issues, not anything political or anything to get you conspiracy theorists going.
It’s so bizarre to think that there are people like this, so disconnected from reality.
It’s not exclusive to the Republicans, Democrats have their crazies. Nor is it [...]

This is a great shirt, especially if you’ve ever walked around a school and seen folks wearing a shirt with Che Guevara’s picture on it.
If you don’t know who Che Guevara is, no worries. Check out wikipedia. He “was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. After [...]