Our only hope?
Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:33 PM by Will Femia
Slate does with CNN's hologram what you were already thinking when you saw it (think Obi Wan Blitzer).
I'm not sure why CNN's came out kind of Star Wars looking when the technology can produce pretty real looking results. I remember when there was a lot of excited noise about it back in August. See 1:10 in the video linked here. Richard Branson does it with more style at :30 here.
(OK, here's how it works. I'm still not clear if that means it's actually a topogram instead of a hologram. Seems like if it's dependent on pre-planned camera angles it's not a hologram.)
Obama's first presidential Web site
Speaking of Obama Web sites, for the Maddow show I put up a vote and Newsvine page for her viewers to talk about what Obama's priorities should be. Turns out there are a few other sites that had the same idea. See Fix This Barack and White House 2.
Super Obama World - It's Mario but with Obama. I wish I could say I played it well enough to tell you what happens in the later levels but sadly I suck.
Kottke compares red/blue maps from news organizations but what you've really been waiting for is that set of scaled red/blue maps that includes the purple map and the Spider Man map.
The most thoughtful thing I read about the passage of the gay marriage ban in California is from the Volokh Conspiracy blog yesterday. He does a nice mix of honest analysis and personal reflection. To be honest I didn't care much about this story until I starting reading some of the human reaction from people who feel they've had a right overtly taken away. Maybe it's my X-Men fandom, but this really resonated with me: "Today, they have no idea whether they have just been divorced by their fellow citizens."
The joke here is to flip through the "more images" slide show. I'd love to have heard the discussion of whether that room is a selling point or not.
Did you see the new LED bulbs?
