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Year: 2008

Never Meant To See the Light of Day

If you work for a company where email is a primary means of communication, chances are good you’ve read or been involved in conversation that was never meant to be visible to anyone ‘outside the building’. Yet, it’s just too easy to click the ‘forward’ button and push an internal message to someone on the outside.

And it often happens to the big boys.

Through the years, and unintentionally, Microsoft has given the public a peek under their dress. It ain’t pretty.

Todd Bishop over at the Seattle P-I blog highlights the top 5 internal emails at Microsoft. So, voyeurs, head on over and look through the Windows @ microsoft.com.

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Microsoft, Internal Communication, Email, Bill Gates, Jim Allchin

Ridiculous

Ann Althouse posts a comment from a reader who noticed that the letters “NIG” appear on the pajamas of the children in Hillary Clinton’s ‘red phone‘ political ad. The commenter asks why the letters are visible, an intimation that racism is afoot. Rather than dismiss the notion outright, Althouse gives legs to the idea that the message could be subliminal and that the campaign is somehow responsible for sending a signal.

To believe this is an intentional move on the part of the Clinton campaign is absurd.

Sometimes bloggers go too far to stir the pot. In this instance, Althouse has her hands on a mighty big spoon.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Racism, Althouse, Bloggers

There’s No ‘There’ There

The silence was deafening.

Hillary Clinton has made a point to highlight what she believes is her superior experience to deal with world crisis. Her recent ad clearly intimated that you won’t even have to worry about your own children if she’s in the White House dealing with a ‘big problem’ (which of course, means Terrorism).

Funny thing though – when a reporter asked her five star political team to name one foreign policy moment in Hillary’s career where she has been tested by crisis, they were caught completely off guard. There was nothing there.

Just as the surrogate for Barack Obama was similarly caught flat footed, both candidates have a vacant record on real foreign policy experience. John McCain could eat them alive on this subject, and you can bet the GOP will be sure to keep foreign policy on the forefront of the general election debate.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy

The Daisy Ad Revisited

This is just soooo 1964. Or even, 1984.

Closing in on the March 4 contests, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., debuted a campaign ad on Friday with ominous undertones.

“It’s 3:00am and your children are asleep,” a voice over says in the ad. “There’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing. Something is happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call.”

“Whether someone knows the world’s leaders, knows the military, someone tested and ready to lead. It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?” the ad concludes.

Desperate times require desperate measures, and this is a clear desperation move by the Clinton campaign. The delegate math hasn’t been in her favor for weeks now and she knows it. This will be napalm weekend. Watch for it.

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2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Daisy Ad, Goldwater, Johnson

Throwing Penn Under the Bus

S.S. Hillary is listing, taking on water fast, and those on board are pointing fingers. In fact, everybody’s gettin’ into the act now. Ickes. Huffington. Even perennial loser Bob Shrum.

The end is near.

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2008 Election, Ariana Huffington, Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton, Bob Shrum

Blame White Guilt

One of Britain’s most influential black figures suggests that guilt over transatlantic slavery is behind Barack Obama’s support from middle class whites in America. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission is no stranger to controversy with his comments on race relations in the U.K.

“If Obama can succeed, then maybe they can imagine that [Martin Luther] King’s post-racial nirvana has arrived. A vote for Obama is a pain-free negation of their own racism. So long as they don’t have to live next door to him; Obama has yet to win convincingly in white districts adjacent to black communities.”

Wait for it.

Mr Phillips compared Mr Obama to Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey, prominent black “bargainers” – those who strike a deal with white America not to make an issue of historical racism if their own race is not used against them.

Bargainer, huh? Isn’t that code for “Uncle Tom”?

Not only is Mr. Phillips dismissing the legitimacy of the Democratic party’s Messiah, he’s also twisting the knife on Mother Mary, a.k.a. Oprah.

“In truth, Obama may be helping to postpone the arrival of a post-racial America and I think he knows it,” Mr Phillips wrote. “If he wins, the cynicism may be worth it to him and his party. In the end he is a politician and a very good one: his job is to win elections.” He added: “If he fulfils the hopes of whites, he must disappoint blacks – and vice versa.”

Do you get a sense that if there were no race issues there would be no job for Mr. Phillips? I do.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics, White Guilt, Trevor Phillips, Britain, Racism

Morph

Lookout iPhone!

Want to know what the cell phone of the future will look like? Nokia offered a glimpse Monday when it unveiled its new “Morph” concept phone, a solar-powered, self-cleaning and shape-shifting mobile device.

Based on the company’s research in nanotechnology — the science of building electronics at the subatomic level — the phone will be made out of material that can change into different shapes.

Here’s the video demo.

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Morph, Nokia, Phone, Nanotechnology

Karma Chameleon

Tell the truth now…Can you look this guy in the face and believe that he could really chain a Norwegian male escort to a wall in his house?

Come on…search your soul.

Boy George, the former Culture Club singer, appeared in court today accused of chaining a Norwegian male escort to the wall of his Shoreditch home.

The 46-year-old pop-star and DJ denied assaulting and imprisoning Audun Carlsen on April 28 last year when he appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court, east London.

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Celebrity, Boy George