Open source presidency
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On day one, already a great sign about the 'open source presidency':
ExecutiveOrder – PresidentialRecords
It is very encouraging to me to see that Obama is willing to share and disclose particular presidential records. The government may need to maintain certain levels of security and privacy, and I am confident that it will do so, but there should also be a commitment to public disclosure. The people do have a right to understand the makings of their government and the implications of particular policies. With the revoking of Executive Order 13233, I hope that a new breed of journalists and bloggers and writers and economists and legal experts pick up on the available materials and help us, the lay-people, interpret the motions, orders, and policies.
I'm looking forward to this with excitement.
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Obama video – Daft Punk says it all
I just found this Daft Punk video through a friend who regularly reads Pitchfork and loved it so much I had to share. After watching the inauguration online today at MSNBC, I am pumped about what is to come.
The following is a mixed-media stop motion music video and celebration commemorating the election and inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of these United States.
Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland – "Aer OBAMA" from Gold Greendot on Vimeo.
Click here for full post on Pitchfork
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A few weeks ago I had the chance to see The Hold Steady play the final show of their tour at the Roundhouse in London. (If you ever get a chance to see THS, go. If you get a chance to see a show at the Roundhouse, go.)
Our seats were on the upper level, so I didn't get down into the crowd where it was packed – totally sold out. What was great about the mezzanine was that you had this great perspective of the whole show – the band on stage, the crowd's vibe, the lights. The crowd was an interesting pseudo-hipster-stroke-american-rocker mix.
Pitchfork summed it up in a 2006 review:
The Hold Steady craft classic rock-indebted music that would sound better sandwiched between Born to Run and Back in Black than Illinois and Tigermilk. In other words, the more likely you are to use music as a social lubricant than as a social balm, the more likely you are to enjoy the Hold Steady.
STAY POSITIVE – The Hold Steady
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983 pages
I finally did it. After months of reading, I finished Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. An epic story told in great detail – perhaps there were too many generations told. I could have gone for the 400 page version. Or waited to see the movie…
Things that happened while I was reading PotE:
- Friends announced they were going to have a baby
- Other friends had one
- The economic crisis hit, the bailout didn't pass and then it did
- Obama was elected
- We went to New York, California, and Rome
- I built Caroline's blog for her and she started using it
Now on to Blood River – an amazing recount of a journalist's attempt in 2004 to cross Africa via the Congo River.
