Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Beth Fitzgerald, a junk food and photography lover from Gulfport, Mississippi, documented prices at a local gas station earlier this month (via Ann Raber):
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The Pete from Los Angeles, California, sold his car about five years ago but is also documenting fuel prices in his hometown. He writes, in ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
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"Green" has become a buzzword for everything from lightbulbs to high rises, and with the greening come choices about personal behavior. Thirty-something Boston Gal from, yes, Boston, Massachusetts, wonders how much difference one person can make; but she decides it's worth trying to be environmentally friendly anyway (hat ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
These two videos found by Sue Salinger make it worth revisiting last week's ABC Democratic debate -- a debate that has been thoroughly trashed (by Democrats, anyway) for it near-total irrelevance. In this vein, up first: New York hip-hop vlogger Jay Smooth's mashup of debate footage and Soulja Boy:
And next: ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
He dresses in a bright orange "highway volunteer" vest and haunts highway bridges. He's the Freeway Blogger. His mission: to end the Iraq war. His weapons of mass distribution (in addition to the web): cardboard, paint, bungee cords, and wit. Since 2004, he's displayed, on freeways all across the West, ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Next up for the Democrats: Indiana and North Carolina on May 6th.
Litandmore -- Chicagoan, teacher, and library student -- has attended a bunch of Hillary rallies and appears to be fired up to take the fight to Indiana. Here he is on his way there before Clinton even won in ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Twenty-three-year-old Ashley is proud of her 70-year-old grandmother. Who, for the first time, just registered to vote. "Words can't express how proud," Ashley says. (Photo found by Ann Raber.)
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Ashley and her grandmother have spent hours together researching the candidates and the issues. This is how democracy should work, ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
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This six-minute probutcool podcast episode from CU-Boulder in Colorado ties together two election issues: nuclear war and the environment. (Found by James Mills.) Michael Mills (no relation!), a research associate at the university's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, explains: A small, regional nuclear war could create a ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Earth Day altar [lars hammar / Flickr]
One youth pastor in central Pennsylvania probably isn't impressed with Google's Earth Day holiday logo today. He thinks Earth Day is the "worst holiday ever" because it turns the earth into an idol. In fact he's staging a personal boycott (hat tip to Ann ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Driving in to Bozeman [meganpru / Flickr]
An anonymous moderate Republican student at Bozeman High in Montana attended the local Republican caucus on Super Tuesday. He/she may be voting for the first time this year but is already an astute observer of the way primaries can play to polarized voters (hat ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Go Tell Mama is one of the most interesting viral Obama campaigns out there. (Thanks, Tate Nova and Ghidewon Arefe.) This street art, signed CRO, was dreamed up -- during some soul searching after a terrible 2006 bike accident -- by Chicago graphic designer Ray Noland. His iconic posters, stencils, ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
This video found by Ann Raber seems to explain -- in Vietnamese -- the steps for voting and caucusing for Clinton in Texas's Democratic primary last month (we don't, though, have any Vietnamese speakers here at PRX, so no promises). How cool is that? As Ann pointed out, Texas (or ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
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Last night's Democratic debate in Philly -- specifically the performance by anchors Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos -- has been widely panned: in the mainstream media, in the high-traffic political blogosphere, in thousands of outraged comments on ABC's site, and by regular people writing on their personal blogs. ...
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