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OBAMANATION!

You would think the first legit black candidate for President of the United States would announce and then start doing all the traditional things candidates do, like make stump speeches and the rest.

And that's what Barack Obama is doing. But the best way of finding out what Senator Obama is doing is going to his website, which sprung to life fully formed. You think running for president was a spur of the moment idea?

But there's a twist: With the domain registered just this past Friday, there's another companion website.

http://mybarackobama.com/

It's a MySpace for Barack Obama!

Slickly put together, it went together with just a few small glitches that were fixed quickly.

Understandably, it's also going to get trolled by racists, but I think that's going to be policed rather well... Time will tell.

You'll hear more about this later today and later this week.

Is creating MySpace clones going to be the wave of the political future?

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HBO's ROME is the best show you're not watching.

For those of you that are, what do you think of the switch in the two actors playing the role of Octavian?

And his stoner sister at the orgy? I actually saw that little scene coming and enjoyed the way it played out.

More on Roman times in an upcoming post as I just finished Lindsey Davis' latest.

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Smart Bitches as well as GalleyCat here and here take Maureen Dowd to task on her latest column in the New York Times.

Ms. Dowd apparently stumbled into the ChickLit section of the bookstore and discovered that bound plays written by Shakespeare weren't selling as fast as books with pink covers on them.

Thanks for the literary update, Maureen! The part I liked the most was where Ms. Dowd picked up a British young adult novel and quoted a passage like THAT was supposed to be "Brit Chick Lit" instead of the young adult novel that it is. I guess Ms. Dowd expected something like a "Red Badge Of Courage" or something instead of a story about girls talking about... boys! (Alison purchased that entire series and yes, I've read them)

Point is, Ms. Dowd gives no alternatives in her screed to the modern Chick Lit she rails against in her column that's printed in the Times Select ($subscription). Well, no alternatives written in the last twenty years, anyway. If you criticize something, propose a solution. If you hate Chick Lit, you better have a few examples of alternative reading. Ms. Dowd is paid for her opinion, but she's not very good at expressing it.

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"On online dates, women are much, much more disappointed than men"

Yes, someone got paid to figure that out.

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There's a new MP3 player technology promised in the next few months [Wired]

Right now, it's still vaporware, but apparently there's a few twists in the current music delivery system that will be tweaked. Traditional Radio is owned by people who don't know music, Satellite Radio is just a hair's breath away from collapsing under its own expensive weight, and DRM is a hindrance the current hardware makers have to embrace making the same music loaded onto two different devices incompatible.

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The Great Baby Race Chase

Every live fertile male on the planet along with one very rich dead one are all reportedly the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby.

Anybody else actually worried about if that child is going to live to see its first birthday? Its second?

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We already know Anna Nicole would screw just about anybody.

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - A newspaper published two photographs on its front page Monday showing Anna Nicole Smith lying in bed fully clothed in a romantic embrace with the Bahamian immigration minister, who approved her application for permanent residency.

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Cute Houstonian girl got to sing and show off some leg with Justin Timberlake at the Grammy Awards last night.

Let's see, it's 15 hours later: Have the tabloids already linked them romantically?

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My Vista Update: I'll try again this week to get an Acer fix for the brightness on the laptop, but if I can't, I'm going to toss Vista and try to do a clean reinstall of the full backup I made when I first initialized the laptop.

I've tried messing with the monitor settings internal to Vista, but messing with the gamma won't increase the bright white that the monitor once had. The XP drivers Acer has for the laptop won't install.

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Major Winter Storm this week, and lots of snow for the Northeast.

Will this make up for the lack of snow and all those cherry blossoms that were talked about just seven weeks ago?

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And finally, you unpublished romance authors out there...

I'm hearing rumors of a new contest. Best start brushing up on those writing samples.

Nothing has been finalized to ME... yet. Details have yet to be hammered out.

Those of you who know me, know I was once the tech guy involved in such a contest and that contest opened some doors and ended up shortening the path to published status for a few folks who were in the finals.

Will the same thing happen again, and will I even be involved? And will I get paid for it this time?

Inquiring Minds Want To Know!

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